Stepping into cloud computing mainframe helping IDC build private cloud

Large mainframe not only occupies a pivotal position in the process of computer development, but also plays an important role in the commercial field. In the world, 95% of Fortune 500 enterprises continue to use large mainframe, more than 70% of the enterprise data running on the mainframe platform. The top 50 banks in the world and 22 of the top 25 in the U.S. retail industry are all using large mainframes. Recently, we launched the Internet IDC Industry Data Center and the development of the Cloud Platform Survey report, and explore the field of mainframe application and future development space.

This survey has designed a, B, C, D, e Five categories of users, according to industry influence, public revenue and the number of servers defined. Among them, a class of users are the leader of the internet industry, b users include the Consumer network mall, video sites and traditional portals, etc. C users to include group purchase sites, small consumer shopping sites, it sites, and so on; Class D users represent the number of servers other than the above three the key Internet company of >1000, the last Class E user is the number of servers in 500-1000 between the Internet company. From these divides, basically includes the internet company All, is also the present most representative survey sample.

From the results of the survey, a\b two types of users of the server for their own procurement, but most of them did not build their own data center, so the trusteeship ratio of up to 90%, and the three telecom operators as the main custodian service provider. From the number of servers, the Class A and B user server average use of more than 4000 units, usually to meet the basic requirements of mainframe substitution; But we see that they are currently using the X86 platform, if it involves a large area of migration, involving a lot of problems, the use of large machines is relatively difficult.

For these users, they value security very much, because often need to deal with most of the different kinds of applications, including the application of security, management security is their focus. At the same time, due to the number of servers, how to reduce operating costs is their concern.

To sum up, these two types of users have the advantage of using mainframes, including security and cost pressures. Just because of the current business complex, large number of servers, how to migrate is their urgent problem to be solved.

For C-Class users, it is basically the same as A/b user from the managed quantity, but in comparison the number of servers is much lower. The survey found that this type of user is most concerned about security, all users surveyed mentioned this, occupy 100% of the total number of samples. The next two issues are the use cost (Occupy 75%) and the multiple application load pressure (occupy 58%). Mainframes are one of their best choices for this type of user. Compared to A/b users, C-class users do not have the pressure of large-scale data migration, so as to reduce the risk of migration as far as possible. In terms of advantages, the security and economy of mainframes is the value of the C-class users. Mainframe in I/O, large data, the advantages of the flexibility in management, improve the efficiency of the system also has a good performance, just meet the needs of C-class users.

Among the class D and e two users, we increasingly see the advantages of mainframe applications in terms of further reduction in the number of servers and increased security.

From the perspective of industry development, the IT system of large enterprises is facing the serious problem of inefficiency in supporting the achievement of business objectives and enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises. On the one hand, infrastructure complexity increases operational costs and compromises service quality; On the other hand, it islands cannot be consistent with business processes to constrain information sharing, while the IT department delivers technical solutions throughout the process rather than service delivery for the business--a problem many companies face Business people need services (more comprehensive, more in place), and IT departments only provide the relevant technology (other jobs need to be done by the business staff themselves).

In terms of reducing costs, the economic crisis and pressure for energy-saving emissions have prompted users to think about how to save more. Through the mainframe, users can not only save hardware cost through resource virtualization, but also save energy, manpower, software licensing and service costs. In terms of regulatory risk, large hosts up to five nine availability can help reduce the likelihood of various planned and unplanned outages. In terms of upgrading services, the "Capacity On demand" feature and sophisticated virtualization technologies that are unique to large hosts can ensure that users are flexible in their business development to address the resilience of business mutations to the IT infrastructure.

Mainframe enables you to allocate workloads in the most appropriate way in a heterogeneous environment. Compared to the original "One-size-Fits-all" Unified application in the mainframe or unified running in small machines, x86 servers, this heterogeneous mainframe procurement and operation of the lower cost, and systematic heterogeneous design to maximize the communication between the system and computing coordination. Through the unique mainframe resource management and load allocation technology, the service level can be significantly improved through the close integration of multiple workloads.

At present, rapid it product development and the user's rapid growth of application requirements, including cloud computing and the trend of the Internet of Things to provide space for the development of the mainframe. The continuous innovation of Mainframe brings the technology of high speed processing, virtualization, water cooling and so on, which sets up a solid coordinate for the industry. Now, the road to innovation is still on its way. In the future, the ability of real-time data analysis is the direction of mainframe development today. In the face of fraud surveys and risk analysis, users do not have the patience to take a day to get the results.