Fujitsu Chu Hong: Preparing for the Big Data era

Large data is being fermented at an alarming rate, and the Big Data topic, beginning with the "data explosion" of the storage industry, has swept through the IT industry.

Fujitsu, the world's third largest IT service company, not only in the top five of global server vendors, but also in the storage industry for many years, its production of Eternus series storage systems, in the storage industry has a unique position, and Fujitsu is also the industry to provide disk storage systems, tape storage systems, A provider of data protection integration systems, SAN switches, and storage management software. Over the years, Fujitsu, with its unique positioning and insight, not only offers solutions for business continuity, information lifecycle management, security compliance, but also a handful of storage vendors that still adhere to the "Green it" strategy.

Fujitsu is clearly unwilling to miss the wave of big data. As a storage industry the last decade may be the hottest topic, will likely in the next 5-10 years, the storage industry and even the IT industry's landmark topic, which covers the data online storage, off-line archiving, information protection and analysis and utilization of a number of areas, composed of structured and unstructured data together, In addition to the various components of the entire storage industry, as well as computing, networking, and security topics, it can be said that missing large data is likely to miss the next wave of development in the storage industry and even the IT industry.

At the 2012 China Storage Summit, Chu Hong, chief architect of Fujitsu (China) Information Systems Limited, published a speech "to prepare for the big data age," and in a speech Chu Hong said that as the data exploded, a vast market around large data computing and services had already begun to form, And for the vast number of customers in the future business to create huge and new value.

He said Fujitsu has a well-established platform for enterprise computing, storage and cloud computing services, providing a range of solutions and consulting services for different applications and industries, and Fujitsu has a wealth of reserves in software support systems and cloud computing services. can provide customers with a more intelligent decision-making system in the age of large data.

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"Big data I think a lot of discussion, but really do I think it is still a starting stage, like cloud computing, we all talk about the heat is very high, in fact, actually do it when the more cautious." "Chu Hong that, compared to cloud computing, the development of large data is still in a relatively early stage, but large data, because of its closer relationship to business and IT operations, is likely to" come home "--as companies pay more attention to the importance of data--and accelerate development, even beyond the development of cloud computing and landing speed.

Chu Hong that the development of large data will go beyond the formation of cloud computing, its important basis from the big data problem from the starting point closer to the "perspective" of the enterprise, large data from the enterprise's core assets "data" and its application and analysis to consider, The ultimate goal is not only to change the way IT management operations or the relative indirect impact on the business, but directly to the enterprise business, is "the value derived from the data directly applied to the enterprise business" behavior.

"Big data have different places, I just have to deal with this data, and you actually have a lot of systems, such as our bi system, data manipulation system, in fact, is a large data processing of a predecessor of the system, these things users can reflect or experience directly feel its value, so from the combination of degrees, I think big data might be easier for our users to use or adopt than the cloud. "It is easier to" appreciate the value of companies ' input into large data fields, "Chu Hong said in a partial media interview. Companies will be more direct and rapid to see the benefits, so that large data generated strong goodwill, and put more money, manpower to strive to improve the large data platform, and the resulting cycle," may be ( Big data development) more critical points.

Referring to Fujitsu's investment and realistic foundation in computing and storage of large data, Chu Hong said that Fujitsu has a comprehensive platform solution, software support system and cloud computing service practices, "Fujitsu based on cloud computing solutions and traditional solutions as the infrastructure for traditional products, Solution and Integration System and cloud computing dynamic infrastructure and services in the perfect combination, through centralized computing and processing, to provide customers with a more intelligent decision system of the big data age, so that customers can achieve the key business processing capacity improvement and in-depth development use. Chu Hong stressed.

In addition, Chu Hong said, in the face of big data problems, although there are distinct industry features on some topics of large data, but not in the size of the enterprise, enterprises of different sizes are likely to face the challenge of large data, so, for Fujitsu's storage products, the goal is to first cover all industries, including high-end, Midrange and low-end different user groups, although the sales strategy for different products may not be the same, Fujitsu does not explicitly tilt its product line to different corporate sizes or special industries: "Just say it may be for a product, if it finds good in this market, application, or we are with certain applications, When the match was perfect, he had some tendencies in this area, probably so, without saying that there was too much inclination from the technical or other level. He said it was also a way to help users solve big data challenges more comprehensively.

