Lin Tao: Cloud computing faces the challenge of standardization and industrialization

April 17, the Ministry of Information Industry chief Engineer Lin Tao in the fourth session of CCS Cloud Computing Peak Forum on the cloud computing issues, has aroused widespread concern in the industry.

Cloud computing is a very important and influential technology in the current and future communication information industry. At the meeting, Lin Tao explained to the audience his understanding and views on cloud computing. He believes that because the concept of "cloud computing" has been excessively hyped, causing many products or services to be imposed on the "cloud" idea, is called "parrot", so how to correctly understand cloud computing is essential. Therefore, Lin Tao stressed that to understand the "cloud" and the "cloud" standardization and industrialization is a major challenge we face.

Lin Tao for cloud computing, mainly from its basic concepts, social needs, development, the status of the development of cloud computing in various countries and the various problems of cloud computing in five major aspects to the audience.

What is cloud computing?

We have a clear understanding of cloud computing: cloud Computing Is it resource organization, management of the implementation technology, it will separate IT resources organized and effectively used.

Why do we need cloud computing?

We can see through the development of Baidu's search service data to find out the urgent need of the network enterprise for cloud computing.

2011 Baidu's search volume of about 1 billion times/day, and 2012 Baidu Daily search volume breakthrough 10 billion times, the growth of about 10 times times; 2011 Baidu Page Index to tens of billions of dollars, and 2012 also grew 10 times times in hundreds of billions of dollars; data processing from 2011 10PB (1PB =1024TB)/day grew to 2012 100pb/days, also rose about 10 times times. Similarly, such as Alibaba, Tencent and other Internet Enterprise Server growth rate is also 100% per annum expansion. In view of this, the enterprise's demand for IT resources is increasing, and for the hardware expansion and maintenance costs are increasing, enterprises in the amount of information in the gradual expansion of the face of huge financial pressure. Cloud computing has emerged, and its development is crucial.

Cloud computing technology is in the early stages of development

Due to the lack of mainstream cloud service provider participation, cloud computing open standards progress is relatively slow, now, more than 50 standard organizations around the world have announced the establishment of cloud computing open standards, so there are existing standards for cloud computing, private standards and open standards coexist at the same time, but the broad direction, The open standards of cloud computing will be a major trend for future development.

The server used in cloud computing, currently has the use of X86 architecture of high energy servers and using RISC Architecture Low-power Server, the server is still in the exploration stage, but with the energy-saving awareness of the enhanced Low-power server in the future may be emerging. Network also needs to address the virtual machine traffic access and control, data center of the flow of the load, data and storage and computing network integration of three major problems.

A resource pool is an implementation of virtual resources (virtual machines, virtual storage space, etc.) automated generation, allocation, recovery, migration, to support the user's flexible demand for resources management technology, especially its migration belongs to the "hot migration" in the event of a physical host failure or the need for maintenance operations, The virtual machine running on it is migrated to another physical host, but this "thermal migration" has a problem with virtual machine format differences, which limits the choice of virtualized software providers when building a cloud computing system.

The current situation of cloud computing in different countries

The United States launched the federal cloud computing strategy in February 2011 to increase the development of cloud computing technology by adding cloud computing management, increasing the budget for cloud computing, strengthening cloud computing infrastructure, and setting cloud computing standards.

EU countries have formed a group of experts to encourage the alliance to support each other and promote cloud computing services together.

The Japanese Ministry of Economy and Industry released the study on cloud computing and Japan's competitiveness, saying that the development of cloud computing should be promoted in terms of improving infrastructure, improving systems and encouraging innovation. South Korea also unveiled the "cloud computing comprehensive revitalization Plan", vigorously expand the money and resources to join the development of cloud computing technology.

China's government in recent years also attaches great importance to the development of cloud computing, the "National Twelve-Five Plan" and "the State Council's decision to accelerate the cultivation and development of strategic emerging industries," all of the cloud computing as a key development of strategic emerging industries, identified Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Five cities in Shenzhen and Wuxi first launched cloud computing Services innovation and development pilot demonstration work. Subsequently, many provinces and cities also launched the cloud computing industry Park as the main form of data center construction. The development of cloud computing in China is improving.

The various problems existing in cloud computing

Cloud computing is accompanied by problems of energy-saving, elasticity, resource utilization, applicable face, opportunity and risk, which is a problem that the researchers of cloud computing must consider and need to solve. (Chen Qilin)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)