Server New path under cloud computing ecosystem

In the era of cloud computing, traditional IT service capabilities are provided on an on-demand basis so that people can use computing and storage as water and electricity, and at the same time, they can maintain service capability and quality for users, and adjust usage patterns and cost savings according to their own needs.

The advent of the cloud computing era triggered the information technology revolution, the entire Internet becomes an omnipotent supercomputer, the data center becomes the "motherboard", the broadband network becomes the "bus", connects a large number of homogeneous computing and storage units distributed, and accomplishes larger computing and storage tasks to meet the huge data growth needs of the Internet.

From the point of view of technology, the traditional computing and storage architecture has changed greatly, and the dispatch of server has evolved from thread and process on single operating system to multiple operating system instances based on virtualization, which brings unprecedented application integration capability and great improvement of resource utilization, hardware Resources "software" It also makes the use of hardware resources more flexible and scalable.

While bringing about technological change, cloud computing is also revolutionizing it business models. PAAs and SaaS subvert traditional software development, usage, and delivery patterns, and IaaS transforms traditional computing and storage delivery patterns. IaaS lowers the threshold for server, computing, and storage resource capabilities, while PAAs lowers the threshold for developers to deploy applications, while SaaS lowers the threshold for users to use software. They will have a huge impact on the future IT landscape (the hardware industry, the software industry, the information services industry, etc.), change the way people get it, and run it in a new profit model. Cloud computing is also driven by its scale to drive energy-saving emissions and green technologies to make breakthroughs that greatly reduce the cost of IT operations.

In the era of cloud computing, traditional IT service capabilities are provided on an on-demand basis so that people can use computing and storage as water and electricity, and at the same time, they can maintain service capability and quality for users, and adjust usage patterns and cost savings according to their own needs. Especially for those small and medium sized enterprises, cloud computing directly let them have the IT ability to compete with the big company, bring the revolutionary consumption pattern, form new usage habit.

In short, the next few years cloud computing will drive the upgrading of information, to provide users with greater storage space, more computing power, lower costs. At the same time, the support of the Internet, the development of mobile web, radically changes in the future Mobile information life, can access the use of their own applications and data, anywhere can use synchronized data and application content.

Cloud computing rewriting ecosystem

As the core driving force of the third it revolution, cloud computing will have a profound impact on the entire information industry and radically change the existing IT ecosystem and industry pattern.

First, in terms of the business service model, cloud computing is fundamentally changing the billing model for the information industry-from a copy to a per-use charge. IaaS users can pay by usage to get calculations, storage and network traffic resources, PAAs provides a free basic development platform and operating environment, reducing the cost of programming tools, to its platform API capacity of the number of calls based on billing, SaaS has changed the software industry business model, According to the user's use of the software rather than license charges. All these changes are only the beginning, the ultimate goal is to change the entire information industry from the traditional product delivery model to service delivery model, restore the natural nature of networked information: Let the copies flow, and then according to each use charge.

As an IT technology revolution, cloud computing is leading the industry to redefine the production process of IT industry. The advent of cloud computing enables the IT industry to become the production line, the basis of IT resources on demand (storage, computing, network, etc. can be regarded as the information industry energy facilities), many software components are recognized by the industry to provide the call interface WebService, to form a standardized, flexible assembly of components , so that each enterprise can be more focused on their own core business, their respective roles, each exhibition director, promote specialization division of labor and the entire production efficiency of the promotion, so that the division of the entire industry continuously refined, and constantly create new opportunities.

The changes in the industry and the redefinition of production processes have led to a change in the overall market environment and a redistribution of profits. The presence of IaaS has changed the way users acquire hardware products. Users do not need to invest a lot of cost to buy, deploy, maintain, upgrade hardware, but through the use of services to obtain hardware resource capabilities, more flexible, scalable and more economical. The new hardware service provider's own hardware resources may be idle resources, is the Low-cost customization of common hardware, rather than commercial high-performance hardware, so the cost is extremely advantageous. It is difficult for traditional hardware vendors to get high profit orders from new hardware service providers, which will face "shuffling". At the same time, cloud computing will subvert the traditional software industry. Microsoft, which dominates traditional software with windows, is the absolute monopoly of the PC era, and cloud computing is subverting the business model of Microsoft's traditional software industry. Google has launched Gmail, Docs, Googlecalendar, such as the popular internet-based day-to-day Office applications, blowing a full range of application software to seize the horn of the market. Microsoft has a strong sense of unprecedented challenges, and officially released Office365 on June 29, 2011, offering online office services. The move by Microsoft confirms the trend of software transition to services.

SDN and Data Analysis Drive industry change

With the development of cloud computing technology and service, new technology and service trends are also emerging, which has driven the industry change strongly.

Software Definition Network (SDN) is an important trend of network development in the future, its design idea is to separate the control plane of the network from the data forwarding plane, and realize programmable control. Traditional IP network, transmission and control functions are integrated, devices are tightly coupled hardware and software, and SDN essentially will break this integration form, transmission work is still performed by network hardware, and the upper level of business control by software implementation, through programmable way to achieve the software of the entire network. Will change the production of network equipment and procurement methods, to provide a better way to achieve customized network capabilities. Through open programmable network architecture, can simplify network operation dimension, promote network intelligence, network ability is easier to open and use, can combine cloud with network, network on Demand organization, generate rich changeable new business.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)