At the "2014 Global Cloud Computing Conference" in September, the Universal data officially released the GDS cloud disaster preparedness solution, which further consolidated its position as China's disaster recovery industry leader, established in 2000, the world's data, the beginning of the main disaster preparedness business mainly, Since 2007, the expansion of the entire data center business, currently in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Kunshan, Chengdu have built a high level data center, the country has 17 data centers operating. In an interview with senior Vice President Chen Yilin of kingdoms data, referring to the future expansion of North America and Europe, she said, "Where are the customers, we will respond to where."
Chen Yilin, senior vice president, Universal data
With a world-class new generation of data centers and highly available IT service experience and excellent industry chain integration capabilities, the world data in 2012 and Japan SoftBank Cooperation, began to develop their cloud computing business, and in Chengdu, Chengdu and the city government and Huawei jointly build corporate cloud platform. With its powerful service operation capability, the world's data has developed in recent years, both in cloud computing and in large data fields.
At the same time this June, the global data and the Asia-Carlsberg, one of the world's leading brewers, announced the signing of a cloud computing cooperation agreement to provide Carlsberg Asia with high-performance flexible cloud computing, highly available technology architecture platform support services, improved backup and disaster recovery services, infrastructure planning consultancy services, Operation and maintenance services such as comprehensive cloud computing services, in addition, in mid-July this year, the 2014 Trusted Cloud Services conference, the universal data cloud mainframe services with leading technology, solid service commitment, reliable service details smoothly through the trusted cloud certification. All these, all of the world's data in the new generation of data centers, cloud computing and other areas of strength, the cloud pioneer in this period, we have an interview with the senior vice president of data, Chen Yilin and cloud computing business Development Vice President Zhang Lili two, they share the current data of the organization, technology, products and strategies, The following is the finishing report of this interview.
Zhang, vice president of the universal Data cloud industry development
Universal Data and TeamCSDN: First of all, please two to give a brief introduction to the data of the nations and your technical team.
Chen Yilin: Universal Data was founded in 2000, the beginning is based on disaster preparedness business, the beginning of the main in Shenzhen, doing a lot like deep hair, wide-spread, the country opened some of the bank's disaster preparedness outsourcing. As the business progresses, we find that our customers ' IT systems and data centers are particularly interconnected, so we've been expanding the entire data center area since 2007. After these years of development, our own data center has covered Shanghai, Shenzhen, Kunshan, and Chengdu, the other several centers are still under construction. Nationwide, there are currently 17 data centers operating. In our operations and services, we continue to accumulate experience in some of the applications of the financial industry, including IT consulting and service capabilities, as well as data center capabilities. Also, in recent years, we have seen the impact of virtualization and cloud computing in data center and IT services, and we began to focus on exploring virtualization and Cloud technologies in 2010. In 2012, we worked with SoftBank to release our highly available cloud data center based on VMware Vcloud Datacenter Technology, built in our Shanghai FTA Data Center. At present, the platform above the service of about 30 customers, most of them are the world's top 500 enterprises, and we in Chengdu with the Chengdu Municipal government and Huawei work together to build a fusion of Huawei based on the Chengdu Industrial Cloud platform, presumably so.
So far our company's main business, mainly around the data center of the hosting business, on the other hand is around the cloud service business, on the whole, we have 17 centers in operation, more than 200 customers, are basically enterprise customers. About 60%, 70% are financial customers. The second is the large Internet customers, such as Ali, Baidu and so on. The other part also provides hosting for these clients, including traditional disaster preparedness services, IT services, and cloud computing services.
Personnel, most of our team in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu. At present, the whole company's staff is about 400 employees. Nearly two hundred or three hundred people are mainly engaged in a research, design and operation of data center technology and it-related technology.
Highly Available IT servicesCSDN: When you mention that the world of data is a highly available IT service based on a world-class data center, what does this highly available IT service represent? What efforts have you made?
