What is the future direction of IT development?

On the one hand, the latest technologies and application trends, such as mobile, social networking, cloud computing, and big data, require companies to set up cloud infrastructures in the future to respond to massive data and business development through the cloud; on the other hand, IT technology changes are also radically changing. Infrastructures such as storage, computing, and networking can integrate applications, infrastructure, and networks through software, pool IT resources, increase IT flexibility and efficiency, and better meet business needs.

So, one thing is ready to come out, it is the cloud operating system.

Cloud operating system positive solution

The so-called cloud operating system, or Cloud OS, is the overall management and operation system of the cloud computing back-end data center. It refers to the basic hardware resources such as servers, storage, and networks, and the single-machine operating systems, middleware, and database software resources. Cloud platform integrated management system.

Cloud operating system is a key step to achieve cloud computing. From the front end, cloud computing users can access resources on demand through the network, and pay according to the amount of use, just like turning on electricity and turning on the tap water, and access it. Look, cloud computing can realize the compatibility of various types of heterogeneous software and hardware infrastructure resources, but also to achieve the dynamic flow of resources, such as West to East, West to East and so on.

"Cloud computing is divided into three levels: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. From the perspective of IaaS, the cloud operating system is very necessary, because the operating system is the key to truly supporting various hardware and protocols, realizing resource management and scheduling, and ultimately implementing applications. The same is true for cloud computing, cloud operating system is the key to realizing cloud and realizing cross-pool scheduling and management.” Peng Jinsong, a cloud computing expert and former CIO of China Netcom and China National Chemical Industry Group, said in an interview. He emphasized that cloud operating systems will be a critical part of the cloud computing system both in terms of theoretical development and in terms of practical needs. Without a cloud operating system, it is not a true cloud.

“Based on the cloud operating system, cloud computing services are more comprehensive.” Zeng Yu, director of the Key Laboratory of Cloud Computing Key Technologies and Applications in Beijing, said in an interview. Yan Yang, technical director of Minsheng Securities, also told reporters that users must apply cloud computing to take four steps: first, centralized resources, second, virtualization, third, resource pooling, and fourth, business cloudization. The cloud operating system will be the key to achieving these four steps, especially the third and fourth steps.

Peng Jinsong believes that virtualization is the foundation of cloud computing. It can only virtualize, schedule, and manage computing resources after virtualizing hardware resources such as servers and storage. The cloud operating system is based on virtualization and realizes all calculations. The unification of space, automation, and dynamic scheduling management, the most important is cross-pool scheduling computing capabilities, unified and dynamic management of system resources, thereby supporting the needs of business applications.

Consistent with the view of Peng Jinsong, Xie Wei, the vice president of Microsoft Greater China and general manager of market strategy and chief cloud computing strategy officer. In Xie Enwei's view, under the trend of cloud computing, new social and application models, consumerization of IT, and big data, there must be a modern platform for global applications to transform the data center, support modern applications, and unlock the insights of data. Build people-oriented IT. This platform is the cloud operating system.

Microsoft Cloud OS unified cloud

"IDC data shows that China is the world's largest smart phone market. China has 270 million Weibo users in social networking, and the amount of daily blogging is 100 million. In 2011, China invested 1.86 billion yuan in cloud computing construction. In 2016, this scale is expected to exceed 6.5 billion yuan; China's big data market size will reach 470 million yuan in 2012, and this number will reach 10 billion yuan by 2016. The trends of mobile, social networking, cloud services and big data will be Reshape the entire information technology industry and bring IT to new and exciting moments.” Gordon Frazer, chief operating officer of Greater China, said on September 18 at the Microsoft Windowserver2012 conference held in Beijing.

Looking at the world, it is also true that mobile, social, cloud services, and big data are the technological trends of the entire world. Looking at the entire process of computer technology development, we can easily find that from pushing IBM's mainframe to Microsoft's delivery of PCs to personal desktops, computers move from closed to open; now computers are moving from a single computer to computer clusters, that is, cloud computing; Cloud computing will bring more ideas and more benefits to the world.

What does cloud computing mean to users?

"I hope IT will become simpler and more flexible, and it will be able to devote more energy to application implementation and business decision support." Yan Yang told reporters.

