IBM Hou: Cloud computing will quickly fall on telecom companies

On the other hand, as the number of users and the rapid growth of new business, data and equipment have been a large spread of the situation, directly resulting in the back-end of the data center is growing large, space, energy and human costs remain high. For telecom operators who promote energy saving and emission reduction, a new IT service delivery model is urgently needed to realize green it and strengthen the competitive advantage of the market.

Facing the double challenge of business transformation and cost reduction, cloud computing technology provides a very suitable solution for telecom operators.

"2012 China Green Communications Conference", IBM Greater China System and technology Department of Telecommunications Industry general manager Hou in the "Communications Industry newspaper" (NET) reporter interview, said: "At present, cloud computing technology is being more and more industry attention." In the business world, telecom operators are at the forefront, using cloud computing to upgrade their core IT systems to achieve cost savings and service improvements. At the same time, operators can rely on their own large-scale network strength and customer resources, with efficient cloud platform to provide a high degree of virtual and integrated computing resources, the simple provision of racks and bandwidth into rental computing power, to the cloud service provider transformation. ”

In response to the needs of operators, IBM launched the Power Cloud cloud platform strategy on the basis of power servers, through first-class products, first-class technology and support, first-class partner services, to create a first-class cloud platform, the establishment of the telecommunications Industry energy saving, section, node resources of the next generation of data centers, To promote cloud computing technology in the rapid landing of telecommunications enterprises and popular application.

Currently, cloud computing is mainly built on the two mainstream system platforms of X86 and UNIX. x86 architecture is easy to get started, low cost, but its operational performance, security and reliability of the obvious deficiencies, it is difficult to achieve the telecommunications industry, "enterprise-critical business application" needs.

The core feature of the IBM power based cloud platform is the ability to provide the critical computing power required by enterprise users, vertical scalability of computing resources, and the industry's best reliability to build a reliable cloud infrastructure platform for operators. "Hou said.

At present, IBM Power Server in the three major operators have been widely used. Hou told reporters, "Many telecom operators have started or are embarking on the deployment of a power based infrastructure cloud platform." For example, Guizhou Mobile, Shanghai Telecom and so on.

It is understood that Guizhou Mobile with the IBM Power server and XIV storage System as the infrastructure, the end of 2009 to build a cloud computing platform, and in February 2010 completed and the implementation of the line, has been successfully operating including Guizhou province, the new agricultural and information system, the provincial health department OA, residents health files, weather forecasts, College entrance examination, tourism electronic tickets, agricultural machinery subsidy system, such as 36 business systems.

"Through IBM's Power Cloud platform, Guizhou Mobile has realized the use of it resource on demand, which effectively solves the customer's informatization requirement, shortens the business construction cycle, improves the resource utilization and reduces the workload and cost of it operation." ”

After the cross-strait signing of the Memorandum of cooperation on financial supervision, Taiwan's offices in mainland banks have to upgrade to branches, they need data centers, but the volume of business is very small, if the one-time input, a few years of maintenance costs will be very large. This，

Shanghai Telecom, in collaboration with IBM in 2010, adopted the IBM Power Cloud based on AIX platform, built the financial cloud zone, brought low-cost, high quality enjoyment to these bank users, and five years operating cost can save more than 60% investment.

"Under the new economic environment, IT systems are taking on new roles. On the one hand, IT systems help companies create new business models that drive sales growth and business innovation, and, on the other hand, IT systems enable enterprises to shift from cost centers and support centers to profit centers and business centers. IBM hopes to collaborate with a growing number of telecom operators to shape green it and really turn it into a profit center for the business. "Hou said.

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