Chen Yilin: What we have been advocating is the idea of high availability. Because high availability involves more content. One is to talk about what we call high rank, today, regardless of the level of the data center, because the level of the data center is an international standard, we basically rank above T3. Today, whether in the data center level, or today's cloud platform design, is a high level first. The other is the whole of the so-called usability. Because this is also around our level. Another part is high security. Security is critical because of the customers we serve, especially corporate and financial customers. In fact, today in many banking systems, it turns out that the so-called usability is the first in the SLA, but today, we and customers will be security gradually put to the first place. The other is high performance, because the data center that we provide to the customer, to the entire cloud service platform, all involves the performance configuration. So in terms of architecture design and product matching, we do it all in the same way. All this is also around our entire service system, in addition to these, our service capabilities, personnel capabilities, management capabilities are to help us achieve our highly available service framework is a foundation. I also want to share with you, it seems to be a slogan, but it is the basic idea and value of all the products and services of the universal data, which contains the experience and theoretical system accumulated over the past more than 10 years, and we also set the whole framework around the changes of our customers and our goals.
Core Advantages Help software define data center Take-offCSDN: Universal data in Software definition data center this piece has no corresponding strategy? Can you tell me about it?
Chen Yilin: In fact, our business is very special. We are across the real data center of IT equipment and services at two levels. So this particular nature has led us to look at our management objects around these two management elements. The Software Definition Service Center is also about the efficiency of resources and the efficiency of managers. The software ends up serving people, so how are these different people going to use the software to get through the two barriers to the entire IT equipment and infrastructure, which is one of our specialties, or is it a problem that we have to solve, because we provide pure trusteeship inside, These services are also provided based on cloud platform resources.
We are talking about Software definition data center content is not the same, because each family talk is different. We are tackling these two barriers today. The next step will be to integrate some of our experience, slowly product, and then defined as some software, or some software-based services to our customers.
Zhang Lili: I do add that this question is actually an international problem, software defines the datacenter. People now close their eyes to imagine a picture, this is your body. The bottom of the Software data center, is a basic body of a person, just Chen always talked about, such as your software definition storage, software definition network, to the software definition of the computational power of virtualization. This is a person's core body. So in this part of the person, it is already very clear that the whole market is accepted. But this scenario is just the so-called basics of the software definition data center. But the whole meaning, first of all, a person must have two arms, right-hand man: One is our proposed service directory. The service directory is that when the concept of a software definition data center is formed, its purpose must be to achieve the landing of your value added through the directory of services, which is the 1th. The second is your other arm, which is its operation. Just now Chen always talked about the history of the data in the past 15 years, we have a very large core competitiveness, is our operational capacity, especially for the high load Enterprise data center operation and maintenance capabilities.
So this in the software definition data center, it must be a wing inserted in the overall infrastructure platform, can let it fly. But when you see a fly in the middle of the process, you will find that the software defines its interface part, like a person's neck part. It must be an open platform, and we are technically an open API, that is, it must be in a fully open, fully adaptive, able to put your body trunk, as well as your service to the two right-hand guys, can be flexible combination. This basically forms a core concept for all software definition data centers.
So from the nations themselves, our core strengths, including our real ability to make software definition data center Take-off, especially in the Chinese market it can take off, that is, we have these two wings, one is the service directory, one is the service operation dimension. So in China's current software definition data center in this market, the world's leading position is because we have such a 15-year service catalog, service operational aspects of some outstanding experience.
provides disaster preparedness in the form of cloudsCSDN: Now the reference to the data of the nations is a leading enterprise in the Chinese industry. So in your cloud disaster preparedness system, you will provide disaster preparedness as a service to customers, I would like to ask you are based on what kind of considerations?
Chen Yilin: In fact, disaster preparedness as a service to customers, this is not a new phenomenon for the GDS. In fact, at the beginning of the company's inception, we provide customers with disaster preparedness are as a service, and this is not a simple integration services, this will involve consulting services, integration and operation of three areas, but also a lifecycle management concept. Then talk about life cycle services also means that we actually do to customers, not to say that today, after the consultation, integration into the operational dimension stopped. We will change with the application of the customer itself, the application of the increase in the IT environment adjustment, but also with the customer again and again to improve and improve the process.
