The East And West Computing has opened a new era of cloud network collaborative computing power
The global economy has entered a period of transition, the emergence of digital economy and smart society has accelerated the world's migration to digitalization, and new technologies such as cloud computing, 5G, AI, blockchain, and big data are reshaping the global economic structure. Among them, data has become the "energy" of the digital age, and computing power, as the core productivity of the digital economy, has also become a new focus of global competition.
It is in this context that the planned East And West As the infrastructure for China's transformation and upgrading to the digital economy, it is accelerating its launch. The eastern and western calculations are not simple investment and construction of data centers, but the overall design layout of the nationally integrated big data center system, which is related to the upgrading of thousands of industries and industries, and is more related to the trend of China's future economy.
In the past, the construction of public clouds and IDC (data centers) was relatively independent of network planning, while the east and west computing will open a new era of computing power, and the computing power will transition from the construction of points and lines to the network stage of cloud network integration. In the face of such a historic system project as counting the east and counting the west, most people see the opportunities of the enterprise. In fact, it is also necessary for capable and responsible enterprises, especially operators with technological innovation capabilities, rich network resources and central enterprise backgrounds, to play an important role.
Counting the East and the West as the "bottom" of the new economic era
Smart transportation, smart healthcare, smart retail, smart community, autonomous driving, meta-universe... These hot words are getting closer and closer to our lives. The basis for realizing digitalization and intelligence is computing power. As a new productive force in the era of digital economy, computing power is a solid foundation to support the development of digital economy, and plays an important role in promoting scientific and technological progress, promoting industry digitalization and supporting economic and social development.
What is the specific role of hash rate? Its promotion of economic development is reflected in two levels: first of all, it directly drives the development of digital industrialization, such as Ali, Tencent, Baidu, Huawei and other technology giants are investing in data centers on a large scale, while providing business support to the outside world; secondly, computing power is also the engine of transformation and upgrading of other traditional industries, in the process of digitalization, every traditional industry has the opportunity to be remodeled, manufacturing, transportation, retail, finance and other industries will burst out of greater potential in digital innovation.
In its 2021-2022 Global Computing Power Index Assessment Report, IDC pointed out that the competition for computing power between countries around the world has become more and more intense, and the ratings of computing power in most countries have improved. The regression analysis results of the computing power index and economic indicators show that the national computing power index and the GDP trend show a positive correlation, and the average increase in the computing power index of the 15 key countries is 1 point, and the digital economy and GDP of the countries will increase by 3.5 ‰ and 1.8 ‰ respectively.
In IDC's report, the United States and China led the world with 77 and 70 points, respectively. Obviously, China is in a period of rapid development of the digital economy, and computing power is a new engine for the transformation and upgrading of the industry, and it is also the cornerstone of China's digital economy. According to the data released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology "China Computing Power Development Index White Paper", the economic benefit brought by every 1 yuan invested in China's computing power resources is 3 to 4 yuan, and the investment in data centers brings high economic externalities and profit spillover effects.
The explosion of data has made the demand for data storage and computing explode. However, the growth of computing power demand is directly proportional to the growth of energy consumption, and the world has entered the low-carbon era, so while the computing power is exploding, on the one hand, it needs stronger and more intelligent computing power (which indirectly puts forward higher requirements for technological innovation), on the other hand, it also puts forward new requirements for the allocation, layout and scheduling of computing power. How to form an efficient computing network that can support the national digital demand has become a new topic in the new era, and it is in this context that the eastern and western calculations appear.
"Eastern numbers and western calculations" is popularly speaking, which collects and transmits the data generated in the eastern part of the mainland to the western region for storage and operation processing, so as to realize the coordination between the east and the west, the flow of data across regions, and the real-time calculation of data. The core of the East Number West Computing has two key points: one is the overall planning, through the overall planning and operation of the whole network, to achieve a reasonable industrial layout and resource allocation, not only to do a big data center, but also to build a good computing hub; the second is green, because the western region has a wealth of wind, solar energy and other renewable energy, data centers and other high-energy-consuming industries can migrate to the west, the overall is conducive to balanced improvement of the country's overall computing power level, and improve energy efficiency and renewable energy use requirements, promote the green development of data centers.
Before the calculation of the number of east and west, the south-to-north water diversion, the west-to-east power transmission, and the west-to-east gas transmission are all major projects at the national level, and their common denominator is that they are all under the overall planning at the national level, and cross-regional resource allocation is carried out, with the purpose of extending the development space of the eastern region, promoting the economic development of the western region, and forming a reasonable industrial resource layout. If it is said that the south-to-north water diversion, west-to-east power transmission, and west-to-east gas transmission all solve the problems of people's livelihood and production through the allocation of resources, then the purpose of opening the east-to-west calculation project at this point in time is to lay a solid foundation for the development of China's digital economy through the overall allocation of computing power.
