World Super Cloud: win in the cloud era in a cooperative, open and independent way

Recently, known as the "China Cloud era coordinates" of the cloud base and Intel signed the formal strategic cooperation agreement. According to the agreement both sides will play their own in the technology, industrial chain layout, government resources and other advantages, in-depth cooperation and jointly promote the development of cloud computing.

It is understood that before the signing of the cooperation agreement, located in Beijing Cloud base in the sky before the cloud has been working with Intel. One side is positioned in the cloud server design, development and manufacture of the new show, one side is the global server chip technology leader and innovator, both sides of the cooperation is a perfect pair. The signing of the agreement will be more conducive to the world of hyper-cloud and Intel's in-depth cooperation, after the signing ceremony, Dong Xin vice president of the Cloud received a reporter interview.

Hold Hands international giants focus on cloud server market

According to Dong Xin, World Super Cloud the first target is locked in the X86 architecture of the server market, dedicated to the cloud computing and data center of the professional cloud server provider, and Intel dominated the X86 market share, so the world of cloud and Intel, as early as two years ago began cooperation. From some small specific orders to start, to procurement, and then to technical support, to the present industrial cooperation and market cooperation and other levels, gradually in-depth.

The positioning of the cloud is targeted at the emerging data centers and cloud computing markets, providing high-density, low-power and application-optimized servers. In terms of size and influence, Intel is no doubt the international giants, only a two-year history of the world, although not compared with the mature server manufacturers, but can be backed by cloud base, and 19 cloud enterprises share resources, and cooperation. In this context, both sides come together very naturally.

Asked about the details of technical cooperation, Dong Xin said, in the cloud market, a lot of customer demand is currently the traditional server can not meet, and even some mainstream chips are not very good to meet user needs. This example occurs on Taobao, Taobao is a very important customer, in the country has 50 cities to deploy their own CDN server, CDN's main purpose is to buffer Taobao station hundreds of billions of small pictures, these small pictures used to do with general-purpose server, performance is also good, stability is good, no problem, But finally Taobao found that the entire system CPU utilization is only 10%, which is very low utilization, means that not only CPU performance is wasted, while a lot of electricity is wasted.

In the face of this, Taobao wants us to jointly develop a low-power, high-density server. Eventually, with Intel's help, the Super cloud the netbook based on the CPU, made the server-level products, that is, made a standard rack-type server, in a two-u space inside there are eight of Astro's servers, with SSD hard disk, can help Taobao realize a large number of small picture open function.

In this process, Intel's support is very strong, because Intel may not have put too much effort on the atom of this server level, but the market has been ignited, customer demand has been generated. This time Intel discovered that the Super cloud has this ability, can help the customer to realize this technology, realizes the final product delivery, therefore Taobao CDN Server case is equivalent to Intel, the Super Cloud, the Taobao tripartite cooperation result. At present, the product has been formally delivered last year, deployed in Taobao CDN node, running very smoothly, but also withstood Taobao double 11 and double 12 large-scale promotional activities pressure.

After more than a year of cooperation, the Super cloud has become one of the fastest growing partners in Intel's entire partner system and is officially the Intel Extreme Platinum partner. Intel and the cloud base signed a strategic cooperation agreement, both in technology, or in the market, will provide a broader space for the sky and cloud development.

Cooperate, open and win

Although the sky is a newborn under the age of two, but because the company's vision and customer demand and market direction, so through the accumulation of more than a year has a series of customer base. Mainly divided into three categories, one is the Internet customers, including Taobao, 360, Baidu and other long-term cooperation of customers; the other is the enterprise customers, such as Mengniu, China Mobile, unicom and so on; there is also a class of government and public utilities, including the Beijing Super, Wuxi, Shandong, Beijing Capital of the window, CAS Shanghai Institute of Advanced Research.

In the market strategy, Dong Xin introduced, first of all, we will pay great attention to the cooperation with the cloud base brother Enterprises, to do the marketing, which will produce 1+1 far greater than 2 of the effect. In terms of partners, in addition to cooperation with manufacturers, will also cooperate with ISD, because the final purpose of the server is not to power consumption, but to run software, running applications, so many times it is necessary to the server for some specific software to do optimization, integration and packaging, for the end users with the best cost-effective products.

"We are a new company, therefore, we hope to be able to work with more partners, whether manufacturers or ISD or friends, we will maintain a very open attitude, very much hope to be able to work with these people to win the market," the World Super Cloud Vice President Dong Xin said, " Because the whole of China's X86 server market plate is very large, the annual market growth rate is double digits. In addition, in particular, the growth rate of customized cloud servers, is very, very big, but we also found a very interesting phenomenon, in the United States, cloud servers in large data centers have been deployed on a large scale, and adopted, and has been recognized by the market and customers, but in China there is still a long way to go. If you have the opportunity to go to China's largest Internet companies, or data centers to see, you will find that there are many very familiar brands, and this phenomenon in the United States is very rare, this is a very new market, we hope that we can expand together. ”

Independent innovation to build core competence

In the era of Moore's law, enterprises without their own core technology, there is no room for survival. Especially in the X86 market, the homogenization of the trend of more and more obvious, with the core competitiveness can not be eliminated by the trend of the times. World Super Cloud knows this way, so in cooperation with the international giants at the same time, but also to build their own core competitiveness.

According to Dong Xin, on the one hand, over the cloud in strengthening cooperation with partners, including the United States and micro-cooperation partners, cloud engineers and micro-engineers in Silicon Valley in the industry's latest development trends, the latest products for joint development, and achieved good results.

On the other hand, the sky and cloud itself also brings together a large number of engineers, the new CTO, who has just returned from Silicon Valley, has learned that he has been working in the United States for 20 years and will devote more time to the super cloud in China, including product development, testing and communication with the corresponding partner technology. And because the world of Cloud is a new company, so the choice of technology will tend to be more forward-looking, not to choose some although the market share is very large but obviously outdated technical form.

"On the one hand, we have strengthened our cooperation with international technology leaders and expanded our team of local software tuning engineers," he said. In the face of the final customer at home, we only have to do a good job of technical services, technical problems in the shortest possible time to resolve, in order to eventually win these customers. So that's why so many of the top internet companies have a deeper understanding of the server and cloud computing than we do, but one of the reasons we choose our products. Dong Xin, vice President of Heaven and Earth, said.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)