From a single cloud to a composite cloud: the opportunities and challenges of change

The advent of big data era

The big data (BigData) and cloud computing have been unmanageable, and the emergence of big data is mainly due to the new data magnitude that we are currently facing: the data of enterprises has risen from TB to PB, and the personal data from GB to TB - the user's need to solve big data problems comes mainly from the following three points: 1. The number of devices generating data has risen dramatically, and the amount of data generated by personal digital devices and enterprise computing systems has outstripped that of 10 years ago Of the volume of data, CommVault's Xu Yongxing said that in 2011 the amount of data generated is about 180 times that of 1996; 2, the file (unstructured data) itself changes in size significantly from 600MB RMVB to today's 30GB Blu-ray 1080P video ; 3, the increase in enterprise data, resulting in a huge database.

Cloud computing, however, faded with the glitz of the wave, and is showing its true nature as the industry's trend - whether or not cloud computing is a new form of computing - for example, some see it as nothing more than distributed computing and The combination of pay-as-you-go - just what we want cloud computing to achieve: geographically, highly reliable, pay as you go, what you see is what you get, rapid deployment, and more are all things that the IT industry has been pursuing for the past two decades. Now we can say that cloud computing will be the new IT ecosystem, of course, cloud computing is facing the challenge of big data and hybrid cloud needs.

Naturally, cloud computing and big data will be a big challenge for future data management. For cloud computing, we've talked about Ethernet Storage (IPSAN), Scale-Out, Auto-Tiered, Data Deduplication, But for big data, we also need solutions - different from what most advocacy talks about - and I think big data is not only for large businesses, but also for small and medium-sized businesses, as big data May be monolithic (unstructured data) is huge, it may be from the data warehouse and other applications of large structured data sets.

Hybrid cloud computing has become a new round of development trends

Since cloud computing products can actually deliver quite strong vertical business capabilities for IT service capabilities, the question of whether to deploy from the past has become the "when" of today's deployments - and the answers most agencies give Is often "immediately," as Deloitte Consulting's head of CTOWhite and its vice president and chief CTOBriggs elaborated in the report "Technology Trends 2012: How IT Advances Matter with Digital Commerce," co-authored by them last week. "As we deepen our common sense, agencies have put aside the cautious approach they have explored in the past and began to brave the procurement of different kinds of cloud products from multiple public and private cloud providers to deal with the common and critical issues in the enterprise business."

In other words, we should no longer be entangled in the concept of public cloud as well as private cloud itself. A hybrid cloud platform composed of at least one public cloud and a private cloud is the inevitable trend of future development. In fact, both White and Briggs think that companies are increasingly looking to move their various applications and infrastructure services to the cloud. Deloitte touted this approach as a "hyper-hybrid cloud," where different types of clouds are connected to each other and are core.

"In any application, every cloud product needs to be tightly connected to the business core, and the approach taken is often to integrate solutions with data-driven legacy facilities," they explained. "In a further development, agencies will gradually become accustomed to spanning a range of yet-to-be-shaped different cloud offerings, connecting them to legacy systems and data in a point-to-point fashion, ultimately making it the answer to all everyday and unexpected business Workflow's premier platform.

This process of transition from 'single cloud' to 'hybrid cloud' offers opportunities as well as new challenges outside of integrated security, data integrity and reliability, and business process rule management before. Under tremendous pressure, enterprise IT organizations can only closely integrate one or more of their own inherent service projects to adapt to the various challenges raised by the composite cloud platform in the new situation. "

In response to these challenges, IT departments also need to be well prepared for the facility; as such efforts have been slow to implement, the pace of innovation in cloud services must be as rapid as possible within the organization alone.