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Today, traditional internet and telecom data centers are facing increasing pressures of
low resource utilization, slow Time-to-Market (TTM), high capital expenditures, and
lower ARPU. Coinciding with the demand for next generation data centers with more
powerful computing capabilities, more bandwidth, more storage space, more agile
business models, and, of course, lower cost. This is primarily because of the rapidly
developing ICT markets including 3G, multimedia and p2p services.
Pressure of Telecom and Internet services development
How to host more and more multimedia services?
How to improve 3G user mobile Internet experience?
How to support ICT services transformation?
How to improve service capability for VIP enterprise customers?
How to adapt and profit by Internet trends: Web 2.0, Web 3.0, HD, 3D, Cloud
Computing?
Providing data center business continuity
How to increase the level of availability of data center operations, without heavy capital
expenditures?
Increasing speed of commercial launch
How to help customers focus on the business requirements without the need to
understand complex IT infrastructure across multiple products from different vendors?
How to support fast-changing businesses on existing IT infrastructure platforms?
Optimize TVO
How to optimize resource utilization plans, e.g. time-based workload rescheduling?
How to increase operations and maintenance efficiencies?
Difficulties of future expansio
How to design easily scalable IT infrastructure, including IP address planning,
bandwidth design, routing design, etc?
Obviously, the trends of next generation data centers are towards virtualization and
cloud computing. Huawei Cloud Computing Data Center Service is staffed by highly
experienced and professional personnel. The service helps customers plan, design,
build and implement practicable and maintainable data centers which fully meet their
requirements including:
Flexible and scalable: including network, computing resource, storage, backup, disaster
recovery and security.
High performance and efficiency: with advanced and reliable cloud computing support
to provide the platform for future initiatives, service growth and change requirements,
for the next 5 to 10 years.
Automated and centralized: high-quality IT service for the customers and business
department.
Cloud Computing Services
Huawei Cloud Computing Data Center Service primarily comprises of the following
components: network integration services, security services, computing and storage
virtualization and optimization services, desktop cloud services, IT service
management strategy and design services, business continuity services and green
facility services.
1. Network Integration Service
The data center Network Integration service is one of the most important components
of Huawei's overall Data Center Solution. The service helps customers realize
optimized data center network infrastructure to support business continuity. Huawei
works closely with customers to understand their business objective and requirements
then develop the Network architecture of the Data Center accordingly. There are four
sub-components ofthis service: delivery design, system interoperability configuration,
test and acceptance, and field training.
Value of Network Integration Service
The network integration service for data centers helps customers plan, design and
deploy a high-availability, high-performance, highly scalable network architecture to
meet their business needs. The optimized and scalable network architecture providesa
flat and converged network architecture to better support data center virtualization,
consolidation and the dynamic allocation of resources. And the simplified network
architecture also helps customers reduce their space, power and cooling costs, and
improve efficiency.
2. Security Service
The security service helps customers build information security systems, after business
consulting and information architecture design of the data center. Commencing with
the understanding and analyzing of actual security requirements, the service designs an
appropriate security solution. This will meet the security objectives, based on advanced
international and industrial security technical standards and guidee, and the data center
security practices of Huawei.
The security service comprises network, system and application layer security controls.
The main security technology and product includes: firewall, IDS/IPS, anti-virus,
identity and access management, network security domain.
The Security Service comprises three main service modules: Infrastructure Security
Service, Identity and Access Management Service, and Virtualization Security Service.
Each service module is divided into four service activities: Design, System
Interoperability Configuration, Test and Acceptance, and Field Training.
Value of Security Integration Service
The security service provides appropriate security isolation and protection controls for
the multi-tenancy environment in cloud computing. This is achieved through network
security design, VM isolation and protection, and user identity and privilege
management. Not only does it clear up the security concerns of end users moving their
business to cloud computing, but also improves the brand reputation of the data center,
thus attracting more end users.
3. Server Virtualization Service
The Server Virtualization Service is an important service to help customers design and
build server virtualization platforms, after Huawei initially documents and analyzes the
customer's existing IT environment, including existing network topology, storage
information, server capability, application information etc. If customers don't know
their virtual oversubscription rates, Huawei help customers to evaluate their existing
application server capability and provides advice concerning the virtual
oversubscription rate. Huawei then designs the server vitalization platform and
provides an implementation solution which includes network, server virtualization
software, storage system and management system. Finally, Huawei implements the
system and performs the acceptance testing based on the customer requirements.
Value of Server Virtualization Service
Decoupling the physical hardware from the operating system and applications,
virtualization allows customers to consolidate servers, improve utilization and improve
maintainability. This typically yields significant cost savings and benefits including:
Reduced server, storage and networking costs
Reduced growing power/cooling/facilities costs
Improved IT productivity
Reduced business risks
Improved business agility
4. P2V Migration Service
P2V Migration Service helps customers to migrate their application system from a
physical server to a virtual platform. This is after the completion of building the server
virtualization platform. Initially, Huawei copies the application system to a virtual
machine image. Then the application system is tested in the virtual machine whilst the
application is still operational in the physical system. If the test is successful, Huawei
synchronizes the physical and virtual systems and transitions to the virtual system.
The virtualization migration service is not only physical to virtual, but also physical to
physical, virtual to physical, physical to image etc.
Value of P2V Migration Service
The P2V migration service can help enterprises move their application system from
hardware server to virtual machine smoothly and providing full business continuity.
