Yang Guoxun: Data center industry brings unprecedented development opportunity

In order to better summarize the successful experience of China's data center industry in the development process, grasp and guide the development pulse of this year, promote the data center industry that has already entered the cloud to continue healthy fast and steady development, the Chinese Information Association and China Data Center Industry Development Alliance will be "cloud Time data Center" The 2nd Session of the "2012 China Data Center Industry Development Conference" was held in Beijing on the 20,112-month 17th. Yang Guoxun, deputy director of the National Informatization Advisory Committee and former chief engineer of the General administration of customs, said: The data center industry brings unprecedented development opportunity, especially the development of the super large public cloud data center deserves attention. The following is the speech of Yang Guoxun Deputy director.

Yang Guoxun: Leaders, experts, ladies and gentlemen, good morning, very pleased to be invited by the facilitator to speak today at this conference, we are studying the data center and the development trend of the basic industry. I talk about three questions, the first is why we should study this trend, the purpose is to see the direction of market development, that is to see the market opportunities in where? The second to talk about opportunities and challenges always coexist, specifically look at this opportunity and challenges where, how should we deal with? The third chance must be to stay prepared.

, former chief engineer of the General Administration of customs

The future of the data center is a core issue of our informatization, after the cloud computing speed up, as if we feel that the issue of the data center is widely concerned, which is actually problematic. We talk about cloud computing in the future understanding of information, our own understanding is information services, market-oriented services, access to information like we get electricity, water, gas and so on. So, although the trend of service, in the end is not the cloud market opportunities? Our conclusion is that the industry of data Center brings unprecedented development opportunity, especially the development of the super large public cloud data center deserves attention.

Why do you say that? The reason is two, first we talk about cloud computing to the information industry as a market-oriented services to provide, but in fact like water, electricity, gas, which is the most basic needs of our lives, their common feature is that their nature and requirements are very single. However, the information service can almost be said to be the world's most complex service, a variety of information requirements. So, this brings us two things that we should pay attention to.

First, information it is so complex, so, different types of services it actually requires us to the data center requirements are also different. This has led to the development of our data center, which is the opportunity for different data centers to develop, which is the first reason we think the data center industry has a broad future.

Second, in this data center industry, in this market competition, the informatization complexity makes the competition the condition and the element also very complex. Unlike the simple advantages, but because of the complexity of information services, so in the future for different requirements, in fact, the center of the small, there are various opportunities.

To analyze the first, the complex results of our cloud computing requirements for information services. Unless in the future we can not see too far, but at least at the moment we feel the first public cloud of the use of what, now the cloud business is in an open environment. If your business is now limited to a cloud-like service that you will be providing in the future, this cloud might be appropriate for a private cloud. Our usual electronic government affairs, E-commerce, generally divided into intranet, outside the net, then, you this cloud is a mixed cloud of the indicator. In the public cloud, we talk about providing services at three levels, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and these three are mainly for public cloud. If it is private cloud, you provide the service directly to provide to the final business needs, you say you only provide an infrastructure service, I would like to not have a unit of information center, data centers can do so. So, in fact, if you want to divide into three levels of service, the main public cloud. So, if you are offering a business that is more generic, the standard is more uniform, and it's easy to accept, then this category is for you to provide the ultimate SaaS directly. Conversely, if you have a distinctive feature, you are more technical and highly professional, this may be provided to PAAs or IaaS.

Then talk about the impact of market competition. The future of cloud computing speed, data center market, data Center industry development, believe and water, electricity, gas is not exactly the same. Those services are inherently exclusive in nature. You said that a lot of power companies in a city can't make sense. If there are a few in the city there is a problem, so you can hardly imagine that the concept of cloud computing, the data center may also have a lot, this is not the case. So why does cloud computing say that his competition is also due to the diversity of data centers, most of our competitive advantages are related to location and management. For example, your center is far from where the user is. You from the green development point of view, you may want to be located in the north, preferably in the year-round how much electricity to do air-conditioning. In addition, such as our current switch, for general dust may not be afraid, but if it is PM2.5 or the inside is very small carbon particles will be harmful, this is often visible. The reason is because he has such a number of effects. For example, your local power supply, water supply, can adapt to your current data center requirements, if you can provide you provide, can not provide, it is very troublesome. Bandwidth to the carrier rental, in addition to bandwidth, there is transmission channel, in the core or the edge layer, the impact is very large, especially some interactive applications, in fact, there are some applications, you do not know the interaction. However, the software is constantly waiting for the other side of the response, this time the delay of the line is very large, the result of business expansion, efficiency can not keep up. Finally looked for a long time, found that a section is placed on the periphery of the line, that one adjustment, the whole problem is resolved.

