Microsoft and the Century interconnection cooperation: public cloud and traditional IDC docking

January 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information technology joint national Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Land and Resources, the Electricity Regulatory Commission, the Energy Bureau jointly issued guidance on the Construction of Data Center (hereinafter referred to as "opinion"). "Views" pointed out that for the established data centers, encourage enterprises to use cloud computing, green energy-saving and other advanced technologies for integration, transformation and upgrading.

In November 2012, Microsoft announced that with the domestic IDC century interconnection cooperation, the public cloud in the domestic landing. Although prior to the publication of the opinion, the cooperation between the two sides can be used as an example of the implementation of the "opinion" to promote the data center cloud computing business.

According to the agreement signed by Microsoft and the century interconnection, Microsoft will be authorized by the century Internet Broadband data Center limited to operate in China and provide Office 365 and Windows Azure services. Microsoft's public cloud in foreign cases are relatively complete, however, in the Chinese market has been slow to fall on the reasons and domestic inherent public cloud qualification to obtain a high degree of difficulty. According to domestic policies, foreign manufacturers cloud data center in China to land the need for licences, while Microsoft is the first foreign manufacturers in China to obtain the public cloud operation qualification of enterprises. With the help of national traditional IDC as the bearer platform, Microsoft public Cloud finally landed in China. So what does it mean for traditional IDC to collaborate with international vendors on cloud platforms? Regarding Microsoft and the century interconnection cooperation question, the author recently interviewed the Microsoft Business Development Director Chen Xuan and the Century Interconnection brand marketing department general manager Wang Peng in the China IDC industry ceremony.

Cooperation is the accumulation of both advantages Microsoft will push differentiated cloud services according to Chinese characteristics

The cloud computing manufacturer Microsoft and the century interconnection cooperation, both sides said that they are learning from each other's strengths, Microsoft has a Windows operating system, Office applications and databases, such as the integration of mature software systems, and Century interconnection in the data center to network, bandwidth and infrastructure operations have a wealth of operating experience. This is the combination of both sides, together to create a cloud computing data center reason. Wang Peng, general manager of Internet brand marketing, said in the perspective of technology development, cloud computing is actually a "soft demand + hardware Physics" solution, cloud computing is essentially a "stack", this vertical "stack" brings together data center infrastructure such as civil construction, power facilities, refrigeration and security, network and bandwidth (interconnection), etc. There are server storage, operating system, middleware, development platform Azure and application software such as OFFICE365. Cooperation between the two sides is the accumulation of advantages of both sides of the performance.

When asked what kind of cloud services Microsoft would offer in China compared with the mature Microsoft public cloud services, Chen Xuan, Microsoft's business expansion director, said Microsoft's cloud services in China differed from other domestic vendors ' simple computing and storage-focused IaaS cloud infrastructure services. Microsoft cloud will rely on Microsoft software Ecosystem Integration advantages, to provide Chinese customers with differentiated online public cloud services, and to provide domestic users with a complete service experience.

The value of cooperation lies in the cooperation between talent follow-up and enterprise Organization system

What is the value of Microsoft's partnership with the century? Microsoft, for its part, is finding a carrier platform in China that is good for expanding its cloud services market in China and across Asia. On the other hand, Century connected Wang Peng that the cooperation between the two sides will help to realize the transition from the traditional Internet Data center to the data Center 2.0 platform under the cloud computing paradigm, and to create a truly "TSMC" model of cloud computing infrastructure, that is, to achieve open, network and content-neutral data center and network cloud platform.

Two different regions and different types of enterprises, where is the challenge of sustainable and benign cooperation in the future? Century interconnection Wang Peng said, talent Reserve is a big challenge, in the data center to cloud computing development trend, talent will become to provide customers with quality service experience important factor. and cooperation means the integration and reorganization of existing organizations and processes and even cultures of their respective enterprises. Both teams understand each other and develop new organizational systems and processes that are consistent with the project in the implementation process while ensuring strategic and benefit consistency. In response to this challenge, Century interconnection has been the first in their own enterprises to implement the "DEVOPS" management process, to the software development, transport and peacekeeping quality assurance three departments of communication, collaboration and integration of the process, methods, and systems to form a set. Century interconnection through the "DevOps" and Microsoft cloud Service grafting, the goal is to achieve "operational dimension to serve the business."

Bianhouyu language: Microsoft and the cooperation of the century interconnection, can view this case from two dimensions, one is the foreign public cloud in China successfully landed first; the second is the traditional IDC how to look at the transformation Cloud data center problem. First of all, Microsoft is not easy to obtain China's public cloud qualification license. Microsoft from its own technology research and development level to brand influence is the world's leading, at the same time it has accumulated a number of viscous development groups, and has a wealth of marketing channels and service system, which is its ability in the Chinese public cloud immature market in advance of the source of the landing. and Microsoft public cloud in the domestic landing, to the entire domestic user about cloud service cognition and experience has certain significance. At the same time, the success of Microsoft public Cloud in China is bound to attract the coveted and competition of other international manufacturers.

Second, for the traditional IDC, the cooperation between the two sides will help accelerate the pace of transition to the cloud data center. However, the transformation of cloud data centers is not overnight. Traditional IDC Cloud Data Center transformation needs to take into account its resource pooling, service-oriented, on-demand supply, green low-carbon, high efficiency and intelligence, consider the application of virtualization technology, the application of distributed computing technology and the transformation of management technologies, in the Data Center network architecture, it hardware infrastructure, service delivery, operation and maintenance, Planning management and green low energy to find a balanced and interactive ecological chain. Cooperation with the cloud service provider, is only the traditional IDC gratifying transformation of the first step.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)