Indeed, what future users need is a large number of complex business processes that can deploy applications simply and flexibly; what is needed is more scientific, more real-time, or even predictive data analysis decision support; what is needed is a variety of terminals that are securely connected anytime, anywhere. Into the application, timely and flexible processing of business; the need is more flexible, scalable, easy to manage IT infrastructure to support the realization of the above goals.

“In order to better support modern applications including social, mobile, and seamless collaboration, users need to pool IT resources, need better-performing, more flexible and easier-to-manage private clouds, and also need more cost-effective applications. A more flexible public cloud will need to be able to seamlessly switch between private and public clouds and manage it in a unified manner, said Xie Enwei.

Xie Enwei explained that from the Windows Server 2012 for private clouds, plus the public cloud Windows Azure, together with the Microsoft Cloud operating system that can formally manage and manage the former two, the Microsoft cloud operating system can effectively help users pool IT resources. The data center has been transformed to break through the boundaries of the data center. In the private cloud, hosted cloud, and public cloud, online and offline migration is free and flexible. It supports modern applications and supports massive computing.

Moreover, Microsoft's cloud operating system, in addition to a unified System Center management platform, also has a common Hyper-V virtualization platform, a common Visual Studio development platform, a common SQL Server data platform, and a unified AD (Active Directory) identity. Certification, support HaDooP architecture, can really help users to deploy modern applications on different architectures, simple, flexible, and secure applications.

"Windows Server 2012 and Windows Azure are like two sides of a coin, and Windows Azure, which is also based on the Windows Server 2012 kernel, has been widely used globally. At present, tens of thousands of customers use Windows Azure. Currently, servers running Windows Azure are used. There are more PCs in the world than in 1999. With Microsoft cloud operating system, Microsoft, users and service providers (like Microsoft partners like China Telecom) can use a unified operating system to achieve a full range of cloud "S. Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft's development tools division, said in an interview with reporters in Shanghai on September 19.

Microsoft's cloud operating system and traditional Windows or Linux operating systems deployed on a single physical server are not a concept. Xie Enwei explained that the traditional operating system is generally one application to one server, or one application to many servers, the scope is relatively small, and more is the business environment under the online operation. The cloud operating system can deal with all computing resources in one or more data centers, including storage, servers, networks, etc., and can extend these applications to online operating environments and truly support big data.

In other words, the traditional operating system runs on a server, and the cloud operating system is at the data center level or even across multiple data centers. That is, Peng Jinsong's cloud operating system is to cross-pool applications and schedule management.

Change Data Center Beyond Virtualization

Xie Enwei stressed that Microsoft's full range of products, for the hybrid cloud model, laid a very solid foundation for customer needs. As the core of the Microsoft cloud operating system, this release of Window Server 2012 has made great progress compared to previous versions.

Microsoft itself is a cloud practitioner. Michael Park, Microsoft's vice president, server and management global marketing director, introduced at the conference that Windows Server 2012 has been developed and tested for four years, and has integrated Microsoft's own products and cloud services experience. He disclosed that Bing search that is widely used worldwide is built on Windows Server 2012, as well as Microsoft Games XBOXLIVE, Office Cloud Office365, OoutLook, MSN, and DynamicsCRM, which have accumulated practical experience for Microsoft cloud operating system. . Michael Park introduced that Windows Server 2012 represents Microsoft's deepest and breadth of products, and it will completely change the way IT services.

“The Windows Server 2012 edition is our landmark product.” Somasagga said with excitement, “For the first time in history, customers can run cloud operating systems in their own data centers and fully enjoy cloud computing on their own servers. Benefits and advantages come at the same time, but this kind of enjoyment can also be extended to the cloud of service providers and Microsoft's Windows Azure."

Modern data centers must be scalable and resilient to make IT more responsive to business needs. Michael Park introduced that Windows Server 2012 brings more than 200 innovative features, including advanced storage, networking, virtualization and automation capabilities, to enable customers to achieve data center and application speed, scale and lower costs at a lower cost. The improvement of functions ensures the 24-7 continuous operation of the data center, reduces manual errors, reduces costs, improves efficiency, and flexibly meets changing business applications.

