To explain the sky-wing cloud computing strategy: Breakthrough "Resource Cloud"

"Telecommunications Industry Network" from the "internet Star" to "Business Navigator", from "all knowledge" to "broadband China", back to the 5-year China Telecom timeline, almost all the coordinates and transformation related. August 31, China Telecom officially released the Sky Wing cloud computing strategy, in the "Integrated information Service Provider" and "new three" under the big, China Telecom once again stood in the new starting point. This is the first time a Chinese operator has announced a service on cloud computing.

The industry generally thinks that cloud computing is the third information technology revolution after PC and Internet, which subverts the original business model and service mode, and accelerates the upgrading of traditional industries. But as with all trends, cloud computing is surging and speculation, bubble shadow.

However, in the eyes of China Telecom, this is not a castle in the sky, it is deeply rooted in China Telecom's powerful network capabilities and data center resources, is the extension of multi-year service industry information practice, but also for the Wang "intelligent pipeline leader, integrated platform provider, content and application of the participants" Vivid annotation of this strategic positioning.

"Sky Wing Cloud" from the horizon to the present

Communications Industry newspaper reporter Wu Lei

After the broadband China Optical Network City, the Chinese telecom last week released the Sky Wing cloud computing strategy, the transformation to further further.

August 31, China Telecom officially released the Sky Wing cloud computing strategy, brand and solutions, and plans to officially launch next year Cloud host, cloud storage and other series of Sky cloud products.

Yangjie, deputy general manager of China Telecom, said that based on the strategic positioning of the leaders of intelligent pipelines, the providers of integrated platforms, content and applications, China Telecom officially entered cloud computing and was committed to becoming Asia-Pacific's leading cloud infrastructure service provider, providing customers with ubiquitous cloud services.

Taking the lead in transformation and laying down cloud computing

According to the ten Global Strategic Technical Analysis Report of gartner2009-2011, cloud computing is recognized as a revolutionary technology that can change the human information life, including the virtualization, on-demand scalable, flexible computing features, completely subvert the traditional information technology delivery model and the existing IT industry business model.

The national "Twelve-Five" plan also clearly put forward: with major technological breakthroughs and major development needs as the basis for the development of strategic emerging industries as a pilot, pillar industries. Cloud computing is the core component of a new generation of information industry in strategic emerging industries.

"Cloud computing in China's development, speculation more than the actual implementation of the concept." Gao Chunsheng, senior researcher at the mobile division of the Guangzhou Institute of Telecommunications, said, "because of the data center and network conditions, many companies do not have the real sense of cloud services capabilities, the most popular is still Google, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce and other international giants." ”

Gao Chunsheng believes that telecom operators have their own networks and servers, which are the two cornerstones of cloud computing services and the natural advantage of cloud services.

In fact, since China Telecom took the lead in 2004 in the industry to propose strategic transformation, on "What Is integrated information services" exploration and practice has been carried out, cloud computing is one of them.

According to Yangjie, the 2005 China Telecom for Small and medium-sized Enterprises launched the brand business pilot, by the industry is considered to be the earliest SaaS (software as a service) one of the embryonic prototype; in 2009, China Telecom officially launched the "Wing Cloud Plan" to carry out the research and exploration of cloud computing in 2010. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other fields to carry out cloud computing field test, the construction of cloud computing resource pool for the Sky Wing cloud computing development laid a foundation.

Last year at the end of the work, China Telecom general manager Wang proposed that China Telecom should be the leader of Intelligent pipeline, the provider of integrated platform, content and application of participants. "The core of the integrated platform is cloud computing," Yangjie said.

Three-tier architecture two major advantages

There are conflicting definitions of cloud computing, but the industry's general consensus is that cloud computing can be divided into IaaS (infrastructure as a service), PaaS (Platform-as-service) and SaaS (software-as-service) three services, and these three services also form a simple bottom-up cloud industry chain.

According to the head of China Telecom enterprises and business customers, the Sky Wing Cloud computing system framework is also divided into resource cloud (IaaS), Capacity Cloud (PaaS), Application Cloud (SaaS) three levels.

Resource cloud includes cloud host, cloud storage, etc., is the use of China Telecom Cloud Data Center, network, etc. to provide customers with basic resources services; Ability Cloud is the traditional communication ability and the Internet application ability unifies, through the standardization interface, the open platform ability, provides the development test running environment for the software developer, the common aggregation, the generation information application The application cloud is based on China Telecom cloud computing resources and Intelligent Cloud network, will be able to open and industry information applications, including industry and general cloud applications, such as Cloud desktop.

"China Telecom's positioning is ' Asia-Pacific leading cloud basic service provider ', which is consistent with the ' new three ' connotation, which shows China Telecom's clear judgment of its advantages and disadvantages, and the cloud computing strategy of China Mobile and Unicom. "said Zengjianqiu, a professor at Beijing University of Posts and telecommunications.

Yangjie stressed that the development of cloud computing three key factors are network capabilities, data centers and innovative applications, China Telecom's core strengths are network capabilities and data centers.

Data show that China Telecom backbone network width reached 22T, the international export bandwidth reached 760G, broadband users more than 70 million; with the "Broadband China-Optical Network City" project started, the next three years, all cities to achieve 20m-100m fiber access to the user capacity; As of the end of June 2011, Tianyi 3G Network has also covered all counties in mainland China and cities above the county level and nearly 90% of the township.

In addition, Yangjie revealed that China Telecom's data center construction in the three major operators in the lead: room area of more than 1 million square meters, more than 300 rooms, more than 100,000 racks. China Telecom has built the four backbone IDC node data center in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xi ' an.

