Reverse analysis: Why the future cloud needs interworking and automatic

The vast majority of the current global public cloud is built on the Intel architecture platform at the infrastructure level.

The previous and current "It extras" are themed around Intel and cloud computing. In fact, the connection between the two has been very close to the beginning of the concept of cloud computing, as we mentioned earlier, in the current global public cloud, the vast majority of the infrastructure level is based on the Intel architecture platform built. But still, in the eyes of many in the industry and in the media, Intel's official entry into the cloud-computing world, or its 2015 cloud Vision in October 2010, is as important as Intel's roadmap or innovation in cloud computing.

This vision of Intel has been around for nearly half a year now, but there is still some confusion in the industry about it-they are not unclear about the three key elements of the vision-interoperability, automatic and client-adaptive, but don't understand why Intel is proposing them as the core of their vision. Perhaps to see the current user on the network client configuration and functional diversification trends, and their networking application experience, they do not have a client adaptation of the element has too many questions, but interoperability and automation has become their focus of discussion: the future of the cloud is really so urgent to exchange it? Cloud computing is the pursuit of the automatic provisioning of resources and services to meet the needs of users Ah, why Intel put the automatic into the vision, which seems to be a little lack of new ideas ah!

Perhaps if from Intel's positive explanations for interoperability and automatic elements, to "allow communications, data, and services to move easily between the cloud infrastructure and between different cloud infrastructures," and to "designate, locate, and securely provide cloud computing services and resources with little or no intervention", They have no place to drill, but if we use reverse thinking to resolve them, will the situation change?

The answer is yes, to illustrate this point, let's cite some examples, such as a newly established enterprise whose decision makers may not have enough energy or budget to build and manage a proprietary IT infrastructure, but in the era of cloud computing, it wants to take advantage of advanced it technology to support business development, in which case The company is likely to achieve this by buying Third-party cloud computing or cloud service-related resources and services, such as buying IaaS services and building its own IT infrastructure and services with the help of external forces. If the service quality has been very stable, can make customer satisfaction is only, but if after a period of time to use, these enterprises do not want to renew their services, want to turn to buy other services, the problem comes The enterprise must ensure that data and applications related to its own business are safely and smoothly migrated to the platform of the new service provider.

If reality is really what some people think-interworking is not necessary for the cloud, so when the enterprise migrates its data and applications, it is likely to encounter two cloud service provider infrastructure architecture differences, inability to interoperate, data and application migration is difficult to achieve, this situation will lead to the migration process time-consuming and laborious, affect the normal development of the user's business, heavy can affect the data and application integrity and security, so that customers suffer losses.

The same thing can happen to companies with private clouds, after all, business development is unpredictable, so these companies may encounter some short-term business opportunities, if it is to add IT equipment and applications does not seem to be very cost-effective, So they can also temporarily lease some third-party service providers resources and services to support the development of these businesses, as well, if the private cloud and Third-party service providers of the cloud platform is not interoperability problems, then the data and application migration between the two is also a big problem.

With the above example, you should be able to understand why Intel has to first join the interoperability element in the cloud vision. The basis for interoperability is to allow as many users as possible to adopt open architecture IT products, technologies, and solutions to build their cloud computing infrastructure, and only if they can ensure maximum availability, reliability, and ease of migration with the underlying data and applications.

Talk about Interworking, and then automatically, the automation mentioned in the Intel Cloud Vision does not simply mean the ultimate goal of cloud computing-automating on-demand management, provisioning of resources and services in cloud computing, and the automation of many of the levels needed to achieve this goal, especially the automatic management and response of computing resources. We mentioned that the vast majority of users are now in the second phase from virtualization to cloud computing, that is, the implementation of virtualization after the construction of software and hardware resources to carry out a comprehensive, efficient and unified management, understand its status, and its flexible operation, control and deployment, but this is easy to do difficult, the reality is, Many enterprise IT technicians feel that their management is more complex and heavier after virtualization. Because the original physical server "evolves" into a large number of virtual machines after virtualization, at the same time with the previous for the physical server has some automated management tools, virtual machine management is now basically "manual", the Intel Cloud Vision refers to the automatic, first of all, to start from the foundation, to achieve the automated management of virtualization , otherwise the final automation provisioning and response can only be castles in the castle.

With the above analysis, do you have a more comprehensive, in-depth understanding of the interoperability and automation of the Intel Cloud vision? Indeed, it is as clear as the stars in the night sky that if they merely state their concepts, they are like starlight shining again, and they can see their brilliance in the day, and in reverse, and through possible illustrations.

Recognizing the meaning of the Intel Cloud Vision, you will all want to know more about how it is implemented, as we mentioned in the last issue of it extras, with Intel's Open architecture innovation and two open architecture cloud industry organizations The Open Data Center Alliance is closely linked to the Intel Cloud Build plan.

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