The two cores of the new computing power network: hash rate + hash rate scheduling?
How can we lay a good foundation for the digital economy? Compared with the south-to-north water diversion, west-to-east power transmission, west-to-east gas transmission, we can more easily understand that through these projects, the majority of users' water, electricity, gas is more convenient, at any time, anywhere, on demand and low cost to obtain the resources needed for production and life. The implementation of the East Counting West Calculation Project can allow users to pay as long as they buy electricity, water and gas in the future, and they can get ubiquitous, convenient and easy-to-use computing power services.
Computing power is also different from water, gas, and electricity, and is not a one-way allocation of physical resources. Data storage and computing needs are widespread, some in the public cloud, some in the private cloud, some in the edge, and some on the terminal device, all of which need to be allocated as a whole. Therefore, the East And West is not simply to build a data center in the west, but to build a new type of computing power network system in the country to meet the different needs of different users for computing power. This means that different entities should build public clouds, data centers, and networks according to their own needs, without unified planning, and large investments cannot form a stronger synergy. To solve this problem, we need to focus on building a digital information infrastructure for cloud-network integration in the future and form an information "artery" that opens up economic and social development.
Therefore, the new computing power network has two core points: one is the computing power, and the other is the scheduling ability of the computing power.
From the perspective of computing power, the diversity of data puts forward new requirements for the diversity of computing power, and at the same time, in addition to the flexibility and efficiency of computing power, it is also necessary to have computing power everywhere.
Taking the Celestial Wing Cloud as an example, we can see its efforts in these two directions. From the perspective of technological innovation, the innovation of elastic bare metal servers is particularly worth mentioning, which takes into account the extreme performance of physical machines, security isolation, and the elastic experience and convenient management of cloud servers. It can meet the needs of enterprise users for high performance, high security and high cost performance, and better ensure the one-click migration of enterprise services and the rapid migration to the cloud. These features are suitable for core business scenarios such as databases, big data analysis, hybrid cloud, and financial securities; from the perspective of the ubiquitous dimension of computing power, China Telecom has clarified the data center/cloud layout of 2+4+31+X+O, with a total of 794 data centers and 500,000 racks, providing high-speed ubiquitous computing power for all kinds of users through such a guarantee layout. Among them, 2 are Inner Mongolia and Guizhou; 4 are the four major regions of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and Chengdu-Chongqing to meet the demand for large-scale, clustered and low-cost computing power; 31 is to lay out regional clouds in key cities in 31 provinces; X is more than 300 prefectures and cities and more counties and districts, promoting the coverage of edge clouds in accordance with the standard of one city and one pool, providing agile computing power, carrying the near-field computing power needs of nearby access, ultra-low latency, and data localization.
China Telecom Inner Mongolia Data Center
Just recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the first batch of national new data center typical case list, China Telecom two large data centers (China Telecom Cloud Computing Guizhou Information Park, China Telecom Nanjing (Jishan) Cloud Computing Data Center), three edge data centers (Guangxi Telecom RongXian Smart Overseas Chinese Township Edge Data Center, Hainan Telecom Baisha Data Center, Ningxia Telecom Intelligent Video Edge Data Center) were successfully selected.
From the perspective of computing power scheduling, enterprises should not only build a huge data center, but also pay attention to the integration of basic network, cloud platform, computing power, data and application, that is to say, computing power is a complete set of new information infrastructure, like hydropower can be "one point access, on demand", and finally achieve "network omnipresence, computing power is omnipresent, intelligence is omnipresent".
Starting from the efficiency of hash rate scheduling, Tianyi Cloud launched the hashrate distribution network platform ESX, relying on the computing power resources of the whole network, combined with the two core platforms of the self-developed computing power scheduling engine and the computing power resource management platform, providing a one-stop solution for the rapid cloud and on-demand use of computing power such as resource management power, business distribution scheduling, and resource flexible use. This initiative allows the data to find the best path to the center of the hashrate, and realizes the optimal cost, hash rate, and delay, making it as convenient for customers to use hash rate as a CDN.
