Lenovo hybrid cloud Lenovo xcloud: 4 major product lines +it service portal

How big is the market for hybrid clouds ？ since 2006 year AWS Since Amazon cloud launched the first generation of public cloud services , The public cloud market is soaring .Gartner Latest forecast ,2022 The global public cloud service end-user expenditure is expected to reach nearly 0.5 Trillions of dollars . And global enterprises IT How big is the market ？ according to Gartner stay 2021 year 10 Monthly forecast ,2022 Global enterprises in 2010 IT Expenditure will reach 4.5 Trillions of dollars , Apart from communication services, there are also close 3 Trillions of dollars . this 3 Trillion dollars to remove 0.5 Trillion public cloud market , The remaining 2.5 Trillion dollars can be classified into the hybrid cloud market . Yes , Today's hybrid cloud is uniformly managing traditional enterprises IT And the new IT, Touchable 2.5 Trillion dollar market space .

The hybrid cloud market has “ a forbidding strategic point ” 了 .2021 year , With a history of 100 years IBM The company is officially divided into two , new IBM Focus on hybrid cloud software and services 、 The divested companies focus on traditional enterprises IT Outsourcing operation and maintenance services . before , in order to “ Bet ” A hybrid cloud ,IBM It has cost up to 340 US $100 million acquisition Red Hat red hat . except IBM Outside ,VMware Has established its own advantages in the hybrid cloud market , A number of open source companies are trying to get a piece of the hybrid cloud market , And Microsoft 、AWS Amazon cloud technology 、 Ali 、 Huawei and other public cloud manufacturers have also launched their own hybrid cloud solutions , A number of traditional enterprises IT company 、 System integrator 、 Software developers are transforming hybrid cloud services . so to speak ,2021 Hybrid cloud market since , Entered the Warring States Period , Every vendor is redefining the hybrid cloud .

stay 2022 year 6 month 6 Japan , There is also a tradition IT The company released its own hybrid cloud solution , This is Lenovo hybrid cloud Lenovo xCloud. As a global PC The largest manufacturer 、 Top five server manufacturers , Lenovo is a tradition of entering the cloud computing market late IT company .Lenovo xCloud Lenovo is based on Lenovo global IT With the practice of business operation “ Endogenous externalization ” Out of the mixed cloud , have 4 Large product lines and 9 General purpose solutions . that ,Lenovo xCloud Can it become the dark horse of the hybrid cloud market ？ Let's take a look at Lenovo xCloud product line .

Private cloud of four product lines

In a hybrid cloud , The data center is “ The foundation ”. The data center scale of small and medium-sized enterprises and large enterprises ranges from a few to hundreds of servers , Telecom operators 、 Radio and television organizations 、 Financial service provider 、 The scale of data centers of small and medium-sized Internet companies ranges from hundreds to 1000 servers , Large Internet companies 、 The data center scale of public cloud services ranges from thousands to tens of thousands or even 100000 servers . At present , The mainstream of enterprise data center technology is software defined data center .

  In the field of software defined data center , Mainly Microsoft Technology 、VMware Technology and open source technology . Lenovo hybrid cloud Lenovo xCloud Private cloud is a self-developed software and hardware solution based on open source technology , Specifically, it is mainly based on OpenStack Since the research .OpenStack It has been more than ten years since the project was born , end 2021 Beginning of the year , existing 22 A large version was released , Network coverage 、 virtualization 、OS、 Storage and many other aspects , And there are a large number of cases used in production practice . lenovo IT Team from 2010 year OpenStack When the project was born, it began to pay attention to and actively promote OpenStack、KVM、Ceph And other open source technologies are introduced into Lenovo's own production environment , Honed a self-developed hybrid cloud IaaS Technical solution .