Windows Server 2012 has a powerful virtualization engine that enables virtualization across servers, storage, and networks. "Based on the virtualization engine Hyper-V 3.0, each of our virtual machines can support 64 virtual CPUs, 1 TB of virtual memory, and 64 TB of virtual disks. Each cluster supports up to 8000 virtual machines, and one virtual machine can achieve up to 1 million. The above IOPS means that more than 99% of applications in the entire industry can run on virtual machines and cloudize high-load-critical business. “Michael Park is proud to introduce, “Our virtualization is not just storage, computing virtual By using a software-defined network, the multi-tenancy model allows applications to dynamically migrate between private and public clouds without changing IP addresses and allowing local data to be backed up to the public cloud.

As for the enhancement of Windows Server 2012 virtualization capabilities, Zeng Ping, a specialist in information technology at China National Petroleum Corporation, deeply felt: “We started to do virtualization in 2008, mainly for manual regulation, and we have a dedicated server management team. They are basically on weekends. Without rest, working hours can't be adjusted, you have to work in the middle of the night to tune servers and virtual machines.With the real-time migration technology of Windows Server 2012, they can have normal schedules. Actually flexible and dynamic deployment of Windows Server 2008 Yes, it was only artificially done at that time. With 2012, we can make fewer people manage more machines and do a better job of virtualizing the environment."

Modern application deployment across the cloud

"Windows Server 2012 solves more than just infrastructure and data center problems. It also ensures that Windows Server and Windows Azure work together perfectly to support modern applications. They must be able to scale up and scale, and they must be flexible. Simple and easy to use. In addition, considering this hybrid deployment, Windows Server 2012 needs to meet various types of databases,” said Michael Park.

He explained that Windows Server uses the same development model as Windows Azure to provide, manage, and move virtual machines across Windows Server and Windows Azure, improving the scalability and flexibility of applications and Web sites in multi-tenant environments. At the same time, Windows Server 2012 also improves site isolation and security, making full use of open frameworks, open source applications, and various development languages ​​to build business applications. ”

On September 12, Microsoft officially released Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5. “From the client to the cloud, this is a state-of-the-art development solution for building modern applications that span connected devices and continuous service. We use a unified set of tools and frameworks to allow developers to build symmetry across data centers and clouds. Or hybrid applications, and provide better support for open standards, open source applications, and a variety of different development languages.” Somagesa said, “For developers, Azure is an open platform that supports both Microsoft.Net and other Microsoft development languages ​​also support development languages ​​such as PHP, Java, etc. Microsoft has set up a subsidiary to do open source technology work, and actively interacts with the open source community to achieve mutual understanding from protocols, APIs, data formats, and data movement. The operation ensures that their applications can run on Windows Azure. The number of developers who currently use Windows Azure as a cloud platform exceeds any other cloud platform."

Zhang Yaqin, a senior vice president of Microsoft Corporation, said in an interview that as an important force of Microsoft's global R&D team, Microsoft Asia-Pacific R & D Group has contributed indispensable wisdom in the development of Windows Server 2012, taking on the role of enterprise-level operations for the first time. The independent design, development and testing of the system and the timely delivery of Windows Server 2012 Essentials make it possible for many small businesses around the world to realize business innovation and enterprise transformation through this simple and flexible Window Server version and integrated cloud services. productive forces. In addition, Microsoft Asia-Pacific R & D Group also undertakes the interoperability testing of the protocol layer between Windows Server 2012 and non-Windows operating systems, and has released a series of fast and effective protocol testing and diagnostic tools to help many partners such as industry companies and Open source organizations interact with the Microsoft platform to establish a positive and win-win ecosystem and make Windows Server 2012 the most interoperable cloud platform.

People-oriented mobile and flexible office

"The cloud operating system can support insights into massive data. With SQL Server 2012, enterprise users can fully exploit the value of users both internally and externally. We support relational data in SQL Server and support the storage of non-relational data in Hadoop. And management, so that companies can help companies take full advantage of explosive growth data." Michael Park said.

Now people want to access any data anytime, anywhere, on any device, especially under the trend of consumerization of IT. But how to protect the security of user data and other IT assets in this process?

The main tool for Windows Server 2012 to solve this problem is Active Directory (AD, Active Directory). Unified authentication based on AD provides the most solid and effective protection for the system and applications from the bottom. On the premise of security, Windows Server 2012 provides a new, modern and flexible working model that takes into account flexibility and efficiency. For example, through the Direct Access feature, each employee can access corporate internal resources safely and easily at any location; through enhanced The RemoteFX feature allows each user to have a consistent experience on any device, anytime, anywhere, and achieves easier maintenance through rapid virtual desktop deployment and thin provisioning.

