In two days, on April 26, the annual Inspur National Partner Conference IPF2018 will be held in Yanqi Lake, Beijing, which is often a good opportunity to observe and judge Inspur's future strategy.
In 2015, Inspur put forward the five-year growth target of entering the top three in the world, which was achieved three years ahead of schedule in 2017. In the past 16 quarters, there were 10 quarters in which the wave growth rate ranked first in the world. At present, Inspur has a relatively complete globalization layout, and will further upgrade its globalization strategy in 2018, and work with partners to advance the "new" goal of the five-year strategy.
At present, open source and openness have become the development trend of IT technology, and more and more technology companies are willing to join open source organizations and complete the accumulation of ecological potential by contributing IP. In the server field, the new open computing forces represented by the three major open computing organizations ODCC, OCP and Open19 are going wider and stronger on this road. Open computing is not only reshaping the new future of cloud servers, but also accelerating the reconstruction of the new pattern of the global server market.
As Peng Zhen, vice president of Inspur Group, said: "With the development of open technologies and industries, the needs and products of cloud service providers (CSPs) will be open and standardized. As a common member of the world's three major computing standards organizations, Inspur hopes to promote the interoperability and integration of these three standards, thereby promoting the benign evolution of the industrial ecology.”
In my opinion, promoting the continuous evolution and iteration of open computing is not only the new vision and mission of Inspur, but also the value of supporting Inspur's future global growth and transformation.
New trends in open computing
As we all know, OCP is the world's largest open computing standards organization, its mission is to achieve scalable computing, provide efficient server, storage and data center hardware design to reduce the environmental impact of data centers, initiated by Facebook and other members, including Google , Microsoft, IBM, etc.
In this IPF2018, OCP CTO Bill will give a keynote speech to share the future trend of open computing with you. Today, the annual OCP summit is becoming a "wind vane" for the development trend of global cloud data centers. In fact, the reason why an open organization such as OCP has attracted the attention of global technology giants is undoubtedly directly related to the current trend of open source and openness.
It can be seen that in the field of software, open source software represented by OpenStack is changing the new ecology of basic software; and in the field of data centers, this trend is also accelerating. The reasons behind it can be observed from three levels:
First, with the rise of artificial intelligence-driven heterogeneous computing, cloud data centers have evolved from efficiency to intelligence, and industry digital transformation has driven a surge in the number of intelligent terminal connections. These backgrounds have broken the development model of traditional data centers in the past.
Especially represented by CSPs such as Google, Facebook, BAT, etc. They are not only leading Internet operators, but also have huge cloud computing data centers, and they also occupy a considerable market share in the procurement of data center servers every year. The development of the center also has a greater and greater right to speak.
Secondly, as the scale of CSP cloud data centers becomes larger and larger, they are also more inclined to highly integrated, modularized, and application-oriented equipment customization in hardware procurement, which leads to traditional rack servers and blade servers. Abandoned gradually, a new generation of cloud servers represented by complete cabinet servers has become the main procurement product of CSPs at home and abroad. However, since the new generation of cloud servers is not a standardized product, this also increases the procurement cost of CSPs.
Finally, as a result of this, the global call for an open source data center hardware ecosystem is getting louder. In this context, Facebook launched the OCP project in 2012, taking the lead in exposing some of Facebook's data center equipment design standards, and attracting many companies to join; in the same year, Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom In 2016, LinkedIn launched OPEN19, and so far three open organizations, OCP, ODCC and OPEN19, have been formed in the world.
It is not difficult to see that the changes in CSPs in China and the United States undoubtedly confirm the trend that open computing has become the mainstream choice for global cloud data centers. It can be judged that open computing is promoting a new round of changes and innovations in computing architecture, and will also reshape the new pattern of the global server market.
The more open the more powerful
Looking back, it was precisely the insight into the general trend of market development in advance. Inspur has always stood on the main channel of open computing in the past few years, and has thus completed its own growth and transformation, making the more open the more powerful it becomes Inspur Continuous upward new kinetic energy.
According to Gartner data, Inspur had the highest growth rate in 10 quarters in the past 16 quarters. In 2017, Inspur server shipments ranked among the top three in the world in the global X86 server industry, and it was the first to define cloud-oriented data center applications. In 2017 Q3 Inspur cloud server shipments and sales ranked first.
