Huawei cloud computing "combines" and "easy" landing

At the opening ceremony of Huawei Cloud Computing Conference 2013, Huawei's Vice Chairman Xu Zhijun broke through the profound meaning of the "Fusion" (integration) strategy - in response to the open IT environment, focusing on cloud computing data center solutions to "be integrated" The way to work with partners to build "lean IT, agile business" of the ecosystem.

How will Huawei adapt to the trend of integration without borders and how will Huawei create a bordered ecosystem?

There is no boundary, reconstructing the business thinking in the digital era. "The good ones are followed, followed by the smooth ones, and once again neatly, the most underdog fights with them." This is a sentence from the "Historical Records of the Historian". Huawei's Minister of Technology and Strategy, Zhu Guangping, gave a more general comment: “A best company can grow into a great company with the birth and development of an industry. This is the best. Secondly, it is not with the development of the industry. The trend is dry, but many of our traditional businesses are 'neat and tidy' and will be pulling new industries into their existing thinking. Of course, the worst thing is to keep up with industry trends."

What are the general trends that enterprises should "cause" and "shun it?"

“As early as 2005, when Negroponte published the book “Digital Survival,” it was proposed that the future will be the atomic world, that is, our physical world will move towards a digital world represented by bits.” Zhu Guangping said, “More What is post-development? We believe that it is the deep integration of the digital world and the physical world. The core of this is data, which is to digitalize the world we live in today, and then realize intelligence.”

It is a "deep integration of the digital world and the physical world." It is bringing profound changes to every industry. Taking machine translation as an example, one understands that human thinking is trained through reading, education, and communication with others. How to realize the machine's understanding of human thinking? It also requires the machine to read like a man and read a variety of books in a historical library. This is becoming a reality. In the same way, driverless cars incorporating technologies such as automotive sensing systems, geographic information systems, and smart transportation systems are pushing the automotive industry from the core of the engine to information.

Zhu Guangping said that with the deep integration of the digital world and the physical world, traditional enterprises are reconstructing business thinking in the digital era from the following three aspects: First, transforming the Internet into endogenous business thinking rather than a simple tool; It is necessary to be good at using connection intelligence and sharing wisdom. Today, the Internet has integrated global resources and information into a systematic thinking. Third, mobility has become a basic way of life and production. Mobility has shaped the business thinking of borderless enterprises. , and break through the limitations of time and space.

Talk about misunderstanding, practice hard and prosperous state. The business thinking of reconstructing the digital era must begin with adapting to technological change. From the aspect of enterprise application, the value of IT to the enterprise is moving from the functional level and the enabling level to the contribution level, because the transition to e-commerce has become a new path for the enterprise goal. In the future, the focus of enterprise IT applications will shift to using IT systems to form a unique competitive advantage, redefining a market's unique value level and innovation transformation level through IT and network technology. From the perspective of IT suppliers, Zhu Guangping shared three major technological frontiers: SDN and 5G will lead the network transformation and development, and cloud operating systems and big data analytics engines will become the foundation and core, perceptual computing and cloud-based collaboration.

"When we look back at the present from the future, you will find endless opportunities; and when you look to the future from today, you may see all the challenges," Zhu Guangping said. Through the Huawei cloud computing conference in 2013, we vaguely saw that Huawei's IT product line has seen future business opportunities and is working with partners to meet new challenges.

Convergence, creating a new IT world As in the previous year, the 2013 Huawei Cloud Computing Conference continued to use the theme of “streamline IT, agile business”. According to Zheng Yelai, president of Huawei's IT product line, whether "streamlining IT" or "agile business" is an endless goal that must be persevered.

Different from last year, the 2013 Huawei cloud computing conference debuted the "Fusion" (integration) strategy and defined it as a concrete method to realize the goal of "streamlining IT, agile business". Specifically, through technological innovations and convergences such as computing, storage, networking, virtualization, and data centers, the open architecture is integrated with third-party systems to implement streamlined deployment, streamlined operation and maintenance, and streamlined management to rapidly meet changing business requirements. , to enhance corporate efficiency, and then achieve "agile business." (In the following, we will also conduct a detailed analysis on Huawei's integration strategy.)

Zheng Yelai interprets the strategic objectives of "reducing IT, agile business channels" as three levels: customer achievement, open cooperation and technological innovation.

