Clouds appear, is changing our understanding of the traditional concept of IT. Cloud does not like the concept of it as illusory, but appears in various forms in front of us, but most people familiar than the cloud storage and cloud computing. Emergence of cloud storage has changed the way some people's memory and habits, and in turn what cloud computing bring to us? In the cloud era, to turn the server where it?
Cloud computing comes
At present, China is expected to become the world's emerging markets, the fastest growing cloud computing industry, including IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, VMware, Salesforce, Oracle / SUN, DELL, HP, EMC, NetApp, Huawei, ZTE, such as a thumb Schneider and international companies, including soft, wave, eight hundred passengers, Ali cloud, full-time, 263 including a large number of cloud computing vendors / service providers will compete in the Chinese market. The next three to five years, China cloud computing industry chain will gradually improve, at all levels of products and solutions will be launched soon, industry, enterprise applications will rapidly fall.
The benefits of cloud computing to the enterprise, there are many. On the one hand, cloud computing can provide to enterprises such as daily necessities as easy, cheap service, while requiring businesses to buy more servers and storage devices, and it provides a platform to support business development, without the need for capital investment in IT, for those applications need to get the most business value with minimal investment for enterprises, can develop new business with limited IT support.
All along, the traditional server plays a vital role in business operations, especially Internet companies. Therefore, whether to establish its own hosting server room or not, or, it is based on the physical server. Cloud computing is a distributed computing by the large number of distributed computers, rather than the local computer or remote servers, corporate data centers run more like the Internet. This allows companies to switch resources to the needs of the application, needs access to computers and storage systems. This is like old home soil heating from heating mode turned to the central heating mode, it means that computing power can also be used as a commodity circulation, like gas, water and electricity, as access to convenient, low cost.
I must mention virtualization
"Virtualization is some kind of users and applications can easily benefit way to represent the process of computer resources, rather than to represent them based on a proprietary manner, geographical location, or physical packaging of these resources. Other words saying that it is data, computing power, memory resources, and other resources provide a logical view, rather than a physical view "-. Jonathan Eunice, Illuminata Inc.
And all disruptive technologies like server virtualization technology, first quietly, then suddenly burst forth, and ultimately save energy because the merger has been recognized. Today, many companies use virtualization technology to improve the utilization of hardware resources, disaster recovery, improve office automation. In the cloud computing era, into a virtual cloud services to have the most important and the most basic functions. Through virtualization, we can virtually on a high-performance server that multiple servers can run a plurality of the same or different operating systems and applications simultaneously, and without any influence on each other, in use and almost traditional server there is no difference, so while achieving the same applications and functions, a large number of reducing the number of physical servers.
Cloud computing will create greater glory minicomputer
Minicomputer will take the express train of cloud computing, assault wide range of medium-sized, small and medium enterprise cloud computing node markets and achieve Historic glory. Overture advance of cloud computing, also sounded the minicomputer market on the eve of charge.
Bit network (ChinaByte) May 4 analysis (soldiers) It is said that in recent years, forced by cost pressures, the financial industry is there are signs of some non-core business systems will migrate from the minicomputer to the X86 server, in view of the minicomputer in the financial sector the large concentrations, then, minicomputer market share will gradually shrink.
This really the case? I'm afraid not.
IDC report noted: In 2008 Q4, Unix server revenue accounted for 36% of the total server market, there is little growth in 2007 compared with 33% of the share over the same period.
Although the Unix server in a very small part of the minicomputer hardware support does not belong to the scope, but already reflects accounted for the vast majority of the Unix minicomputers relatively stable and sustainable market coverage.
If we abandon this pessimistic short-term vision to maintain a long-term thinking in the attack, it might be found: the future of the minicomputer market structure will be more closer.
Based on what theory to support this view? Dominate the future calculation of cloud computing.
Minicomputer qualities
Speaking of minicomputers, its high stability, high performance, high security congruent features are the classic of classics.
