Pillars Architecture Cloud Platform fast landing telecom cloud strategy

A few days ago, IBM (NYSE:IBM) company held in Kunming, the theme of "The achievement of intelligent telecommunications, winning step for the cloud," the IBM Telecommunications Industry Cloud Developers Conference, launched the Power cloud cloud platform strategy, that is, through first-class products, first-class technology and support, first-class partner services, To build a first-class cloud platform, set up a new generation of data centers for energy saving, section and festival resources in telecom industry, promote the rapid landing and popularization of cloud computing technology in telecom Enterprises, help the telecom operators to transform to the intelligent cloud service providers, and then promote the whole society's intelligent process. Mr. Hou, general manager of the telecommunications industry of IBM Greater China system and technology, Mr. Zhou, vice president of IBM Greater China Center for Systems and Technology research and development, IBM Systems and technology China industry and key customer technical support general Manager Mr. Liang, IBM China Regional Development and Channel technical support general manager Mr. Ye Yuhui, Mr. Zhang Simin, general manager of IBM Greater China Regional Partners Division, attended the Conference with representatives of nearly hundreds of telecom operators, as well as telecom solutions providers, independent software developers and integrators, and on how to promote the telecommunications operators to build a cloud platform to expand the blue sea market and promote industrial upgrading, And give full play to the telecom network and the value of cloud services and other topics of in-depth exchanges and discussion.

At present, most telecom operators in China provide IDC server hosting and leasing related business, although "rental racks + Rental bandwidth + provide simple maintenance" this service model of low profit margin has emerged, but in the traditional it construction and delivery model, the telecom industry's IDC business transformation is difficult; As the number of users and the rapid growth of new business, data and equipment have been a significant spread of the situation, and directly lead to the back-end of the data center of the larger, space, energy and human costs remain high. Telecom operators urgently need a new IT service delivery model to get rid of the current unfavorable situation and highlight their own market competitive advantages.

"At present, cloud computing technology is being valued by more and more industries," said Hou, general manager of the telecommunications industry at IBM Greater China system and technology. In the business sector, telecom operators are at the forefront, and other industries are using cloud computing to upgrade their core IT systems to achieve cost savings and service improvements. Facing the dual challenges of business transformation and cost reduction, the maturity and success of cloud computing technology provides a very suitable solution for telecom operators, which can rely on their own scale network strength and customer resources, with highly virtual and integrated computing resources provided by efficient cloud Platform, Transform a simple supply rack and bandwidth into rental computing power and provide data protection and business continuity services to the cloud service provider. The telecom operators cloud service providers have their own advantages, they have complete network resources, user resources, brand awareness, as well as a good service security system and customer relations, has a broad market development space. IBM's new Power Cloud strategy covers system resource pools, management platforms, and ISV services that will effectively help telecom operators quickly deploy, smooth transition, and easily ride the cloud!

Telecom Enterprise Wisdom Transformation Blue Sea market IBM Power Cloud ERA Best platform

Cloud computing shares IT resources through virtualization, increasing the overall utilization of resources (average from previous 15%-20% to 70%) and reducing the total cost of ownership for the enterprise, in the context of the scale effect of integrating multiple business systems; Through the virtualization of flexible resources to quickly respond to the deployment of business systems and operational performance expansion requirements, so as to improve the quality of service, so that telecommunications enterprises can carry more business volume and provide better service; At the same time, cloud computing and Telecom enterprise IDC Business Operation mode of high integration, Through innovative it delivery model to achieve business model innovation, open up 滍 I have a competitive edge of the blue sea market, so that telecom operators successfully transformed into cloud service providers.

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. And based on the IBM Power Cloud platform, its core feature is the ability to provide enterprise-class users need critical computing power, the vertical scalability of computing resources, as well as the industry's best reliability, thus becoming the best infrastructure platform in the cloud era.

At present, the IBM power server has been widely used in China's telecommunications industry, many telecom operators have started or are embarking on the deployment of a power based infrastructure cloud platform. In this regard, Guizhou Mobile and Shanghai Telecom has taken the lead in achieving gratifying results.

With IBM power server and XIV storage System as the infrastructure, China Mobile Communication Group Guizhou Branch successfully built cloud computing platform, realized the usage pattern of it resource on demand, effectively solved the information demand of customers, shortened the business construction cycle, improved the resource utilization rate, Reduced IT operational workload and costs. Guizhou Mobile Cloud platform construction began in the end of 2009 and successfully launched in February 2010, has been successfully operating including the new agricultural and information system in Guizhou Province, the provincial health department OA, residents health files, weather forecasts, high test points, tourism electronic tickets, agricultural machinery subsidy system, such as 36 business systems, Realized the successful transformation of its business model and it operation mode. Guizhou Mobile through the leading cloud services to promote local economy and people's livelihood development, in order to further realize the "perceptual", "interconnected", "intelligent" the "wisdom of the Earth" laid the advanced IT Foundation.

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. To this end, Shanghai Telecom through the cooperation with IBM in 2010, using the AIX platform based on the IBM Power Cloud, the establishment of the financial cloud zone, to these bank users with low-cost, high-quality enjoyment, five years of operating costs can save more than 60% of the investment. And more importantly, users have greatly shortened the deployment cycle of key business applications, from the traditional IDC "buy, Build, test" mode of a few months time, shortened to the cloud computing IDC mode for a few days, or even complete all the application deployment or debugging, but also need to calculate the time in weeks. Shanghai Telecom, a unified, dynamic and Open Data Center cloud service platform, has attracted a large number of enterprise users, not only enhance their own service value, but also optimize the regional investment environment.

