The trend of new generation data center is becoming clear

As the physical carrier of an enterprise, data center plays a more and more important role in the operation of the enterprise. Most companies are trying to consolidate resources into fewer data centers, and demand for data center servers and storage, power, data center physical space, and data center management is growing rapidly.

As the IT architecture is undergoing a shift from "network-centric" to "data-centric", how to efficiently manage data center data and easily access to data while ensuring data security is a concern for all data center managers.

Therefore, the data center market has become the major IT giants and professional data center service providers strive to seize the market. In the field of industry application, there is a high degree of market concentration, the characteristics of large differences. According to statistics, government, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, the four major industries accounted for about 2/3 of the overall market of the data center. In terms of products, all kinds of products investment stable growth, the server still occupies the main position, but the share of micro-decline. Virtualization plays an increasingly important role in data center development.

Data Center six development trends

Thus, a new generation of data centres would be a data centre capable of efficient use of energy and space, and would support enterprises or institutions to obtain a sustainable computing environment. High utilization, automation, low power consumption, automation management has become a new generation of domestic data center construction concerns.

The author believes that the future trend of data center will present the following six major features.

Data set

Whether it costs too much, complexity, or low resource utilization, nearly all types of companies are trying to consolidate and centralize IT resources, including, of course, data center consolidation. Centralized data facilitates backup, redundancy, and control.

Integration is the integration of dozens of data centers into a few central locations, and then focuses on strengthening the capabilities of these few central data centers in several areas, including networking, redundancy, computing, storage, and management.

This trend will have a huge impact on many it technologies and applications. such as data and applications will increasingly be passed across the WAN to remote users, thus affecting the WAN architecture and management. Providing centralized applications via the Web, client-server protocol, or thin client will be a standard, making it easier to manage, update, and install patches to protect against security vulnerabilities.

Security and trustworthiness

Security does not refer to firewalls, IPS, intrusion detection and anti-virus security precautions. In fact, fires, hurricanes and other disasters can attack data centres at any time. In the initial phase of data center construction, it is necessary to build a reliable disaster recovery program, or establish a remote disaster backup center, which is a hot topic in the current data center construction.

Accordingly, about half of the respondents ensured business continuity by leveraging existing data centers, or by building new facilities to consolidate existing data centers to build secondary data centers for disaster recovery capabilities.

Computing and Storage Virtualization

Data Center resource integration through virtualization is the development trend of data center. Data center virtualization is growing inexorably. As of 2009, more than 50% of new x86 servers will be virtualized by default, according to the IDC report.

Virtualization consists of storage virtualization and computational virtualization. Storage has been a hot topic for two years. Storage virtualization occurs at two levels: block storage and file storage (Files storage). Virtual storage can take different physical storage racks as a single virtual storage pool.

Computational virtualization is also in a period of rapid development. Some leading companies have developed Cross-platform server virtualization software that allows data center managers to aggregate or separate server computing services. A physical server can provide services for multiple virtual servers and can be consolidated into server groups as a single virtual server.

Virtualization technology can improve the reuse and flexibility of IT resources to adapt to changing needs and workloads, and use it with automated technology and service-level, policy-based management, and the efficiency of resources will be greatly improved; Services will be managed as a whole to ensure a high level of resilience.

Green Low Carbon

Green data centers are designed in the areas of machinery, lighting, electricity and computer systems to maximize energy efficiency and minimize environmental pollution and impact. Building and running a Green data center requires advanced technology and excellent strategy.

At present, the energy consumption of IT equipment accounts for only 30% of the energy consumption of the whole data center, while the consumption of refrigeration equipment is up to 50%?60%, others such as lighting will account for 10%.

Rapid energy growth has created tremendous pressure on data centers in the areas of environmental control, power and cooling, and space management. In addition, in most cases, real-estate cost factors also limit the expansion of it footprint (the ground space occupied by server racks). As a result, companies have sought to strike a balance between low-density racks and high-density racks with extremely high calorific and power consumption.

