What are the expectations of 2013 cloud computing

Cloud computing technology is no longer a concept, cloud computing is already very relevant, and when companies shout Virtualization (virtualization), start-ups have been buying computing and storage equipment in the long run. Now, big companies are ready to see big tech companies buy cloud-related technology start-ups to help transform cloud computing, or see more companies renting the bottom-tier hardware resources for businesses to build cloud computing platforms on virtual hosts. What is the possibility of a cloud computing industry?

1. Public cloud, Architecture enterprise Application System

The world's top 1,000 companies (Fortune 1,000) are more or less using Amazon's public cloud (Amazon Web Services, AWS), some testing or development, some running real-world applications directly on AWS, and even that Gram is AWS. One of the customers.

However, until AWS is important in a disciplined financial and health care system, many companies do not place any data or applications in public cloud, such as Diebold and large banks, and even prohibit employees from developing in AWS.

For companies such as Amazon and Microsoft, which provide public cloud, it is imperative that the use of public clouds be promoted so that more and more wait-and-see companies are involved. To this end, AWS signed a cooperation agreement with Eucalyptus to allow companies that use Eucalyptus to build private clouds to facilitate the transfer of systems to the public cloud of AWS.

New ventures, such as Cloudvelocity, have sniffed out business opportunities, claiming they can help the industry seamlessly transfer the system to AWS without worrying about the privacy of data.

Although the possibility of a safe and seamless connection is still to be looked into, it is expected that the future of the public cloud will be in the direction of data security, so that the need for a high degree of stability and security of enterprises, willing to build applications in the public cloud.

2. Is HP in the cloud computing service a gamble that will succeed?

In response to the development of cloud computing technology, PC hardware industry leaders are facing the restructuring of the fate of the traditional PC hardware design and cloud computing hardware needs of many different levels, in order to maintain their own leading position, support cloud computing is a key project, of which HP is the most concerned enterprise.

HP's CEO Meg Whitman, who previously pleaded with investors to give HP a long observation period, has recently been told to lay off its subsidiary Autonomy after a series of internal scandals. Last year, HP only spent more than 10 billion dollars to buy Autonomy, in the phase of its huge database data processing and cloud computing capabilities, hoping to be a restructuring of the opportunity to lose the profit, did not expect to become an overwhelming camel's last straw.

Next year will be a crucial year for HP, and today HP has published its own cloud computing services: openstack-based Compute Cloud. Next, it depends on whether the owners have enough confidence to build an application system in HP's cloud computing.

3. The uniqueness of OpenStack has been tested

Hosting services company Rackspace is no longer dedicated to OPENSATCK architecture cloud services, and in view of this, it is time to examine whether OpenStack has a comparative advantage in facing AWS in relation to other open source cloud computing systems.

The 2012 was a tumultuous year for the cloud services market, with HP, Internap, Red Hat and Rackspace all based on OpenStack to create their own cloud computing services, and Amazon and Google have built their own cloud computing systems, A whole like the cloud computing market in the Warring States era.

There are Cloudstack, Eucalyptus and Opennebula in the open source cloud computing system, and many people feel OpenStack have missed the event.

However, no matter how much the cloud computing system in recent years to update, this is only a pioneer war, after the trend will be how to develop a lot of space, in the trend of the end of the past, everything is unknown.

4. The bottom of the hard equipment dispersed will enhance efficiency, everyone will start to do

In the 2008, Google was also advocating computers as data-processing centers, but after publishing its own distributed database (spanner), the underlying hardware was significantly different from the previous one: only computers were not enough, and networks were the real data-processing centers.

Not only did Google say that the Amazon cloud computing service's heavy users Netflix also used distributed databases, with Netflix renting Akamai and Level 3 content delivery networks (IBuySpy receptacle, CDN), To provide users in different regions of the flow of streaming video; Facebook also has a similar strategy to extend the underlying hardware to farther afield by renting a fiber-optic network.

When the underlying hard device is only in a single place, the farther the area will be the more delay time; When the underlying hardware is dispersed, not only does the delay decrease, but it also leverages the storage, buffering, and decentralized bandwidth usage of different regions to make the data transfer much more efficient.

It can be expected that there will be more network applications in the future to collect distributed data processing.

5. The development of software definition can improve the efficiency and convenience of use.

Software-defined networks (software-defined networking, SDN) are commonly used in IT, conceptually, in the form of high-level language, in order to avoid dealing with switch interface.

With similar ideas, software-defined storage (software tabbed storage) or software-defined data centers (software tabbed) are also popping up, basically extending similar flexibility to virtualized platforms.

However, all new things will have a painful period, only the concept is not enough, in the realization of the most common problem is the norms are not unified, let alone the use of efficiency and convenience of the degree. There must be a way to complete the concept of software definition, but after the rain there will always be a rainbow?