How does cloud computing solve the three major data center challenges?

This article extracts some excerpts from the "Next Generation data center: The pioneer of cloud computing development" by Bu Feng, a telecommunications and Communications Institute. While many it vendors currently recommend using cloud computing to address traditional data center issues, operators are becoming part of a potential provider, in addition to these it vendors.

Since 2009, many IT companies have begun to plan their own cloud computing solutions, the U.S., Japan and South Korea and other governments have started to put forward the national cloud computing strategy, cloud computing in a short period of time has become the focus of global attention. How to find the gateway to open cloud computing, how to make themselves the commanding heights of cloud computing, has become the focus of the IT industry.

Data center: A breakthrough in cloud computing

The most serious problem in traditional data centers is high energy consumption, cost and inefficiency. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, enterprises to reduce IT costs more urgent, and the promotion of energy-saving emission reduction has made this more demanding, forcing it to seek new ways to build a next-generation data center, and operators of traditional data center services also appear to be backward, expensive and single application. Based on cloud computing technology to build a new generation of data centers, can meet the broadband, storage and computing capabilities of the burst of business needs, providing rich application services, has become the cloud computing market growth in the fastest field.

First, cloud computing solves the problem of energy consumption in the datacenter through centralized management and centralized use.

The energy consumption of traditional data centers is growing faster than GDP, which has become the most wasteful industry. The Government also actively supports the centralized management and sharing of IT resources through cloud computing, overcoming traditional It duplication, low-level construction, and significantly reducing it energy consumption. Cloud computing will also become an important word for "Twelve-Five" planning, so cloud computing is in tune with the trend of the times and will be a great glory in the construction of the data center.

Second, cloud computing reduces the cost of enterprise data center applications through virtualization.

The financial crisis has stretched many enterprises ' it expenditure budget, but the enterprise Informatization application and the speed-up development are not affected by it, the opposite demand is more exuberant, the low cost IT service demand is especially urgent. Cloud computing meets this need in a virtualized, scalable way, and businesses can choose to lease the IT resources of a data center service provider, thus directly reducing the cost of buying expensive equipment.

Third, cloud computing through flexible and scalable way to achieve resource sharing, improve the operational efficiency of enterprises.

At present, there are many data centers in most enterprises, on the one hand, the data information of each data center can not be shared, on the other hand, the resource capacity of each data center can not be dispatched to each other, making the traditional server and network equipment utilization only between 20%~30% and inefficient. But through cloud computing, we can realize the resource scheduling among each business system, realize resource expansion, increase the utilization rate of IT resources to 60%, and improve the efficiency of enterprise operation by expanding resource utilization ratio.

Cloud computing is essentially a new way of more flexible, efficient, low-cost, and energy efficient information operations, and it is believed that more companies will begin to try to build data centers using cloud computing technology, as well as more SMEs choosing to lease data center services.

Operators should seize the commanding heights

Operators in the data center has a unique advantage, from the development trend of data centers, operators will be in two ways to accelerate the next generation of data center construction.

First, deploy the cloud within the enterprise with cloud computing.

2010 the competition of the three major operators will become more and more fierce, broadband speed and the rapid development of 3G mobile Internet has produced huge demand for efficient computing power and low-cost mass data storage, operators will integrate the IT support system platform through cloud computing, build enterprise internal cloud, improve resource utilization, Meet the rapid deployment of the business response, to achieve a variety of value-added services support.

Second, the construction of public service cloud, hardware, software, application integration packaging, to create new value-added services.

On the one hand, the mobile network high bandwidth is the future trend of development, mobile Internet more convenient and efficient, users also hope that through the mobile phone to get a more perfect application experience, but also hope that through a variety of access terminals to enjoy application services. So operators can build a public cloud platform through cloud computing, the mobile Internet and innovative value-added services in the Cloud data center to run, to achieve online application services, cloud Computing data center data and applications in different terminals to achieve the sharing, so that users regardless of the use of any terminal can access the resources in the cloud.

On the other hand, build a public data center cloud Platform for Enterprise customers, change the traditional server space leasing and service patterns, customer-oriented it capabilities of leasing and services, online deployment of OA, ERP, CRM and other enterprise-class applications, through the SaaS way to provide one-stop service to create new business value.