So, some of these problems are more, and if some of our IT applications require a lot of people, you need to find a lot of staff, including you this system may need some staff to design maintenance. For example, if you are a public cloud of IDC, you want to attract users, the first person to see your safety measures can not. Because other people are worried, information security you can not guarantee that if your management conditions are quite good.

Of course, the last one may be the most important, is the price, you give people to provide this service, in the end the price is how much? In this way, different cloud between different data centers, of course, there is competition. We also know that in order to run a public cloud data center, one of the biggest operational costs is electricity.

Overall looks like this, if the big company's successful case, the market opportunities in this area is obviously bigger, the more advantages, even provide users IDC service, is also very large. But, from the diversity of the data center markets that cloud computing brings, small opportunities are also available. Now we analyze, cloud computing, the development of the data center industry is probably the public cloud. Private cloud also has, now a lot of our units in the data center, he is not willing to outsource the future? On the one hand, the demand is very strong, because it may not expand the area, it can not increase electricity consumption, so he hopes that there may be an IDC service, may be removed. But can't you move it? Not necessarily. In addition, people want you to pay the funds, if you build a computer room will not spend much money. Also, where does he come from, if the money is included in the cost, it may be willing to, if included in the asset income, it may not be willing. All sorts of situations need to be considered.

So look down either IDC or private cloud exist a certain living space, development, who do good, who can line, the power of the market is so, low cost, good service, marketing means good, you have to have a market.

If we look specifically at the market for cloud computing, social networks, E-commerce, content search, and public services are now the data centers of the largest public cloud of business users. There are still plenty of opportunities in the future. One you have to have vision, one you have to have the ability to compete in such a market. In the future, it should be said that cloud computing was able to get so many people's attention, it is actually to give everyone an impression. In addition, we are now both e-government, E-commerce, the integration of two, public services and other aspects, have been a lot of applications. Future development of data center industry and technology will have greater development demand.

So, specifically, we look at the market opportunities, for example, the wisdom of the city proposed a large number of telemedicine, intelligent medicine, distance education, digital education, facilities, agriculture, etc., including the Internet of things, cloud computing is a very important application areas. Domestic E-commerce development is very fast, but international, Cross-border E-commerce is clearly an important area. Small Business ERP Application service will form a certain climate. The existing information system, now you say calculate cloud? However, IT companies do not attach much importance to the private cloud, because the existing information center, data centers, if you want to develop cloud computing, cloud architecture, it tells you that it needs to improve. In other words, this is where their market is now. I think if the current data center to develop into a more general technology, virtualization, parallelization, Green, automation, mobile, intelligent and so on some of the technology and industry space is very broad. In this regard, in particular, we say, our domestic software, domestic equipment, should be worth fighting for space.

There is also a direction, to the IDC proposed a sharing is the same city, there are other places, we do not do a lot of place at the beginning, to get a certain time, it is necessary to have a life cycle management, now found that many people are considering, should not be built? Some have already considered to build the data center of different places, now whether local, and remote, must have full consideration. He is different from the data centers used, and if IDC can provide such services, this backup center is also one of the important market directions that IDC considers.

Then, the specific IDC data center on its demand for two, one is safe, green data center of the technology and environmental requirements of high, alone to achieve difficulties, high cost. The other is the existing data center and private cloud. An expansion of the size of the engine room and the amount of electricity to increase, this demand is still very urgent, we know a lot of centres, this has been required. Therefore, the future IDC still has a great demand.

As we have just mentioned, opportunities and challenges coexist, and this is a chance, not a good master, that can form a competition and may lead to failure. We now find that many places are now planning to build an IDC image, cloud storage, cloud computing data centers are already doing a lot. Our idea is this, especially for government investments in some projects that are easily more windy and even cause great losses. So now put forward some basic ideas and principles, we believe that the most fundamental is the demand-oriented, benefit-oriented, and the region or the Unit information overall development strategy and planning closely combined. Some people also have the necessity and feasibility of analysis, should avoid the assumption or the possibility of the future as a fait accompli. So it's important to find someone with experience to do something like that.

