Linux: The preferred operating system for the cloud era

According to the latest statistics, in the top ranking of supercomputers, the proportion of Linux used has reached 94.2%, the top 10 systems all adopted the Linux operating system. 2013, Linux will continue to rely on the east wind of cloud computing, in the data center operating system in the market has a greater role.

In recent years, with the rapid development of cloud computing, as well as the continuous development of Linux platform and the continuous improvement of ecosystem, more and more enterprises, cloud service providers make Linux as the preferred operating system of their data center, and more and more enterprises put the key applications on Linux platform.

Business and cloud service providers will continue to use Linux as the preferred operating system for cloud computing, and the main reasons include the following:

Business development needs to build flexible systems

Business development is always the most important goal of the enterprise. Today, a growing number of users are aware of the importance of a flexible infrastructure for business development, such as the volume of data and the complexity of data processing requiring a scalable, high-performance IT infrastructure. Linux makes it possible to have this flexibility, economies of scale and reliability of cloud computing. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux as an example, the open hybrid cloud infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux can realize the easy migration and transformation between the application software and the public cloud environment, and ensure the continuity of the development and management platform.

Open source cloud platform adds power to Linux

The Cloud management platform is a very central part of the cloud computing infrastructure, and the open source cloud management platform, represented by OpenStack, Eucalyptus, Cloudstack, has been a major concern in the 2012, with the perfect combination of open source cloud management platforms and Linux platforms, Will add a boost to Linux development in the 2013. In fact, from 2012 onwards and even earlier, the major Linux providers have been aware of this, and have joined the open source cloud management platform of the war. In August, Linux boss Red Hat announced that the Red Hat OpenStack software preview of the private cloud, the public cloud and the hybrid infrastructure, the service (IaaS) cloud, based on the open source OpenStack architecture, would soon meet with users. This means that OpenStack will be better used in the enterprise production environment in the future and accepted by more enterprises and cloud service providers.

Low cost--the eternal pursuit of enterprise

With the increasing number of cloud service providers in the market, how to achieve the cost advantage becomes the problem that each supplier must consider in the increasingly fierce market competition. As one cloud service provider said in an interview, "it is undoubtedly a considerable advantage to reduce the cost of the cloud services provided by itself", and the Linux+x86 portfolio becomes the preferred choice for many cloud service providers. This is particularly important for cloud service providers.

Whether in the traditional business areas, or in the cloud computing, large data and other emerging applications, whether for the enterprise, or for the cloud service provider, Linux seems to have become an inevitable trend in the cloud ERA!