H3C: Innovative practitioners who incorporate cloud computing into their genes

After more than a year of pilot exploration, telecom operators in the cloud area of the footsteps gradually liberalized.

Currently, three operators have been planning and deploying their future cloud computing development strategies at the group level, taking China Telecom as an example, since 2009 to set up the technical layout, 2010 for the internal small-scale "test water" resource pool, 2011 by the group led in Guangdong and other foreign online "public cloud" business, Finally, this year unveiled its cloud computing long-term plan-2 cloud, 3 pool plan (internal hosting cloud and external business cloud; It resource pool, business resource pool and cloud data center).

Another two cloud deployments are also at the beginning of the scale. The "north-South base", which embodies the concept of centralized operation, is intensifying the construction of the cloud data center to fulfill the cloud ideal of China Mobile's operation and support system. The Northwest cloud computing base in the Inner Mongolia region will be installed next March, the fastest in June.

For a time, from all over the operators of cloud computing projects continue to mount, the various business systems related to the cloud of transformation and migration has sprung up. For this trend, the equipment business is naturally happy to see it.

However, the opportunity is always left to those who are prepared. In May this year, China Telecom cloud computing equipment First round collection (foreign "China Telecom Data Center Switch DCSW"), H3C to 80% of the first share ahead of Cisco, Juniper, Shanghai Bay competitors. And for the upcoming announcement of China Telecom's second batch of collection results, H3C is expected to get a comprehensive ranking first, 60% of the overall share, H3C company operator Data Network Development Minister Li Ming is very confident.

Li Ming told reporters that the h3c successful operators of cloud computing equipment collection is not accidental, but from the long time technology development and successful pilot practice. "In fact, H3C is one of the industry's first companies to propose cloud computing, and we had a discussion with operators in 2009 about the next-generation cloud computing network architecture, and we are also the most determined practitioners of cloud computing, and the operators have hands-on involvement in every pilot trial and small scale set-up, h3c." ”

It is accompany the operator through this long research demonstration and arduous trial exploration period, H3C gradually accumulated rich experience and excellent quality in the cloud computing field. When the operators of large-scale collection, a large share of the bid is also expected.

Looking back on H3C's cloud journey, it seems a little low-key. In spite of the early layout of the cloud, H3C did not have the fanfare of "legendary sermons" like those of the first clouds it vendors, or the whole cloud provider, which, like other device vendors, had become omnipotent in order to cater to the trend overnight; on the contrary, H3C chose small steps to sneak.

2 years ago, when the industry's positioning and understanding of cloud computing is still relatively vague, h3c adhering to the open and common mentality of the introduction of the "Open Cloud Network" architecture, the hope that the ultra-high network performance to support the implementation of the data center virtualization; With the gradual deepening of cloud computing, H3c realized that only relying on high-performance and virtualization can not fully meet the needs of users, data center network needs to be intelligent and automated, facing the upper application to flexibly deploy its own network resources, which H3C VAN (virtual application network) homeopathy.

"Next year, H3C will launch a new H3cloud, the cloud-based data center full suite of solutions, which includes not only network equipment, but also self-developed computing resources and virtualized network scheduling platforms." Li Ming told reporters that the company's strategy for the next year has not yet been announced.