The basic idea of cloud computing is the service of information and marketization of service, the main operating cost of data center is to use electricity, the energy saving and environmental protection of data center is not only the social responsibility, but also will be directly driven and restricted by market. A common indicator of pue,pue is that the overall power consumption of a data center is the ratio of the amount of IT equipment that is provided to you. The key is to reduce the electricity consumption is good, the whole concept of green, energy saving, energy saving, emission reduction and so on these concepts, it should be said that the data center is certainly a very complex project, to consider the face is a lot of.

In terms of the infrastructure of the computer room, how to solve the energy saving and control your investment.

First, improve the air-conditioning, UPS equipment utilization, the room of the channel separate.

Second, optimize the layout of the plane, which can reduce the waste of space, convenient security.

Third, the use of outdoor fresh air and open renewable energy. The development of wind and solar energy, you may mainly use the usual power generation, but when the wind, that time is not your solar energy and your wind can be used.

The utilization of waste heat should be considered. In addition, like a standby generator.

Finally, the biggest problem with our IDC system is that you may be designing a data center and you don't know who will use it at the end, and your users will not. A data center is built for decades, and your machine, even a fixed user, must be 5 years, 10 years. A user, the most to be able to stay more, the user's loyalty is to be considered. In addition, is now T3, T4, Cloud in the end to use which level, now generally speaking to use T4, but really how many people want to use T4,T4 what price to provide services, are the problem.

So now if you want to build some large IDC data centers, to consider such a few issues, first, you can reserve a little space, more mainly including the room, air-conditioning, if the future inside the machine device, or from the T3 request to T4, you have a place to install such a number of equipment. Second, the reasonable choice of backup scheme, because T4 equal to no matter is the general situation, encountered unexpected situation, should provide such a stable experiment. Under such a situation, for electricity, you have to use generators, for water, you have to have a water storage box, but also have a cold storage equipment, are a lot of buildings to do such a thing. But why does it do that? If your generator doesn't give out electricity, the temperature in my room is much higher. In other words, if you buy a little generator, start is a few seconds, responsible for your regular inspection, timed to do some testing, if placed inside, while some backup equipment, you use a better plan, that better. However, if the calculation is accurate, you will probably get a better result.

The other is that the difference between T3 and T4 is not only its reliability, the availability of how much higher? In fact, if you machine room equipment, the size of the machine room configuration reasonable, reduce a little amount, he will be changed to T4, are able to have some flexible organization approach. These are because we now provide technology and platform for IDC services, so, in advance to do a number of plans to make your entire program more flexible.

In addition, the current air-conditioning are intelligent, with the specific network of things, where the temperature over, you can know. However, with the computer room to consider energy-saving, if from the perspective of information systems themselves, information systems are more complex, there are a lot of know-how. For example, if we engage in virtualization, the server is significantly reduced, reduced by 30%, then you are, his heat efficiency, this ratio is not improved. Wait like this, what's the impact? If it is the engine room equipment improvement 5%,10%,20%, these improvements, perhaps is several times, dozens of times times. More powerful if it is application software, we have been doing the data center for decades, hundreds of times times, hundreds of thousand of routes. Below also mentioned like transmission channel, you are now using telecommunications, telecommunications throughout the network system, for the treatment of how the solution, the user is not very clear. However, the telecommunications department, your users do not know what it is inside, so you must guard against congestion. Or I would have entered the computer room construction, business process reform, the Division of labor reform, many layers have changed, so the real talk is PAAs and IaaS, the above mentioned is our IDC, the following is about SaaS, the overall consideration. Because our ultimate goal is to consume as little energy as possible and achieve hundreds of millions of of our business goals.

Data center technology and industry, I think will continue to develop over the long term. Distributed China, virtualization, parallel China, SOA, energy-saving and environmental protection, such as cloud computing technology applications will continue to optimize and expand. To accurately grasp the direction and rhythm of the market, trends point out that the market direction and opportunities, success or not, but also rely on the rules of the market to grasp. Thank you.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)