The first is to achieve customers, that is, to achieve the integration of Huawei's vision and customers. In the vision of Zheng Yelai, Huawei is not only a supplier, but also expects Huawei to understand customers, help customers, achieve customers, and ultimately become a reliable long-term partner for customers. During the Huawei cloud computing conference in 2013, Huawei signed a cooperation agreement with China Central Television, establishing a strategic partnership in the field of big data storage, and jointly developing a leading technology and application model for the media asset industry.

Followed by open cooperation, build agile supply chain. “We have always believed that IT is an open and free business environment. Huawei will work with partners to jointly provide high-quality industry solutions, continue to enhance the industry’s technological level and innovation level, and build a global ecological chain suitable for Huawei’s development. , complete the long-term commitment to customers together with partners." Zheng Ye said.

The third is technological innovation and change. According to Zheng Yelai, the technical level of integration includes three aspects: First, the integration of software and hardware, Huawei's unified and open architecture, can be integrated with the products of other manufacturers; the second is the integration of data and analysis, around the entire data Cycles, from the storage of data to its use, to the design of convergence, ensure that the value of the data can be mined and utilized most quickly; third, the integration of commercial design and infrastructure, and the infrastructure can sense the needs of business flows, targeting different Commercial design enables automatic scheduling and automatic scheduling of infrastructure.

In Zheng Yelai's mind, a new world of converged IT is unfolding: In this world, computing no longer has an upper limit, networks no longer have boundaries, storage is no longer limited, and management is simple, configuration is simple, and operation and maintenance are simple. Get simple. This is exactly the original driving force behind Huawei's IT product line computing, storage and data center.

The ecosystem that is integrated and built to open and cooperate will never enter the information service industry and will never be a telecom operator... This is a vow of the “Huawei Basic Law”. Today, Huawei's corporate business gives these vows richer meaning: always "integrated", insisting on focusing on ICT infrastructure, strictly controlling its own boundaries, and firmly not competing with customers...

"Our partnership strategy is integrated and focused. Because Huawei is positioned in the ICT infrastructure area, we can only provide customers with valuable solutions to solve customer needs and customer problems by working with our partners." Huawei Enterprise Business Marketing Zhang Shunmao, president of the Solution Department, pointed out: “At the solution level, we already have more than 1,100 partners; in terms of channels, we have more than 3,700 global partners and more than 700 service partners. We expect this year, we The total number of partners will reach around 6,000."

Huawei's cooperation team has expanded so rapidly thanks to its partners' trust in the "integrated" strategy. “We hope that Huawei and its partners will be the best choices for customers, not just the best choice for Huawei to become a customer.” Zhang Lin, President of Huawei Global Channels, said, “On the selection of partners, we insist on specialization first. In an integrated manner, we hope to find some professional partners to do professional things first. After developing solutions that are good at its customers and customers, Huawei will work with partners to jointly research the market, expand business, and achieve comprehensiveness. ”

In a short period of three years, Huawei's enterprise business has formed its own value chain model and is now building a complex ecological network. Borrowing from Zheng Yelai, I said: “I have always believed that IT is an ecological chain of cooperation. Huawei needs open innovation with its partners.” According to Fang Yuesheng, Intel’s global customer director at Intel, the cooperation between Intel and Huawei not only includes the hardware level. The calculation, storage, and network also include some low-level application software for Huawei to assist Huawei in developing industry solutions, virtualization, and cloud operating systems. Today, Intel has partnered with Huawei to provide customers with high-end servers and other products.

Similarly, Huawei and SAP reached a global technology partnership in 2012. According to Tang Jie, the vice president of SAP China Research Institute, Huawei's cooperation with SAP involves servers and memory databases, cloud computing, and mobile office. It is a mutually beneficial cooperation and win-win situation in technology.

The evolution of the cooperation between Neusoft International and Huawei has further strengthened the confidence of partners in Huawei's "integrated" strategy. Li Yunxiao, senior vice president of Neusoft International and president of Professional Services Group, stated that Huawei's "integrated" strategy has resulted in the consistency of the interests of both parties in front of customers: "Huawei has a rich IT product line, and Neusoft International has a deep insight into customer needs. In the past, we used to be Huawei's software outsourcing service provider, and later set up a joint venture for outsourcing business to jointly develop the global market. Today, we are already a strategic partnership."