There is no doubt that these achievements of Inspur are undoubtedly directly related to the "three insistences" they adhere to in the field of open computing, specifically:
First, adhere to open computing as the foundation, and continuously integrate into the new hardware ecology of open source data centers. Inspur is the only server supplier that has joined the three global open computing organizations, ODCC, OCP and Open19. Its products cover the three open computing standards of ODCC, OCP and OPEN19. At the same time, Inspur also actively participates in other international organizations to provide users with customized solutions that meet multiple scenarios and continuously meet the individual needs of users.
Second, adhere to practice as the only criterion for testing truth, and meet the needs of CSPs through continuous technological innovation. As such, Inspur has been recognized by many Internet "benchmark" customers, which is also the decisive factor for Inspur to gradually stand out from the competition.
For example, Inspur has maintained its No. 1 share in China's Internet industry for four consecutive years, and its SR series products have a market share of more than 60%, which has become synonymous with complete rack servers. Inspur is still the manufacturer with the highest market share in the field of artificial intelligence. More than 90% of the artificial intelligence servers of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are from Inspur.
Third, insisting on deep participation in open computing, Inspur and users have established in-depth cooperation beyond the general sense of supply and demand, making the relationship with users change from service to symbiosis, and the JDM model has been derived.
Relying on the JDM model, Inspur's R&D personnel not only go deep into the user's business, but also the user will have a deep understanding of Inspur's operation, so that the needs of both parties can be fully connected with the R&D end, the purchasing end, and the production end, and the business chain can be fully integrated.
It can be seen that it is the continuous exploration and innovation at the three levels of technology, ecology and business model that Inspur is becoming the "spokesperson" of global open computing, which further proves Inspur's vision in development direction and technological innovation .
The value of wave transformation
We know that today the industry advocates the spirit of open source and openness, because open source and openness can not only bring new sources of technological innovation to the community, so that every company can contribute its own strength, but also can bring more ideas to the development of technology .
Therefore, it is the new vision and mission of Inspur to promote the continuous evolution and iteration of open computing, that is, to become a bridge and link between the three major open computing organizations.
Peng Zhen, Vice President of Inspur Group
According to Peng Zhen, Vice President of Inspur Group, the core purpose of the three open computing organizations is to build an industrial ecology based on new standards. In this process, Inspur and other solution providers will be able to play more valuable roles, thereby promoting the New developments in open computing.
First, Inspur can make these standards more feasible and perfect in the development and testing of technical standards, reducing unnecessary technical costs. Under normal circumstances, the verification of CSP requirements generally requires the solution provider to do design, testing, and mass production in advance. In this case, many suppliers who closely follow the organization's standards can develop the corresponding standard product.
For example, at the end of 2016, ODCC released "Technical Specification for Scorpio Entire Cabinet V2.5", adding two standards of PCI-E switch and SAS switch. At the same time as the new standard was released, Inspur launched the corresponding products and is the largest in China. Batch applications are implemented in two Internet operators.
Second, Inspur can efficiently coordinate the upstream and downstream industries to provide industrial support for these standards, and shorten the industrial implementation from technical standards to applications. In fact, Inspur has always been committed to building a symbiotic relationship with CSPs. Inspur's business chain has achieved complete docking with operator users, established a solid strategic partnership, and co-designed, developed and grown together with users.
At present, the research and development cycle of a new product of Inspur Internet product line has been shortened from 1.5 years and 18 months to 9 months, and the shortest cycle from research and development to supply can be shortened to 3 months.
In general, the future world is a world driven by new technologies. New technologies drive industry changes, create new business models, and bring the key to the future for the entire industry. And open computing will undoubtedly provide more fertile soil for the development of cloud data centers.
From this point of view, Inspur actively participates in open computing and keeps giving back to the organization, which is not only an inheritance of the open source spirit, but also an expression of Inspur's desire for the future. It is not difficult to foresee that Inspur will continue to forge ahead on the road of open computing, not only to be a key force in China's open computing, but also to play a more important role on the international stage in the future.
Introduction
Inspur Partner Forum (IPF) is an annual event for partners of Inspur. IPF2018 will continue to promote "computing +", focusing on smart computing, by building the computing power of "hardware reconstruction + software definition" and an open and integrated computing ecosystem, and working with partners to build smart computing solutions that meet the needs of diverse scenarios, comprehensively Promote the widespread application of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things and the digital transformation and reshaping of industries.
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