At the press conference, Microsoft's Windows Server and Clare Henry, Director of Virtualization Product Marketing, used Live Remote Desktop Services (VDI) to perform live demonstrations of Windows Server 2012's new features on Windows 8 tablets. Virtual Machine Replication Capacity Expansion, Strorage Space Virtual Storage, Server Manager Centralized Management, Network Virtualization, Online Migration, and Deployment of New Business Applications on Azure... Clare Henry's familiar demonstration made the audience stunned. Virtualization can be as simple as that. The original cloud is so simple. "These functions I demonstrated are all implemented through Power Shell. It is very powerful, with more than 2,400 built-in command lines, more automation and self-service, making server management easier."

How does the user deploy the cloud operating system? Peng Jinsong told reporters that his strategy was “I will first purchase Windows Server 2012, install it according to the cloud format, and wait until business applications are in demand. Use technology and Reserve the product, not when it is time to use the cloud, then re-install it by turning the head."

Case story:

China Telecom

Build a carrier-grade service cloud

Industry: Telecom Industry

Case highlights: Through the deployment of Windows Server 2012, China Telecom has successfully established reliable cloud computing services at the carrier level, expanded the capacity of IT services, enhanced the scalability and flexibility of the hosting environment, and improved the speed of customer service. Agility

As the operator that owns the world's largest fixed telephone network, China Telecom is devoting itself to expanding its traditional business into a basic cloud service provider.

China Telecom officially launched the Tianyi cloud computing plan in 2009. In 2010, it completed field trials and resource pool deployments in six provinces and cities including Shanghai, Guangdong and Sichuan. In 2011, it put forward the idea of ​​specialized operations. In 2012, it established China Telecom Cloud Computing Corporation.

Through the deployment of Windows Server 2012, China Telecom has successfully established a reliable cloud computing service at the carrier level. It not only builds an open, flexible, secure, and standard cloud environment, but also integrates seamlessly with the company’s existing computing platform and delivers it. Traditional cloud services provide value-added services. Microsoft is a strategic partner of China Telecom and provides solution support for China Telecom’s cloud computing deployment. Through virtualization technology, Web sites, and tenant self-service portals, it has expanded the capacity of IT services and improved the scalability and flexibility of the hosting environment. Improve the speed and agility of customer service.

A solid R&D, testing and evaluation environment, an intensive operation and production platform, two major Chinese characteristics standards systems and a platform open dream, this is the “1121” project of China Telecom Cloud Computing. "The cloud computing standard is actually not so complicated, it is to explain two points: how to describe virtual resources, how to deploy virtual resources." Xie Chaoyang, general manager of China Telecom Cloud Computing Company said.

At the Windows Server 2012 conference, Chen Long, technical expert of China Telecom Cloud Computing Corporation, demonstrated the cloud computing application scenario provided by the China Telecom Tianyi cloud computing service based on Windows Server 2012 to enterprise users. "Using Windows Server 2012, we not only provide customers with resource services and platform services, but also can take full advantage of China Telecom's backbone network and bandwidth advantages throughout the country to provide users with comprehensive services such as remote disaster recovery," said Chen Long.

Qingdao Customs

Pooled IT Unified Dynamic Management

Industry: Government

Case highlights: Qingdao Customs hosted the integrated business management platform on Microsoft's private cloud infrastructure based on Windows Server 2012. It pooled IT resources and significantly increased resource utilization; centralized management and control of the entire IT system architecture eliminated information islands; utilized automation Disaster recovery, achievement of highly available platforms, increased efficiency, labor savings, and reduced IT spending

In recent years, Customs has faced many pressures: On the one hand, the business volume has doubled, especially the management targets of customs, including import and export traders, customs declaration companies, logistics companies, etc.; on the other hand, the efficiency of customs has been improved. The demand for management quality is increasingly strong.

Qingdao Customs uses IT to solve these problems. It is in the typical process of evolution from the traditional IT architecture to the cloud architecture. The bottlenecks are: the issuance and uploading of massive data leads to the waste of network and server resources, and the scale effect cannot be achieved; the benefits brought by the virtualized template deployment cannot be fully realized; A lot of operational, management and disaster recovery pressures.

