VMware Global Research and Development senior Vice President Fan: Mobile/Cloud ERA's IT Foundation

The first China cloud Computing conference was opened in June 2013 5-7th at the Beijing National Convention Center. The Conference, with an international perspective, insights into global cloud computing trends, and from the application, explore cloud computing and large data, cloud computing and mobile Internet, cloud security and cloud computing industry applications, such as the focus of the topic. In particular, the Conference has set up a cloud computing services display area, exchange the latest research results of international cloud computing, showcase domestic cloud computing pilot City development achievements, share cloud computing development experience, promote global cloud computing innovation cooperation.

Fan, VMware's senior vice president for global research and development, brought a speech on software-defined data centers: The IT basics of the mobile/cloud ERA. Fan is currently responsible for defining software definition storage and data development, and has worked with EMC for the past 6 years, and has created the EMC and VMware China Research and Development center to share with you today the latest results of the software definition data center.

Fan that the second-generation platform is the traditional data center as the backend, and the front-end is the PC and workstation-oriented operating mode, in the past 20 years, we have been very familiar with this pattern. Our so-called computer science, education is the same pattern.

Traditional models are under attack

But in the past five years, the pattern has been hit a lot, first and foremost by the impact of the move on the model. For example, the companies that used to do storage have a good solution to the enterprise files, information sharing can be accessed through any PC or any workstation on a second-generation platform, but in today's traditional networked storage, to some extent, the need for enterprise file sharing is not fully met. First of all, as a corporate employee, the job may not just be in the company, not just behind the firewall, but also in the home or at the airport and other places also want to access their own files. Second, you may not only access files from your laptop, it's possible to access files from mobile terminals like smartphones. Therefore, the third generation platform is to request from anywhere, from any point of contact access to the information can be accessed, this to the data center storage put forward new requirements.

The second impact is the emergence of the cloud, with the promotion of the Internet, more and more platforms, especially consumer-oriented platforms are provided through the form of Internet services to users. And how to enable large enterprise government service providers can also apply this model to other enterprises, which is a very big problem, so the new cloud Architecture data Center can serve a variety of mobile terminals, including mobile phones, tablets, personal PCs and so on.

Third generation platform Infrastructure implementation

VMware, the EMC family, including VMware, we are committed to building the infrastructure of the third generation platform. Fan describes the work that VMware does. Server virtualization is actually a software-defined server, before which all the hardware servers are exposed to, and new servers need to be deployed for each new application. And since the server virtualization this generation, the server is not only a physical concept, it is also a virtual concept that abstracts, pools, and automates virtual concepts, so that when new applications are generated, there is no need to purchase a new server, and a single virtual server is needed to deploy a new storage. The software definition of the data center is in the server virtual a concept extension, we hope to be able to use the server software to define, we also hope to be able to extend such functions to the network, storage, and then spread to all aspects of the data center.

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