How telecom operators embrace cloud computing

Cloud computing business applications originated in the IT Internet, and quickly infiltrated all walks of life, triggering the use of cloud computing operators, the Chinese operators in the cloud computing research and use of comparable, ranked the industry's advanced level.




What are the benefits of
cloud computing to operators? How should operators make cloud computing work for themselves? The author gives some advice on how to use different cloud computing technologies to bring benefits to operators ' business.





Type one: Business Cloud resource pool





purpose: Reduce TCO and increase resource utilization




The
Business Cloud resource pool is the server resource, storage resources, network resources, etc., supplemented by virtualization and other technologies, the formation of a resource pool, each business can be based on their own needs to apply the appropriate resources for deployment, in the business operation can be based on the size of the load dynamic application and release resources to meet the needs of the business.





Business Cloud resource pool has changed the traditional service deployment and operation mode, the resources from the silo mode into a shared model, improve the efficiency of resource use, business dynamic scaling reduces the cost of manual maintenance.




Several key technologies of
business Cloud resource pool:





Server virtualization (Xen/vmware, generally refers to x86 server)





heterogeneous server, storage and network equipment management





Mass Distributed storage technology





NoSQL Database





Dynamic Resource Scheduling DRS





ha and automatic fault migration





business monitoring and automatic scaling





The Business cloud resource pool is the current construction hotspot, there are several manifestations, such as a single business cloud, used to verify that the business can be deployed in a cloud, such as the long tail business resource pool used to verify that a large number of small business intensive deployment operations, such as the cloud of the base business, will eventually evolve into large-scale hosting a variety of business cloud resource pools Can significantly reduce the operator's investment costs and operating costs, is a period of time in the future operators mainly adopted cloud computing methods.





Type one: Business Cloud resource pool


a group of domestic operators in a base building Wap/mms dual Business system Cloud resource pool, as a full network of WAP/MMS Business backup node, Wap/mms built on the cloud resource pool.





Dual-Service Cloud resource pool includes physical machines, virtual machines, cloud storage, network, virtualization software, column DB, Cloud Management, and many other parts, most of the equipment from different suppliers, Huawei as a total project integration.





Type one case: domestic one group operator Wap/mms double Service Cloud resource pool





Type II: PAAs Cloud


purpose: To speed up the introduction of business, reduce the threshold and cost of business introduction




The purpose of the
Business Cloud resource pool is to throttle, and the PAAs Cloud's goal is open source, and the PAAs cloud contains several key elements:





a simple and easy-to-use development environment, it is best to graphically visible that the resulting, online development environment is the best interactive;





a developer community for help and communication;





an easy to apply large-scale test environment (test cloud);





an easy to operate business Release Management system





Low-cost business release deployment environment





can be flexible business operation platform based on business volume size





easy to expand the cloud platform to facilitate the introduction of new capabilities





Unlike the Internet and it vendors of PAAs (such as gae,force.com), operators of the PAAs platform is naturally based on telecommunications business capabilities and it capabilities as the core, the introduction of Internet capabilities, the formation of an ICT integration of business development, testing, managed to run as one of the cloud platform.




The
PAAs Cloud introduces a business container to segment resources, on demand to the business, improve resource utilization, while providing a safe sandbox capability in containers to segregate between different businesses to ensure that the business is not affected by each other.





PAAs Cloud is often provided with the business cloud resource pool, leveraging the virtualization capabilities of the business cloud resource pool to work with business containers to make the most of resources.





PAAs Cloud has a number of pilot applications, but is subject to poor standards, manufacturers, third-party acceptance, and other reasons, distance to large-scale business has a long time, but with bright prospects.





Type II: PAAs Cloud





type two case: Domestic carrier "Unified information platform"


has more than 180 kinds of information business in a certain province of China, however, there is a lack of unified business planning, platform duplication construction, information resources dispersed can not achieve unified integration, operation and maintenance of difficult, high operating costs, for this purpose to adopt the application layer unified planning for information and information services. The entire province Information information Unified Service platform "solves the present main problem."





This project uses virtualization technology to build a platform, with a sound security system, centralized monitoring management, unified resource planning and allocation of highly available architecture. Business platform In addition to the business release, business creation, business execution, content/media delivery, CP Management, unified billing and other basic functions, including typical business generation/rapid deployment, new feature overlay/expansion interface, system resource reuse/on-demand expansion of three expansion capabilities. In order to achieve the data Business Project construction, Operation Dimension "one high three low" goal (the resource reuse Gao, the construction cost is low, the maintenance cost is low, the operation cost is low).





type two case: Domestic carrier "Unified information platform"





Type III: Desktop Cloud





Purpose: Safe green, energy saving and emission reduction





Desktop Cloud to bring the experience of the cloud from the background to the foreground, the customer application to move back, the user's use of the interface for virtualization, the client adopts thin client, according to the use of the scene can be roughly divided into two categories:





Application Virtualization WTS





multiple clients share an OS environment with high utilization, but require the application system to support multi-user concurrency and poor application isolation.