Through the deployment of Windows Server 2012, Qingdao Customs has been able to face the development and changes of the business with ease, while improving the efficiency, while also ensuring the high availability of business systems. According to Renlin, a cloud data architect of Qingdao Customs, “We can fully integrate existing Qingdao Customs servers by upgrading the operating system to Microsoft Windows Server 2012. The latest Hyper-V server virtualization technology can build a unified resource pool. To achieve a reasonable allocation of resources, by using the Hyper-V virtualization replication function, we can implement business continuity protection and disaster recovery management for applications on the virtualization platform, effectively avoiding the disruption of customs services caused by equipment failures. Risks allow Customs' integrated business management platform to respond more easily to changing business needs."

PetroChina

Put the office management system on the cloud

Industry: Energy Industry

Case highlights: Through the deployment of Windows Server 2012, CNPC's office management system has built a private cloud architecture that enables resource pooling and self-service portals, flexible storage and disaster recovery, flexible billing based on usage, and at least hundreds of savings. Million dollar IT investment.

As a super-large state-owned petrochemical enterprise, CNPC has a large and mature IT infrastructure. Its office management system has more than 60 subsystems, responding to the office needs of more than one million users in multiple business areas. “The problems we face are: First, there are peaks and troughs in more than 60 subsystems. There is a subsystem that accounted for one-third of the business in the 20 days in December. Usually in March and March, the amount of concurrency is Between 50 and 100, and in December it reached more than 2,000; second, the continuity of system business requirements are very high; third, we adopt a disaster recovery strategy with one main and two backups, and storage costs increase rapidly; Supporting remote locations and mobile offices.” Zeng Ping, an information technology expert from China National Petroleum Corporation.

Through the deployment of Windows Server 2012, CNPC's office management system has successfully built a modern private cloud architecture with higher efficiency and return on investment, enabling resource pooling and self-service portals, flexible storage and disaster recovery, and flexible usage-based pricing. Fees and saved at least millions of dollars in IT investment. It goes beyond the implementation of virtualization solutions, provides powerful and simple management functions, realizes application experience across the cloud, and brings a modern working style to CNPC's office management. Zeng Ping said, "Using Microsoft's Windows Server 2012, we successfully built up application scenarios such as server virtualization and desktop virtualization. Now our business staff can more easily apply for the required computing resources and reduce IT. The amount of administrative tasks in the department saves procurement and maintenance costs, which is a successful optimization of our IT infrastructure."

Guangxi Huiyun

Let pig farmers also use the cloud

Industry: Agricultural Farming

Case highlights: Based on Microsoft's private cloud solution with Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 as its core, Guangxi Huiyun independently developed the understory livestock breeding automation cloud platform, and used the power of technological innovation to help the traditional breeding industry develop toward green ecological breeding.

Guangxi Huiyun Information Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as Guangxi Huiyun) is a leading provider of cloud computing and internet of things convergence solutions. Its self-developed understory animal husbandry automation cloud platform uses Microsoft's private cloud solution centered on Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012. The front-end is well supported by the comprehensive application of UHF RFID and other Internet of Things technologies. All kinds of mobile device terminals, including the Windows 8 tablet, use the power of technological innovation to help the traditional breeding industry develop toward green ecological breeding.

“We provide services to aquaculture companies and farmers in the form of SaaS, allowing them to use information services as easily as water and electricity. Microsoft's proprietary private cloud system not only ensures our back-office security, stability, low-energy operation, but also provides openness. The architecture enables the aquaculture companies and farmers to access the cloud service platform through a variety of mobile device terminals, using the methods they are most familiar with for information transfer and analysis, so that Guangxi's agricultural development can benefit from cloud computing and the Internet of Things. The innovation and efficiency of the company, said Zhang Yu, executive director and chief financial officer of Guangxi Huiyun.

“We can purchase the Guangxi Huiyun Linxia livestock breeding cloud platform service on demand, which not only meets the needs of our business, but also does not require us to invest a lot of funds in IT construction, so that we spend every penny on the knife. “Lin Zhende, general manager of Guangxi Chenkangli Food Co., Ltd. said. For Huang Baomei, the head of the company's cloud culture base breeding farm, “After this system was put in place, the management level of our farms was greatly improved, and we could know the production and activities of each pig without going out of the house. The production behavior of the pig was abnormal, and we also notified us via a mobile phone and diagnosed the condition. This enabled us to truly enjoy the innovation and benefits brought by high technology."