The future of Enterprise cloud computing is not public or proprietary

Ever since the discovery of the bizarre events of "time-laggards" like IBM and Microsoft, where revenue from cloud computing is comparable to that of new leaders like AWS, does it feel like the atmosphere in the cloud market is changing quietly?

Many onlookers are less arrogant-they once boldly predicted that an old man like IBM would soon be knocked down by cloud computing, and that even a less-old guy like Cisco would soon get lost in the clouds and wither.

After thousands of years of circulation, there must be a reason. If the ginger is not old spicy, then there must be no "ginger is old spicy" this word.

Especially when centenarians like IBM say, "The future of Enterprise cloud computing is not public or proprietary, but both and must be open: Customers want private cloud privacy, protection and reliability, and the economy and speed of the public cloud.

Time goes by and tells us that this is the truth. Today, the "both" hybrid cloud has become a consensus, Cisco announced in March this year to invest 1 billion of dollars to build a Intercloud hybrid cloud platform, recently acquired a hosting cloud service provider Metacloud, Hewlett-Packard in May launched a new hybrid cloud platform Helion, And in the recent staged Whitman CEO after the first acquisition, will OpenStack cloud service provider Eucalyptus recruit to under under; VMware launched a new hybrid cloud platform, Vcloud Air, in August, declaring that "any enterprise needs a hybrid cloud". Acknowledging the "two-pronged" hybrid cloud of IBM's predictions, there are also the pioneers and logos of the public cloud--werner Vogels, the Amazon CTO and AWS, who pioneered the hybrid cloud advocated by IBM as the "Counterfeit Cloud", changed the story in July, acknowledging the reality of the hybrid cloud.

The forerunners are always alone. Even in 2013, IBM was ridiculed as "the most unpopular cloud service provider", the old man's strong point is to be able to calm down, you say yours, he does his.

Soon, a relatively complete cloud strategy blueprint unfolds on the market. IBM stepped on two clouds, a flower for the popular market of the public cloud "white-collar" SoftLayer proud of a group of price "blue collar" public cloud, a bearing such as Freescale ERP system, such as high service level demand for the cloud infrastructure services CMS, low-key steady forward.

In December 2013, IBM renamed its sce+ CMS (Cloud consolidator Services Cloud Management Service), emphasizing the management and operational capabilities of the enterprise-class cloud market.

This is not nonsense.

What is the core of cloud computing? Or, what is the difference between the cloud delivery model and the traditional it delivery model? In fact, as services. However, the current market on the cloud more focus on the hardware resources, the transport and peacekeeping management services, the importance of relatively low. IBM defines the CMS as an enterprise-class cloud, in fact, it is the transportation and management services that are highlighted on the cloud.

The integration of the IaaS platform and the PAAs platform has become a trend that is fairly thorough on the CMS, Gartner analysts say. For example, there are SAP service modules in the CMS. Software such as SAP, maintenance is really trouble, almost every one months there will be a small process added, in a few months there will be a large version of the upgrade, if not updated in time, SAP will not support the application. General enterprises to do maintenance when it will feel very annoying, each time to be tested many times to ensure that the operating environment is safe. Suddenly think of a bank before the accident, it is said that software platform update too cumbersome to cause multiple versions of Limbo, unable to upgrade, and finally led to catastrophe. CMS itself has a test center, in Germany, next to SAP, a group of people specializing in the new things to look at SAP and then tested on the CMS platform, and then push the entire service to each CMS data center, the enterprise as long as the management of its own SAP application level of things on the line.

Therefore, the domestic now began to advocate "cloud computing, fight is the operation of the dimension" This sentence, is really a great progress. "There are two things in cloud computing that I think are underestimated, one is Yun-Wei, the other is the pile of services." "The famous blogger @ Left ear mouse is the value IBM CMS wants to deliver to the enterprise cloud market."

To sum up, CMS has four core competencies:

1, bearing the core application of enterprises: such as ERP, CRM, SAP and other enterprise core load, as well as E-commerce, Web Portal and other new important applications.