Supply chain finance is a hot topic nowadays. Huawei has already successfully implemented it. President of China Intelligent Transportation Holdings Co., Ltd. Jiang Hailin admitted that Huawei and the company have a 12-year cooperative relationship. Today, the cooperation between the two companies is not limited to the product and solution level. Huawei also provides Huawei partners with credit loan and other services.

In response to a question from a reporter from China Computer News, Zhang Lin confirmed Huawei’s support for partners in credit and finance. According to Zhang Lin, through credit granting, Huawei can not only help partners to reduce short-term financial pressure, but also help partners achieve transformation and innovation, and to a certain extent, optimize Huawei's ecosystem.

Huawei Cloud Computing: Only Infrastructure Cloud Shanghai's new landmark totaling 632 meters of Shanghai's center is set in Shanghai's Lujiazui Financial Center. On September 2, Huawei officially announced at the Cloud Computing Conference that it will work with the Shanghai Center to build China's first cloud of BIM (building information model). The opening of the BIM cloud enables companies in the engineering construction industry to rent computing infrastructure, software and systems over the Internet according to their needs, thereby significantly reducing hardware and manpower maintenance costs.

â–  Our reporter Guo Taohua Ren Zhipeng, president of IT cloud computing product line, announced a group of exciting data at the cloud computing conference: As of the end of June 2013, Huawei cloud computing has served more than 250 in more than 40 countries and regions in the world. Customers, covering government and public utilities, telecommunications, energy, finance, media assets, manufacturing and many other industries. The Huawei FusionCloud cloud computing solution has become a flag of Huawei's "convergence" strategy. Ren Zhipeng said: "Although we can provide users with end-to-end cloud computing solutions, we always adhere to the bottom line: data center infrastructure."

Extension of Huawei FusionCloud to Big Data Fields Fusion pools of heterogeneous hardware resources can be converged to integrate computing, storage, and networking. Flexible and automated infrastructure is also provided for different scenarios of enterprise IT. Huawei FusionCloud mainly consists of three products: Huawei Cloud Operating System FusionSphere, which can provide complete horizontal integration and cloudization of heterogeneous enterprise IT infrastructure capabilities, improve enterprise IT efficiency and business agility; Huawei FusionCube is to calculate, store and The all-in-one solution for the integration of networks has dramatically shortened the time required for service deployment and has doubled the performance of the system. Huawei FusionAccess is a desktop cloud software that integrates with FusionSphere and Huawei IT hardware to form a desktop cloud solution.

At this cloud computing conference, Huawei released FusionInsight 1.0, an enterprise-class big data analysis platform that extends Huawei's cloud computing reach to the big data field. FusionInsight 1.0 is actually a commercial distribution of Hadoop. According to Ren Zhipeng, FusionInsight is the industry's first big data analytics platform that can support 1000km remote disaster recovery. Through the real-time and non-real-time analysis and mining of massive information inside and outside the company, it can help companies discover new value points and business opportunities. Based on FusionInsight 1.0, Huawei has developed solutions for financial and telecom customers. Solutions for other industries are under development.

Forge cloud operating system FusionSphere cloud operating system is the foundation and core of Huawei FusionCloud cloud computing solution. According to Ren Zhipeng, more than 500,000 virtual machines (VMs) have been operating on the Huawei FusionSphere platform. In addition to features such as high reliability and high performance, Huawei FusionSphere is characterized by its openness. For example, FusionSphere can manage virtual machines from different vendors.

At this cloud computing conference, Huawei announced that FusionSphere has been upgraded to version 3.0. In the research and development of FusionSphere, Huawei and Intel have conducted in-depth cooperation. For example, in terms of performance, FusionSphere achieved virtual machine memory access efficiency and virtual machine performance through Intel NUMA technology, and achieved 4687 points in the SPECvirt_sc2010 test. In terms of reliability, the COLO solution developed by Huawei and Intel as FusionSphere's Fault Tolerance technology supports virtual machine hot standby for both single-core and multi-core CPUs, while reducing the overhead and performance overhead of active/standby synchronization and improving System reliability and recovery capabilities; In terms of compatibility, Huawei uses Intel FlexMigrate technology to enable heterogeneous thermal migration of virtual machines between different vendors' CPUs of the same vendor.

