Wei Yiqun: Cloud Computing creates server market segmentation

June 14 Morning Message from the proposed server concept, to build production lines, and then to the first server offline, only in less than 8 months time. This is inconceivable to the old server vendors, but they did.

And from the first server offline to the series of new products released, but it took only 3 months time. During this time, they also won the attention of Intel, VMware, and many other partners, but also won large orders including the National Grid, China Telecom, Unicom, Taobao, 360 and other mainstream customers.

This is located in Beijing also Zhuang economic development Zone cloud base of "Beijing Tiandi Super Cloud Technology Co., Ltd.", it is cloud Base cloud computing complete structure of the "big Son", this is a what kind of company? What prompted them to enter the already red server market? They will also take those products and marketing strategies, in the implementation of cloud computing dream, but the realization of new changes in domestic servers?

With these questions, C114, after visiting the world's Super Cloud server production line, made an exclusive interview with Dong Xin CEO Wei Yiqun and vice president of the market.

The big son of cloud base

According to Dong Xin, the world of cloud in the server field, although it is a new company, but has a deep technical and industrial accumulation, it is by the Beijing Sky Cloud Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Municipal government, the United States Ultra Micro Group in 2010 joint venture, can be said to be a resource, capital, technology combined with the three advantages of the company.

Among them, the Beijing municipal government has put the cloud computing to a very high strategic level, and developed a detailed operational development planning, that is, the scale of the "Xiangyun plan"; Super Micro is a world-renowned server provider, its products are the main advantages of high-density and cost-effective And cloud technology is a cloud system expert invested by the broadband capital created by Mr Tian.

In addition to the server's tag, the sky and cloud another role is the "big son". "World Super Cloud is currently focused on the server domain, and this is the entire cloud computing industry chain on the link between the key, up can carry a variety of software and applications, downward can carry the corresponding chip and hardware, hardware products, software platform and service application of the entire chain." ”

It can be said that "super Cloud" a birth was placed high expectations. Tian in the Heaven and Earth Super Cloud strategic cooperation signing ceremony has said, "Ultra micro, also Zhuang International, Tian Yun Technology will work together, will strive to make the Super cloud server to become the first brand of Chinese server." Cloud Base Chairman Zhao Anjian also blushes: "Cloud base will further increase investment, expand capacity." Our goal is to break the pattern of international server brand monopoly domestic market, promote the share of state-owned brand. ”

In Wei Yiqun view, in the future cloud environment, any virtual computing will be done through the cloud server, cloud server is to build a cloud industry chain of one of the foundation. For Beijing Cloud base, the Super cloud server is the basis of "cloud" landing.

In China's traditional culture, the eldest son of a large family is sure to bear more responsibility, and the sky and cloud is no exception. Not only to achieve the rapid growth of their own business, but also to drive the upstream and downstream brother company, fortunately it has its own unique weapons.

Coupling requirements focus on user TCO

In recent years, with the rapid improvement of the performance and reliability of the industrial standard server based on x86 architecture, the national brand server manufacturers have made great progress in technology and research and development, and the overall market share has been improved, but IBM, HP, Oracle and other multinational enterprises still occupy the absolute main force of the market, Accounted for the entire server market share of 80%; several national manufacturers also in the Red Sea for the market in the middle of the gap, how will the world's super cloud to achieve revolutionary change?

In the view of Wei Yiqun and Dong Xin, the advantage of the world's super cloud is very obvious: the natural gene of cloud computing, the integration ability of industry chain, the excellence of product quality, the deep coupling of customer demand, flexible and fast market strategy.

At the end of last year, when the first "Super Cloud" server was offline, the world Super Cloud declared, "The Super Cloud is specially designed for the construction of large-scale, high speed, cost-effective Chinese cloud." "Dong Xin's explanation is more specific:" Super Cloud "green server with all the elements of the cloud server-high-capacity, high-density, high-performance and low energy consumption, but also has a very high price/performance ratio. In addition, by redesigning the server system and structure, "Super Cloud Server compatibility is also greatly improved, and the most flexible is to achieve a stand-alone cloud, greatly reducing the total cost of investment, widely used in data center deployment, virtualization, High-performance Computing, high-end graphics workstation, network storage and other applications.

In the industrial chain integration, in addition to the back of the tree, the cloud of brother company in the cloud computing operating system, modular data center, video development Cloud and cloud computing network has a strong strength. "Cloud computing itself is a revolution in the information and communication industry, with the biggest feature being the democratization of the IT industry." If the continuation of the original is a big brand monopoly IT infrastructure, for customers is not the best choice. "Wei Yiqun said.

As the most basic it capacity carrier, the server vendors to a large extent the competition is "hard power." In this respect, heaven and earth exceed the cloud. "Heaven and Earth over the cloud is a small batch, a lot of customized ideas, according to the user's application of different scenarios, to carry out specialized research and development and production." "Wei Yiqun said:" In the server material procurement, heaven and Earth over the cloud to establish a complete quality control system, in the guarantee of a reasonable profit space, the quality and service to do the best. ”

"We are concerned about the final value of the user, customization will have a certain impact on cost control, but can better help users save the overall cost." "Wei Yiqun said. According to him, World Super Cloud is currently building its own channel system and mass market products. "We will make a corresponding channel product system in terms of configuration and performance according to market conditions." ”

Grasping market segments and helping users to migrate

In Dong Xin's view, in the era of cloud computing, traditional server products will be designed for different scenarios to do some special design. "Traditional, particularly mainstream general-purpose server, the future will be subdivided, cloud computing itself is layered (Iaas/paas/saas), at different levels will have different solutions." ”

Last centralized 25 cloud server: Universal Server sc-r2000,sc-r3000 and sc-r5000 series, innovative, high-performance Cloud Server sc-r6000 series. Among them, the sc-r6000 series, with the Intel 5500/5520 chipset, fully supports the Xeon 5500, 5600 series processors, dedicated to high performance requirements for bandwidth-intensive applications, including communications and storage, and provides ample space for continuous upgrades.

During the visit to the base, the author found that the world Super cloud has introduced the SR7000 series products with Intel's newest E7 processor. "The SR7000 series is our new product line, from a large data center focused on multiple nodes to trying high-performance computing." In the 1U space to achieve four-way server, heaven and earth over the cloud is still relatively advanced. ”

China Telecom and Unicom are among the list of clients in the world's hyper-cloud. "The current cooperation with these two operators is just beginning. But in both the public and private cloud scenarios, there are good performances. "Wei Yiqun said.

It is well known that there are two distinct systems in the huge IT systems of telecom operators. One is for its own IT operations support system, commonly used is the system closed, expensive minicomputer, followed by the public service-oriented telecom-grade IDC service, the use of Low-cost Standard Server.

In recent years, the x86 architecture of the standard server in performance and stability have made considerable progress, has been completely comparable to minicomputer, if the adoption of x86 architecture will greatly reduce costs. "There is no technical problem, but there may be some changes in business and business models." "Wei Yiqun said. In the eyes of the outside world, the rich and the operators have also been aware of this problem, in many new business systems on the line, directly deployed on the x86 platform. "The operator's entire operational support system migration is a very large project, but the introduction of the x86 platform is actually a big step." Dong Xin said at last.

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