IBM Dai Yan: Rethinking it using cloud computing to inspire innovation

October 25, 2012 cloud Computing Architect Summit held in Beijing. In recent years, it technology and the development of the Internet has affected the whole industry pattern, bringing new and fresh business model. In the face of these changes, this Conference invited the Baiyu industry elite for IT technology development and application of practical experience and other hot topics for in-depth discussion. Mr. Dai Yan, Senior architect of the IBM Greater China Intelligent Earth Solution, "rethinking it, adopting cloud computing and inspiring innovation" for his keynote speech:

Distinguished leaders, guests, as well as colleagues at the conference, Hello! Today is very happy to have such an opportunity to share with you some of IBM's cloud computing in some of the pilots and ideas, today is not a lot of time, so I may not talk about some in-depth details, mainly to give you a look at IBM how to view the cloud computing, IBM Cloud computing the whole idea.

As you all know, the topic of cloud computing is now very hot, and basically you can see that there is no place to talk about cloud computing, and now we talk about everything about cloud computing. Have you ever thought about what cloud computing is, what is at the heart of cloud computing, and what is the core of cloud computing that is just a pile of technology? In fact, I believe that with the in-depth understanding of cloud computing, because I think the experts here, maybe we have more or less contact with some of the cloud project, or to carry out some of the activities related to cloud computing. In fact, you might think that cloud computing is, in a way, a change in the business model that has facilitated a transformation of the business model and created a new way of operating. But in the process of cloud computing, we can't leave the support of technology. Because we can see that both the traditional technology and the modern emerging technology, such as OpenStack these things, in fact, these are related to technology. But how do we use these technologies? How does the cloud help our business achieve change? This may be a problem for our architects to consider.

Back to our main destination today, what role should technology play? From the whole process of enterprise evolution, in the realization of enterprise business objectives, you can see this is a survey of IBMCEO, IBM every year in the world to do a lot of research on the CEO, in the enterprise, they pay attention to what factors 04 years, technical factors accounted for a small factor, to 2010 technical factors accounted for the first. The main factor driving a business forward is business value, which we now see as having a more and more important role in driving enterprise change.

We all know that IBM put forward the concept of intelligent Earth, in fact, the wisdom of the earth seems very large and empty, in fact, the decomposition will include many aspects, no doubt these are the comprehensive application of technology. IBM usually talks about the wisdom of the Earth, including three aspects, interconnection and analysis. First we need to deploy a lot of devices that can perceive what's going on in the world, possibly some sensors, and all the signals need to be interconnected and all the information needs to be collected, which requires you to have a very large processing platform. Cloud technology is actually a great place to handle such a requirement, because you have a huge amount of data on it. So, when it comes to data, as we all know, big data is also a very hot concept, and basically everyone is talking about big data. We usually know that the most common one is three v. In addition, we will talk about the value of response speed. If you continue to look at how to assess the value of large data, you will find that 80% of the large data may only provide 20% of the value, because relatively traditional architectural data is very difficult to analyze, so the future data volume is very large. Here is a statistic, the third party's advisory body to do a new statistic, to 2015 global data, including mobile terminal equipment plus our existing system produced by the total amount of data will reach 8 ZB, you know 8 ZB how many 0? Usually the most we use now is a TB, which is already a large amount. ZB is 21 zeros, and it is 6 more zeros than PB. So from this amount, a lot of, how to maintain and analysis, if you do not have a good platform to support words is difficult to do.

Another trend is the development of mobile Internet. We now each have a mobile terminal equipment, and usually based on the iphone, Android system, these intelligent terminals bring the user experience is completely different, it extends the amount of data is very large. Basically you are in any car or you go shopping, everyone is looking down at their handheld terminals. In addition, there will be a lot of security risks, and now for mobile terminals there will be a lot of security attacks, even the cloud. Using the cloud, we are most worried about the security of the cloud, how to ensure the security of the cloud, how not to be attacked, how to ensure that my data is not stolen, not to be seen and intercepted, now around the world about 13 billion security incidents every day.

What are some of the things that we should focus on to build a cloud platform? Generally speaking, the cloud consists of three levels, actually from our IBM perspective, these three levels are only an application level division, for the cloud, what you need to implement what functions, what kind of features? The first is speed, and you have to respond quickly to changes in your business needs, including how to do flexible calculations and how to do it quickly, all with emphasis on speed. The second, in the midst of this cloud environment, when we were Shanyun a few years ago, we might all say that cloud is not a new technology, but that it uses existing technologies to repackage various applications, at which point you might use traditional databases, middleware, and some analysis tools. In fact now we can see that the new technology emerges, in the OpenStack this piece has a lot of open emerging standards, these standards provide very rich selectivity, let me how to balance technology. Another important point is the load perception, when we're Shanyun, the cloud has many features, and if we say what the cloud is most focused on is its ability to quickly perceive the workload, to be able to quickly open and compute elasticity, because that is a function of the cloud's core, especially in the context of the public cloud. In addition, how to analyze to insight. Usually we just say that the cloud provides some basic services, actually there are many problems in the entire cloud architecture, we can use some analytical methods to perceive different SLA load changes, how can I get the data faster and more accurate to the audience they need.

Cloud innovative applications, we probably summed up a few points, one is to promote business agility and proficiency. If you have a very well supported cloud platform, usually in the real world, when the business has a change, he will put this demand to it to achieve, in the process of implementation, sometimes a very long time, because he wants to do needs analysis, to take data, do architectural analysis, If we have such a cloud infrastructure platform, in fact we can often simply expand, or simply recycle these resources back. In the middle of the process to improve the agility of the entire business, IBM in addition to our usual IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Public Cloud, as well as the entire business process can be provided as a service, if you can have a very fast orchestration orchestration mechanism, the whole process can be very convenient to choreography, When your business process changes, you can easily give business customers such a function. As SMEs, if they can build services on the public cloud, they can spend more energy to focus on the business itself, rather than on the platform for a lot of time and effort. Including the cloud we've just talked about is more about creating a new business model, so you'll see that simply building a cloud doesn't make sense, the most important thing on the cloud platform should be what to run on, and which customers to use these things, and it needs to have an ecosystem. Some manufacturers are constructing a low-level infrastructure, and some are building cloud-based applications. For example, we have just talked about some of the IBM wisdom of the Earth's solutions, we are abroad, in Dublin to help them intelligent traffic analysis, real-time prediction of traffic jams, to help people planning a reasonable route, in fact, in the background are based on cloud data collection, analysis and processing applications.

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