Lenovo hybrid cloud Lenovo xCloud The private cloud product line includes private cloud platforms 、 Disaster recovery management platform and unified cloud storage . among , Private cloud platforms are software defined for Computing SDC、 Software Defined Network SDN、 Software definition storage SDS、 Private cloud management system and other technologies , It can realize the mainstream in the market IaaS All functions of . stay SDC The software defines the computing level to manage and deliver bare metal servers 、 Cloud virtual machine 、GPU example 、 Fault tolerant instances and other computing instances , stay SDS The software defined storage layer can manage and deliver distributed storage 、NAS Storage 、 Mainstream storage modes such as object storage and cloud disk management , stay SDN The software defines the network level, which can manage and deliver all kinds of network services . Take Lenovo's self built hybrid cloud as an example , By 2022 year 5 month , lenovo IT In the world 17 City deployment 23 A private cloud data center 、 Management super 14PB The amount of storage 、 Management super 22000 An operating system instance （ virtual machine ）、 Management super 4100 Physical servers 、 Management super 200G Network bandwidth 、 Platform availability reaches 99.99%、 Lower infrastructure costs 30%、 Infrastructure delivery time has been shortened from days to minutes . All these show that Lenovo's private cloud platform has reached or even exceeded the same level in the industry .

lenovo IT stay 2020 The successful launch in is based on OpenStack Double live private cloud , It has realized multiple applications 100% Usability , The dual active private cloud realizes real-time data replication between two centers in the same city , Achieve real double living 、“ production - production ” Double center , It meets the higher requirements of the company's business for continuity and data reliability . In order to implement the project , lenovo IT The team carefully studied OpenStack Open source technology , And constantly solve various problems in practice bug And uncovered abnormal operations , The complexity of its details is far beyond the traditional “ production - Disaster preparedness ” Dual Center Program . what's more , After Association IT The team spent a year polishing , It realizes the infrastructure scheme from the bottom 、 Private cloud platform 、 virtual machine 、 Container to upper application high availability cluster end-to-end solution , Not just links 、 The Internet 、 High availability at all levels of storage and Computing , It meets the overall high availability needs of the upper application developers to get through all the technology stacks at the lower level .

The private cloud platform management system provides users with a self-service portal 、 Operation portal 、 many OpenStack Cluster management 、 Multi tenant management 、 System service Kanban 、 Cluster capacity management and prediction 、 Resource usage management, billing and third-party integration , Private cloud services that realize public cloud like experience . To facilitate customer installation , The private cloud platform provides a variety of installation and deployment modes , Including professional node deployment 、 Calculation / Storage convergence deployment 、 Interaction UI Type deployment, etc , You can start with three nodes 、6 Hours to complete 200 Deployment of nodes , It greatly facilitates enterprise customers .

Cloud native of the four product lines

In a hybrid cloud ,PaaS It's a development platform , Is to convert data into applications , And then create a productivity platform for enterprises . In cloud native ,PaaS Technology is mainly three carriages ： Container cloud platform 、 Micro service platform and DevOps platform . In the era of traditional software development , Microsoft's development platform 、IBM Middleware 、Oracle The database of is software development “ Three pieces ”; since 2015 year Docker Container rise and Kubernetes Gradually become the mainstream , With Docker、Kubernetes、Service Mesh Primary cloud primary PaaS The system has become the mainstream . At present , Mainstream public cloud manufacturers and enterprise hybrid cloud providers , Have launched their own open source PaaS platform , Provide open source tool chain and unified development platform for developers ,CNCF Cloud native foundation and Cloud Foundry Open source communities such as the foundation also maintain many cloud native PaaS Components 、 Tools 、 Items, etc. .

  Lenovo hybrid cloud Lenovo xCloud Yunyuan production line is based on open source technology , Including container cloud platform 、DevOps Platform and micro service platform , Provide enterprise level development and production environment and capacity , Support “ Bimodal IT” Pattern , Support the full decomposition coupling of Internet applications and enterprise applications , It can realize minute level deployment across the cloud and consistent developer experience .Lenovo xCloud Cloud original products provide developers with unified application development and deployment management , Ensure consistent safety and management ： Zero trust mechanism is adopted in service registration and publishing ; The whole life cycle of the development process is controllable , Ensure development quality and protection of development code ; Provide best practices in application modernization 、 Standardization and one click deployment, etc , Ensure that the application cloud is original .