One machine is becoming more popular at this cloud computing conference. Huawei launched FusionCube 2.0. Ren Zhipeng said: "FusionCube 2.0 is an integrated cloud computing infrastructure that integrates computing, storage, networking, and management. It greatly reduces deployment time and uses distributed storage technology to effectively eliminate I/O performance bottlenecks. 10 times smaller than traditional minicomputers, it is the best minicomputer replacement platform."

The reporter found that many domestic database vendors, including NPC Jincang, Dameng, Nanda GM, etc., all appeared in this cloud computing conference and demonstrated the one-machine or integrated solution that was launched in cooperation with Huawei. For example, Dreamworld is based on the massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture and high availability cluster (RAC) system for the DHdata series all-in-one. It has powerful transaction processing capabilities, data analysis capabilities, data loading speed, and good Cost-effective. DHdata is based on the Huawei FusionCube Fusion All-in-One. Unlike traditional servers and storage, DHdata uses the advantages of hardware architecture such as computing, storage, and network convergence, as well as distributed storage, high throughput, and high IOPS. It integrates hardware such as smart network adapters and SSDs. Performance, effectively solved the performance bottleneck between computing and storage.

“The data warehouse is one of the main markets of FusionCube. Through the distributed architecture to integrate servers, storage and networks, FusionCube breaks the transmission speed limit of existing data channels.” Ren Zhipeng said, “Compared with technological innovation, customers are It is more important for the center to solve the user's problems. We must provide customers with low cost, excellent quality and good service solutions."

Huawei Storage: High-end storage and big data storage go hand in hand On the afternoon of September 2, at the big data storage sub-forum, Huawei announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with CCTV to establish a strategic partnership in the field of big data storage, providing a leading edge for the media asset industry. Technology and application model. The adaptive deep energy-saving high-density media-based storage system jointly developed by the two parties can greatly increase the media asset access efficiency and media asset management efficiency, and is a green energy-saving media asset storage system.

■ If Guo Tao, the reporter of the newspaper, discusses the number of new product releases, this year's cloud computing conference is not as good as last year. This is mainly because Huawei storage already has a relatively complete line of storage products. Now it is only enriched and optimized on the basis of the original. However, after Huawei's storage banner has clearly entered the enterprise market, Huawei's integrated storage strategy of “keeping with wisdom and achieving long-term success” has never been shaken, and the characteristics of “intellectual” and “combination” have become increasingly prominent.

One-year exam for high-end storage Traditionally, the high-end storage market has always been dominated by foreign manufacturers. Chinese storage vendors usually start from low-end storage and then slowly penetrate the high-end market. From the day the company enters the enterprise market, Huawei Storage has taken high-end storage as the goal of its struggle, continuously introduced new technologies, and achieved breakthroughs in some key industries. Fan Ruiqi, president of Huawei's IT storage product line, told reporters at the Cloud Computing Conference: “Our high-end storage products have been on the market for more than a year, but they are already in operators, public security, finance, taxation, power, large companies, governments, and social security. More than 20 key industries such as medical care, transportation, and petroleum have achieved breakthroughs, with cumulative sales exceeding 70 units."

According to Gartner's report, in the first quarter of 2013, Huawei Storage achieved the highest sales volume in China and the ninth highest global income. According to Fan Ruiqi, in the second quarter, Huawei's storage still maintained a strong growth trend. While enhancing its overall storage capacity, Huawei also achieved breakthroughs in some key product lines, such as high-end HVS storage and big data storage N9000.

At this cloud computing conference, IDC and Huawei jointly released the "Enterprise High-End Storage Security Trustworthy White Paper." IDC recommends in the white paper that enterprises should focus on the reliability of the storage system in terms of hardware architecture, data storage, and business applications when selecting a storage system. Zhao Hailong, Manager of Huawei's high-end storage area, said: "Safety, reliability and flexibility are the core concepts of Huawei's high-end storage design. From the design of the full-redundant system architecture of Smart Matrix to the XVE storage operating platform based on the concept of full-virtualization, and then to revolutionary. RAID 2.0 + two-tier virtualization data management mode, self-healing self-healing end-to-end data protection mechanisms, etc."

