The way of enterprise architecture in cloud era

In the era of cloud computing, enterprises to seek new opportunities for development, it is necessary to achieve innovation in all aspects. For large enterprises, how to catch up with the pace of information development? How to build the enterprise structure of cloud era? How do big companies land cloud computing? These are the "elephant" business confusion, the so-called holding a full body of reasonable. In the recently held "2012 China management • Global Forum" in the "cloud era of IT transformation" sub-forum, Kingdee Middleware Co., Ltd. chairman of the successor to share his views.

Cloud computing is constantly pounding corporate CIO thinking, but it's hard for companies to get cloud computing to the ground. Because if the enterprise has many systems, it means that each system has its own technical framework and dedicated server. Continuous injection of new systems, not only hardware and software duplication of investment, but also difficult to manage maintenance. This creates another problem, Dr. Bong said, which is the most common problem faced by large enterprises at present, that is, the system is separate from each other, and the problem of information island is especially serious. "Why should we talk about the corporate structure?" he said. The most basic theory or problem of enterprise architecture, from my experience over the years, is an IT governance problem in some way. ”

In addition, there are many enterprise pages this problem of it governance model. Enterprises do not have the overall planning and data structure, such as the company's sales department reported data and financial Department statistics are not the same. The biggest problem with cloud computing now is that companies are expensive, and cloud vendors say they don't have to buy hardware, servers, and computers to host them in their data center. But the biggest cost of cloud computing is operating costs, management costs, and end-user usage costs. The cost of hardware and software can be saved in a very small amount of space in the entire IT field.

So how do big companies look at it costs? SaaS vendors say they can solve it cost problems, but there are obvious drawbacks. This is why there are few cases in which SaaS is applied in large enterprises. In the final analysis, it is not a cost issue, but a data security concern. Large enterprise applications need personalized customization, which is currently the market for SaaS vendors more difficult to solve the problem. In addition, large enterprises also face the problem of data reuse, or data migration. Interoperability between the same data is also difficult to intervene in an enterprise core system. "Future SaaS should be geared towards individuals or small businesses, because small business is very simple, there is not much complex personalization requirements, there is no very complex data interconnection, integration, or data reprocessing, reuse, it does not require large data," said Dr Bong. ”

Similarly, large enterprises are not accustomed to SaaS, nor too many companies to the IDC hosted in the Cloud Computing Center, the enterprise will look to the PAAs. Dr. Bong said that the PAAs currently seen is more of a public cloud PAAs, developed on the Internet, and its service capability is difficult to solve the problem of private cloud solution. Private cloud is the core business system of a large enterprise and requires virtualization. The demand of large enterprises is not that too many machines, or insufficient capacity, cut it into a number of virtual machines, to give you multiple applications.

Many large enterprises in the application of reverse virtualization, the number of machines virtual into one, and now do not solve this problem. Application support. Now the PAAs platform including Tencent is a professional interface that supports more descriptive languages. But now the enterprise uses more Java EE support. Enterprise core business Management is still structured data, mainly SQL database. Enterprise applications need not discrete file storage, but structured data storage.

How do you get a better application in a private cloud? The first requirement of cloud computing is rapid application. The second is lower costs. Cloud computing is simplifying the now very complex enterprise architecture. Now most enterprises have more than one structure of hardware, there are a variety of operating systems, there are a variety of databases, there are a variety of terminals. The cost of this architecture management maintenance is very high.

There are three elements to fall into the private cloud: first, virtualization. It is relative to intensive management, all hardware technical resources. Ii. SOA. It is still very important to manage virtual resources in the era of cloud computing, that is to say, managing soft assets other than hard assets is data, business processes, and rules. Third, it governance model. If we do not change the existing enterprises within the low-level duplication of construction, multi-layer decision-making, not the unified management of Enterprise architecture, each subsidiary, branch office can purchase their own software, IT systems; the business unit can buy a set of software to come back, then this cloud computing cannot get up. So it has both technical and managerial problems, as well as more flexible enterprise architecture issues.

Introduction: "In the private cloud platform, Kingdee Middleware Company as a technology software enterprise, we are throughout the group's architecture from cloud services, cloud applications to the cloud platform." Kingdee Middleware provides an invisible cloud platform. We have chosen a platform for enterprise-private cloud, from IaaS to PAAs, to provide a complete solution. We also provide a platform for the integration of public and private cloud, which must be a big business cloud building is very important.

We started virtualization from the lowest level of hardware, and multiple virtual machines became resource pools. In a large set, a multi-tenant application environment is provided for the private cloud. such as a single application of the strength of a large enterprise for centralized use. We can use more shared platforms, data separation patterns. Just now a lot of enterprise Kingdee's K/3 is this mode, each account is relatively independent.

How do all the big enterprises use Kingdee cloud platform to fall to the ground? Private cloud environment In addition to the hardware resources inside the virtualization layer, Kingdee aesb, personalized extension applications. Kingdee Middleware Private Cloud Platform is a complete PAAs solution, open, natural and smooth upgrade, enhance it synergy through integration.

Now Kingdee middleware assistance to the establishment of the government cloud in Ordos has been achieved. Dr. Bong says the government and business are the same and are now a unified platform, not a duplication of construction. We have done practice, including our in Hunan Tobacco Company, the original platform is a provincial company, the following 14 city companies, each city company has its own room, server, application, may be different applications, now by the 14 data centers into one, to build a, the application of cloud, data cloud, Integrate all of the following applications into the platform. Such a way would like to be able to provide a platform for the private cloud, especially in the management of soft assets, to combine the private cloud with the public cloud, enabling large enterprises to use cloud computing and build cloud computing to fall.

(Responsible editor: Schpeppen)