Visit Red Hat Fan Lu Wen: Open source to inject vitality into cloud computing

There are too many exciting emerging markets in the history of it that are the object of business. Cloud computing is no exception, if it is different, that is the more hot cloud computing. Cloud computing the whole concept of the meaning is to let the business move out more quickly, will be loaded into it annals, then, Cloud computing is the "Emperor's New Clothes" or "Enterprise IT Magic weapon"? How does the enterprise smoothly move towards the cloud computing age? November 19, on the occasion of the "2010 Red Hat Cloud Computing Conference" held in Beijing, Enet Silicon Valley Power reporter interviewed Mr. Fan Lu Wen, vice president of the Asia Pacific and Mr. Pan, president of Red Hat Greater China, to discuss the above issues. Does cloud computing make a turnaround for open source, or is open source giving the cloud a chance to breathe in? Open represents the general direction of the Internet! This is the voice of most people today. So what about cloud computing? Cloud computing has brought important turnaround to open source. The turnaround is that cloud computing allows open source to see the "Software free, service charges" business model to mature hope. "Red Hat believes in the future, the old letter of credit fee mode, locking mode will become a history, the future will be service-oriented, customer-centric, flexibility-oriented." Said Mr Fan Lu Wen, Vice president of Asia Pacific. Over the years, Red Hat as open source manufacturers have been advocating the unique purchase of their products, for Red hat, there is no "license" concept, in the absence of violations of the open source Community rules, "subscription mode" is the love of Red Hat. Red Hat that the service and subscription model more in line with the development of cloud computing characteristics, "the entire IT industry to a service-oriented platform, not project, asset investment as it construction." When you use cloud computing to settle, you don't have to invest in it yourself, it can use the different service companies outside to provide IT services. "Fan Lu Wen said. "This is a very critical change," Fan Lu Wen stressed, "for the entire IT investment, it fees, it costs of clearing, is a change." Enet editorial point of view: Although there is Microsoft by "Cloud + End" (end refers to terminal software charging mode) This "trick" tenacious resistance, and Apple with its limited opening (source code is not open, other open) to attack, the future of open source is still immeasurable. Is it really good to be open, half open and half closed? It is necessary to analyze the trend of technology, if the "left and right" business model of open source technology to the "cloud" for users, the "locked" concern can be reduced at least some. Standard! interface! compatibility! The lack of interoperability between different cloud providers is one of the main problems preventing companies from using cloud computing---this is a widely shared view among industry professionals. From the current situation, at least 10 organizations or enterprises to promote the development of cloud computing. Has brought a glimmer of hope for the general fall of cloud computing. Red Hat recently released the "Deltacloud" project, as a possible cloud collaboration standards: "The Triangle Cloud Project is for different cloud provider platform, build a common, common platform." "Fan Lu Wen Solutionexplained. Specifically, the triangle cloud is an open source API for migrating cloud-based workloads across different IaaS vendors, "For example, Microsoft Azure or VMware's products are made with their own proprietary software, and several cloud architectures can run at the same time. Deltacloud enables enterprise users to avoid this type of problem. "Fan Lu Wen said. It is understood that, in addition to the Red Hat itself, other companies are involved in the development of Deltacloud, or to some extent used it, these manufacturers include Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM and so on. Fan Lu Wen says that by unifying standards and interfaces, to ensure the compatibility of different platforms, is a red hat as the representative of Open source cloud computing manufacturers to continue to promote the matter, "the best open, because the government, enterprises and individuals can participate in, so into a very open and fair open platform to create a common goal, Promote the future of the entire cloud computing development. "Fan Lu Wen said. Enet Editor's point of view: Cloud computing is computing or calculating the user? Some people think that a credit card account with a mouse click, is cloud computing, everything really so simple? But multiple layers of complex applications that migrate between the public cloud and the private cloud require a lot of unexpected work. Seamless integration and interoperability are also the selling points of many cloud providers. Perhaps one day in the future, you can see that the cloud computing industry also has something similar to the HTML standard. "Where is your API?" When the user chooses the cloud computing supplier, the suggestion asks this sentence first. Cloud OS, is it a lie or a terminator? The simplest explanation for cloud operating systems is the cloud-based operating system, the non-traditional operating system. The traditional operating system manages a single device, while the cloud operating system manages multiple devices. At present, VMware has been actively advocating its own cloud operating system--vsphere. This product is based on VMware's many years of virtualization technology derived. Running on the hardware infrastructure of the data center makes the cloud operating system look attractive, but Fan Lu Wen that vsphere is a "gorgeous package". "VMware itself has no operating system, this is a product of their packaging or a statement, they are not an operating system manufacturer, no operating system will be involved in a problem, because in doing cloud, there is no way to avoid the hardware certification will be involved, And in the cloud or on the software to consider the application of this certification, if there is no operating system, there is no way to circumvent this certification problem. Fan Lu Wen explained. "VMware is not our competitor, but the Red Hat is their competitor, because red hats are eating their market share," he said. "Red Hat emphasizes," in the virtualization aspect, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux different version has the virtualization function, but why also wants to buy the virtualization product specifically? This is also the advantage of Red Hat. including ORACLE,VMWAre, Microsoft will be very unhappy, because Red hat is slowly encroaching on their market share. Enet Editorial: "The Future is the world of thin clients, not just hardware, but also the operating system." "This is a remark by Paul Maritz, president and chief executive of VMware. Cloud operating system is a vital part of cloud computing, and in the near future, the cloud operating system cloud computing vendors in the field of a battle is inevitable. As a user, do not care who can destroy who, there are similar desktop-side OS Windows star products, or multiple cloud operating systems coexist better. Perhaps in the future, Windows will become history, Windows 7, Windows Server does not exist.