Desktop Virtualization VDI





each client to use a stand-alone virtual machine, the application is not required, the application of good isolation, but low efficiency.





type three: Two kinds of desktop cloud mode


using the desktop cloud Scheme can significantly reduce the client's energy consumption (100w/h->10w/h) and noise (40 db->5 db), simplify the maintenance of the terminal system, enhance the user experience, at the same time, because of the use of the terminal and information separation of the deployment mode, greatly improve the security of the system , also avoids the virus attack and the information steals the flaw, the present widespread use in the Business Hall customer service, the call center, the Information Service center, the internal office and so on scene.





type Three cases: Huawei internal desk face cloud





Huawei to solve the information security problems of the research and Development Office area, reduce the energy consumption of Office system and improve IT management maintenance efficiency, the Shanghai Institute of Research and Development of new Office Office system to transform, building into the industry's largest desk surface cloud system, has now covered more than 10,000 people, The plan follows the gradual extension to Shenzhen and other overseas research institutes, eventually reaching 60,000-person research and development desk cloud.





Desktop Cloud Adoption effect is remarkable, according to the statistic Office Energy Saving 71%, maintenance efficiency 9 times times, the resource utilization rate increases 10 times times, obtained the good effect.





type Three cases: Huawei internal desk face cloud


Type IV: Cloud IDC





aim: To provide new service types, tap blue sea market and strengthen service competitiveness





Cloud IDC is a new type of cloud service model, the main service object is the Internet individual and enterprise users, through the rental server (physical machine or virtual machine), storage resources (block storage, Distributed file storage, NoSQL DB storage, etc.) and network resources (virtual firewall, virtual load balancer, etc.) and other ways to obtain revenue, and enterprises and individuals need not buy the hardware resources required for the application, but by renting the same as the power of the operators to provide the cloud resources, the business hosted on it.





Cloud IDC differs from traditional IDC in that it provides services that are higher up, such as virtual machines, distributed file storage, and are paid for by usage, and that cloud IDC offers the automatic scalability of managed services, making business and personal hosting businesses more automated and intelligent.





Cloud IDC can reuse the underlying functions of the cloud resource pool and enhance its ability to operate externally, including user management, service catalog management, user order management, and charge management.





Type IV: Cloud IDC


compared to The independent IDC operators, operators operating IDC has a high degree of customer trust, bandwidth resources rich, large-scale, open channels and other advantages, cloud IDC is the operator to expand sales channels to enhance the traditional IDC service level and competitiveness of powerful means, Amazon AWS Success also made a precedent, Cloud IDC is a promising cloud computing service.





type four case: China, a provincial operator IDC Cloud





in order to improve the operating efficiency of IDC and provide differentiated service, we introduce the technology of cloud computing to IDC, provide virtual machine rental, storage space rental and other services, object is Internet sp. After the operation of the online pilot effect is good, according to statistics to provide the same service, the utilization rate of resources increased by about one times.





type four case: Domestic carrier cloud IDC


type five: SaaS Cloud





Objective: To centralize the construction of provincial operations, to provide a unified experience, to reduce costs through the procurement of scale





The meaning of SaaS is to allow people to use them by renting services without having to buy software, such as the famous saleforce.com, by offering online CRM to small and medium-sized enterprises, where businesses do not have to pay expensive software purchases and maintenance costs to significantly reduce enterprise IT costs.





in the field of telecommunications operators, operators can consider the centralized procurement and deployment of business for each province or subnet to use, but also to consider leasing equipment business SP hosting the replacement of direct purchase, can play a lower procurement costs, reduce operational risk effect, The disadvantage of SaaS is that the customization ability is limited and can not meet the needs of some operators.





SaaS application is still not much, but in the operators increasingly consider the trend of fine operation and cost control, the future will have a larger space for development.





type five case: Huawei DSM SaaS Cloud





Huawei to meet the Low-cost and rapid Internet content and business needs of operators at home and abroad, the establishment of a DSM (Digital Shopping Mall) Management Center in Shenzhen, aggregating a number of SP of high-quality content and business, including music, reading, mobile newspaper, games, Entertainment, messaging and other rich applications, providing SaaS-mode services externally, operators can conveniently remote access to the DSM, using the leasing method to carry out business, there are already a number of overseas operators using DSM.





type five case: Huawei DSM SaaS Cloud


Summary





cloud Computing in the industry in a variety of applications, telecommunications operators use cloud computing is also in the initial stage, each operator needs to combine their own advantages to choose the appropriate cloud computing solutions, such as SP resources can focus on the development of business cloud resource pool, such as small and medium-sized applications can focus on the development of cloud IDC It is hoped that low-cost business innovation can give priority to the development of PAAs cloud, even a combination of various cloud computing solutions, telecom operators with their own advantages and in the cloud computing investment, will eventually complete its own from the CT to the ICT operations of the turn and the diversity of external services.