Super Cloud Dong Xin: Cloud Server "Live for the Cloud"

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As the word cloud gradually became popular, many of the nouns associated with it began to flood users ' eyes and ears, and "cloud Server" was one of them. However, what is the "cloud server"? What is the difference between it and a traditional server? I believe many users still have doubts. Recently, a chance to let reporters interview China's first "cloud Server" supplier World Super Cloud company vice President Dong Xin, will be "cloud server" a probe.

▲ Dong Xin, vice president of World Super Cloud Company

Different from the traditional server! Two characteristics of cloud server

What is a cloud server? This seems to be a commonplace topic, and a place where many people have doubts. As a person who has worked in cloud computing for years, Dong Xin has a unique insight into this.

The first major feature of cloud servers is the need to plan for specific cloud applications. Dong Xin, "cloud server" concept is actually three years ago in North America, mainly because of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other large cloud services vendors to the server's new requirements caused by. Google's servers, for example, can be called cloud servers because its servers are specifically optimized for Google's search applications, removing unnecessary components and ports, and finding a balance between memory, I/O hard drives, CPU processing, and networks.

The traditional server is to a large extent to meet the traditional application of enterprise development and manufacturing, such as Web services, enterprise database applications, and go to the general market. In principle, traditional servers can be used in the cloud computing market, but it may cause a lot of unnecessary cost, because there are many functions that cloud computing customers will not use in the three-year five-year lifecycle. The "cloud server" that the cloud is pushing in the Chinese market is a special optimization for the main cloud applications, for example, for primary virtualization applications that are optimized for the Open-source cloud framework and applications of "Hadoop". Dong Xin also emphasizes that the optimization should not be for all applications, but for the application of a particular cloud.

Another feature of cloud servers is that they must be suitable for large-scale deployments, so cloud servers need to be optimized at the physical level, such as higher densities, lower power consumption, ease of operation, and so on.

Why do you want to do cloud server?

Win in the pattern, lose in detail. It can be said that positioning in a "cloud server" manufacturer is the biggest success of heaven and Earth, which also embodies the founder of the market opportunities of keen insight and deep understanding of the cloud computing market. "Maybe everyone thinks the real estate is very hot, everyone wants to develop real estate, but the super Cloud chose to sell bricks to others and sell glass curtain wall," Dong Xin explains the role of hyper cloud in cloud computing industry chain, and introduces the two main reasons for such positioning.

On the one hand, from the market trend, the development of cloud computing has led to a large-scale it trend. A wide variety of applications will create new requirements for the underlying infrastructure, and it is likely that the enterprise server of the generic class used is available, but it is not necessarily the best solution for cloud computing. A recent IDC report on China's cloud computing market shows that about 50% of the market share in China's cloud is actually the most important server from the cloud's infrastructure. As a result, the cloud hopes to bring high-density, low-power or more distinctive products to the Chinese market through infrastructure, hoping to play an important role in the construction of the cloud computing infrastructure.

On the other hand, there was a little episode when the Super Cloud was born. Tian, chairman of CBC (Broadband capital), Yahoo in the United States to visit Yahoo's data center when talking with Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, learned that Yahoo's data center has hundreds of thousands of servers, but rarely see a particularly famous brand of servers, Yahoo will choose some customization ability is very strong, responsive to the market fast , the quality is also very good, and the price is relatively more reasonable manufacturer of the server to cooperate. At that time, the mail services and other services hosted on the Yahoo Data center were actually typical cloud services. After this, Tian always and the corresponding professional server company to negotiate, and last year created a super cloud.

Creating "heterogeneous legions" in the hardware market

When it comes to planning for the future, Dong Xin said, the cloud will continue to focus on cloud server research and development, sales, as well as the corresponding upstream and downstream partners of the total win.

According to the latest data, China's cloud server market growth will reach 50% in the next five years. 50% means that the traditional server 3 times times to 4 times times, but also China's overall IT investment, including software, hardware, services, the annual composite increase of 5 times times, this shows that the cloud server market prospects are very optimistic. As a result, the super cloud will continue to focus on making the appropriate product.

At the same time, the cloud will also be with the software company or solution companies to jointly develop products, integration and performance tuning, and even binding to end users. "We can say the alternative legion of the hardware market," Dong Xin in the interview called the "Heterogeneous Corps" in the hardware market, mainly because the biggest feature of the cloud server is that it must be based on a specific cloud computing application planning, so the super cloud as a "cloud server" vendors, not only to do the hardware, Also put a lot of energy in the match with the software, and only in this way, to finally win the cloud server market this big cake.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)