IBM: supporting AI and enterprise digital reshaping in the cloud era with modern architecture

In a second tier city , A commercial bank with assets of 100 billion yuan is in trouble .

This is a typical regional small and medium-sized commercial bank , In the past three years , Its year IT The investment is about 3000 Ten thousand yuan to 5000 Ten thousand yuan between . This is already a fairly high proportion of investment , But that's the problem .

Similar to many regional small and medium-sized commercial banks , In the past few years , Business transformation and “ Aggregate receipt ” Such as the surge in daily financial transactions to such banks IT The system brings obvious pressure .

Some of the pressure comes from IT maintain . This commercial bank has developed for mobile Internet business 70 Multiple IT System , Corresponding 70 Multiple databases , These databases are distributed on hundreds of servers , Maintenance personnel are under great pressure .

Another part of the pressure comes from the cost . With x86 Continuous expansion of the server , The area of rented computer room is increasing , Electricity bills are starting to rise .

These pressures have prompted commercial banks to consider the future direction of infrastructure development —— After entering the business growth channel , Realize a multi active data center , And in the future, cloud on container has become its clear direction .

2019 In the first half of , The bank finally decided to resolve the existing pressure through intensive deployment , promote IT Asset utilization and return on investment .

Many commercial banks with the same scale show the same characteristics , So they are also very easy to IBM LinuxONE“ One core and one library ” The integration effect of .

IBM stay 2015 year 8 Launched to the market in January LinuxONE when , It shows “ With a top of 100 ” The strength of the . about IT For enterprises with corresponding investment scale , Such from “ Parking lot to three-dimensional intelligent parking building ” Type change obviously has its appeal .

in fact , Consistent with such demands of small and medium-sized commercial banks , This kind of demand is also rapidly fermenting in the wider industry . These sectors include hospitals 、 manufacture 、 Securities, power grid, etc .

IBM Vice President, 、 General manager of system department in Greater China Houmiao

IBM Vice President, 、 Houmiao, general manager of the system department in Greater China, said , Be a customer x86 Is larger than 100 When the machine ,IBM Have the opportunity to provide them with modern architecture services .

Some of these enterprises hope to build standardized container pools and secure cloud platforms in the future , Some also want to focus on 5G And other trend fields . In the last three years , The speed of this fermentation is amazing .

Industry data display , Enterprises IT The reshaping of the system will take place in 5 Within a year, the outbreak will be concentrated in a large scale ： To 2020 year ,90% Enterprises will use multiple cloud services and platforms , Cloudy environment becomes normal .

To 2021 year ,50% The business of IT The infrastructure will use artificial intelligence to improve productivity , Reduce management risks and costs ,65% Will deploy universal encryption for server infrastructure , To protect data privacy 、 Integrity and compliance requirements .

To 2020 year ,55% The enterprise will start the modernization of the data center .

The world is hot and cold . Especially the landing of artificial intelligence , Because of the stimulation of mobile Internet , China's enterprise market is even more radical in some industry segmentation scenarios .

This trend is IBM Modern infrastructure （Modern Infrastructure） The performance provided the stage .

around “ Ready today , Structure the future ” This framework established for guidance , Its original intention is to support the enterprise in AI And the digital reinvention of the cloud era . On almost every relevant occasion ,IBM They all try to make enterprises understand the high consistency between the characteristics of this architecture and the enterprise business ： The load is to 、 Cloudy, agile and secure .

These features point to the demands of enterprises for computing resources and storage resources .

The largest shipment generation in history

People have become accustomed to IBM Host and LinuxONE As a highly secure platform , Instead of a highly popular platform . In the eyes of some enterprise users , It's even still “ High above the ”.

however , Some obvious changes have taken place —— The latest generation of z14 and LinuxONE Since its release , It's already there 3 In years, it has become IBM Z The largest shipment generation in history .

IBM The mainframe of the Greater China system department and LinuxONE Technical director Ying Kangyong

“ The important reason is , The platform has greatly enhanced its security architecture capability .” Ying Kangyong is IBM The mainframe of the Greater China system department and LinuxONE Technical director , He believes that the three security architecture capabilities of the platform help users realize security reinforcement at the bottom , This allows users to simplify the upper layer , And improve the transparency of the application .