Breakout "Resource Cloud"

Yangjie said that to achieve the "Asia-Pacific leading cloud infrastructure service provider" goal, China Telecom will be through the scale of deployment, product innovation, research and development breakthrough, open cooperation, such as four measures to ensure the strategic objectives achieved.

Guangzhou Institute of Telecommunications Related People told reporters, "Sky Wing Cloud" three-tier architecture, vigorously develop the cloud host and cloud storage services, including the "Resource Cloud" is the international leading telecommunications operators of the unanimous choice, the so-called "scale deployment" is embodied in infrastructure, management platform, network resources three.

Yangjie introduced that China Telecom will rely on the national Data Center infrastructure resources, unified construction and deployment of the National cloud Computing Data center, focusing on the construction of 6-8 core nodes, "Twelve-Five" period to provide millions of high-performance virtual host capacity.

It is reported that China Telecom cloud host and cloud storage services have been tested commercially, will be formally operated next year. The first phase provides 20,000 high-performance virtual host, 2X107GB storage capacity, and can be upgraded according to user needs at any time.

In terms of capability cloud and application cloud, China Telecom will adopt cooperative mode, build resources, aggregate application, build platform and innovate service.

Beijing Telecommunication Research Institute related Personage said, "Ability Cloud" has the dense software technology characteristic, is still in the initial development, China Telecom should actively follow up, full release including industry SMS, industry MMS, industry positioning, collaborative communications, Machine-to-machine, on behalf of certification, billing and other telecommunications own capabilities, And with the mature platform provider cooperation to provide professional capabilities, to become the industry chain integrator and aggregation point.

Similarly, China Telecom's "Application Cloud" is still focused on cooperation and mutual win, through the PAAs platform to introduce Third-party SaaS Development Power, to provide differentiated SaaS applications.

"' Business Navigator ' itself has a lot of characteristics of SaaS, China Telecom through years of practice accumulated a lot of industry information experience, in the future will introduce cloud technology to continue to deep industry information." "Business pilotage, which originated in Shanghai 5 years ago, will continue to create value in the cloud era," said Shanghai telecom sources.

At present, China Telecom relies on Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, the three Institutes of professional science and technology team thousands of people, has established China Telecom Cloud Computing Research Center. "Twelve-Five" period, China Telecom will focus on heterogeneous cloud platform, network cloud bearer, mobile cloud applications, industry cloud applications, cloud security, cloud broadband products and other topics to research and development drive innovation.

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Detailed "sky-wing cloud computing"

• Goal: To become Asia-Pacific's leading cloud infrastructure service provider to build integrated information Services cloud

• System: IaaS (Resource Cloud), PaaS (Capability Cloud), SaaS (Application cloud)

• Architecture: Network, data center, platform, application

• Features: To provide customers with integrated broadband network from the world to High-performance data Center to innovative application services package of cloud computing solutions, to truly provide customers with efficient, convenient and secure integrated service experience

• Advantages: Network capabilities, data center

• Initiatives: Scale deployment, product innovation, research and development breakthroughs, open cooperation

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China Unicom: Cultivating distributed intelligent open system control

China Unicom in 2009 formulated a long-term development strategy, the development of the idea is: the use of public communications network, the basic and safe and credible operational capabilities, based on broadband communications and cloud computing technology development, the formation of information facilities, information production, information applications services, that is, "cloud computing" services. To this end, China Unicom has launched a Dios distributed intelligent open System, which is mainly a system architecture for the transformation of telecom operators ' business models.

DIOS is an acronym for distributed (distributed), intelligent (intelligent), open (open) and unified Systems (Unifiedsystem), with the goal of distributed storage, distributed computing resources, distributed databases, and file systems, Integration of unified resources through cloud network to form the ability to expand on demand elasticity.

Through data mining, analysis and intelligent scheduling, realize network automatic, intelligent self-organizing and reconfigurable, and the best match between business and resource, application and service, terminal and user, build capability engine open platform, open cloud resource to third party developer, provide comprehensive and fast response service, unify virtualization standard, unified data Standard, Unify the software architecture, realize the resource sharing maximization, unify the management platform, improve the centralized management efficiency, realize the telecommunication level can operate, can manage.

China Unicom's Dios telecom business applications and research focus will cover the following areas: Virtual data center VDC, BI System Cloud architecture, OSS cloud computing, Cloud Terminal Transformation Call center, future network and cloud computing research.

Mobile: "Big Cloud" has been developed to version 3.0

2007, China Mobile launched the "Big Cloud" research and development project, the end of 2008 in the laboratory to build a 256-node cloud computing cluster, released the latest results in May 2009. Since then, China Mobile has expanded the lab system to 1024 nodes. At present, the former China Mobile "big cloud" platform has reached 1000 servers, more than 5,000 CPUs, 3000TB of storage scale, and on the basis of open source software on the independent development of the "Big cloud" system. May 2010, China Mobile officially released the "Big Cloud" 1.0.

The software technology architecture of "big cloud" is divided into resource layer, platform layer, capability layer and application layer, resource layer refers to physical server and network, virtual machine and so on, and a mass distributed system is built on platform layer, and massive data management system is structured.

At present, the main work of China's mobile is focused on data management and analysis, such as data mining.

In the next phase, China Mobile will focus on key technical difficulties in computing resource pool real-time trading applications. It is understood that the big Cloud 1.0 version of the massive data management and sharing, from version 1.0 to 1.5 focus on the computing/storage resource pool key technologies, in the 2.0 to 3.0 version phase will focus on real-time transactions and cloud computing capabilities open.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)