"Refurbished" or "rebuilding" data centers

Cloud computing, large data and other emerging technologies have far-reaching impact on the telecommunications industry, how to grasp the development opportunities behind these emerging technologies to become the industry needs urgent solution, but as the host and the best platform for the implementation of new opportunities in the data center, enterprises and operators are spared no effort to make large-scale investment, And then, as the wave of data center-building booms around the country rises, we ask, does China really need so many data centers?

"Data Center Renovation" or "reconstruction" from the current trend of the industry is not difficult to judge, now is the time to build the cloud computing data center to "cool down" to the traditional data center "renovation" time, because the development of cloud computing in China increasingly to the direction of the bubble. "When reporters talk about the current development of data center construction," said Zhigang, a telecommunications expert.

In the context of cloud computing, the big data wave sweeping the world. In China, cloud computing has been recognized as the commanding point for the development of the information industry, and whoever catches the cloud has grasped the opportunity for economic development to take off again. So all over the country began large-scale construction of cloud computing data center, many local government data center construction began to busy building, slightly "backward" local government, its cloud computing data center construction planning also put on the agenda, Cloud computing Data Center Construction blindly follow the status quo has been formed.

And some data centers that have been operating for just a few years, by the cloud Computing data Center "impact" was abandoned, resulting in a huge waste of resources, traditional data centers how to deal with, shelved, abandoned is completely away from the nature of cloud computing, how to upgrade the traditional data center to adapt to the development of cloud computing, " To treasure "only in line with the development of cloud computing.

Domestic and foreign "double Day"

Sadie Consultant released data report shows that 2012 China's cloud computing market size is expected to reach 47.448 billion yuan, an increase of 64.6%, for 3 consecutive years to maintain high-speed growth trend. At the same time in 2011, China's cloud computing market size has reached 28.823 billion yuan, an increase of 72.3%.

Such an attractive development prospects, attracted many companies to kill into the cloud computing market, many local governments also favor the cloud computing, a variety of "cloud computing centers" have roots in all over. Although some local governments are actively responding to the country's industrial policy, make full use of local energy, climate, hydropower and other resources, advance planning, reasonable layout, accelerate the transformation of the local economic structure. However, some local governments do not start from reality, lack of long-term planning, at the expense of local energy resources, duplication of construction, this situation is worrying.

In America, it's the opposite. In 2011, the United States government announced the closure of approximately 800 data centres in the 4 years of 2011-2015. The U.S. government's immediate goal is to close about 373 data centers in 2012, saving about $3 billion a year if the target is to be successfully completed.

Currently, China has more than 640,000 data centers, according to Dr. Hechinying, vice president of Sadie Consultants. There are only 180,000 data centers for public services. It can be seen that China's data center construction has been too fast.

According to reports, in response to the blind construction of the data center, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Minister Wei also warned that foreign cloud computing is mainly to integrate existing server resources, the idle resources to integrate, set up a virtual data center. But many places in China are adding millions of servers, there is a lot of blindness.

Industry insiders also point out that the government needs to remain rational about cloud computing. On the one hand, to build a service-oriented government as the goal, for the development of their own business needs of the data center for unified planning, strengthen the top design, effective display of data center synergy value; On the other hand, the establishment of scientific and sound data center management policy, reasonable layout, forming the eastern, central and western complementary industrial pattern, Further strengthen the support for enterprises, improve the Government's hatching function, create a fair and orderly competitive environment, so that enterprises become the market competition, avoid in the business offside, management vacancy.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)