Process automation

Managing the rapid growth of data center resources without the need for substantial growth in budget and manpower is a serious challenge for data center managers.

Virtualization can control this growth to some extent, but virtualization also increases requirements on management and automation tools. Automating IT management processes is a key goal in reducing the cost and complexity of data center IT operations. Automation applications will present an increasing momentum.

Quick and easy deployment

How to deploy the application software more quickly, provide support for the business system, enhance the competitive power of the industry/enterprise, and it is also a very concerned problem in the data center construction at present.

Building information systems is not an end in itself and is designed to provide support for the business. In today's environment, the development of business application systems for each application is clearly not able to meet the needs of rapid business development, so the adaptive capacity of information systems and the level of automation is an imminent problem.

Second, the establishment of data center industry and cloud Computing development of organizational leadership to protect.

Set up the data center industry and cloud Computing development leadership team to establish a smooth, coordinated, reasonable division of responsibilities, clear leadership and coordination mechanism, overall planning, system deployment, the development of data center industry and cloud Computing strategy, To solve the problem of industry coordination in the development layout and application deployment of data center industry and cloud computing industry, to establish evaluation mechanism, to evaluate and reflect timely the implementation of strategic policies of data center industry and cloud computing, and to adjust timely.

Third, set up the data center industry, cloud Computing technology research and development industrialization and application demonstration special funds.

Set up a data center industry and cloud Computing technology research and development industrialization special funds, focus on supporting the data center industry and cloud computing key core technology research and development, to participate in the International Data center industry and cloud Computing key technology and the overall framework of research and development and applications to provide financial support. Support data center industry and cloud Computing public service platform, Engineering Technology Center, Industrial Incubation Park construction.

The establishment of data center industry and cloud Computing application demonstration special funds, through the form of direct investment and government procurement, the deployment of data center industry and cloud Computing in industry, agriculture, finance, transportation, logistics, security, medical, environmental protection, electricity, water conservancy and other fields of deployment and application demonstrations. The first purchase, ordering and other ways to promote the use of cloud computing independent innovation products.

Finally, set up the data center industry and cloud Computing industry cooperation mechanism, strengthen the independent innovation ability construction.

The establishment of data center industry and Cloud Computing Industry Technology Alliance, the organization of electronic equipment manufacturing enterprises, telecommunications operators, software development enterprises, integrated services enterprises and universities and research institutions, the formation of the integrated collaboration mechanism.

To establish a cross-sectoral, cross-sectoral data center industry and Cloud Computing standardization collaboration mechanism to speed up the construction of common standardization system, the organization of various forces to actively participate in the International Data center industry and cloud Computing network architecture, technology and resources standards.

Strengthen the construction of independent innovation ability. We should strengthen the construction of proprietary pool of proprietary intellectual property and strengthen the protection and enforcement of intellectual property in data center industry and cloud computing industry. Actively participate in the development of international standards and promote "I-oriented" to form technical standards.

Five, build data center industry and cloud computing industry layout and area layout.

The energy saving and emission reduction of information industry not only applies energy-saving technology, but also needs to analyze the difference of regional economic and industrial development level, resource advantage, adjust industrial layout and professional division, apply modern information and communication technology to strengthen regional economic cooperation.

Utilizing the resource advantage and abundant land resources of the Midwest Energy and the Hang Hau power plant, using cloud computing technology to build a high energy-consuming "data center" industrial base in the vicinity of the power production area, using the broadband Communication network to provide computing and storage capabilities to the eastern Information Industry enterprises and Information service users Through the network to transfer data information instead of coal transportation and power transmission, the formation of "large-scale, intensive, professional" "low energy, low emissions, low-cost" industrial model. This will help to enhance the competitiveness of China's information industry, promote the low-carbon economic growth of energy saving and emission reduction, improve the development level of the information industry in the Midwest, and promote the talent training and employment in the western region.