2, a unique high service level agreement (SLA): To provide copper, silver, gold, platinum four levels of SLA (Service level Agreement). Among them, the platinum level "extends to the virtual machine and operating system level SLAs and promises up to 99.95% availability".

IBM explained that the CMS provides operating system level including security patches upgrades, security scanning, and other operational services, users do not have to do any operating system operation and maintenance management. Buying other cloud computing only buys virtual machines, does not include services, while the virtual machines purchased by CMS have packaged all the services required by IBM's full enterprise-class systems, such as operating system services, security, patch management, intrusion prevention and anti-virus management, security and compliance management, and so on. It is said that other cloud service providers do not reach a single virtual machine 99.95% SLA, can only do 99.95% of a region, do not know that has landed in China's Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS agree with this statement. I personally judge that Alibaba must agree.

3, in line with the ITIL standard operation and Maintenance management process: This is actually IBM years of enterprise-level outsourcing services, a manifestation of the ability to be fully managed. What do you mean? It is a fully managed operation service that can provide resources from the data center to the user application.

4. Comprehensive security and isolation: Multi-tenant CMS designs Follow the same design principles as private cloud deployments, but are shared by multiple IBM customers on the underlying infrastructure and services. Take IBM's own another cloud SoftLayer comparison, SoftLayer can access through the public network, and the CMS must be VPN and other professional network access, with enterprise-class high security, isolation and flexibility. Is the principle of the private cloud, the spirit of the public cloud.

5, Cross-platform Enterprise-wide environment support: Support x86 server and Power server mixed environment, can realize the arbitrary scheduling between the two systems. But do not know the "random" to what extent, in short, for enterprise users, this should still be quite attractive.

It can be said that the CMS is IBM for many years based on the mature enterprise outsourcing business of a set of service system, technical system, operation and maintenance management system, and so on all moved to the cloud environment, where the head is full of IBM nearly 20 years for the world's largest banks, insurance companies, financial management Group, There are also large oil and petrochemical enterprises to provide outsourcing services experience, think of these enterprises are their core applications in IBM's data center, and then IBM to provide a full range of services, even application-level services, can understand the connotation of CMS.

For example, when we go into a corporate environment, we say it's an oil company. What are the typical core application platforms? High-end storage, high-end servers (whether small or X86), Oracle or DB2 databases, above SAP. Then came to the CMS to see the same environment here, the only difference is that these investments are not, the professional management team, the same hard software platform, 24-hour hotline service and all the backstage operation team are here, for users, the application loop, you can directly put the application on the above deployment, It's that simple. The entire management system and technology platform, almost identical to the internal environment of the enterprise.

CMS is really like a flower, but is it related to the Chinese market? Not before, but it has been a relationship since September 23. Today, IBM and the Century interconnection (how old are why you always ah?) Jointly announced that the enterprise-class cloud platform based on IBM Global standards, "CMS Cloud" in the century Internet official online.

Century interconnection is fully responsible for operations and sales, IBM provides technical support. "This is China's first focus on enterprise core application needs of the enterprise-level cloud platform," the world's Internet gathered into the cooperation department general manager Wang Peng said.

It is said that CMS landed in 9 months. Wang Peng said: "Nine months, a cloud across the country, from the century interconnection in China operating experience, we have IBM technology and IBM team to express our admiration." He said that the financial industry, aviation industry and logistics, energy industry, which is the future of CMS marketing focus.

From this enterprise-class hosting cloud services to China began, we will soon realize that "cloud computing is the transportation and peacekeeping management capabilities," the connotation of the words, but also can realize that "service is the enterprise-level cloud computing truth" the connotation. In the final analysis, the so-called public cloud is the selling point of resources, to fight the great big cause; and enterprise-class market needs is really cloud into service, customers want to buy not only resources, but also management and operation of the ability. So, the real enterprise-class cloud computing has just begun.

In the past 2 years, IBM has said, "The current market is very popular modular commodity cloud, but IBM wants to deliver to the market is a high-value, custom-capable cloud." The words now look back, may not be convinced, however, I believe that 2 years looking back at a glance, there will be a sense of surprised.