How does an enterprise build an open hybrid cloud?

To talk about "open hybrid cloud", first you need to know what is "open mixed cloud". The so-called "open hybrid cloud", as the name suggests, is the first mixed cloud, that is, both public and private clouds, but also must be open.

Why build an open hybrid cloud?

The survey shows that the hybrid cloud will be the main model of China's cloud computing in the next 3-5 years. The hybrid cloud is a combination of cloud, private cloud and/or public cloud in the target architecture. Because of security and control reasons, not all enterprise information or data can be placed on the public cloud, and in order to save costs, enterprises will want to lower security levels of applications or data to the public cloud. As a result, the hybrid cloud model will be the choice for most businesses. For example, an organization might choose to put archived data on Amazon S3 and put customer data on storage within the enterprise.

Why must we choose the open form? In fact, the nature of the business community makes it much harder for users to terminate their relationship with a service provider than to work with them. In general, the service providers will not easily give their own business to other competitors, in order to achieve this goal, many providers form their own set of unique closed system, thereby enhancing their users of the services or products used by the loyalty. This is very bad for users because they need to pay a huge price when they need to change suppliers and platforms for business development or for some other reason.

One of the most important reasons for openness to become a trend is that it avoids the concerns of manufacturers locking. When users want to terminate their collaboration with a vendor, they can easily migrate the system to other platforms. In fact, many of the pain that has been felt in the lock, the user is getting smarter and the suppliers have to go to the open road.

To sum up, the open mixed cloud not only satisfies the needs of the enterprise business, but also can help the enterprise to reduce the cost, while still avoiding the manufacturer lock. Because of this, open hybrid cloud platform will become the mainstream of enterprise it in the future.

How to build an open hybrid cloud?

In the era of cloud computing, Red Hat has been dedicated to helping users build an open, vendor-locked IT infrastructure, and the goal of Deltacloud Open APIs is to allow applications to run between different platforms, whether it's a physical machine platform or a virtual machine platform, a cloud or a private cloud.

To help users implement management in the private cloud and public cloud environment, Red Hat has already launched the Cloudforms Hybrid cloud management platform earlier. Cloudforms is also based on open source Apache Deltacloud project development. As a result, cloudforms can manage both the Red Hat platform and windows and VMware.

Recently, on the basis of the above accumulation, Red Hat further launched the open mixed cloud solution, providing users with a complete set of cloud computing stack.

"Figure" Red Hat open hybrid cloud solution

In the Red Hat Open mixed cloud solution, the biggest feature is that every level in the stack, users can have a variety of options, not limited to Red Hat products. For example, OpenShift can run on VMware platforms, either on OpenStack architectures or on Amazon's public cloud architecture. Based on the openshift on the Red Hat Linux platform to write applications, can be in the Red Hat certified platform to run, including Hyper-V, Exsi, Amazon and so on.

For example, cloudforms can manage not only the Red Hat platform, but also VMware, Windows platform applications. In short, red Hat ensures that each layer of cloud computing stack, users can choose the appropriate components according to their own needs.

There are media forecasts, open hybrid cloud will become the future of enterprise it mainstream form. The author thinks, the core and essence of the open mixed cloud is the standardization of cloud computing, because only the standardization can let the enterprise user avoid the suffering of the manufacturer lock, enjoy the beauty of cloud computing. How can the major vendors make their APIs the final standard, see who can build a stronger ecosystem on this basis, and attract more users to join.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)