"Universal Cloud": IBM's cutting-edge optimization technology

"Universal cloud" IBM development center in China to optimize cloud development technology to improve development effectiveness

Whether the enterprise structure and service can be optimized will become a key issue for modern enterprises. For the IT industry, optimization of business processes and IT infrastructures can help enhance the development benefits of the development team so they can take the lead. The IBM China Development Center fully optimized the IT infrastructure of the IBM China Development Center by introducing a cloud architecture based on IBM Tivoli software and solutions to enable the "cloud" of IT resources to be implemented while maintaining the day-to-day operations of the development center optimization.

For businesses, the level of optimization of the IT infrastructure will directly determine the level of business and service. At the infrastructure level, cloud computing can optimize the allocation of IT resources and increase the value of IT. As the world's leading provider of cloud computing solutions, IBM is making every effort to help global enterprises improve their optimization capabilities. Meanwhile, IBM continues to implement cloud computing optimization practices internally. Dr. Wang Yang, IBM global vice president and general manager of IBM China Development Center, said: "Cloud computing is a major trend in the development of the IT industry and one of the focuses of the IBM China Development Center. The establishment of the cloud computing foundation platform in IBM China Development Center, Not only has the centralized management and configuration of internal resources been realized, but also the operating costs have been reduced, the efficiency has been raised, the competitiveness of China's development center has been enhanced, and the "optimization power" of IBM software products has been well demonstrated. In the next decade, we Plans to reduce IT costs by 10% annually through cloud-based computing platforms and to reduce software development costs by 40% by 2015. "

Business Challenges - A Complete "Cloud" Transformation to Promote Development Optimization

A study by IBM shows that 80% of CEOs predict that the company will make major changes and plan to take corresponding measures. Many organizations are now turning to cloud computing to improve IT service delivery and resource utilization while reducing operational costs.

IBM China Development Center was established in 1999. Similar to the growth experience of many domestic enterprises, after more than a decade of rapid development, the IBM China Development Center has evolved from a group of only over 100 software engineers to a large organization with more than 5,000 employees, As one of the largest software development centers, it has become the largest software development center of multinational corporations in China and its product development volume has rapidly increased in more than ten years.

During the rapid development, IBM China Development Center expanded a large number of computing resources, scattered in more than 250 software product development departments, departments of the dynamic changes in resource requirements and the efficiency of the jagged, it is easy to cause a waste of resources. And because IBM has very high demands on the quality of software development, software products are more complex in developing test procedures, scope and environmental requirements, and developers often spend a lot of time on environment deployment. In addition, as a large number of partners involved in the development, at the peak even more than 1,000 engineers from partners involved in the development, protection of IBM technology and product safety has also become an important task of the development center.

Since 2010, the growth of IBM China Development Center has been steadily becoming more and more stable. We started to investigate the internal resources and started the "cloud" transformation. Mr. Cai Chusong, Deputy General Manager of IBM China Development Center, said: "We expect to reduce operating costs while ensuring the continuous improvement of employee benefits. We will introduce innovative technologies such as cloud computing and virtualization in the IBM China Development Center to optimize resource management, Enhance R & D efficiency and ensure safe operation within the development center. "

IBM's solution - "Universal Cloud" platform, development center "optimization" of the road

In order to break the restrictions set by internal departments and promote the sharing and configuration of internal resources, IBM China Development Center set up a cloud computing platform centered on "Ring Cloud" and introduced new technologies including Tivoli Provisioning Manager, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli SmartCloud Provisioning, Smart Business Desktop Cloud and other solutions. The solution provides a true Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud that supports IBM China development by lowering costs, providing a runnable application and quickly responding to dynamically changing user resource requirements with highly scalable and rapidly deployable environments Over 3,000 virtual machines in the center provide thousands of IBM software engineers the shared computing resources they need to provide dynamic resource and rapid deployment for hundreds of IBM product development and resource efficiency for thousands of computing systems report.

Not only that, IBM China Development Center has further expanded the "Universal Cloud", set up the HSLT cloud (High-scale Low-touch Cloud). The HSLT Cloud incorporates the IBM Tivoli SmartCloud Provisioning solution for testing software products and technologies and supporting over 800 virtual machines to help software engineers in development centers deploy resources quickly and automatically.

At present, the development team of more than 28 Tivoli products in the IBM China Development Center is using the HSLT cloud for development and testing. With the HSLT cloud, the average system build time of the team has been reduced from at least 120 minutes to about 5 minutes, completely replacing the original 356 old servers, and developing testers has saved a great deal of time devoted to developing and testing itself. Not only that, Tivoli Trader, which is designed to provide system and test applications for Tivoli software, can perform complex deployments with just one click using the HSLT cloud, compressing a large amount of test environment time to minutes To further support the R & D center's routine regression test, upgrade test and endurance test under the agile development model that requires extremely high demands on time.
"Universal Cloud" in the deployment of IBM China Development Center, achieved good and significant results. According to the "China Universal Cloud" user survey questionnaire report of IBM China Development Center, users in the three sub-centers of Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei have satisfied or basically satisfied with "Universal Cloud", accounting for 93% of them. Among them, the deployment is simpler and the performance is better Good user experience in the forefront.

In addition, in order to cooperate with "Universal Cloud", IBM China Development Center also set up a "desktop cloud" to support more than 1000 client virtual desktops for IBM partners to access through the client, "Universal Cloud" platform to participate Software product development.

Ms. Li Jing, manager of IT service department at IBM China Development Center, said: "Since the implementation of 'Universal Cloud' in 2009, we have been committed to fully planning and utilizing resources within IBM China Development Center while reducing costs and increasing efficiency , To improve the speed and agility of interaction.At the same time, we also continue to use their own products to achieve more internal optimization, to create more best practices and enhance our competitiveness in the future we will continue to assist IBM China Development Center Implement a transformation for the 'cloud' platform and in-depth development of visualization of resource utilization. "

Program benefits - internally and externally, IBM cloud strength highlights software "optimization"

IBM believes that the cloud computing platform can help enterprises to change the internal originally confined and non-converged IT resources into dynamic, shareable and configurable resources, and drive and cut resources by optimizing resource allocation to gradually realize automatic management. IBM software tightly integrates customer business needs with its own capabilities and is helping global enterprises consolidate and manage their internal resources, optimize their infrastructure and transform their business and services through strong "optimization capabilities." At present, IBM's cloud computing solutions have penetrated all levels of cities in China, covering various industries such as telecommunications, finance, government, research, public affairs, petroleum and energy, logistics and shipping, and e-commerce. The "Universal Cloud" solution has also been extended to Shunde, Guangdong Province, to help local governments and enterprises planning and construction of "smart furniture cloud platform", "IOT smart city public cloud platform" based on the Internet of Things public cloud platform to enhance local furniture The core competitiveness of commerce and trade industry, fully support the local industrial upgrading and the construction of smart town.

"As one of the key components of IBM's cloud computing solution, Tivoli products today have expanded from enterprise-class internal data center management to external infrastructure management to support modern Enterprise security, and easy transition to cloud computing.This IBM China Development Center introduced the Tivoli solution and successfully built the 'Universal Cloud' platform internally to fully demonstrate the powerful 'optimization power' of IBM software products to the enterprise infrastructure. IBM users and partners. Tivoli will also use the world's leading software products and solutions to help customers manage more complex dynamic infrastructures and deliver and manage improvements across the world through cloud services Business infrastructure to help businesses around the world build a 'smart planet.' "