Numerous minicomputer relevant senior technical staff so highly minicomputer: hardware system is very stable for several years continued uninterrupted run down or in good condition, the same system will run even more at ease on the minicomputer same processing performance (corresponding to the performance utilization high).
Needless to support high-performance minicomputer doubt, IBM, for example: shocked the industry's first breakthrough high frequency 4.7GHz Power6 processor, has quietly launched Power7 and put 5.0GHz Power6 + processors, the market in the development process R & D agenda to Power8 processor ......
Although some commentators believe that, with the minicomputer more complete but not yet open source Unix systems such as IBM Aix, HP-Unix and other operating systems, the code type of operation is different from the Windows graphical interface, have hindered the expansion of the minicomputer market.
But in fact, even these two, also have become more different from minicomputers often the highlight of evidence: more vendors to obtain the corresponding professional team of commercial service on commercial operating system users may never open, increasing the relative complexity of the operation means the entry of technical threshold, the system security to establish a natural barrier.
In fact, a single minicomputer relatively extraordinary properties of all aspects of its integrated features significantly enhance the short board, it is currently included special key financial, petrochemical, and other applications popular with Canada's main cause, and this, is the embodiment of minicomputers qualities.
Cloud computing needs
Now for cloud computing, I believe we are no longer strangers, to put it simple and obvious point, it is to include handling, storage including performance together, support the terminal more complex calculations and data processing more onerous.
Before the birth of cloud computing, the manufacturers came up with the fuzzy concept, considering that with the continued in-depth information of the day and the more accumulation, the majority of users to solve problems using the resources of a solution. The concept of cloud computing is the beginning of a large sub-regional deployment of cloud node, the majority of agencies within the coverage of a cloud node, corporate, individual users can reduce the cost of hardware resources by sharing resources.
After the cloud computing to promote open, there are a lot of users mentioned, although cloud computing is a good concept, but at the same time the share of hardware resources, many organizations within the coverage of each node in the cloud, enterprises and individual users of information security will become a new problem:? who will monitor our confidential data it if our data on shared storage resources, it is not us naked and exposed to the sun it?
On this basis, the soldiers had suggested to the institutions, enterprises deploy cloud node smaller units, in order to take into account the cost savings and resource sharing internal information security.
So, with enterprises as the Unit Deployment of cloud node, what kind of servers required to support it? In addition to a similar high processing performance scientific computing, or a large number of three-dimensional modeling of large sites for these high-performance storage needs of a single hardware resources such as prominent, most companies will require server hardware integrated high-quality short board.
Popular point of saying words to say: bastard look green beans, it is touched upon!
We all know that, although a single X86 server has entered a critical application in SMEs, but if compute nodes as the hardware resources more concentrated cloud, with a more secure operating system, stability and continuity are still medium-sized enterprises hope to strengthen the site; X86 server cluster computing although good, but relatively speaking, each node in the cluster to achieve high-speed transmission is still a problem, unless willing to spend Costly with fiber channel; although the blade protrudes enough computing performance, but the relative concentration of power, work consumption problems still remain at the policy level, more importantly, its stability because the product has not been popularized, has not yet been approved by a large area of accumulation of the user; cost mainframe determines that it is bound only cloud node in a large area or is a large organization, consider within the scope of enterprise cloud nodes, unable to reach a wide range of medium-sized, small and medium enterprise-class cloud node category considered in.
Looks around, how to feel, at least for now, minicomputer higher in overall characteristics of short and medium board level, small and medium enterprise cloud computing nodes closer to demand.
The popularity of cloud computing is imperative, if someone asked why, all that superstructure IT industry chain at the same time can answer: because in addition to cloud computing itself can bring long-term cost savings, ease of management, information security and other benefits for users, but we are continuing to promote the.
So, even now top all sectors of the industry chain of cloud solutions have not yet put in place, we can easily imagine: after generations of technology as precipitation and more mature variety of server, minicomputer will take the express train of cloud computing, a wide range of medium-sized surprise, small and medium enterprise cloud computing node markets and achieve historic glory. Overture advance of cloud computing, also sounded the minicomputer market on the eve of charge.
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