How Chinese oil companies should cloud computing

For companies like Dell, the vast majority of people should not be unfamiliar, after all, we have heard many of its legendary stories. However, many people's knowledge of Dell is limited to PCs, monitors, servers, storage, and other very specific products, not out of the overall, but also not aware of Dell's links with some of China's key industries. The reporter recently had the opportunity to interview Dell Consulting Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/4510.html "> Managing Director Mr. Zhu Yuqiang and Dell Business Solutions Senior Manager Lei, to understand Dell's understanding of China's energy industry , support and promotion.

Cloud Computing is certainly one of the core topics of the moment, and we naturally don't ignore it. Mr. Lei, from Dell's point of view, explains how Dell is helping oil companies do cloud computing and how Dell can look at it. He believes that after several years of cooperation, in fact, Dell found that the oil and petrochemical cloud computing and their IT infrastructure is not behind some of the domestic large telecom operators, petroleum and petrochemical enterprises have been doing this research. So what is the reason for the energy industry to move towards cloud computing? He thinks there are three main areas:

The first is business to promote cloud computing. Why do you say that? With the continuous expansion of business applications, petroleum and petrochemical enterprises in the room has been very large, equipment is also a wide variety, enterprises must be constantly emerging new conditions to make accurate and timely response, then need to consider a new rapid application of the development and change of the way to deal with the current development pattern. This is precisely the way cloud computing, cloud computing users from the vertical structure to the parallel change, this business to promote cloud computing, this is the 1th, that is, the rapid development of business forces the energy industry must consider the direction of cloud computing.

Second, technology facilitates cloud computing. At present, the development of virtualization technology is maturing, although virtualization does not represent cloud computing, but its development makes cloud computing clearer, more feasible, they are a complementary. Dell, through its own co-ordination, makes cloud computing and virtualized resource scheduling possible, and the technology is ripe enough for oil and petrochemical CEOs and CIOs to think about cloud computing.

The third is the oil, petrochemical industry leaders, and even the national leaders pay attention to cloud computing, in Twelve-Five planning and some related documents, cloud computing has been repeatedly mentioned, because of its own resources reuse characteristics, but also conform to the current world development theme.

In the domestic context, Sinopec has launched the overall cloud computing plan last year, with PetroChina taking cloud computing as the focus of its Twelve-Five program this year and starting a wide-ranging pilot in the field.

What are the features of Dell's cloud computing solution? In simple terms, Dell can cross a different platform acrossDifferent virtualization platform, can cross different network and storage platform, so that the client's resource scheduling becomes possible, this makes the current Dell in the petrochemical industry, by the customer's great recognition. Before many users want to do cloud computing, worry about the use of virtual machines, resources are not enough, and Dell's system, it can fully meet customer requirements. In addition, Dell has done a lot of research in the oil industry, the matching of its solutions is very good, and the user experience is very good.

Zhu has made a point of adding to the private and public problems of cloud computing, although money is not a problem for oil companies, but there are still different practices abroad. For example, some companies may be directly on the private cloud to do it, but there are also like BP's use of the public cloud and private cloud enterprises, and the use of different cloud computing solutions to do its related testing work. At present, several big American companies are also trying to see the establishment of private clouds, but relatively speaking, they are also in a more cautious manner to promote the matter. Zhu suggested that domestic oil companies could also adopt such a combination, especially in the form of leasing abroad. Of course, because some of the business involved in security issues, not suitable for the form of leasing, those businesses are not particularly sensitive, can be considered through a number of established public cloud methods to be resolved. The private cloud, he argues, is certainly the main direction for oil companies and suppliers to move aggressively, at least for now.

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(editor: Heritage)