Lenovo xCloud Yunyuan's products are mainly from enterprises IT From the perspective of the operation and maintenance team , Provide for enterprise development PaaS platform . The so-called enterprise IT Operation and maintenance , That is, to ensure safety 、 compliance 、 Controllable 、 Under the premise of integration , Provide encapsulated development tools and technical experience for enterprise developers . For example, the container cloud platform is connected to the mainstream environment as a whole Kubernetes, Developers don't need to know which one is used at the bottom Kubernetes colony , The platform will Kubernetes The functions of are packaged into an interface that is easier for developers to use .DevOps The platform adopts the mature open source in the industry DevOps Tool combination realizes tool chain integration and data connection , And develop a unified interface for developers on the tool chain , This unified interface precipitates the best practices of Lenovo development , It has everything from project management to various developer productivity evaluation indicators .

From Lenovo's internal practice , It often happens that business departments find third-party software developers to develop applications , Then let Lenovo IT The Department takes over the operation and maintenance tools , In this process, associate IT From the perspective of operation and maintenance, a complete set of PaaS function , To successfully complete the management and control of multiple outsourced software projects 、 Continue operation and maintenance after handover . With the existing hybrid cloud in the industry PaaS Different platforms ,Lenovo xCloud As a development platform for enterprises, Yunyuan products , Strengthen the development and management of cloud native applications 、 The authority of governance and operation and maintenance belongs to the enterprise IT Operation and maintenance team , Thus avoiding the non-uniform standards of software project development of multiple outsourcers 、 Interface inconsistency 、 The code has no description 、 No system integration and other out of control situations .

Simple understanding ,Lenovo xCloud Yunyuan's product is Lenovo IT After taking over the follow-up operation and maintenance work of several external supplier development projects , Forced to develop a complete set of... Based on operation and maintenance management PaaS platform , It is especially applicable to all kinds of third-party outsourcing development projects and subsequent operation and maintenance of government and enterprises under unified management . By 2022 year 5 month , The container cloud platform in Lenovo cloud's native platform operates stably for more than 18000 Container applications , Platform availability reaches 99.996%, The time of platform failure in a year shall not exceed 20 minute ;DevOps The platform runs over 6000 A pipeline task , The developed applications are deployed every day for more than 5000 Time , A large number of applications through DevOps Platform fast iteration ; And the microservice platform helps applications MTTR（ Mean time to repair ） Reduce 90%. Applications running on cloud native platforms IT Lower resource costs 30%、 IT Reduce the burden of operation and maintenance 50%, We can see the strength of the cloud native platform “ be no trivial matter ”.

Cloud management of the four product lines

The role of multi cloud management platform for hybrid cloud , It mainly unifies the accounts of various cloud resources 、 charging 、 Bill and other resource management , And the corresponding cost and optimization , At the same time, it also provides the arrangement of various computing resources for the upper application . There are currently open source cloud management platforms for hybrid clouds Terraform, As IT Infrastructure automation choreography tools , Available code pairs IT Resources enter automatic management and maintenance . lenovo IT When developing the cloud management platform , Tried to adopt Terraform, But there are big problems , Because the underlying resources need to be abstractly defined , The interfaces of various cloud manufacturers are different , Therefore, we can only achieve autonomy on our own cloud platform . So , lenovo IT Self developed a multi cloud management platform , Solve multi supplier IT Opening up and management of resources .

  Lenovo hybrid cloud Lenovo xCloud Multi cloud management products are composed of security self-service and resource management 、 Delivery and arrangement 、 Cost control and optimization 、 Security center, etc . among , Self service and resource management will be mixed cloud IT Resources are organized as service directories , Provide users with an overview of resources 、 Cost Overview 、 Resource Kanban 、 Cost center 、 Cloud account binding 、 Cloud account management 、 Approval and other functions ; Delivery and orchestration provide resource pool management 、 Instance type management 、 Layout template management 、 Image file template management and other functions ; Cost control and optimization provide cost allocation 、 Multi level cost report 、 cost control 、 Cost optimization 、 Cost calculator and other functions ; The security center realizes authorization Review 、 Safety assessment, etc .

