American VPS On January 1, it was reported that the China IDC Industry Annual Festival, as the largest and most influential landmark event in the field of cloud computing and data center in China, had been successfully held for nine times. Now the 10th China IDC Industry Annual Festival (IDCC2015) will also be held in Beijing National Convention Center from January 5 to 7, 2016. It is estimated that the number of participants in this conference will reach 8000+.
As one of the warm-up links of the 10th annual ceremony of China's IDC industry, "100 interviews" has received extensive attention and praise from the industry and industry media since its launch. Many senior executives of IDC and well-known upstream and downstream enterprises will be invited to participate in it. Their insights have played an important role in promoting the development of the domestic IDC industry.
A few days ago, Liu Guohui, co-founder and CTO of EasyStack, visited the "100 Interviews" and answered a series of questions about the current development and future trends of OpenStack and the construction of cloud platforms based on OpenStack.
Liu Guohui, co-founder and CTO of EasyStack
In 2015, OpenStack not only accelerated its landing worldwide, but also flourished in China. Under the support of strong community and ecosystem and the demand of customers from all fields, OpenStack is becoming more and more open and flat. From computing, network to storage, local innovation is forming a closed loop from end users to OpenStack community to manufacturers and then users. Micro innovation is running through the entire information technology industry chain at an amazing speed. "The trend of openness and open source+cloud computing is one of the greatest commercial innovations in human history. These two ideas alone have been enough to change the whole world. Now they are combined into one on OpenStack. OpenStack chose OpenStack not for this era, but for this era." Liu Guohui said.
EasyStack is an OpenStack cloud platform and service provider. It was founded in February 2014 by the core team of the IBM China R&D Center, which was the first in China to engage in OpenStack R&D, and mainly provides open, stable, reliable and high-performance cloud computing services for enterprise customers. Since its inception, EasyStack has provided services for Lenovo Group, Postal Savings Bank, Rural Credit Bank of China, State Grid, Tsinghua University, Great Wall Broadband TCL、 More than 80 enterprise customers, including Tianhe Cloud, provide OpenStack cloud products and services, covering emerging industries such as finance, telecommunications, government, electricity, education, Internet finance, e-commerce, and big data.
Gallop in the domestic enterprise level cloud computing market
In recent years, domestic cloud service providers have emerged in endlessly, and they must have strong strength to break through the cloud red sea. ESCloud is an OpenStack enterprise cloud platform tailored by EasyStack for domestic enterprise users. While fully compatible with the community version of OpenStack, ESCloud takes full account of the current situation and needs of domestic enterprise IT. Therefore, ESCloud has enterprise class features such as high reliability and availability, flexible and easy-to-use cloud platform topology design, support and stability of large-scale environments, scalability, and upgradeability.
ESCloud platform services based on OpenStack have supported a large number of customers in scientific fields including finance, e-commerce, smart home appliances, energy, travel, Internet broadband, biomedical, gene sequencing, social networking, natural language analysis, etc. In addition to having strong strength in many open source fields including OpenStack, More importantly, EasyStack has a wealth of enterprise level genes and localization advantages. The combination of these three points makes EasyStack flourish in the domestic enterprise level cloud computing market.
The business of enterprise level users is relatively complex. Almost every user has its own unique growth and development process. Users face different competitive pressures. They have their own unique ideas about the evolution path and pace of their IT architecture. When helping customers build enterprise cloud platforms, cloud computing platforms and service providers should consider the following factors: users' IT status and maturity, competition in the industry, existing business forms, existing IT architecture forms, future business and IT evolution paths, etc.
Now EasyStack's users cover emerging industries such as e-commerce, finance, telecommunications, government and big data. How can cloud products and services meet the needs of customers in different industries? Liu Guohui told the reporter: "The complexity of user business poses a great challenge to the design of ESCloud cloud platform, but we are not redesigning a cloud platform. We are based on OpenStack, which is known for its openness and flexibility, OpenStack's own flexibility, perfect and stable API, rich ecosystem and other features provide a cornerstone for designing enterprise clouds that can cover different industries. At the same time, this is also a short board for any closed source private implementation). EasyStack has its own rich enterprise base because our design of ESCloud cloud platform provides a powerful guarantee. Our industry experts with rich enterprise experience have the ability to understand and analyze customer needs from the perspective of customer business, so as to meet the different needs of users through ESCloud's powerful cloud platform design capabilities and perfect ease of construction compatibility. Finally, There will still be some demands that ESCloud platform can not meet directly. In the face of these users, we will work together with partners to provide value-added services for customers. "
Capture cloud computing highland
This year, many cloud service providers launched financial cloud services in succession to seize the big cake of the financial industry, but there are many barriers in it. Just the strict requirements of the financial industry on the security and reliability of the IT platform shut many enterprises out. If the business is migrated and built on the open and open source OpenStack platform, users' concerns will increase.
The reporter learned that, Faced with this challenge, EasyStack first fully analyzed the existing design and best practices of OpenStack in security, and introduced OpenStack related security design into the product at the beginning of designing ESCloud; Secondly, fully referring to the mature cloud computing security standards and financial industry security standards in the industry, through in-depth analysis of these industry standards and best practices, combined with their own industry experience, the rest will be enhanced and strengthened by teams with relevant backgrounds. In terms of reliability, "EasyStack has established a team with rich experience in basic components, including the core team, at the early stage of its establishment, to optimize and enhance core underlying modules, including virtualization, network, and storage, which completely addresses the reliability needs of the financial industry." Liu Guohui said.
For the future
A few days ago, EasyStack has launched a highly automated solution through the underlying architecture, and combined with the new solution of OpenStack's distributed software architecture products, "Give me a few seconds to give you an elastic OpenStack exclusive cloud". For the future, Liu Guohui said, "We will continue to strengthen market cultivation, including continuing to hold technology dry goods sharing, OpenStack cloud computing case based seminars promote EasyStack and even OpenStack to continue to move forward in the market from multiple dimensions.