On the other hand, according to the actual needs of local economic and social development, local conditions for the implementation of data center industry and cloud Computing regional pilot application, can not blindly launch, to the areas that do need, through the pilot used to accumulate technology development, industrial application, management, policy implementation and other aspects of experience, to form a A pilot area of data center industry and cloud computing applications with strong radiation capability, replicable and replicated.

Accelerate the construction of data center and cloud computing laws and regulations.

Accelerate data center industry and cloud computing laws and regulations. First, the relevant legislation to promote information infrastructure construction.

The second is the security of cloud computing and its services, in particular, the virtualization of cloud computing, multi-tenant and dynamic characteristics introduced a series of new security issues and challenges, performance in data security, privacy protection, content security, operational environment security, risk assessment and security supervision and other aspects, through the strengthening of law and regulations, strengthen security and privacy protection legislation , on the basis of data and privacy classification, set up rules for access and data center related data, define legal liability and standardize enterprise behavior.

VII, strengthen international cooperation.

Actively participates in international cooperation in the area of data center industry and cloud Computing technology, policy and standardization. Lead the development of data center industry and cloud Computing international standard in the dominant field, occupy a place in the data center industry and cloud Computing architecture, the international coordination of key resources.

Follow up on the latest trends of international data center industry and cloud Computing technology and application development, and absorb the successful experience of advanced International in data center industry and cloud computing application in time.

The Cloud Revolution realizes "open source" and "throttling"

Our Government always attaches great importance to the process of informatization. 14 Session of the V plenary, to "speed up the process of national economic informatization"; the session of the V plenary pointed out that "vigorously promote the national economy and social informatization, is to cover the overall modernization of the strategic measures"; 16 report that "to promote industrialization with information, industrialization and the promotion of information"; 16 v Plenary session, " To promote national economy and social informatization, to take a new road to industrialization; The new proposition of the integration and development of information and industrialization was clearly presented for the first time in 17, giving the new historical mission of information construction.

Chinese telecom operators not only shoulder the mission of promoting the national informatization process, but also face the pressure of stagnant or even falling income growth caused by the financial crisis and intensified market competition. "Open source" and "throttling" work for China Unicom, is particularly important, and the IT industry's cloud computing revolution just for operators in the "open source" and "throttling" two aspects provide a rare opportunity.

First of all, cloud computing provides China Unicom with a new and huge market space information Service model. According to statistics, at present, the global cloud services market size of 17.2 billion U.S. dollars, the next 5 years, the global cloud services market will grow by an average of 26% per year, 2013 will reach the overall it consumption of 10%, annual income growth to 44.2 billion U.S. dollars. And China Unicom has a unique customer resources and network resources, in the use of cloud computing technology to achieve ICT, IDC, public value-added services in the transformation of promising. Operators can fully grasp the historical opportunities brought about by the cloud computing revolution, while advancing the national informatization process, we will develop the blue ocean of business income growth.

Second, operators can use cloud computing technology to achieve internal IT support system integration. At present, the operating cost, especially the high energy consumption, directly restricts the development of operators and profitability. The use of cloud computing technology can effectively improve the utilization of IT resources, reduce IT resource consumption, reduce management and construction links, improve operational efficiency, achieve data centralization and unified management, and enhance management capabilities. In short, the application of cloud computing technology will greatly reduce the carrier's IT support system construction and maintenance costs.

Strategy, policy, pilot three-pronged approach

At present, the global cloud computing development is in the initial stage, we must seize the new opportunity of the industrial technological revolution, give full play to our country's system advantage and market advantage, strengthen strategy and policy guidance, optimize the system mechanism, promote the application promotion and technology industry development, strive to win the opportunity in the global New generation data

First, develop the data center industry and cloud Computing strategic Planning and action plan. Launch the data center industry and cloud Computing development Strategic Planning and action plan to co-ordinate the deployment of data center industry and cloud Computing infrastructure technology and network development, industrialization and application in key areas.

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