A major feature of the multi cloud management platform is bookkeeping and cost sharing, that is, Bill splitting . With the deepening of Cloud Application in enterprises , The consumption of public cloud resources and the high cost of using public cloud , How to use the public cloud more optimally 、 Take advantage of various preferential policies provided by public cloud manufacturers and how to split the public cloud bill and then transfer it back to each business department , It has become a major challenge for hybrid cloud management . lenovo IT Developed various financial plans for the use of public cloud for internal business teams , Including better use of preferential strategies of public clouds .Lenovo xCloud Multi cloud management can provide customers with financial plans similar to mobile packages , When customers choose the corresponding package, they start to collect CPU Usage rate 、Runtime meta data Wait for data to monitor . For example, business departments tend to overbought , That is, only 10% But purchase 100% Capacity , Or the actual consumption is far lower than the planned consumption , Can be monitored through the multi cloud management platform .

Lenovo xCloud Multi cloud management can be used in a variety of complex IT Cost optimization in the environment , Provide dynamic real-time analysis based on customers' cloud resource environment 、 Capacity planning and trend forecasting ; Provide a unified portal for multi cloud management 、 Unified operation and maintenance 、 Unified authorization 、 Unified monitoring and unified audit ;IT Resource arrangement and visualization of cloud adaptation process , Provide visual templates , Very easy to use . Adopt self-developed multi cloud management platform , By 2022 year 5 month , lenovo IT Managing globally 50 Public cloud zones 、 help 2500 Multiple projects achieve financial transparency （ Cost visualization of resource consumption , Cloud expense tracking and cost forecasting ）、 Reduce the public cloud service budget 39% And the paid in fees of the public cloud are reduced 25%.

Intelligent operation and maintenance of four product lines

Intelligent operation and maintenance is a hybrid of cloud and enterprise IT Top priority . Lenovo hybrid cloud Lenovo xCloud Lenovo IT The plan hatched by the team , Inborn with the distinctive characteristics of the operation and maintenance team , The core work of the operation and maintenance team is IT Service governance , Traditionally IT Service management ITSM methodology .ITSM Methodology and ITIL The standard is traditional enterprise IT That is, steady state IT The core of governance , For traditional enterprises IT Come on , It even requires fixing IP Address , change IP The address needs to be approved at all levels ; by comparison , The sensitivity of Internet and public cloud IT Governance is the continuous migration of containers to available hardware , The hardware can fail at will , That is to use the dynamic ability of software to deal with hardware failures , This is it. SRE Station reliability engineering . It can be said that sensitivity IT And stability IT In terms of governance methods, it is quite the opposite , Therefore, you want to operate with “ Bimodal IT” Mixed clouds in form , Intelligent operation and maintenance is a great challenge .

  The intelligent operation and maintenance product line is Lenovo xCloud One of the characteristics of , It is also the biggest difference between Lenovo hybrid cloud and other hybrid cloud solutions in the market . Intelligent operation and maintenance products include operation and maintenance data Lake platform 、 Intelligent analysis platform 、 Intelligent large screen platform 、IT Service management platform （ITSM）、 Unified monitoring alarm 、 Configure the management database platform （CMDB）、 Automation platform and IT Asset management platform , The highlight is CMDB. Although the hybrid cloud solutions on the market all contain CMDB Part of the function of , But there is no emphasis on external , And there's no going to be CMDB As an independent product or solution . and CMDB Configuration data management is a traditional enterprise IT The core of governance , It's equivalent to the enterprise IT Data Center —— All enterprises IT The configuration parameters and change data of assets are collected into one platform , Manage all the software and hardware resources of the enterprise through one platform .