Power Cloud Three "1" Mode easy Architecture Cloud Platform

IBM has built the most optimized server and storage system into a cloud computing resource pool, using cloud management platform software from IBM Systems and technology research and Development Center to build a complete infrastructure cloud, combining industry-leading ISV partners with power cloud development capabilities to form a powerful cloud strategy: a top-tier product, 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 new generation of data centers, and thus help the vast number of telecommunications operators more quickly and securely to the cloud service provider transformation.

First-Class Products: power+storage resource pool

IBM Power Cloud is a cloud service platform at the infrastructure Services (IaaS) level, a pool of system resources made up of high-performance power high performance servers, combined with cloud computing infrastructure management software through industry-leading POWERVM virtualization technology BAE Director VMControl, the realization of cloud computing wisdom of service delivery, with unlimited virtualization capabilities, uninterrupted business flexibility, unmatched green characteristics, efficient automation management capabilities. Power Cloud can provide billing functions, improve service quality management and user-service capabilities through IBM Tsam Cloud Computing management platform.

With high levels of stability, reliability, security, and strong computational performance and healthy ecosystems, IBM power servers are increasingly favored by governments, the public sector and large industry users as the main support platform for cloud computing. As of 2010, IBM has been ranked first in China's UNIX server market for 11 consecutive years.

IBM's next-generation storage architecture IBM XIV System has an innovative grid architecture, delivers the highest levels of reliability, performance, scalability, and functionality at very low total cost, eliminates complexity, and delivers unprecedented manageability to help customers deploy highly reliable, versatile, and high-availability information infrastructures. and provide better storage management, configuration, and higher asset utilization.

The computing and Storage System resource pool, comprised of IBM power High-performance servers and IBM XIV storage platforms, is a resource-sharing service platform that quickly responds to changes in business requirements, drives business innovation, has enhanced scalability to achieve dynamic resource allocation, and enables standardization and automation of IT management, Streamline service delivery while reducing operating costs, achieving a significant increase in resource utilization and improving ROI.

First-class technology and support: SKC (Cloud Computing Rapid Deployment Toolkit) +IBM CSTL Technical Support

The IBM Systems software family provides a powerful system management platform, including acclaimed IBM BAE Director, IBM Total Storage Productivity Center (TPC), IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and POWERVM, these highly integrated system software to achieve a higher efficiency and lower cost of physical and virtual resources in the system to simplify, unified management, in order to achieve comprehensive and efficient virtualization, thus paving the way for the management of cloud computing platform.

To help partners and customers quickly deploy and implement cloud computing, IBM China Systems and Technology Development Center specializes in launching an IBM Infrastructure Cloud computing Solution--starter Kit for Cloud (SKC). The solution leverages IBM Vmcontrol's extended solution and multiple virtual machine platform support capabilities, based on rest open architecture, with the distinct features of simple deployment, ease of use, and usage. The solution leverages existing hardware and virtual machine environments to quickly deploy the operating system and applications by self-service on-demand computing resources, with a modular architecture that is easy to develop two times and is easy to integrate with the processes and systems already in place, The introduction of this infrastructure cloud computing solution will make IT infrastructure management easier and more efficient than ever before.

IBM China Systems and Technology Development Center is developed for almost all of IBM's products (including System z, Power Bae, System x, storage, semiconductors and systems software, etc.). "With its strong global research prowess and robust roadmap for product development, IBM has been a global leader in cloud computing technology, and our IBM China Systems and Technology Development Center in Beijing, Shanghai and Wuxi is closer to China's customers and ISVs," Zhou said. To provide rapid response to their specific needs of technical support services to the world-class technology advantages to promote the spread of cloud computing in China to the ground!

First-class ISV service: Heavenly Plan

In order to better meet the high-end needs of industry users, including telecommunications, IBM actively cooperated with industry-leading ISVs and launched the "Tiangong plan" in 2010. The program fully integrates IBM hardware, software, services, laboratory research and development, as well as capital, marketing, sales and other resources to provide ISVs with a full range of power based application migration and tuning, technical training, including cloud computing development technology Support services. As of July 2011, more than 200 "Tiangong program" Members have been or are migrating their applications from the x86 platform to the IBM power platform, and even moved to a power cloud cloud platform and successfully run for their customers, significantly enhancing the ISV's core competitiveness in the same market.

"IBM is the pioneer and leader in the global cloud computing industry and is the forerunner of the cloud landing," Hou said. As a century-old enterprise, IBM has a unique insight into business transformation and business models and a wealth of successful experience, combined with a comprehensive product line and leading technology and service support, to help users achieve cloud computing is the best partner. The Power cloud strategy is based on best-of-breed IBM Power product and System management software, combined with state-of-the-art research and Development Center technical support and Best-of-breed ISV partners, which will enable more Chinese users to quickly build cloud platforms, implement cloud strategies early, improve it efficiency, respond quickly to market demands, Promote business model innovation, the achievement of excellence in the future enterprise!

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)