From November 3 to 7, 2014, the OpenStack Summit was held as scheduled in Paris, France, where experts from all walks of life discussed the future of cloud software.

Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, mentioned that "passive technology applications have become a thing of the past, replaced by software-defined storage, networking and data centers."

This short and powerful speech aroused strong reactions and responses.

Jonathan Bryce's keynote speech pointed out an undeniable fact: more and more enterprises are using cloud systems that allocate resources on demand.

Software has brought continuous economic development. Innovation is no longer the patent of large institutions with ownership. Real innovation is the result of the cooperation of hundreds of thousands of people from hundreds of companies in different countries.

Openstack provides a framework for open source software and simplifies the management model of cloud-based systems.

Although it has only been four years, whether it is the summit that gathered in Paris to share excellent practices and set a record number of attendees - 4,600 developers and users, or the first Superuser Award was awarded to CERN - the founder of WorldWideWeb, with

3,000 servers and 70,000 cores form the world's largest OpenStack cluster, which all proves the success of OpenStack.

Obviously, enterprise users have realized this and used OpenStack to implement the reform of enterprise rules.

FusionSphere based on OpenStack Huawei is one of the companies that applies the OpenStack architecture, and OpenStack has been deeply integrated into a series of Huawei IT products.

OpenStack meets the management needs of such companies in the cloud era for increasingly flexible IT systems.

When entering the field of cloud computing, we face the increasingly flexible management requirements of the system.

Zhang Jianhua, marketing director of Huawei's cloud computing product line, mentioned that "as computing power, storage and network dependence on hardware decreases, we are creating our own software to meet the needs of software-defined resources." He pointed out that although Openstack can be used like

It's like glue that holds the whole system together, but it's just the foundation.

Huawei's FusionSphere cloud operating system product also adds different security levels based on the OpenStack framework, and allows users to make full use of the interoperability features provided by OpenStack. The latest FusionSphere5.0 also allows private cloud users to connect to public clouds like Amazon.

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By using OpenStack, Huawei FusionSphere can manage virtual servers, storage, network resources, and virtual security and load balancing equipment from different manufacturers.

FusionSphere is compatible with heterogeneous virtualization layers that are the basis of cloud computing, and physical server virtualization enables FusionSphere to complete different tasks based on the current needs of enterprises.

For example, hypervisor, a virtualization layer software that virtualizes multiple physical systems, can be provided by different vendors, allowing FusionSphere to work well with existing equipment or software to complete corresponding tasks.

Software-Defined Infrastructure Software-defined data centers have many advantages over traditional hardware-based systems.

Software-defined data centers can be broken down into software-defined computing, software-defined storage, and software-defined networking.

For example, software-defined networking extracts network management and routing functions into software entities, and provides APIs for users to program the network according to application needs, thereby realizing a business-driven network; while the actual data exchange functions are delivered to dedicated

Data exchange hardware equipment, the exchange equipment only focuses on data exchange, which greatly improves the efficiency of data exchange.

Software-defined data centers have strong system self-healing capabilities.

For enterprises that have strong demands for the above-mentioned cloud computing guarantee mechanisms, software-defined data centers will undoubtedly have strong appeal.

Zhang Jianhua also mentioned telecom operators, "Usually, these companies rely heavily on hard-wire technology, but a large amount of current traffic is not transmitted through traditional telecom networks. Operators need to change the IP services they provide."

Openstack and FusionSphere provide an Internet-like architecture to solve these problems.

He also added, "Operators need a partner who understands both traditional architecture and new models to enter the new era. They also need open architecture solutions to avoid being limited to a single model." OpenStack enables telecom NFV transformation Telefonica

Realize that Huawei is just such a partner.

For this reason, telecommunications giant Telefonica decided to use Huawei FusionSphere to centrally manage its software, hardware and data center.

In view of the unified scheduling and management advantages of FusionSphere, Telefonica's operator O2 in the UK has significantly reduced its TCO by about 30% after deploying FusionSphere.

FusionSphere achieves customer value through three aspects: operations and maintenance (O&M), business management, and business control.

In addition, the FusionSphere architecture will also support subsequent upgrades of Telefonica.