In fact, the biggest difference in our cloud disaster preparedness is to provide a disaster preparedness service in the form of cloud computing. Why use the cloud way? I think we know a lot about the cloud because there are so many benefits to the cloud. But in the cloud above, must have the content and the service. We have been doing cloud for so many years, also have a big challenge. Today we all know that disaster preparedness may be like buying an insurance, or just a form of precaution. But this investment must be reasonable, because if today a business, for example, 0.5:1 to the disaster preparedness, is a very large order of magnitude. For example, in terms of financial customers, a small bank of the ecosystem has to be billion-level, big as some joint-stock banks, it is billions of of it input. Therefore, the use of disaster preparedness, it must be relatively fine.
In fact, customers are in need of disaster preparedness, especially in the enterprise customers inside. Do not say that financial customers, such as some of the manufacturing industry, High-tech Industries will have a demand for disaster preparedness. For example, their ERP, OA, mail, are to be backed up, so many enterprises need some disaster preparedness, or business continuity services to provide enterprises. So one of the questions about this is whether the service is fine enough. Today is actually using the cloud is the best way, that is, combined with disaster preparedness, can be a good solution to this problem. In fact, after using the cloud disaster preparedness, it will greatly reduce the cost. This may be reduced to one-third or less.
Zhang Lili: I'm a little bit of a concept. It means that cloud is a platform, which in fact is, conceptually, an outdated concept. But now we look at the disaster preparedness, from the past 60 years to today, in fact, the number of disasters around the world has not changed much, but the whole industry chain has changed. The future is an industrial chain integration, that is, in the future of all the application system, it must be a cloud industry chain. So in this industry chain, because its industrial chain is quite large, and all links are linked, then this time is more than the past 60 years, for the so-called integrity system, the mode of cooperation between the two sides, and the two sides can be mutually beneficial, how to ensure that all the ecological chain Operation Safety, So it has reached an unprecedented level for overall disaster preparedness and business continuity requirements. So I would like to add that from the perspective of the industrial chain to see this problem. In the whole China market it's a vigorous development, industry integration, industrial chain integration process, the cloud can bring is not only a cost savings, more importantly, in this industry chain integration, it played a core platform role.
The cloud strategy of the universal DataCSDN: Universal data is both a cloud service provider and a solution provider. What is the positioning of your cloud products, including the public cloud, the private cloud, and the hybrid cloud? What are your unique strengths compared to other cloud providers, including Ali and Amazon?
Zhang Lili: I think China's cloud development process is basically synchronized with the world, cloud in the Chinese market over its concept period, then from the public cloud, the private cloud to the mixed cloud, these three names in fact, the concept of biased technology, then the world's positioning is to see the whole global, how to put this platform to build up, How can the values of the universal data be reflected. In China, the 1th you talked about is that we now have a lot of cloud suppliers in the market, but strictly speaking, you look carefully, many of them are partial public cloud or similar public cloud, for a very small number of individuals, micro-enterprises. China's current sea of clouds in the market, no one said, I can really for 43 million Chinese companies to provide cloud services platform, not yet. This is precisely one of the bases of the nations and our core competencies that can help the market to fill vacancies.
43 million of the Chinese market is very large, and there are many micro-enterprises. Their current consideration, do you ask him to do cloud? His answer must be done. Many companies, because of policy constraints, can only do private cloud, at least for now it may be limited to this. But for the vast majority of businesses and the direction of the future, it will go in the direction of a mixed cloud. So we are developing the entire GDS, including from strategic development to the market, we will see very important point is, how to China's existing traditional it model, can let it smoothly to the cloud computing platform. Then our position is very clear. Because this location also combines the first two questions you have just now, which is the core competency of the universal data, which is our service operation capability, and an open platform that can host all cloud computing suppliers. In this perspective, we can be as a whole different from the market currently mentioned in the cloud providers.
CSDN: What are your strategies for helping companies cloud their way? And one of the things that you think is now a small business. What are the main challenges in the process of cloud?
