Hot Area inventory: Cloud storage vendors in the field of happy enclosure

By the end of 2010, a variety of news events flooded our eyeballs: the guns of the Korean confrontation seemed to reverberate in our ears; the dead of the Shanghai Jiaozhou apartment fire are still remembered by us; the ipad and IPhone4 's sale sparked an unprecedented snapping spree; Internet Special Contribution Award ", Feng also went to the United States ... In the context of this series of Internet hot news events, we will also face the inflationary pressure of rising prices, and a so-called "thousand years extremely cold" winter ...

One year is only drop in our social life, but for the storage industry, which is extremely active in technological innovation, it is enough to bring about far-reaching changes to the future ... In order to facilitate the broad masses of users to understand the storage area of technology innovation Roadmap and future trends, IT168 launched a "Year-End inventory and New Year's Outlook" series of reports, by reviewing the storage area of the year's key products and events, summarizing this year's hot technology and products, outlining the basic context of storage technology evolution And then describe the future trend of product innovation.

Cloud in 2010 is really scenery for a year, up to the government to ordinary netizens, no one does not know its name. A search engine company has published the ranking of keywords, cloud computing once ranked top, and cloud storage is closely related to the cloud is also the focus of storage area. Let's focus on this year's focus on cloud storage in the year-end commentary.

NetApp, Cisco and VMware form a trilateral alliance: on March 9, NetApp joined Cisco and VMware to hold a joint press conference on the theme "Virtual all real experience" in Beijing, which launched a Dynamic data center-oriented innovative design framework End-to-end Secure multi-tenant Design Architecture (secure multi-tenancy designs architecture). The architecture is able to isolate the IT resources and applications used by different customers, business units, or departments that share a common IT infrastructure, thereby enhancing the security of the cloud environment.

NetApp Cisco VMware holds a joint launch, from left to right, the president of VMware Greater China Song, NetApp general manager Chen Wenjun, Cisco China Vice president and data center business Director Shusung

SNIa began setting cloud standards: The first Cloud Data management interface (CDMI) standard in the cloud storage field was approved at the Orlando SNW World Conference held in April this year. SNIa Cloud Storage Team members are conducting a CDMI reference implementation to drive cloud storage deployments based on this specification.

SNIa promotes the first cloud storage interface standard CDMI

CDMI defines the functional interface that applications will use to create, search, update, and delete data components in the cloud. The client will be able to discover the functionality of the cloud storage service and use CDMI to manage the wrapper and its data. In addition, metadata can be set on wrappers and their data components through the CDMI interface.

EMC World Congress pushes private cloud solutions onsite Vplex

EMC publishes private cloud Solutions Vplex: This May, EMC World opened in Boston, US, and Vplex is an important chip in EMC's private cloud. Elizabeth Jean Phalen, vice president of EMC, said in a small media interview: EMC's current strategy can be summed up as a path to private cloud, Vplex is EMC's "tailor-made" solution for virtualized data centers and private cloud architectures, through Vplex, Data can be flexibly and freely migrated in a remote data center, and customers use the underlying resources through Vplex, but they do not need to know where the specific physical resources are located.

EMC Oriental Cloud storage cooperation signing ceremony

EMC funds fortis to expand cloud storage cooperation: EMC Corporation and Fortis Technology Development Holdings Limited jointly announced the signing of a strategic cooperation memorandum, which plans to carry out multi-angle, deep and all-round cooperation in private cloud. EMC plans to inject capital into its subsidiary, Beijing Yi Tong Oriental Computer Systems Services, to strengthen its capabilities in virtualization and private cloud. With its dedicated commitment to distribution and integration services for EMC's private cloud and virtual storage offerings and solutions, the company will build a service team focused on EMC Vplex virtual storage and Ionix IT management solutions to help customers accelerate their private cloud journey.

HDS launches a new unified computing platform: This June, HDS announced the launch of its unified computing platform products, HDS Unified computing platform products will be a 19-inch rack entity listing, and the use of Hitachi Blade Server, USP-V high-end storage array, VMware and Hyper-V virtual Machine Manager, as well as Fibre Channel and Ethernet technology. This product includes an intelligent coordination layer "orchestration", which is capable of automating dynamic management of servers, storage, networks, and applications as a whole. ”

"HDS's unified computing platform is a key step toward a private cloud," said HDS's new China president, Zhong, and the HDS Unified Computing platform has two salient features compared to other solutions for aggregating data center classes, first through "orchestration" The management platform realizes the coordinated deployment management of workload, and can realize the End-to-end automation allocation and management of computing, storage and network resources. At the same time, HDS's unified computing platform emphasizes standardization and openness, compatible with industry-related standards.

Huawei Symantec launches Cloud strategy: May 22, 2010, Huawei Symantec launched its cloud strategy in Beijing today to meet customer demand for ubiquitous, multiple-business-hosted cloud services by providing customers with a leading end-to-end cloud infrastructure solution. At the same time, "4+1 Cloud" to meet customer demand for the cloud construction of the differential.

Huawei Symantec Cloud Strategy Conference, photo of Huawei Symantec Senior Vice President Suliqing

Huawei Symantec launched the 4+1 differential delivery cloud, through the "Enterprise Data Cloud", "Business protection Cloud", value-added services Cloud "," Media share Cloud "and" Cloud Delivery module "This" 4+1 cloud "provides users with End-to-end cloud infrastructure solutions that meet the different needs of different enterprise cloud construction phases.

Summary: Cloud storage is currently in the situation of happy enclosure, storage vendors, regardless of size, are hung on the cloud storage signs proud. Cloud storage has become a fashion in the storage world. But a closer look at the solutions of these vendors, some of which actually make some technical innovations in the cloud, some are just a gimmick to wrap existing products, and with such a confusing concept, users need to have enough discernment to make a selection.

In addition, SNIa has begun to set cloud standards, promoting standardization and openness in the closed storage area is of course a good thing, but SNIa has been only a loose combination of the interests of manufacturers, participating in the organization's manufacturers are expected to implement their own standards, how to achieve a balance between the interests of multiple vendors, How to strengthen the binding force on the alliance manufacturers has always been a snia weakness. Cloud storage Standard Development I'm afraid it's just a good start, how to implement and implement is difficult.