Before this cloud computing conference was held, many journalists in the industry were speculating that what was the most important storage product release at the conference? All agreed that it was an all-flash array. Sure enough, Fan Ruiqi officially released Huawei's first all-flash high-end storage OceanStor 18800F at the conference. It features three levels of mega-level IOPS, microsecond-level stable latency, and "0" hard disk failure rate. In addition, it has excellent shock and corrosion resistance. However, the reporter did not see the physical and commercial products of the OceanStor 18800F in the solution display area.

The pursuit of high-efficiency media assets for big data storage is one of the industries in which Huawei’s big data storage solutions are the first to land. At this cloud computing conference, Huawei announced that it will jointly develop a deep-energy-saving large-capacity storage device with CCTV. It is said that it can save 60% to 80% of energy consumption compared to traditional equipment.

With the continuous improvement of digital technology and the rapid growth of high-definition television, IMAX/3D film, and mobile new media markets, media producers must provide high-quality, diversified media programs in a timely manner, while traditional tape-based equipment is the core of media assets. The storage platform can no longer meet the demand. Huawei can provide the media with a large data storage architecture centered on the N9000 series of storage. The N9000 integrates storage, archiving, and analysis of massive data. It has a strong horizontal expansion capability and can support very large single file systems (up to 40PB), enabling unstructured data storage and sharing.

Huawei's media asset storage solution conforms to the trend of traditional TV media's evolution towards all media, with an open, converged ICT infrastructure as its core, and is fully compatible with the industry's mainstream upper application systems, providing full network, high-definition production, and tapeless Media asset bank, media cloud, network interconnection and collaborative office services support. Huawei Storage adheres to the strategy of being "integrated" and cooperates with many well-known media application providers in the industry.

Huawei's storage investment of 200 million yuan has established a largest storage compatibility lab in Asia in Chengdu, which ensures good interaction between Huawei storage and software vendors and system integrators and efficient product integration. According to Li Hailin, director of research and development for Huawei's solution area, "We have always adhered to the strategy of innovation, openness, and integration in the research and development of storage solutions. Innovation focuses on the storage architecture, and openness refers to the provision of open platforms for applications that are integrated. It refers to the close cooperation between us and the industry ISV. For example, Huawei's cloud disaster recovery solution is a typical example of ICT integration innovation. It can achieve data replication of 32..1 (the industry can usually achieve a maximum of 4..1 data replication) and is very suitable for remote disaster recovery of government agencies and large enterprises with multiple branches. Huawei's cloud disaster recovery solution integrates Huawei's technological innovations in storage, network security, and servers to build a disaster recovery system that integrates intensive management, management, and security.

Huawei's storage has formed an organic whole combining point and face. Fan Ruiqi said that "face" refers to the converged data plane. It is a converged storage architecture built on the unified virtualization engine XVE platform for the next 10 years. It can realize efficient data flow across devices and regions throughout the entire life cycle and eliminate them completely. Data islands provide customers with a pool of storage resources that are resiliently scalable, on-demand, and globally collaborative. The converged data plane is the foundation of all Huawei's storage products and solutions. "Point" refers to Huawei's all series of storage products and solutions for different industries.

Huawei Data Center: Convergence Solution Also announced by Huawei at various levels: As of August 2013, Huawei successfully deployed more than 330 data centers worldwide, of which more than 70 were cloud data centers, and delivered the world's largest application scenario. The most complicated Huawei 100,000 concurrent desktop cloud projects.

■ Our reporter Guo Tao, a customer, complained to Chen Shijun, general manager of HUAWEI's IT data center solution department: “We have more than 80 data centers and tens of thousands of hardware devices in the world. We are not managing data centers but data centers. 'Manages' us."

With the ever-increasing number and scale of data centers, especially with limited budgets, how to make data centers take full advantage of their effectiveness and flexibility, simplify management, and reduce overall cost of ownership is a problem that data center users must solve. At the cloud computing conference, Chen Shijun focused on recommending Huawei's next-generation data center solution, the Distributed Cloud Data Center (DC2).

The comprehensive partner Phoenix TV is the beneficiary of Huawei's distributed cloud data center solution. One of the biggest characteristics of distributed cloud data centers is physical dispersion and logical integration. At present, Phoenix Satellite TV's nine data centers are all connected through SDN. At the same time, virtualization technology is used to form a uniform resource pool for each data center, and the total control center realizes unified management.

