Wei Jinwu: China Unicom Cloud computing Research and practice

In "2011 China cloud Computing and Cloud Service Summit Forum", Wei Jinwu of China Unicom Research Institute of Cloud Computing Group has done a speech with "China Unicom cloud computing Research and practice" as the theme, the following is a transcript.

Hello everyone! The emergence of cloud computing is divided into three driving forces, on the one hand, the driving force of technology, but also the driving force of demand, but also the economic environment under the financial crisis era and the driving force of environmental protection. There are various definitions of cloud computing, and China Unicom thinks that cloud computing is both a new computing method and a new business model, in terms of computational methods, in terms of business, cloud computing is the ability to output patterns in the form of services, Telecom operators to carry out new information services products and ITC delivery model, is suitable for telecom operators cloud computing definition.

From the cloud computing services, there are three layers, there are three clouds, but from the current development of cloud applications are two categories, one is through the application of cloud technology to build their own business systems. The second category is to provide cloud computing services to the public, including the industry. From now on, Internet enterprises have successfully applied cloud computing technology to improve their business systems and improve their business efficiency, thereby improving their business impact and low cost. Some large enterprises are also using cloud computing to structure their IT support systems to achieve intensive and high-performance enterprise information systems. The main purpose is to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, support their strategic transformation.

The other is to provide the public with cloud computing services, mainly based on the internet to provide data storage and information processing, as well as the application of software business, mainly to enhance the flexibility, diversity and novelty of services. There is also a kind of industry-oriented network computing, as well as platforms, terminals such as some of the basic cloud computing infrastructure capabilities. There is also a service-oriented outsourcing business, which is now the application of two cloud computing since the cloud was launched.

From the technical point of view there are a few trends, from closed to open source, to open. Second, from the hardware equipment, from high-end minicomputer to the cluster development. From the security architecture, the vertical from the chimney-like to large-scale flat-oriented development. From the point of view of resource occupancy, the original is exclusive resources are now shared resources, terminal implementation from complex to intelligent. Cloud Computing in accordance with the full network of service mode, to achieve a unified focus, efficient sharing direction. Cloud computing will lead to the division of Information industry, in accordance with the data flow outsourcing, service delivery in the horizontal direction. This is the whole cloud of technology brought about by the development and industrial development trend.

Cloud computing Currently, the Internet companies to carry out cloud computing is typically three companies, one is Amazon, one is Google, and one is (), which is the Internet companies to carry out cloud computing a relatively successful case. From the operator's point of view, 2010 has a survey, more than 50% of the view that cloud computing brings the opportunity to increase revenue and expenditure. The entire telecoms operator will gradually develop into a cloud market participant.

The target market for cloud computing, more than 50% per cent of customers considered commercial, is widely seen as a source of cost savings, improved service quality, improved investment, and increased flexibility in resource invocation.

Cloud computing to successfully carry out services have several key factors, to achieve large-scale, so that the cloud computing industry to achieve intensive, low-cost and high-performance. The third is to establish a perfect end-to-end service security system. Finally, the success of cloud computing must involve information security, which is the success of our cloud computing several major factors. The second part introduces some research and application of China Unicom in cloud computing. China Unicom in the understanding of cloud computing, from the framework of these three layers no problem, cloud computing capabilities must be through the corresponding terminals to deliver users. Second, from the service form, the output from the public cloud and the virtual dedicated cloud. It is necessary to establish a specialized service delivery and support system to support the delivery of cloud services. Around the three floor, the corresponding security system should be established, which is the architecture of cloud computing understood by China Unicom. 2009, China Unicom has formulated a long-term development strategy, mainly divided into two lines to develop cloud computing, a line is external business development, build customer-oriented platform, new business transformation to do support. The second is to improve the energy efficiency of internal support, to achieve green energy saving and emission reduction, improve the overall management efficiency and management level.

China Unicom around the internal enterprise information support, China Unicom's business is relatively rich, but also faced with three network integration of large-scale applications, in this context, China Unicom based on cloud platform to do the internal information application. Specifically, the infrastructure of the storage, computing and network capacity, platform this piece we have focused on the experiment, mainly to build data warehouses, as well as middleware. Internal support and support platform applications.

In the process of implementation, the internal infrastructure of Unicom may be slightly different from other large enterprises, because Unicom has a large number of (), but also a large number of minicomputer. Middleware this piece, we focus on highlighting the database, at the same time, a good outlook for the future.

Foreign business, China Unicom is mainly the establishment of virtual data center as the core of the business, is currently being piloted, the first step is to establish a basic business, the second phase of the PAAs development services business. From the current charging mode, the initial may be a monthly lease of the way, after the classification, differentiated management.

From the concept of China Unicom's cloud computing services, we want to build a cloud service data center as the core of the system, through the cloud application and service-oriented platform to build a new business for different user service processes, through the pervasive network to the various terminals, this is the entire conceptual framework of cloud computing. In order to support the intelligence of the business and the intelligence of the service, we should build a core system, that is, the business Data system, which contains three kinds of subsystems, one is around the network equipment, or the network data system. The second category is the user data subsystem. The third category is the business processing subsystem, which is divided into three classes. Through the establishment of subsystems, make network and business, management has intelligent characteristics, this is the core.

Around this core, we should set up a distributed intelligent open platform architecture, resource mobilization management. Around the platform this piece, the future of the emerging business into four categories, one is to establish their own business control, a class of data processing, a class is the analysis, and a kind of upstream and downstream synergy, is so four capacity. Secondly, the establishment of security and service guarantee system around the platform is the intelligent and open platform architecture of China Unicom.

Build a compliant or adaptive intelligent Service network around this platform architecture and business subsystem. The network to the BBS, is the business data subsystem as the core of the establishment of data centers, while around the data center to provide cloud storage, cloud computing, cloud network of these three capabilities. Based on these infrastructures, four types of engines are built, which are stored in the access network through the corresponding resource control points.

We have also done some cloud computing practices, infrastructure this piece, we are conducting the ADC business pilot, Hebei Unicom has also done a transformation pilot. Now focus on the call center and Business Hall transformation, from the distributed application is also doing some work.

In addition, we also support the local government to do some service cases, there are other cases, mainly around the government to do some work, such as the personal Housing Information System Provident Fund Monitoring system, the provincial Housing Information and Provident Fund information to do a corresponding focus.

Around the Tianjin Airport development area to do the entire planning and business design, as well as business model consulting work, mainly to cloud IaaS business mainly, followed by a number of government applications business. We are also involved in the specification of the Ordos Green data center, including some consulting and planning work.

This is our China Unicom's some cloud computing aspects of thinking and the current application of the situation, thank you!

(Responsible editor: Duqing first)