Unicom Cloud Computing: Dios to achieve a comprehensive transformation

The advent of the cloud computing era, the most imminent challenge for operators is to avoid being piped. Is China Unicom ready for a free-for-all of internet giants, telecoms operators and large and small product providers?

The era of cloud computing to achieve a comprehensive transformation

China Unicom has launched a Dios distributed intelligent open System in the field of cloud computing to realize the overall transformation of telecom operators.

China Unicom launched the Dios distributed Intelligent Open Systems (distributed distributed, intelligent Intelligent, open open and unified system Unifiedsystem) in 2010, with the goal of distributed storage, distributed computing resources, Distributed database and file system as the foundation, through the cloud network to integrate unified resources, form on demand elasticity expansion capacity, and provide services.

Dios will cover such areas as virtual Data center VDC, BI System Cloud architecture, OSS cloud computing, Cloud Terminal Transformation Call center, future network and cloud computing research. It can be said that Dios is the future PCCN public Computing Communication Network Core system, can realize network intelligent management, business Intelligence Development, service intelligence and other services, at the same time can realize the whole industry chain ecosystem precision cooperation.

In fact, China Unicom in 2009 on the formulation of long-term development strategy, divided into two lines to develop cloud computing: the external construction of customer-oriented cloud platform, internally to build green, energy-efficient and effective IT support system. "China Unicom system integration company IDC Operations Center Deputy manager Cannan said."

According to Cannan, cloud computing technology meets the current three major needs of China Unicom, one is to reduce its own system energy consumption, the second is to transform the internal support system, to build a highly efficient and refined intelligent IT support system; The third is to support its business needs through a plug-and-play, flexible deployment of cloud computing Through the layout of cloud computing, China Unicom is trying to achieve its own overall transformation in the current market environment.

China Unicom's overall approach to cloud computing: smooth implementation in phases within three years, focusing on standardization, interoperability, and controllability. At the same time, to establish an efficient it operation support platform, build a VDC based on cloud computing technology and set up a business based cloud service and capability open platform, we can continuously enhance the Security Service guarantee ability, carry out intelligent pipeline construction, and enhance the value of the physical network. In applications, cloud computing and the Internet of things are combined to carry out deep coupling with different industries.

Therefore, China Unicom in the public cloud and virtual private cloud at the same time layout, from the IaaS layer centralized storage, computing and network capabilities, focus on the establishment of data warehousing, to the core to build the hosting applications and services cloud computing platform; Finally, around the core data system, China Unicom divides the future emerging business into four categories: its own business control , data processing, analysis, upstream and downstream synergy. "We will provide users with a full range of cloud computing solutions." Some government and corporate customers are currently testing the platform. The estimated income for next year is tens. "Cannan said.

Develop New Market space

Although cloud computing to operators throws a big question mark, but if the layout is appropriate, this is very likely for the operator's own transformation painting perfect exclamation point: not only greatly enhance its internal IT resource utilization, but also to expand the broader market space.

Into the cloud computing era, China Unicom in the original resources based on the IDC hardware Resources virtualization, to provide users with web and other applications hosting and operating platform, with Low-cost, high reliability, high availability, high scalability and other advantages to attract customers, to form a new business growth point.

In the PAAs layer, "vigorously cultivate Dios distributed intelligent open System, it is a physical system, but also an open ecosystem." "Cannan said. In such an open ecosystem, the adoption of preferential policies will attract a large number of creative developers and enterprises in the Internet, thus speeding up the development of telecom value-added services such as mobile Internet applications and saving significant investment in technology development.

At the SaaS level, China Unicom has transformed its existing high-quality customer resources into a cloud platform, cooperating with government, transportation and education units to provide services such as online CRM, online medical care, online education, real-time road conditions, etc.

"In addition, Unicom also provides a ' rent purchase ' of the new business model, protect the customer's asset value, at the same time for some customers have built IT system equipment, negotiated depreciation after the recovery of this part of the assets will continue to provide enterprise users cloud services, based on this unicom will provide users with a broader public cloud or proprietary cloud services. "Cannan said," for customers, on the one hand to ensure that the operation of the continuous, on the one hand can carry out the depreciation of assets and reuse. ”

Cloud computing will provide further demand for network bandwidth and access. Cloud computing services for the full coverage of broadband network, anytime, anywhere access capability, network access quality, network security, and other indicators of the requirements of the traditional Internet services than a lot higher, and these new requirements will bring new market space for operators.

To find a way out under strong competition

Although cloud computing has been gradually from the concept of speculation into the real stage, but the current cloud computing companies fragmented, there is no unified standard, the lack of interoperability between different clouds, are the cloud computing development may face bottlenecks. For China Unicom, not only facing the development of the great environmental problems, the internet giant partition market crisis, more directly facing China Mobile, China Telecom competition.

Although the current foreign public cloud service providers are not yet settled, but Baidu, Tencent, Ali and other internet leading manufacturers have already acted. Private cloud domain IBM, Microsoft and other international giants also with deep technology, service and customer resources, aimed at the Chinese market. This will be a big challenge for three telecom operators.

China Telecom to enter the field of cloud computing, relying on its own network operation strength. In particular, launched in February this year, "broadband China-Optical Network City" project, so that China Telecom can rely on the nationwide coverage of high-capacity high-speed Internet, transmission network and fiber-optic broadband network, the cloud data center to achieve high-speed interconnection and high-speed access to users, so that cloud computing and broadband integration.

For China Mobile, the cloud computing project has revealed its urgency for future layouts. China Mobile is deeply aware of its own shallow foundation, so the heavy gas, spend a lot of money in the country to build cloud-related infrastructure, at present, its "Big Cloud" project has built more than 1000 nodes large-scale laboratory.

"We and telecommunications are almost homogeneous product competition relations, in the advantages and disadvantages of the same, the future of the entire cloud computing competition in the field is also difficult to define a language." "Cannan said.

Indeed, operators as the only licensed communications giants, the long-term development model is relatively fixed, in the face of the sudden change of competition, natural to quickly change not to fight unprepared. For the three operators, its industrial chain and service model are still groping, want to continue to occupy a leading position in the cloud era, really need to work.