Standard helps push large data center forward

With the deepening of information construction, as well as the rise of cloud computing, large data and other emerging technologies, China's large data center market has never been more vigorous. According to IDC forecast, 2012 to 2017 China data Center market composite growth rate of 9.8%, 2017 the overall size of the market will reach 19.03 billion U.S. dollars.

In the face of such a rapid development of the data center market, how to ensure its orderly and healthy development, has become a general concern of the industry. Recently, the reporter specifically visited the Ministry of Communications Institute of Telecommunications Standards Institute of the Internet Center Director He Baohong and the Ministry of Communications Institute of Telecommunications Standards Institute of the Internet Center Senior engineer Sun Mingjun, on China's data center market development and trends, The difficulties of cloud data center construction and how to guide the rational development of market are discussed.

Large data center market tends to be rational

In the past two years, He Baohong has publicly pointed out that there are three major problems in the data center of China, such as lack of layout planning, market supervision, and low energy consumption level. Now, are these three problems still the main problem in our data center market?

"It should be said that these three problems have been greatly improved, which is related to our four communication standards and layout guidance." He Baohong replied.

He Baohong Four communications industry standards are YDT 2542-2013 "Telecommunications Internet Data Center (IDC) overall technical Requirements", YDT 2543-2013 "Telecommunications Internet Data Center (IDC) Energy consumption assessment Methods", YDT 2441-2013 " Internet Data Center technology and classification standards and yd 2442-2013 "Internet Data Center resource occupancy, energy efficiency and emissions technology requirements and evaluation methods", layout guidance refers to the January last year, "The layout of data center construction Guidance" (hereinafter referred to as "layout guidance").

"Layout guidance issued after a great response, a number of ministries and local governments to find us to understand the relevant matters, the entire data center market in the data center layout, planning this piece than the previous two years has significantly improved, not so blind." "He Baohong said.

Sun Mingjun, one of the drafters of the layout guidance, told reporters that the Ministry of Industry and Industry to develop layout guidance, the purpose is to standardize some of the data center to build the situation, leading the data center to a higher level of more energy-efficient layout more reasonable direction.

"In the past two years, we have made a detailed statistic about the electricity generation and electricity consumption, it is obvious that it is inappropriate to build large centralized data centers in areas where there is a significant shortage of electricity and even the climatic and geological conditions are not appropriate, and if this happens, it will be detrimental to the healthy development of the industry. "Sun Mingjun said.

The layout guidance itself has several core ideas: first, according to the regional energy, climate and geological conditions, respectively, proposed the size of the data center; the second is to make clear that the new data center Pue value is 1.5, the Storage Data Center Transformation PUE value is 2.0.

Sun Mingjun Special emphasis is that in order to encourage the construction of green data center, layout guidance also supporting a number of preferential policies. For example, local governments are encouraged to prioritize the supply of land for green centres, and to prioritize municipal measures. The most bright spot is the national Development and Reform Commission Price division gave all data center can enjoy large industrial electricity price of the new policy, in addition to meet PUE requirements can also apply for large users direct power supply. Large industrial electricity prices are far lower than ordinary industrial electricity and commercial electricity, direct electricity prices are even lower, for power-hungry data centers, this is undoubtedly the good news for real gold and silver.

The introduction of layout guidance effectively improved the low energy consumption level in China's data center, He Baohong said: "At present, the new data center Pue design values are mostly below 1.5, in line with the guidance of layout guidance, the old data center is being transformed." But frankly, the old data center is not particularly fast, because it's really cumbersome to reinvent, requires a process, and the data center has an aging cycle, some data centers are being scrapped and moved to new energy-efficient data centers. In general, the average pue value of our data center from the first two years of 2.5~3.0 about to 2.0~2.2, or very good. ”

As for the hot data centers that have sprung up in the past few years, Sun Mingjun thinks it has cooled: "There's been a lot of planning around the past two years, so everyone is critical of the bubble, but over the years there has been a marked change in the attitude of governments around the data center." Because they find that the data centre is expensive, complicated and expensive, it is actually a high energy consumption industry. At the same time, it does not address the employment concerns of local governments. Running a data center at most dozens of people is enough, so for local governments, the construction of data center input and output ratio is not cost-effective, enthusiasm is slowly coming down. In addition, the company's own IDC will also decline, began to look for data center partners, cloud services increasingly interested. ”

While affirming the good changes in China's data center market, He Baohong also points out that data centers are not very well applied to new technologies. In his view, cloud computing has taken a very big change in data center equipment and technology, as well as in top-tier support businesses, and companies need to keep up with these changes. "Some companies like Internet companies have used new ideas and technologies to build and manage data centers, the results proved very good, but there are many data center design and planning still follow the traditional way, for example, some small and medium-sized data centers in physical security construction also like to use an iron cage. "he said.

Trusted Cloud promotes the construction of cloud computing credit system

He Baohong's business card also has a title: Secretary-General of the cloud computing development and Policy forum. He Baohong told reporters that cloud computing development and Policy Forum last year did a very important and very meaningful thing, that is, the introduction of the "Trusted cloud services certification."

"2012 Telecommunications Institute for Public Cloud [note] Services did a special research, survey results show that more than 50% of the enterprise users of cloud services security, reliability and quality of service have deep doubts; on the other hand, China's public cloud services in the early stages of development, Cloud service providers do have some irregular behaviors in service content and service level, which greatly affect the further popularization and deepening of cloud computing applications. As a result, industry regulators, cloud service providers and corporate users believe that a Third-party neutral agency is needed to build a cloud service credit system to standardize the cloud services market and nurture user trust in cloud services, so we do this. "He Baohong said.

It is learned that the cloud computing development and Policy Forum since May 2013 to start a trusted cloud services certification system, September completed the evaluation system after the establishment of a number of cloud service provider certification request. This January, the forum announced the results of the first round of trusted cloud services certification, Alibaba, Baidu, Beijing East and other 10 cloud service providers 20 cloud services through certification.

"We did find a lot of problems in the assessment, and 20 of the certified cloud services received a total of 640 evaluations, with hundreds of indicators adjusted." "He Baohong said.

For the participating cloud service providers, get more than a paper certificate, but benefit. For example, 10 cloud service providers are based on standard service concepts and operational management processes such as service agreements (including SLAs), storage persistence, availability computing, and more. At the same time, in the process of participating, each cloud service providers learn from each other, among them, seven cloud hosting four cloud service providers improve the cloud host migration solution, two change network strategy, three rectification security strategy, and two change billing strategy.

For enterprise users, cloud service providers with trusted Cloud certification are not only more trustworthy, but also have a horizontal comparability of similar services, allowing users to choose cloud services more clearly and plainly.

"So it protects the interests of both enterprise users and cloud service providers, both of which are welcome." Now more cloud service providers have submitted applications for certification, and we expect to release the second batch of certified qualified names this June. "He Baohong said.

Finally, back to the standard formulation, He Baohong disclosed that this year, the Institute of Communications Standards in the Telecommunications Institute is being drafted by the standards of the relevant data center is relatively few: "After all, data center infrastructure in this respect standards have been relatively perfect, in the future we may be around the data center equipment and services to develop standards, go up." ”