Lenovo IT Long term construction 、 Operation and maintenance and operation stability IT In the process of , I'm also thinking about how to deal with the dynamics of cloud Nativity 、 Sensitive state IT The governance of ,ITIL4 On the answer .ITIL4 It's international IT The latest version of service standards , In the traditional steady state IT Under the ITIL V3.0 Based on the version , It integrates sensitivity IT Our governance philosophy . lenovo IT The team is based on ITIL4 It also integrates a lot of practical experience and develops its own intelligent operation and maintenance platform , Used to manage Lenovo's global IT assets —— By 2022 year 5 month , lenovo IT Maintenance of CMDB The number of assets under management exceeds 34 m 、 The number of tasks automatically executed every day exceeds 5000 individual 、 Operation and maintenance management exceeds 3 10000 servers 、 Annual savings per task 1 The operation and maintenance cost of more than 10000 dollars 、 Implement strict operation and maintenance change management and the change qualification rate exceeds 94%、 Reduce the workload of operation and maintenance 50%、 Save every day 12 Man day operation and maintenance workload .

Lenovo xCloud Intelligent operation and maintenance provides more advanced concepts and technologies ： A unified operation and maintenance data Lake platform has been established , Unify all stable enterprises IT And sensitive state IT dependent IT Data is collected into the data Lake , Will come from tradition ITSM The data of the tool and the data from cloud native monitoring tools such as ServiceNow All the data of are put into the data Lake in a unified data format , In this way, big data analysis can be carried out uniformly , Among them Postgres Database for relational data management , use Clickhouse The database manages time series data such as logs . Based on the operation and maintenance data Lake , Intelligent operation and maintenance establishes an intelligent analysis framework , It can intelligently analyze the data in the data Lake , This intelligent analysis is for all IT Intelligent operation and maintenance of stack , Offer based on AI Operational anomaly detection 、 Alarm compression 、 Root cause analysis 、 Self healing ability , To reduce MTTR（ Mean time to repair ）、 Improve operation and maintenance efficiency .

Intelligent operation and maintenance CMDB By establishing a dynamic knowledge map , The event driven model provides users with dynamic knowledge maps for different events , Put relevant events 、 data 、 technological process 、 People and other dynamics are presented to users , It is convenient for users to better find the root cause of the problem . And the automation platform layer of intelligent operation and maintenance , Based on CMDB、 Operation and maintenance data Lake 、 Intelligent analysis and other applications 、 database 、 The server 、 Storage 、 The Internet 、 Automatic management of equipment and asset security , It also provides an automation engine for users to arrange their own automated operation and maintenance scenarios on demand , And according to Association IT A large number of best practices of operation and maintenance scenarios summarized from actual operation and maintenance experience .

Enterprises IT Service portal

Look at Lenovo hybrid cloud Lenovo xCloud, The core idea is to create new IT Provide a set of IT Service system and system construction methodology, as well as product and solution combination . This is a Lenovo xCloud And other hybrid cloud solutions already on the market , The biggest difference and the biggest feature —— Other hybrid cloud solutions provide IaaS、PaaS、CMP And other separate products , and Lenovo xCloud Then take the enterprise IT Service system as the goal , Finally, it is established for the enterprise IT Service portal and “ Bimodal IT” Under the IT service .

  stay Lenovo xCloud Under the four major product lines is unified IT Service framework and sharing IT Service module , The top layer is unity IT Service portal .Lenovo xCloud To the private cloud 、 Cloud native 、 Cloud management 、 Each layer of intelligent operation and maintenance is decoupled and split into composable modules , Then use the event driven way to combine different modules , So as to provide flexibility for enterprises IT service . And unified IT Service Framework 、 Shared modules and unified portals , Provide users with unified IT Service experience . such , It can adapt to all existing technology platforms of the enterprise , And system integration .

