The next batch of killer apps to decrypt cloud computing

Public cloud computing is becoming a low-cost backup option for physical data center infrastructure, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. At the same time, the public cloud is also promoting the creation of a more dynamic cloud migration Service project. The service began to grow as small businesses began to invest heavily in migrating their applications from hosting and data center environments to the public cloud.

At present, the company's investment in public cloud and cloud migration is very slow, at least this part of the funds in the overall it budget accounted for a small proportion. There are many reasons why organizations are slow to deploy a public cloud (IaaS, infrastructure, or services), which has been widely discussed. So far, the industry has yet to discuss the next generation of heavy applications of cloud computing, and these applications are precisely the change of enterprise game.

New heavyweight applications for the enterprise will have an impact on the converged data center (or real hybrid cloud deployment) and fundamentally change the IT operations model. These killer apps will include a swarm of flexibility, protection, and scalability.

converged flexibility (strategic flexibility)

VMware first introduced a virtualization-enabled x86 in software testing and then in a production environment as a way to increase data center and hardware efficiency and reduce the growing application/server management costs. Perhaps they have more influence on the cultural impact of it than the growth in revenue. In fact, they are most likely to create the conditions for an unprecedented it culture revolution by breaking the gap between operating systems, applications, and hardware. The ablation of these gaps will ultimately result in the achievement of software-defined data centers and the practice of demonstrating how flexibility drives data center transitions.

After VMware launched a mainframe time-sharing operation, VMware may have had the same impact as IBM in the IT development process in recent years. The hybrid cloud model, however, is now virtually equivalent to a two-car garage (perhaps a Tesla car, another parked Mercedes-Benz) rather than a single unified environment (a truly mixed) environment. With recent acquisitions, VMware can no doubt provide a truly mixed architecture. Recent public opinion seems to suggest that VMware still thinks the private cloud is the hybrid cloud.

Private cloud has tactical flexibility. With enterprise-class service and control and elimination of closeness, the flexibility to have cloud computing features enables seamless operation of applications and services between data centers and clouds. We can view the swarm as a data center as a natural evolution of the software definition data center.

The flexibility that is gathered is also strategically flexible. It allows for unparalleled flexibility in the production and production infrastructure with enterprise-class service and control. This ability to create and disassemble applications and services and move them across data centers, production and production environments, multiple cloud service providers or regions is a killer application. Ultimately, they will enable applications and services to decouple from specific local or cloud computing and be able to function across the cloud and virtualized x86 server areas.

Software Testing Flexibility

While the public cloud is emerging as an excellent software test (or cloud computing software test), the hybrid cloud provides greater flexibility and emulation of production-level environments. Applications and services can be tested in a real production environment, not in a closed replication environment. They can also be put into production more easily. The hybrid cloud operating model has the advantage of strategic flexibility across the pre production environment and production environment, which is a new turning point for it and productivity gains.

Gathered into security protection

Creating a dual data center and hosting environment (for possible or rare use) is a very clumsy use case, especially when compared to investment innovation, security, or scalability. As more CIOs need to report to the CFO, traditional infrastructure-oriented disaster recovery and business continuity solutions are beginning to receive more and more scrutiny. The advent of the "prepaid" cloud model has started to attract users to use cloud services as a failure prevention measure, instead of maintaining and upgrading redundant physical infrastructure as a failure-prevention measure.

Unfortunately, public cloud service providers are not very good at meeting these needs and services because the latter makes it a strict requirement to ensure uptime. Even with a more popular customer, a higher run outage rate reduces the user's expectation of cloud availability. While there are some obvious economic advantages, the public cloud is unattractive to developers and fail-aid/sustainability solutions because customers cannot easily move from one area to another.

At present, the public cloud does not offer an enterprise-class solution for continuous application protection. They are just an isolated environment with limited integration with data centers and other regions/cloud computing. The isolated strategy of "either abandoning" or "closing" has severely hampered the sustainable development potential of the public cloud.

The inherent advantages of hybrid clouds (or clusters of data centers) make up for the weaknesses of the public cloud, especially in terms of strategic flexibility. Rapid deployment of dual infrastructure in a new cloud service or zone, and failback after the main work point/station is repaired, requires this strategic flexibility. The hybrid cloud is an advanced architecture with a higher level of flexibility to provide higher levels of application protection and scaling.

Hybrid Cloud provides "on-demand" continuous protection for data center services and controls. The former is undoubtedly more efficient than maintaining a dual-fixed infrastructure. Mixed cloud is a priority for business continuity and disaster recovery (relative to the current public cloud and redundant physical infrastructure).

converged Extensibility (Sustainable scalability)

Cloud explosion is one of the most discussed hybrid cloud heavyweight applications. Because it requires flexibility first, it can only be promoted after the flexibility and protection issues are resolved. They allow the user to "have basic performance at the peak, hire performance during the rush hour." Many insiders familiar with the highly scalable data center environment say that researchers are using facilities similar to the advanced private cloud infrastructure to simulate cloud explosions, but they have not yet been able to expand seamlessly with the help of a swarm. Then again, it is the normal evolution of the public cloud and private cloud. For most companies, it is their preferred operating model to be able to cope with predictable workloads and to deal with occasional workloads on a loan basis.

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