These three security architecture capabilities include partition isolation technology 、 Universal encryption technology and security service container technology .

Illegal data access between virtual machines because of security vulnerabilities , stay 2018 It caused a serious safety accident .LinuxONE The partition isolation technology provided by the company eliminates the illegal data access across partitions .

Universal encryption technology allows users to only increase resources 2%～3% To achieve comprehensive data encryption , And has no impact on performance —— Resource and performance bottlenecks are the main reasons why the leaked data is not encrypted . With statistics ,2013 Since, the data volume of intrusion leakage points has reached 100 Billion bars , The encrypted data is only 4%.

LinuxONE At present, it can support at most 200 Ten thousand containers , Its corresponding demand users include telecommunications 、 Cloud service providers (CSP) And financial institutions .

Match the needs of these users , Security issues surrounding the container environment ,IBM Secure Service Container by Docker And other container environments provide new security features .IBM Secure Service Container Technology provides workload isolation and restricted administrator access , At the same time, it can prevent internal personnel （ Including system administrators ） Tamper with the system .

The reason why these security capabilities are becoming more attractive today , A very important background is that it provides the cloud for the enterprise key load , And provide channels to meet various hybrid cloud requirements .

IBM Previously, the production environment of blockchain cloud services was put in LinuxONE On , Largely because of this .

“ These security capabilities have been encapsulated into a variety of high security cloud services for users ,” Ying Kangyong said ,“ For example, high security container service、DDS service, And key protection services .”

Fully support hybrid multi cloud platforms

Except for the industry LinuxONE Show more and more interest ,2019 Another thing that excited Hou Miao in was the storage field . In the first half of the year , An Internet company of the first tier in China began to cooperate with... In the storage business IBM Expand cooperation .

IBM General manager of storage system of Greater China system department Wu lei

Bound by the agreement , Wu Lei did not disclose the name of the company , But he said the company now adds more data each month than 10 individual PB, The future may reach EB Level . Wu Lei is IBM General manager of storage system of Greater China system department .

The company's business systems need seamless and real-time access to warm or cold data .“ If there are hundreds TB, That's easy to achieve ,” Wu Lei said ,“ But when its data exceeds PB, Even close to EB When level , The technical requirements will become very high .”

IBM This provides IBM TS4500 Tape library , At the same time Spectrum Scale Storage management solutions and Spectrum Archive, It enables users to realize file level data access without proprietary applications —— The program previously supported IBM supercomputer “ Deep blue ”、IBM Watson and 2018 year IBMAI Debater Project Debater project .

IBM Spectrum Scale yes IBM For Cloud Computing 、 big data 、 analysis 、 Object and other advanced unstructured data storage management solutions , It's also IBM The core products of the storage business .

This month, ,IBM Announced a series of innovative measures .IBM We hope to take this opportunity to promote artificial intelligence and big data 、 Modern data protection and storage innovation in hybrid multi cloud field , Help users build on more heterogeneous data sources and data types , Gain insight through artificial intelligence and data analysis .

among ,IBM Spectrum Scale Included as part of . It allows users to store data in IBM Cloud or AWS Wait for the data on the cloud to support the local deployment data .

The complete initiative includes a series of solutions , It mainly includes IBM Spectrum Discover、IBM Cloud object storage （IBM Cloud Object Storage）, And provide modern data protection for mixed cloud environments IBM Spectrum Protect Plus etc. .

IBM Some of the latest hardware products in the storage business include FlashSystem 9100 Full flash array storage system 、IBM Storwize V7000 System , And the first host based IT Storage system family of infrastructure DS8880F etc. .

at present ,IBM Is the second largest storage technology company in the world , In the past two years ,IDC and Gartner All will IBM named 8 Of the product categories “ The leader ”; meanwhile IBM With the world's No. 1 software defined storage platform , In the overall storage software 、 Software definition storage 、 file 、 No. 1 in object storage and branded tape .

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