Hybrid IT is now a reality
2017 marks the 11th year of cloud computing. Over the past decade, AWS has been developed, Azure, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud are representatives of the international public cloud camp, while Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Baidu Cloud and Netease Cloud are representatives of the Chinese public cloud camp, as well as UCloud, Albatron，Xunda Yun， As the representative of the second camp of domestic public cloud, Anchang Cloud has formed a multi cloud model. Marked by cloud mode ， US vps The cloud computing industry officially entered the second half of the year. In fact, in addition to public clouds, private clouds are also recognized by the general market. China Private Cloud Development Survey Report (2017) "The report shows that the size of China's private cloud market reached 3.448 billion yuan in 2016, an increase of 25.1% over 2015. With the parallel development of public cloud and private cloud markets, the cloud world has become a new normal.
On April 18, 2017, Alibaba Cloud and Anchang Network, ZStack announced strategic cooperation to jointly provide one-stop hybrid cloud services for Chinese enterprises. To this end, the security network has invested in the construction of CloudLink line network, and has achieved high-speed interconnection with Alibaba Cloud's nodes in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places. It will soon achieve interconnection between the global data center and Alibaba Cloud's global nodes, fundamentally solving the problem of the last mile of cloud computing.
Last mile through cloud computing
What is the last mile of cloud computing? This is a high-speed and stable network connection. In other words, in today's cloud world, each cloud is still independent of the "mountain". It is easy for enterprise users to enter the "hill", but if they want to roam from "hill" to another "hill", they will encounter the problem of network connection.
By the end of 2015, Sina Weibo wanted to use Alibaba Cloud resources to build a hybrid cloud to meet the demand for IT resources from microblog short-term traffic peaks, but the thorny problem was the interconnection between microblog private data centers and Alibaba Cloud public data centers. Since microblog hopes to achieve the effect of flexibly expanding thousands of AliCloud servers within 10 minutes, that is, to complete the installation, authorization, service startup, traffic introduction, online and other processes of thousands of AliCloud servers within 10 minutes, Alibaba Cloud is dedicated to promoting green between microblog data centers.
It can be seen that if you want to use hybrid cloud to support core business systems, you need a reliable and stable green network. Anchang Network is an independent third-party data center service provider. It was founded in 2007 and listed on the NEEQ in 2014. At present, it has 16 advanced data centers in China, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Frankfurt and other countries and regions. With the development of cloud computing in the past decade, Anchang's network has felt the high-speed network connection demand of the last mile of cloud computing from the front of the market, and has carried out the layout of this resource.
Zheng Xiaozhong, CEO of Anchang, said that cloud connectivity is a capability. As Ma said, "Internet connection is a kind of ability" has the same effect. For horses, WeChat is the ability to connect this. For the cloud computing world, commercial high-speed network is the ability to connect this. For Anchang Network, it is a three-layer commercial Internet system.
First of all, Anchang Network has built a pan network FastFiber optical network, which can realize a high-speed transmission network of more than 10000 kilometers. It has also built nine PoP edge nodes in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Seoul, France, etc., with an Internet bandwidth export of 200+GB, interconnected with 14 front-line operators in the world, forming a stable and reliable commercial optical network.
Second, high-speed optical fiber interconnection (DCI) between the company's data centers interferes with the physical infrastructure between different data centers and the cross data center, private cloud and public cloud of public cloud. In order to achieve interoperability between different clouds, Anchang Network has also developed an Infra Connect hybrid gateway through green access to Infra Connect. Different cloud network systems are finally interconnected through a unified transmission protocol.
As the last step of multi cloud interconnection, this focus is on the basis of flexible cloud cloud network, which is based on FastFiber's direct connection to Alibaba Cloud and other front-line public cloud service providers. It takes only 5 working days to open the green line with CloudLink after the original line is pulled for 2 months.
In September 2016, Anchang first logged on CloudLink transmission. In February 2017, what key indicators of Beijing, necessary alarms of each system, and executable processes were completed in Shanghai.
Unified view: IT departments should strive to implement a comprehensive set of unified monitoring and management tools to ensure the performance of the entire application stack from internal deployment to cloud computing.
Discipline through supervision: usually have some ideas later. For most organizations, this is a necessary tool for IT departments to use the resources needed to fix problems, usually using pre installed software. However, as a concept of discipline, supervision puts more emphasis on active supervision, aiming to help IT professionals avoid the short-term responsiveness of management, which is often caused by ineffective special practices, making their digital conversion more proactive and strategic.
to make a long story short, IT professionals should seek to establish monitoring practices to succeed in a mixed IT environment. As companies become more strategically transformed into truly digital organizations, IT professionals fall behind in their responsibilities. A unified monitoring approach aims to translate infrastructure points and data points into actionable insights, as well as some of the best practices described above, IT professionals can ultimately improve the overall efficiency of the organization and business