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As the storage industry continues to evolve into virtualization and modularity, we see a number of vendors who have been able to extend their flexibility to future business development by extending cutting-edge modular technology to high-end disk storage. At the same time, this has led to some changes in the enterprise storage market: Companies will no longer be forced to accurately predict future levels of demand when they choose which high-end models to purchase and are bound by fixed data-capacity-range storage systems, This has meant paying the price for the wrong choice: overestimating future capacity requirements or having to replace larger systems later.

In this context, Fujitsu also launched the new high-end storage system Fujitsu Eternus DX8700 S2 this year, and its "flexible data protection" concept means that customers can start with a small system equivalent to two controller modules (CM) and 4 Drive enclosure (DE). Scale to 8 cm and 3,072 disk drives as needed to minimize initial costs. Each Eternus DX module has a new, minimal, and high-density structural factor that is suitable for a standard 19-inch data center rack.

In addition, Fujitsu Eternus DX80 S2, which is geared towards SME markets, also achieved SPC-1 IOPS in the SPCBenchmark-1 test earlier this year, achieving $2.25/spc-1 IOPS SPC-1 's cost-effective and best-in-class IOPS results demonstrate Fujitsu's competitive I/O performance and cost-effectiveness in the SME storage market. And in October this year, storage vendor Avere and Fujitsu collaborated to build a pre-integrated 100TB data storage System with 100,000 IOPS performance, which will be sold for $100,000, a "100/100/100" portfolio that brings together Fujitsu's core file Manager uds The NAS controller and Eternus DX80 S2 disk storage System, and a set of two-node Avere FXT 3100 Edge File Manager clusters, are a concern that this combination can scale to 2.5 million IOPS and 2PB storage scale with high scalability.

As the core of Fujitsu's storage product line, Eternus storage systems have always had good performance, functionality and cost performance, but what is most commonly heard of Fujitsu on the enterprise-level product line is largely focused on its SPARC server product line, and in Fujitsu, what is the direction of storage product line development? What does Fujitsu do to meet the needs of its customers? What are the initiatives and plans of Fujitsu on topics such as flash memory and Hadoop? Chu Hong also gave his own answer.

Talking about the current hot full flash array on the market, Chu Hong that, no matter what the development of products, are closely related to costs, such as the former FC SAN, the cost of high prices in the market is not effectively developed and widely popular, but as the cost of the relatively beginning of the decline and technology matures, FC The San subsequently became the mainstream application model for enterprise storage, and for flash memory, especially for full flash arrays, Fujitsu believes tiered storage is still the ideal choice for users at this stage.

Chu Hong said that tiered storage technologies are now ripe for through the different storage medium's management, the data carries on the target migration, realizes to the performance adjustment and the optimization, is the user current most economical and the high efficiency data processing way, but does not necessarily go to use the full flash array immediately, also in the server, The development of Flash memory accelerator card is becoming more and more mature, compared with its performance improvement, its unit performance cost has reached an acceptable level, so its development rate is relatively fast: "Technically, (support flash memory into the server or full flash array) has no problem, but ultimately may be affected by various cost factors , such as the impact of prices, although this part (full flash array) began to increase in sales, but whether the formation of a traditional storage system proportional to how the proportion of the market, remains to be seen. ”

And when the reporter talked about the trend of storage product software, Chu Hong said, "Storage technology must be in this direction, the flexibility of traditional hardware products is getting worse, scalability also requires software to upgrade, storage providers only to the direction of virtualization, software to develop to adapt to market changes and fierce competition, Otherwise it will be eliminated. He said that most of the hardware features can be implemented through the software, and "software implementation will bring a lot of technical architecture convenience and scalability, there will be many benefits." "In the big direction of development," he said, "there must be a demand for it." ”

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)