The specific term , Unified IT The service framework provides users 、 Single sign on 、 authentication 、 authentication 、 The audit log 、 Events and messages 、 notice 、 project 、 Accounts, etc IT service function ; Shared modules provide workflow 、CMDB The core 、 Automated execution engine 、 Monitor the stack 、 Log management 、 Cost management and other shared functions ; Unified IT The portal provides different views according to different user roles , For ordinary employees, daily repair report is provided 、 apply Wifi password 、 Static service directories such as mailbox configuration , about IT Users include CIO and IT The team provides a role-based control panel , Including the service directory 、 Personalized configuration 、Widget plug-in unit 、 Work order and other control panels , Help businesses CIO and IT Better control and management of the Department IT resources .

If the whole enterprise IT As a big factory , There are various IT Ability 、 Hardware and software , that Lenovo xCloud Is to put these abilities 、 Hardware and software are dynamic 、 Flexible assembly , Provide business users with what they need in a service-oriented way IT——IT as a Service. This is very similar to Intelligent Manufacturing Factory , It is also to platform the manufacturing capacity of the factory 、 modularization , Then according to the demand of small batch production , Flexible organization production line , Finally, provide users with customized products . With Lenovo xCloud, Lenovo can deliver on-demand customized bimodal products for different enterprises IT programme , While promoting the digital transformation of enterprises , It also provides a complete road map and scheme combination for the next development .

Let's take a case study . A provincial energy group company has carried out enterprise intelligent transformation in recent years , Let enterprises gradually transform from traditional energy manufacturing to technology intensive enterprises .2018 year , The energy company systematically formulated the digital transformation plan , In the next three years, about 20 Billion yuan is used for equipment intelligent transformation and group level platform construction . With the deepening of intelligent transformation , The energy company still needs to improve rapidly IT Building capacity , Promote excellent operation and maintenance , Reshape digital capabilities , Break the shaft system and data island 、 Horizontal pull through data , And will ERP The data of the system is migrated from the minicomputer server to X86 Server . During the visit and research , The energy company learned that Lenovo is 2005 In, a special SAP The team , Yes SAP The construction and operation and maintenance of the system have many years of practical experience , With industry-leading SAP Implementation capability 、 Solid technical ability and rich operation and maintenance experience , So I chose to cooperate with Lenovo . Lenovo technology team based on the needs of the energy company , Data Center disaster preparedness and ERP Apply the double living scheme , On 2021 Server migration started in , The scheme meets the requirements of the energy company to reduce the system downtime caused by accidents 、 Reduce predictable system shutdown time , It ensures that when the primary data center fails , It can switch to the disaster recovery center to continue to support business needs . Implementation of double living plan , Let the overall system hardware cost savings as high as 40%, The business carrying capacity is improved 6 times , The failover time of dual data centers of the system is shortened 4.5 times , Reach the minute level . Lenovo's technical team also integrated the back-end system of the energy company with business and data platforms , Realize the portal multi scenario experience , It brings together common operation and maintenance processes and services , It provides users with a one-stop operation and maintenance solution , Built to CMDB Based asset management ideas , Through the construction management system , Set up a service desk 、ITSM platform 、 Process center 、 Monitoring alarm 、 Platform solutions with data analysis as the core , It solves the problem of enterprise operation and maintenance management under the existing environment , Realized “ Building management services ” Integrated advanced management concept .

On the whole ： Lenovo hybrid cloud Lenovo xCloud It's Lenovo NEW IT Of “ base ”, It is very suitable for the needs of digital transformation of traditional enterprises , It can help traditional enterprises from the traditional steady state IT Transition to steady state IT With Yunyuan Shengmin IT Integrated new IT. and Lenovo xCloud The ultimate form of is Association TruScale service , This is Lenovo in 2021 A service-as-a-service product launched in , It combines traditional hardware 、 Software 、 Decentralized service procurement mode , And design 、 Building 、 The mode of segmented implementation of operation and maintenance , Integrate into subscription services 、 One stop all inclusive service mode , Its core is X as a Service（XaaS）, namely “ Everything serves ”. from Lenovo xCloud To TruScale, Lenovo has done so “ Bimodal IT” For the new IT The roadmap and implementation plan combination for the whole life cycle are prepared .( writing / Ning Chuan )