China Telecom Guizhou data center
For example, the computing power distribution network platform ESX provides a wealth of scheduling strategy plug-ins, which can flexibly implement various scheduling in line with business scenarios through plug-in collocation and parameter settings, and quickly realize requirements. For another example, it provides a unified metric platform, masks resource differences, creates clusters at any location, supports managed customer clusters, and supports multi-cloud management, hashrate perception, and unified metrics without difference. More importantly, through the one-stop application governance center such as service grid, performance testing, and DevOps, it can help customers govern low-cost use in all dimensions. It can be said that with the blessing of ESX, the computing power distribution network platform, Tianyi Cloud can allow customers to achieve "freedom of computing power". This platform also has a name called "soil", soil is a legendary soil that can grow automatically, this name indicates that no matter what the business demand for computing power, soil can plan out the computing power resources to meet the demand, and effectively dispatch to achieve the best business performance and cost.
As the background color of operators, Tianyi Cloud can better play the leading edge of the network, so as to achieve cloud-network symbiosis. After 10 years of development, Tianyi Cloud has entered the 4.0 stage, strengthened the distributed cloud infrastructure, built the cloud network operating system by virtue of the advantages of cloud-network integration, and carried out unified management, scheduling, operation and maintenance of all computing nodes on this basis.
National projects need a responsible cloud
After the official launch of the East And West Calculation Project this year, everyone's focus is mainly on the industrial opportunities brought by the new infrastructure, and major enterprises have begun to increase investment. However, a careful analysis of the "Implementation Plan" will find that the eastern and western calculations are not simply to increase construction investment, but a systematic and feasible national project, which requires a long-term perspective, an overall view and forward-looking.
From the perspective of the positioning of China's future economic base, as the overall layout and step-by-step implementation of national projects, the east and west accounts involve a wide range, a long cycle, a large investment, and high risks, which require the participation of many scientific and technological enterprises with technical strength, and more importantly, the national team to shoulder greater responsibilities.
Tianyi Cloud has an operator background, and in the past ten years, it has been deeply cultivated to accelerate the digital transformation of thousands of industries and maintain rapid business growth. In 2021, Tianyi Cloud's revenue was 27.9 billion yuan, an increase of 102% year-on-year, ranking first in the industry and first in the government affairs public cloud market. According to the relevant data of the Institute of Information and Communications Technology, in the public cloud IaaS market in 2021, Tianyi Cloud ranks second. According to the "China Public Cloud Service Market (2021 Third Quarter) Tracking" (laaS+PaaS) report released by IDC in February this year, Tianyi Cloud's market share reached 8.98%, ranking fourth in the industry.
These data prove that Tianyi Cloud has been widely recognized by customers. In the operator cloud, Tianyi Cloud has insisted on investing for many years and led the way, and in the future, it has the ability to assume greater responsibility in the East And West Calculation Project. If national projects need national teams, then Tianyi Cloud is one of the best options.
Tianyi Cloud has a comprehensive layout and achieves full product coverage, as of now, Tianyi Cloud has a total of more than 200 products covering IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and has multi-form services such as public cloud, private cloud, and exclusive cloud. At the same time, Tianyi Cloud relies on China Telecom's network to achieve full node coverage, and is the largest number, most widely distributed and largest IDC service provider in China, with 794 data centers and 500,000 racks. After continuous technological innovation and iteration, Tianyi Cloud 4.0 launched by China Telecom in 2021 has comprehensively upgraded its distributed cloud infrastructure, operating system and product capabilities, providing a wealth of edge cloud products and solutions.
In addition to technical strength, Tianyi Cloud also has a prominent advantage that it is safe and reliable. We all know that digital transformation has become a "compulsory course" related to the future survival of enterprises, and when all enterprises and governments rely heavily on digital systems for future operations, then the security and reliability of this system are particularly important. As a cloud enterprise with a "national team" background, Tianyi Cloud has a natural identity and credibility in the government and enterprise market, and both government customers and corporate customers will invest more trust.
In addition to the business layout, Tianyi Cloud has also made sufficient capital preparations for building a national team. China Telecom officially established Tianyi Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. last year, and at the same time carried out the equity diversification reform of Tianyi Cloud, signed a capital increase and share expansion framework agreement with four large state-owned enterprises, integrated cloud computing ecological resources, and introduced more capital. In addition, China Telecom is also promoting the possibility of listing Tianyi Cloud. This year, China Telecom is expected to invest 6.5 billion yuan in IDC, with a target of adding 45,000 new racks; hashrate investment of 14 billion yuan, planning to add 160,000 cloud servers.
As the base of the national digital economy, the computing power has entered the stage of national system engineering from the loose construction stage, and the responsible cloud such as Tianyi Cloud will also undertake a more important mission in the future.