Scorpio Alliance becomes Open Data Center Committee micro modules into future hotspots

Recently, hosted by the Open Data Center Committee, Data Center Alliance, Cloud Computing Development and Policy Forum, the 2014 summit of Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, China Telecom, China Mobile, Intel, etc., was held in Beijing. The meeting announced two important things, one is officially announced the establishment of the Open Data Center Committee, the second is the release of Scorpio Server Technical Specifications 2.0 version.

"Open Data Center Committee" formerly known as the Scorpio Alliance. Scorpio Alliance includes Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, China Telecom, Chinese Mobile, Intel as a technical advisor, the core research content for the Scorpion machine cabinet server. After more than 2 years of development, such as the Scorpion Server specification has been developed to 2.0 version, the domestic Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba representative of the Internet enterprises, began large-scale procurement of this product to build their own data centers.

Open Data Center Committee initiation ceremony

2 billion the size of the customized market has aroused government concern

Market research organization data show that this year, China's server market overall shipments of about 1.7 million-2 million units, of which the BAT procurement server accounted for about 30%. This means that the input of the BAT procurement server this year will be more than 10 billion yuan, of which the customized machine cabinets accounted for about 20%, so that this year, BAT procurement customized machine cabinet server input will be more than 2 billion yuan. Such a huge market size, in the industry's attention, but also caused the attention of government departments.

Chen Jiachun, Deputy Director of Ministry of Communications Development, Deputy Director of the speech, pointed out that the current data center has become a strategic important infrastructure, China's data center industry is steady and rapid development. It is hoped that the future opening of the Data Center Committee will strengthen collaboration on the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and form an industry synergy, and actively communicate with government supervisors and put forward constructive suggestions.

Facebook and the tide compete on the same stage

In this meeting, in addition to bat enterprises to share their data center construction and operational experience, but also invited to the Facebook data center experts to share foreign data center on the whole cabinet and new data center research and development process, and by the wave and other manufacturers brought to the domestic data center products, The incisive analysis of innovative technology and the prospect of future development. Heavyweight Internet enterprises and server manufacturers of the same competition, let us see at home and abroad in the data center, the machine cabinet server gap is getting smaller.

The domestic Scorpio project team was established in 2012, marking the beginning of the local development of the machine cabinet server, the release of the server standard of the Scorpio Machine cabinet, which provides the standard for the landing of the whole cabinet server in China. At present, the Scorpio server standard has been developed to 2.0 version.

Alibaba senior Director Tanjef introduced, bat according to its own business needs, refer to a number of foreign internet companies such as Facebook model, deep customization of the required server functions, the corresponding technical specifications of the server, including racks, motherboards, chips, hard disk and other specific technical parameters for autonomous definition. This brings challenges to the supply chain system and customization innovation capability of the server manufacturer. This also gives domestic server manufacturers more opportunities, waves and other domestic server manufacturers to adopt a customized strategy, rely on the agile business chain can better meet the needs of bat. "At present, domestic manufacturers have accounted for the bulk of Scorpio shipments," Tanjef said.

As the first to participate in the whole cabinet project of the earliest server manufacturers wave, in 2010, it has carried out the research and development of the machine cabinet server, its Smart Rack machine cabinet Server from 2010 to 2014, has developed to the fourth generation products, in line with the "Scorpio" 2.0 standard. According to relevant personnel, wave Smart Rack4.0 Machine Cabinet server in early 2014 has been in Baidu, Alibaba to achieve bulk supply, the overall market share of over 70%, become in the overall cabinet server market share the largest enterprises. In the whole cabinet market to achieve such results, not only market factors, more should be the server to withstand the test of quality and quality results.

The day after the Scorpion-era MDC

The meeting officially set up an Open Data Center committee, and issued a Scorpio Server Technical Specification 2.0 version, 2.0 specification for the first time to integrate modular data center into the research category.

In the exploration of the modular data center, Baidu also shared their driving direction in the speech, Baidu will strengthen the promotion of the whole cabinet and modular data center further integration, soon after the whole machine cabinet and modular data center will be more combined together. At present, Schneider, Emerson, wave and other manufacturers are carrying out a large-scale practice on the modular data center. With the machine cabinet customization and delivery experience of the wave, may better realize the whole cabinet and modular data center for further integration.

Believe that with the Open Data Center Committee integrated Scorpio Server, modular data center and other research content further refinement, on the one hand will promote the Internet industry development and infrastructure standardization, industrialization process, On the other hand, it also provides a new development opportunity for domestic server manufacturers to adopt customized strategy and promote the integration of the whole cabinet and the modular data center.