This is the best era and the worst era. The best time is that the flexibility and low cost provided by the public cloud can quickly meet the needs of the business compared to the traditional business; the worst era is that for the IT department of the industry, they are already aware To the point where it is gradually losing control of the business unit, what is worse is that the business unit purchases and uses the public cloud itself, which brings greater management challenges.
Cross-cloud management challenges
Public clouds are easy to get, but they have to go down, which has become a common consensus. The reason is that each public cloud is an independent and closed system. What makes traditional enterprises worry is that in terms of compliance and data protection management, the public cloud can not fully meet the needs, and users lose control of the data. .
So, is there a choice between the private cloud and the public cloud that has the best of both worlds? Cross-cloud management, and even hybrid cloud, has become a common demand. But how easy is it to achieve hybrid cloud management? Even VMware, its cross-cloud management tool, Cross Cloud Service, will not be available until 2017.
Is there a compromise solution? To this end, VMware has thrown an olive branch to the public cloud vendor - VMware vCloud Air Network (VCAN) program, by the way, do not confuse VCAN and VSAN. Closer to home, IBM is the first public cloud vendor to receive an olive branch. Based on the IBM SoftLayer public cloud service, it provides cloud services based on VMware Cloud FoundaTIon for enterprise users. The benefits are:
Hybrid Cloud: Based on the same vSphere technology, ensure absolute compatibility of public and private cloud workloads. A homogeneous environment helps users to freely migrate and move workloads between private and public clouds to enjoy the hybrid cloud application experience;
· Security Compliance: vSphere's inherent security isolation and NSX technology assurance ensure that users can implement security policy management based on virtual machine level to meet business and industry standards.
· Data autonomy: Through local VCAN partners, countries can meet the requirements of security standards such as data localization and solve operational qualification problems;
Service certification and compatibility: Cloud service providers in different regions use the same authentication service. When domestic enterprises go abroad or foreign companies come to China for development, their system migration workload is greatly reduced, and compatibility from private and public clouds is realized. Cross-regional cloud service compatibility.
After IBM SoftLayer, VMware reached a partnership with AWS on VMware Cloud on AWS. Previous competitors, shaking hands on the issue of hybrid cloud, also shocked the industry.
VCAN landing in China
At the beginning of this year, VMware experienced an earthquake of personnel management in China. Guo Zunhua became the president of VMware Greater China. Faced with the fierce impact from the public cloud, Guo Zunhua’s burden can be imagined. After Zhongke Ruiguang, VMware China needs to have a bigger breakthrough.
When VMware signed up for AWS worldwide, people are looking forward to making a difference in VMware Greater China. From the brand to the prestige, Alibaba Cloud should be the most suitable choice. But the results unexpectedly expected, VMware actually chose Huayun.
VMware China chose Huayun, which is unexpected and reasonable. In fact, the careful people have already seen the clues from VMware vFORUM in August this year (see: Guo Zunhua, Xu Guangbin: Las Vegas has come, may wish to cooperate with "gambling"), and before this, Guo Zunhua and Xu Guangbin, CEO of Huayun Data, took a group photo with his words and made a crazy pass in the circle of friends. On October 27th, the two sides signed a memorandum of cooperation during the vForum 2016 China Conference, and the results were announced.
Why is Huayun instead of Alibaba Cloud? What is the true intention of VMware to sign Huayun? The answer is actually not complicated.
Compared with Alibaba Cloud, Huayun is more in line with VMware's gas field. Among many public cloud service providers in China, Huayun is a very characteristic company. From the background of birth, Chinese public cloud manufacturers can be divided into three categories, one is Internet companies, such as BAT; the other is IDC vendors, such as Century Internet, Halo New Network, etc.; People come from traditional IT companies such as Qingyun. Public cloud service providers have different origins and different content. BAT Internet is rich in experience, to C is a professional, but not enough for the to B business, especially traditional enterprise users; IDC is good at infrastructure such as Fenghuo Hydropower, neglecting the IT system on the computer room, and for the cloud service There is no experience; the technical school has a good grasp of the trend, the technology application experience is well-versed, can well meet the needs of Internet innovation enterprises, and the transformation of traditional industries is not their focus.
Huayun can be counted as an alternative. On the one hand, Huayun comes from IDC and has various operational qualifications; on the other hand, Huayun's technical capabilities are comparable to those of technology, but the services provided are to help traditional enterprises step into the cloud. First, Huayun helps IDC cloud services transform and enhance their cloud computing services. On the other hand, Huayun is not afraid of dirty and tired, helping traditional enterprises realize the transformation of cloud services. From the business direction, Huayun and VMware are the most suitable.
Between Guo Zunhua and Xu Guangbin, it is not the connection of the olive branch, not a throw, a connection. In fact, there is still some competition between the two. But all this gives way to a common target market, and the two are hit it off.
Form of cooperation
Unlike AWS and Azure, VMware doesn't look like Huayun's qualifications. The cooperation between the two sides is different. In the practice of traditional users such as China Power Grid and Wuxi Metro, the technical capabilities of Huayun's hybrid cloud and market coverage are particularly valued by VMware. In fact, these are also the most traditional users of VMware. These users need to switch to the cloud and combine with Huayun's public cloud. So, why not adopt VMware vCloud Air?
For Huayun, accepting the vCloud Air solution undoubtedly realizes the connection with a large number of traditional VMware users. At the same time, accepting vCloud Air also provides users with one more choice, and the traditional mode will be smoother. In fact, this is also an important reason why AWS can accept VMware.
"AWS technology is very strong, but in essence, AWS is a service-type company that is willing to turn technology into a variety of SaaS services. In a sense, VMware vCloud Air can also be seen as a type of SaaS service. Zhu Linsen, vice president of Huayun Data Product Competence Center, said.
Compared with AWS, Alibaba Cloud not only wants to be a public cloud, but also hopes to penetrate into the private cloud, which is also the inheritance of Alibaba's corporate culture. Therefore, Alibaba Cloud will not easily accept VMware vCloud Air.
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