The development of cloud computing can not "follow the trend" "cloud over"

At present, China has launched the rapid development of cloud computing boom. The hype of the media, the build-up of capital, and the commercial propaganda of a lot of academic activities, are desperately warming up the concept of cloud computing. Together with Google, IBM, Microsoft and other IT giants to unprecedented speed and scale of cloud computing promotion and speculation. But also put cloud computing on the peak. Cloud planning, Cloud outline, Cloud project, Cloud base seem to have become the most beautiful scenery line in the new development plan of all levels of government.

With the unprecedented upsurge of cloud computing enthusiasm around the world, a time of many Governments have introduced preferential policies, rapid layout, Happy enclosure operate, on the project. The hardware and software vendors also feel that they have "dreamed of the opportunity to seize the time", and have tried to get involved in the introduction of cloud products and cloud services. China is a surging land! Hype and clamor of the "cloud" is continuing to warm up, you have to build 10 cloud data center, I want to build millions of servers in the cloud computing base. You want to build Asia Cloud data center, I want to build "world Cloud data Processing Center". All over the "step by step" enclosure to cover the voice of the house, lively and very. The figures and plans of the thunderclap. The market size of cloud computing has grown from 16.7 billion yuan in 2010 to 117.4 billion yuan in 2013. The annual compound growth rate has reached 91.5%. "Twelve-Five" period, cloud computing industry chain scale has been expected to reach 750 billion to 1 trillion yuan.

We can take a look at the Ministry of Telecommunications Research Institute, senior engineer Li provided a set of data: At present, the total number of data centers in China about 430,000, can accommodate about 5 million servers. One of the operating data center room 921, an area of about 880,000 square meters, the number of cabinets about 177,000, can accommodate about 2 million servers. Not counting the above construction projects, only in 2011 China has been built data center total power consumption, has reached 70 Billion-kilowatt, accounting for the entire social power consumption 1.5%, the equivalent of the 2011 Tianjin, the annual electricity consumption.

Vivid figures show that avoiding repeated investment and curbing the waste of resources is imminent, all kinds of "follow the trend" "gradually multiply" tens of thousands of devices to engage in cloud data center practices, all kinds of "Teng Yun" "Driving Cloud" of "Yunshan" upsurge, both the lack of top-level design, and do not carry out relevance thinking, neither the actual development of stock resources , and lack of adequate consideration of market demand. "Yun Lian Yun" has become an empty words, a joke. If we allow this "lone cloud flower" "scattered around", will face a large number of data center "cloud resource pool drought phenomenon" occurs. Not only will cause a large number of high-quality information resources of the precipitation and idle, but also after years of efforts to gradually progress information sharing situation, set new barriers.

These problems in cloud computing development, if not timely insights, properly resolved, will cause serious consequences. As some scholars point out: When the clouds converge, it will be a cloudy day. In view of this, the Ministry of Wei minister has made a clear warning. Li Deii, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of Cloud computing Experts Committee of China Electronic Society, also shouted loudly. To change this phenomenon of "cloud-fly" as soon as possible. Unfortunately, these warnings and exhortations have not caused much response. In view of this, it is necessary to address the current cloud computing development must focus on the solution of the five issues to be further elaborated.

1, the development of cloud computing should focus on the stock of idle resources for value-added development.

Cloud computing will fundamentally change the way information acquisition and knowledge dissemination, promote the service transformation of infrastructure operation and information industry such as software, and produce new value-added information service mode of Cross-industry integration application. Due to the use of cloud computing, a large number of network connections can be unified management and scheduling of computing resources, forming a pool of computing resources to provide users with on-demand services. Can gather scattered resources, to provide the possibility of in-depth development of information resources, the scattered resources can be pooled to provide the possibility of integrated application; In the information resource pool, a large number of high value-added information resources are gathered: not only provides the possibility of value-added development and intelligent development of information resources, but also provides a deep development of clustering computing capacity, The realistic possibility of value-added development.

It is for this reason that the Minister of the Ministry of Wei made clear in the near future: in foreign countries, cloud computing is mainly to integrate the existing server resources, to integrate the idle resources, the establishment of a virtual data center. But in many places in the country, is often millions of new servers, there is a lot of blindness.

