Future Scenario for Hong Kong Data Centers and Impact of Cloud
Charles MokChair, Internet Society Hong Kong
Director, Cloud Valley Networks (HK) Limited
Data Center and Virtualization Summit 2011Sep 19, 2011
First, a look back
2006: data center companies complained of lack of space/land for new data center Rising demand, rising prices for customers Private land? Public land (industrial parks)? Move to Singapore?
The lobbying began...
Feb 2008: Organized meeting with Innovation and Technology Commission, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP), IDCs/ISPs, Hon CK Sin. ITC only said they will do a consultancy study
The lobbying continues
I contacted Nicholas Brooke, HKSTP Chair in early 2008
Meeting with HKISPA, IDCs/ISPs, Hon CK Sin on June 16 2008
Brooke: 'Green lightfrom CEDB and LandsD to allow IDCs to enter industrial parks.'
Since then...
Industry parks are 'opened up' TKO (Tseung Kwan O) has become the center of
IDCs in Hong Kong NTT Com Asia (second in HK of >300 sq ft, after its first
212 sq ft facility in Tai Po) HK Colo (>300 sq ft facility opened in early 2011) HKEx HSBC ...
Government jumps on bandwagon
OGCIO thematic portal Data Center
facilitation unit
Is it enough?
New challenges we face
Lack improvement in private land supply TKO comes, Quarry Bay goes? The debate on indirect government subsidy
Regional competition Beyond Singapore, what about China? China's 'Cloud Computing Special Zone' in
Chongqing– 'Freedom' inside the Great Firewall? Cloud Computing and Virtualization
The Great Contradiction? Fewer servers → how much more space do we need?
Industry demands
Data center remains high on the industry players' wish list Who are building? Economic cycles impacting short term demands
'Fascination' with land supply Talk on Lok Ma Chau Loop – what will be the
market and technology like in 15-20 years' times? An easy demand and misplaced projection
under a perception of lack of Govt IT policy
Impact of Cloud
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Fat edge, thin core
Thin edge, fat core
Wintel architecture
New cloud infrastructure
The consequence of Big Data
Yet, a contrarian view...
Cloud Computing Architecture
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Hardware resource pool
Avamar VM
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Avamar VM
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Avamar VM
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Avamar VM
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Virtualized resource pool
Applications/services
Toward distributed data centers?
Data center in a container
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, demonstrates container data centers on the campus of theUniversity ogf Washington.
Cloud3 – China's first container data center technology
Cooling as data center's core need
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占地 30英亩(相当于一个标准足球场)。附近有一个水坝,当地政府还提供为期 15年的税收优惠及一条连接谷歌总部的光缆环线。水坝旁建设大型冷却
塔,以解决数据中心的散热问题。该数据中心是全球威力最强大的数据中心之一,处理
每天数十亿次搜寻和提供其他网络服务。
Rethinking our data center strategy
Our advantages Hong Kong's core advantages remain unchanged
Our challenges Hong Kong's disadvantages remain unchanged Rethinking our land limitation Turning China's challenges into opportunities
Where to go from here? Rethinking our role between China and the world More emphasis on technology and applications
Cloud Valley
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云计算基础软件
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友友系统,拥有自主知识产权的云操作系统。
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云存储领先者。
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托管型云呼叫中心 -天润融通。一个崭新时代的产业集群模式 -云基地。
云计算时代的基础网络运营商 -天维信通。
Thank you!
Charles Mok
www.charlesmok.hk
www.isoc.hk
www.cloud-valley.com