Wang Hongbo, IT Director of Phoenix Satellite TV, personally attended the Cloud Computing Conference and shared the practice of building the Phoenix Satellite TV Data Center: “As early as 2009, we adopted a cloud architecture in the data center of the Hong Kong headquarters. In the era of cloud computing, we need to build a complete The media platform, which requires us to connect all the two main data centers in Beijing and Hong Kong and seven sub-data centers in all parts of the world.With the help of Huawei, our data center is stable and reliable, and can be deployed flexibly. Achieve cost savings."

The core technologies of Huawei's distributed cloud data center solutions include network, virtualization, and data center management systems. At this cloud computing conference, Huawei announced the SDN-based Cloud Fabric 2.0 data center network solution and Manageone 2.0 data center management solution. Chen Shijun said: "The Cloud Fabric 2.0 network solution is unique in the industry that can simultaneously cover the SDN solution between data centers and data, making network deployment more streamlined and faster, thus shortening the time for new services to be launched. The forwarding performance of its VxLAN gateway is 96 times that of other similar products in the industry.” Huawei Manageage 2.0 data center management solution enables unified management and scheduling across 20 data centers, enabling the coordinated management of cloud resources and physical resources, thus completely breaking the lag in data center resource construction. The bottleneck of the rapid on-line business requirements.

Huawei has a large number of loyal customers and partners in the data center area. Wang Hongbo talked about the reasons for choosing Huawei for a certain degree of universality: “First, we need continuous R&D investment and long-term partnerships in the data center area. Second, we need a partner that can provide support worldwide. Third, we need a partner who shares the same philosophy with us. Huawei meets all the above conditions."

Servers leapt to China's top three shipments Whether it is cloud computing solutions or data center solutions, integration is one of Huawei's most emphasized features. Qiu Long, general manager of HUAWEI IT product line server, said: "For different applications, Huawei's converged solutions are also hierarchical. For example, for the usual data center computing needs, E9000 converged architecture blade servers can fully meet customer needs. And some larger data centers may need more specialized storage devices, and at the time we could also provide converged solutions that incorporate higher-end storage."

Whether it is the E9000 that integrates computing, storage, and networking, or the high-density X8000 cabinet server, it is not the first time Huawei Cloud Computing Conference has been unveiled. However, in Huawei's server product display area, these two products have stopped. The visitors are the most. According to the server shipment data released by Gartner: Huawei's server shipments in the first quarter and the first half of 2013 all jumped to the top three in China's server market shipments.

In fact, from the beginning of last year, sales growth in the global x86 server market but the decline in sales has become increasingly evident. The unfavorable factors in the external economic situation have affected the development of the overall server market. The fluctuation of the overall server market does not seem to have affected Qiu Long's good mood. Instead, he said that this is a good time for Huawei's servers to break through, because users need more cost-effective products. This is the biggest advantage of Huawei servers.

At this cloud computing conference, Huawei announced the addition of new blade nodes for the E9000 and X8000 respectively. The new E9000 is the CH140 and CH242 compute nodes, while the X8000 has added the DH628 V2 storage node. For example, the CH242 compute node has high reliability, computational performance, and scalability, and is particularly suitable for core business areas such as enterprise ERP, CRM, and databases. The X8000 is known for its high density and large storage capacity. Based on the DH628 V2 storage node, it can provide large storage capacity for data centers. Up to 40 nodes can be deployed in a standard cabinet, enabling storage capacity of up to 2PB for the entire cabinet and 80 Intel Xeon E5-2400 series processors. According to Qiu Long, the X8000 storage server with DH628 V2 can provide 75% space savings and 15% energy savings compared to the scenario where 10 units of traditional 2U storage servers are deployed in a single cabinet.

Large and medium-sized data center users prefer blade servers. However, as the size of the data center continues to expand, the demand for computing and storage is increasing. The CPU, memory, power consumption, and even volume of each blade of the server are also correspondingly increased. This raises the demand for thermal dissipation of the blades and the entire cabinet. Demanding requirements. The blades in Huawei's servers have been changed from horizontal insertion to vertical insertion, which is equivalent to increasing the distance between blades and further improving the cooling of servers.