This requires us to establish an inventory of the resources available for computing power, to provide the number of physical servers and the amount of load that can be used, and to ascertain the amount of intelligent resources allocated to the virtual machine or workload across the entire available server farm. Put the idle resources together, carry on the deep development, develop the value-added value of the cloud service from the stock resources. Another survey shows that 70% of the idle computing power can be used after the cloud is developed. By pooling these idle computational abilities, they can be used by users on demand, thus greatly reducing the wastage of such computing power.

In the process of developing cloud computing, the construction of high performance cloud computing data center needs careful. This is not only due to the high cost of high performance cloud computing data centers, but also to the cost of operating, and the need to fully demonstrate that there is no basic information resource available for High-performance Cloud computing Datacenter Integration, targeted requirements, or customer resources that can be applied over time. Without abundant basic information resources, a pool of resources that is not a cloud, or a pool without water, there is no basis for high-performance computing; without a large number of directional requirements or long-term requirements of the application of customer resources, can not support high operating costs. Taking the Shanghai High-performance Computing Center As an example, the peak power consumption of the 200 trillion dawning 5000A is up to 960-kilowatt. Tens of millions of dollars are needed to pay for electricity every year. So many high-performance computers have to shut down the relevant nodes to save electricity. It should be noted that such a project has a long cycle, and the renewal cycle is very fast. This adds to the pressure on investment.

In the development of cloud computing, we should pay more attention to the use of virtualization technology. The advantage of virtualization is that it combines all available computing and storage resources into a single, consolidated public platform in a resource pool to provide virtual service functionality. Its resource pool, like water and electricity in our daily life, becomes the "utility" and convenient "access channel" of enterprise information System. This not only facilitates the value-added development of information resources, but also facilitates the function activation of idle and settling resources.

2, the development of cloud computing must pay attention to the combination of static cloud and dynamic cloud

It is a new feature in the development of cloud computing technology to develop cloud computing value-added energy by using stock containers and establish a static and dynamic cloud data center. At present, some trumpeter and hardware merchants of cloud capital, for their commercial purposes, conceal such an important feature and trend in the development of international cloud computing. Clamor around desperately to commandeer land, buy equipment, Dajian cloud data center.

In fact, after several years of development practice, the World Cloud Computing data center construction ideas and patterns, has taken place a major strategic change. The establishment of dynamic, static, modular, floating cloud characteristics of the "container-type data Center" has become a trendy. This new Dynamic Data center can be as fast and easy as building blocks. Not only a data center can be like a cloud everywhere "drift", and when a data center is not enough, you can add a block like stronghold, this will not solve the current data center construction must occupy too much land resources big problem!

This kind of modular data center not only has less resources, less project input, faster construction period, but also can be combined, movable and static, adapting to combat needs. Not to be the target of enemy attack in the war. By virtue of these advantages, the world has been quietly popular. IDC researchers, the world's leading market research institute, have made it clear: "The huge, monolithic data centers are obsolete!" The Modular data center model is expected to become the "almost default method" for building data centers over the next 5 years. He also made it clear that such a container-type data centre would be suitable for disaster preparedness centres and would be able to expand it facilities on a temporary or urgent basis, as long as the designated venues were capable of providing power and water supplies. Container-type data centers can achieve a high level of energy efficiency indicators, PUE (energy efficiency) can reach 1.2, which is difficult to achieve in traditional data centers.

This modular data center started in the world for the first time since 2007. Including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Oracle, SGI, and other manufacturers all involved in it, Microsoft, Google and so on its preference is added. Using the container provided by Rackable, Microsoft built a large data center with 150 containers outside Chicago, United States, with 1000 to 2000 servers per data center. Microsoft also uses it pre-installed components, in the United States of America Quincy built a data center with more than 2000 servers, the modular design of the entire build process for only 8 months. Google, in 2008, patented its modular data center for patent Protection for modular data center innovations.

But their "solutions" in the rapid development of China's cloud computing have clearly circumvented this forward-looking innovation. This is not worth our Dajian Cloud data center at all levels of government officials and related enterprises seriously think and alert?!

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)