Large data age and data center transformation

"Using data explosions to describe today's IT development is no longer a thing, data growth is endless." "Century interconnection Dr. Li Zhijian that for enterprises, with user habits, geographical distribution, and even enterprise demand changes can be in large data mining to get valuable reference information. The big data age pushes the concept of information value to the corporate CIO.

According to IDC, an international data company, published in 2011, Digital Universe Study, the total amount of global information will increase by one times every two years. In 2011 alone, the total amount of data created and replicated globally was 1.8ZB (1.8 trillion GB). Compared with a 2010 increase of more than 1ZB, by 2020 this value will increase to 35ZB. This is the creation and generation of large data.

"We look at Facebook today, the number of global users is approaching 1 billion, China's Sina Weibo has broken 300 million registered users, Tencent's Instant Messaging active users reached 710 million, second only to China and India's population figures." The data generated by social networking alone is staggering. ”

Data processing needs drive data center change

Each increase in data flow by one order of magnitude, requires it to have the corresponding efficient processing capacity, thus triggering it revolution. The advent of PCs and the spread of the internet to today's cloud computing are the technologies and solutions that are emerging to enhance it efficiency.

IDC predicts that in 2020, the total number of servers owned by all IT departments worldwide will be 10 times times higher (including virtual machines and physical machines), the amount of data managed is 50 times times higher, and IT managers ' total growth will only fluctuate 1.5 times times. The need for large data efficient storage and efficient extraction is urging traditional data centers to shift to data centers that meet the requirements of cloud computing applications.

"Virtualization technology improves the efficiency of traditional physical machines, creating pools of resources through cloud computing, scattered across different physical machines in resource pools." Large data mining tools play a role in the pointer, according to the content of the information needs of information storage space to form a data warehouse. This series of changes will occur in the cloud Computing data center. ”

Green energy saving becomes necessary condition

"From the equipment, the server, room, bandwidth, power, refrigeration and other hardware facilities compared to the traditional data center does not occur in the essential changes, but will be green energy for the purpose of development." The future of power consumption in data centers is a big issue. ”

Ohnathang.koomey, a professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, reports that global data centers consume 198.8 billion kwh of electricity in 2010, about a 1.1至1.5% of total annual generating capacity, which is not negligible. Power has become the largest share of data center spending, and data centers such as Google and Microsoft are beginning to try to build data centers in cold areas to reduce power consumption.

"It's worth the cost of data processing, and cloud computing helps companies reduce IT costs." Dr Li Zhijian points out that cloud computing data centers reduce the average cost of data processing by integrating them into a massive datacenter. Large cloud computing data centers will consider the geographical environment, make full use of natural conditions to reduce energy consumption, such as local low-temperature climate, wind, tidal, solar energy and other clean energy.

Data Center Operations Services Outsourcing

Dr Li Zhijian that the most fundamental change in cloud computing data centers lies in software and services. Software includes the realization of storage, computing power calls, billing, security, such as virtualization, distributed technology, Microsoft, Amazon as the precedent; the change of service means that the operation of DNA in traditional physics computer room will be the precondition of quality service, not the whole content. Operational engineers from the maintenance of the physical computer room to the software platform, network platform maintenance, such as Debug.

With the large-scale development of the cloud data center, the operation and maintenance services are both soft and hard, and the difficulty and scale of operation service are enlarged correspondingly. "Operation and maintenance services to specialization, outsourcing will become the industry trend, in this field opportunities and challenges coexist." With operation-dimensional DNA data center enterprises will have the opportunity to grow into a professional cloud data center operation service provider. Century interconnection as a data center service provider with more than 10 years of operational DNA, future exploration of the cloud is worth looking forward to. ”

The Cloud data center needs the top level design

China currently has 588,000 data centers, and the Institute of Advanced Industry data shows that 2011 new numbers are up to 6,800, excluding cloud computing data centers that are being planned around the world. In the context of large data, Dr. Li Zhijian his understanding of how to view the rapid growth of China's cloud computing data centers.

"Due to the realization of virtualization technology, the tide of multi-tenant technology, the United States in 2011 to reduce the number of government IDC from 2000 to 1200, attention, is to reduce, not increase." But the premise is that cloud computing applications are already quite common. In China, the Cloud data center is in the construction period, it is the government to participate in the top-level design, the overall planning of the best time. ”

Dr. Li Zhijian that public cloud data related to e-government, education and health care will boost the development of smart cities. When the public cloud hits the ground, the change in China's cloud computing data center will come true.