Zhang Lili: In fact, medium-sized enterprises or large enterprises, first of all in Lenovo China is now very fashionable words called wisdom, everyone is talking about the wisdom of the city, all the direction of wisdom. In fact, wisdom from us to dig deeper, wisdom is equivalent to another word is risk. The more intelligent you are, the more risky it is. That is my personal point of view, but we look back, all small and medium-sized, even large state-owned enterprises, in dealing with the cloud, they will consider a very important factor, is how to avoid risk, how to reduce the value of risk to the lowest. From the standpoint of the nations, one of our core points of departure. Helping these companies reduce risk, do the best risk assessment, and implement best practices to mitigate risk is itself a central point of the universal, a key opportunity for us to enter the market, and I think this is our overall strategic thinking.
Chen Yilin: Here I would also add that we talk about how our nations are going to help companies cloud their way. Of course, today this customer in the Chinese market, more and more eager to transition to the cloud above. Actually how to move to the cloud above, is a quite complicated process. Because customers have different applications, this process is the need to have an analysis of the judgment, combined with industry experience, the cloud today's platform experience, to give customers the process of consulting. Because the GDS more than 10 years for corporate customers, especially financial customers, is accumulated a lot of industry experience, and then there will be consulting capacity and methods. So first of all we will help clients to transform into the cloud above.
Another part is about today's customers to the cloud, if on some public cloud platform, customers will also take into account today's organizational structure adjustment or analysis. From the enterprise is very natural will be above some of the system network operation and maintenance services to the outside suppliers, so that the internal IT staff more focused on the development of their own applications, this is the GDS more than 10 years we talked about our operational experience, the system of operation and maintenance. This is the second core, we help customers manage the entire cloud platform, as well as customer service in the cloud above. We are based on these two key points to our target customers to promote our products and services, but also in these two key points to continuously improve our core competencies.
security how to guaranteeCSDN: Just now Zhang also mentioned that security customers are also very concerned about, as the volume of business including data center above the huge increase in data, the universal data in ensuring customer security what do you do?
Chen Yilin: In fact, when it comes to security there are different content, here is the head of physical security, architecture security, operational dimension security, from the entire framework of security we will do a different style, which we will involve the customer area, there are some of our service area, where the head is divided into different areas to set up, the In terms of security, the cloud, especially the public cloud platform we deploy today, must be in with the internet has a lot of interconnection, in this regard we will have some customized services, we have to do with the customer some firewalls, and also a part of the antivirus intrusion function and scanning, these are we will provide, the other part, This may not be so closely related to many cloud customers, but there are many potential risks that are physical security. We are in the data center to the cloud platform, from the park security, access security, passenger safety, monitoring, security, there are also different protection, this may not be so intuitive, but these aspects of the problems caused by can not be ignored.
customers to where we respond toCSDN: Will future development in North America and Europe?
Chen Yilin: Special talk about the development of the Internet, in fact, we see a lot of internet companies in the United States, such as Google, Facebook, these enterprises in the beginning has been very good, in fact, there are many internet companies in China, Ali listed on the scale of more than 200 billion U.S. dollars, including Tencent, Baidu and others are very big internet companies, because the development of these Internet companies has also hit the traditional financial industry and some traditional industries. There are some applications in the United States also on the Ali platform, like today's micro-letters also affect the operation of many different regions of traditional enterprises, particularly in the Asian region. These emerging internet including financial institutions need to be in the global layout, their clients are everywhere, they go global, so it's simple for the GDS, we follow our customers, where we have to respond, and our current strategy is to work with our partners to provide these customers with overseas needs. For example, we have a global cooperation some time ago, their customers abroad to China will use our data center and cloud services, today, domestic customers run back through the GDS platform to find their data center and corresponding needs of some of the higher level of cloud services, I believe that in the future the GDS will also be able to layout our cloud platform overseas, as well as our service capabilities, including our data service capabilities.
Zhang Lili: I went on to talk about the overseas strategy, our strategy today in the Cloud data center deployment is very pragmatic. In fact, we also put forward a very world-class strategic goal, a data center in the world, the future in a world of a data center concept of course can not be fully built by the GDS, which is the whole world to work together to achieve everyone in any enterprise, including different regions, promote the geographical economy, This is an ecological chain in the national economy and even the global economy, so it is basically a GDS foundation.
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