5. IT Service Management Strategy (ITSM) and Design Service
ITSM service provides customers with the ITIL-based service management which
deploys coordination between people, process and technology of the customer
organization and ensures that the combination of technology, processes and people is
integrated and meets the customer requirements.
Value of IT Service Management Strategy and Design Service
The ITSM service provides customer with ITIL-based process integration solution,
which combines with people, process and technology. It also provides the ability of
standardizing the management process and improving the IT support efficiency. As a
result, the cost is reduced and the customer satisfaction will be improved.
6. Disaster Recovery Service
It provides a comprehensive information analysis for VDC (Virtual Data Center)
environment include disaster recovery sites, LLD (Low Level Design) and DD (Data
Design) plans for disaster recovery site, implements disaster backup and recovery,
provides drilling design and drilling services.
Value of Disaster Recovery Service
Disaster recovery service provides a comprehensive disaster recovery solution for the
next-generation virtualization data center, helps them to build an efficient disaster
recovery system and to ensure business continuity.
7. Green Facilities Services
As IT network components upgrade more frequently than facilities, which make less
compatibility between dynamic IT load and static facilities. It in turns causes lower
availability, lower efficiency, higher cost, instability and difficulty to scale for Data
Center.
Huawei green facilities integration service aims to offer the optimal facility solution
that meets requirements for today and future growth, which combines with leading
design philosophy, advanced technologies and new innovations. Huawei data center
facility experts are professional in aligning the requirements of dynamic IT load with
the performance and expectations of facilities. The outcome is an early and accurate
alignment between project scope, schedule and budget.
Value of Green Facilities Integration Service
Huawei data center facilities integration service focus on three core values that is
"Hybrid", 'Modular" and "Elastic".
Building a data center is a big investment and the cost is an important concern to all
businesses. Different tiers of Data center can be built by corresponding to the business
importance. Huawei comprehensively understands the standards that ensure a hybrid
design provides best practice for data center. The Hybrid design balances the business
requirements and CAPEX requirements.
Data center are very complex infrastructures which tend to become unmanageable over
time. Huawei Modular design allows customers to manage complex data centers easily
with small pods or cells. The pod or zone can easily produce and duplicate that makes
available to build a data center step by step according to your business requirements.
Obviously, it's a cost effective method for data center's upgrade and expansion.
As virtualization and cloud computing is adopted by more and more IT managers, the
IT load has experienced big change and the traditional facilities are not capable to meet
the requirements proactively. Huawei Elastic facilities solution can offer good
adaptable performance for the IT dynamics load with high energy efficiency that makes
the data center green and lower OPEX.
Future Transformation Values Summary
Huawei cloud computing data center "Service" is dedicated to provide customers
(including operators, governments and enterprises) with end-to-end data center system
integration solutions. By utilizing the wealth of technical strengths, sophisticated
product lines, rich engineering experience and strong innovations in ICT fields, as well
as the unique understanding in the trends of data center and requirements of customers,
Huawei cloud computing data center service is able to effectively improve the next
generation data center feasibility and reduce implementation risks.
Key Values:
Obtain optimized resource consolidation ratio plan, and reduced server CAPEX.
Huawei cloud computing data center Service makes data center network architecture
more elastic, robust, scalable, and highly adaptive.
Huawei cloud computing data center Service utilizes Huawei internal cloud desktop
security experiences which helps customers reduce law-compliance risk, enhance
brand value and attract more users. The "Service" is dedicated to track and analyze
highly mature and successful business models, thus helping customers focus on
business plans and their competitive strengths.
Huawei cloud computing data center Service helps create automated and centralized
management platform, thus speeding the business time-to-market and reducing
CAPEX for data center consumers, simplifying the maintenance operation and
reducing OPEX for data center providers.
Huawei green facilities integration service reduces investment risk and enhances ROR
(Return on Racks). Complete investigation and deliberate analysis positioned the
potential risk before project launch that makes less risk in actual operation. Higher
operation efficiency equals higher ROR.
Experiences and Capabilities
Worldwide cases
Since 2004, Huawei has performed technical research on the integration services of
data centers. Over the past 7 years, Huawei has built multi-service data centers for
many well-known carriers. For example China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom.
From these projects, Huawei has accumulated a wealth of engineering experience. And
on such a basis, Huawei has formed systematic solutions in multi-service data center
design and developed a highly efficient delivery team.
Huawei data center service has help 30% branches of China Mobile (who is world
number 1 in terms of user numbers, market value and brand value of global subscribers),
to build their data centers worldwide. Huawei also provided e-Government, e-Health,
and e-Education solutions to the governments of many African countries.
Ecosystem of Data Center Professional Services
Huawei cooperates with various data center vendors, including Vmware, Citrix,
Microsoft, IBM, HP, Oracle, Netapp, EMC, Juniper, Trendmacro, etc, to test, optimize,
customize, integrate and deliver the benefits and advantages of different products and
technology, ensuring that Huawei's solution forms a complete and solid system.
Huawei cooperates with many local partners and commits to deliver the most cost
effective cloud computing data center service to customers quickly. We share the
resources and benefit from each other's advantages. Benefiting from the training
program and knowledge base from Huawei, partners can quickly and successfully
support any delivery of project.
Huawei and many operators formed joint R&D teams, collectively prototyping and
researching the business models that utilizes the new technology of virtualization and
cloud, which reduces the research CAPEX and risk, increase the business agility and
opportunity.
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