From Shangyun to Born in the cloud, this "small sophisticated" company wants to create a good "new infrastructure on the cloud"

For the ancient industry, only the wine that can make time can only be made.

Even if you do n’t know the cloud, you may notice that in the past 618, you may notice that the past “card machine” and loading page waiting for a long situation seems to have decreased a lot.

The moment supporting hundreds of millions of consumers to click "pay" is a typical application scenario of cloud computing -thousands of server computing power is instantly called, connecting banks, e -commerce platforms, and consumers to ensure that all The computing tasks can be completed smoothly.

Nowadays, in addition to e -commerce, more and more scenarios require huge amounts of computing power: mobile payment, games, film and television ... the progress of the underlying cloud computing technology has allowed many imaginations of Tianma to be realized in the Internet.

Create this ideal world like the Long March, and the development of cloud computing technology has begun to start.

From "moving to the cloud" to "grow than the cloud"

In the past ten years, the Internet has been from the PC era and mobile era to today's 5G era. Behind the wave, the popularity and rapid development of cloud computing technology are inseparable.

The essence of the Internet is a technological "inclusive" movement. In the era of mobile Internet, people often divide the Internet into the first and second half. In the first half, the popularity of mobile terminals brought the prosperity of the mobile Internet, and it really made technology popularize each ordinary person.

At the bottom, cloud computing technology is also being innovated simultaneously, so that the computing power can truly realize the inclusiveness.

Cloud computing was proposed in 2006 that in the first decade of development, it experienced high -speed growth from scratch. In the past, the initial construction costs, electricity costs, operations and network maintenance of corporate infrastructure were expenditures. However, with the cloud computing, even the small enterprise that is new to the fledgling can have the same computing power as the large enterprise to "move the cloud".

Over time, after the mobile Internet completes the single -point connection of people, the relay rod is handed over to the second half -industrial digital transformation. The container technology represented by Docker began to popularize around 2013. This is equivalent to letting cloud computing reach the 2.0 stage. Enterprises "moved to the cloud" to the business "growing from the cloud".

The epidemic that started in 2020 accelerated all the processes of digital transformation. "The epidemic can be said to have accelerated the digital transformation process of enterprises for at least 5 years." A digital transformation service provider said to 36 氪.

In the post -epidemic era, new technologies such as web3.0 and 5G continued to land on the ground. People began to imagine a more free and interesting virtual world. Behind this, we need to support the support of strong AI and big data technology. The industrial Internet transformation will also be more in -depth. Whether it is finance, manufacturing, or energy, such as traditional industries, they are experiencing a major change in ten years -the steep growth curve of the computing power has almost become inevitable.

The speed of technological innovation will be faster. This is also a trial of real golden quenching for the "infrastructure" on the cloud.

Play the "foundation on the clouds" and storage and change at the time

From the PC era to the present 5G era, cloud computing has played an indispensable role in the popularity of the Internet. Back to this magnificent period, it is also the ten years when domestic manufacturers have embarked on their own research and climbing the technical ladder.

Nanjing Pengyun Network Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as: Pengyun Network) is one of the teams climbing this day. From its establishment to the present, the decade of Pengyun Network has also been accompanied by the cloud computing market from the pioneering period to prosperity.

Time returns to the summer of 2014, Nanjing, it is the hot summer season.

Chen Liang, the founder and CEO of Pengyun Network, began to store software research and development in Nanjing. On the issue of a architecture, Chen Liang and the team were distressed for a whole month -every day, everyone stayed together to discuss how to design the product architecture, but they could not do it.

"If this problem was not resolved at the time, I felt that I couldn't go. The final inspiration burst into countless explorations in the early days." Chen Liang recalled 36 氪.

One month later, Chen Liang woke up in the heat and flashed. After a trot to the company, he turned on the computer to write down his mind. After discussion in the team, the architecture problem was finally solved smoothly. During the period when the Pengyun Network team developed products, the time when the amount of such changes reached qualitative changes was not a minority.

Before the establishment of Pengyun Network, Chen Liang has studied and worked in the United States for many years. He has worked in well -known global companies such as Bell Lab and Amazon. He has long been the core architect in Amazon AWS. System design and research and development.

At that time, the foreign cloud computing market was booming. In contrast, with the development of the Internet, there are massive data in the market, but storage is still early, which has made Chen Liang's idea of ​​returning home to start a business.

In 2013, a popular words in the cloud countdown circle were "clouds floating in the sky". Everyone knows that this is a technical trend in the future, but they are exploring how to make the clouds fall. Whether it is technology or talent, the domestic market is still in the stage of pioneering. However, the difficulties encountered after returning to China were far more than Chen Liang's imagination.

"The storage system belongs to the basic software. It has a long R & D cycle and difficulty, which leads to independent research and development is not the way most people dare to go." Chen Liang said. Beginning in 2014, there were many companies that chose open source routes in the domestic cloud storage track, but this did not shake the strategy of independent development of Pengyun Network. Chen Liang said that firm and independent research and development is mainly because of the process of seeing foreign storage systems -as early as 10 years ago, large foreign Internet companies were almost self -developed on the bottom storage products. While Chen Liang worked in AWS, he had realized the many limitations of the open source route at the time. More importantly, there are many factors such as market attributes, corporate culture, and policies at home and abroad. It is destined that domestic customers will consider stable and reliable, autonomous and controllable in the purchase of clouds.

From the company's establishment to the development of the first cloud storage product that has been developed and capable of commercial use, Pengyun Network has been used for four years. The autonomous architecture makes the product more stable, and it is basically 2 to 5 times that of similar products at that time. "The feeling of the team at that time was from the moment of darkness to the sudden bright future." Chen Liang said.

Since its development, Pengyun Network has independently developed the Zettastor series of storage products, which includes a unified file service platform FileCloud, distributed block storage system DBS, and distributed object storage system DOS. On commercial landing, Pengyun Network also refers to the current status of the domestic market and quickly laid out. At present, Pengyun Network has served more than 20 key industries and more than 200 key customers.

Pengyun network ecological scene service

During this period, users' cloud demand is constantly changing. Beginning in 2018, TO C -end short videos and other air outlets have emerged. A large amount of heterogeneous data needs to be stored, and the industrial digital transformation of the B -end has brought huge amounts of computing power demand. The changes in demand have prompted the rapid innovation of the cloud computing industry, and cloud computing has entered the era of clouds.

Simply put, cloud natively is a set of cloud technology product system based on container, microservices, DevOPS and other technologies. Under the cloud native architecture, it can give full play to elasticity and distributed advantages to achieve rapid deployment, detained on demand, and expand on demand. Discontinue delivery, etc. It can be said that cloud native technology leads the future direction of cloud computing.

Chen Liang is keenly captured that cloud native technology will bring disruptive changes to cloud computing. Beginning in 2020, Chen Liang led the team and invested in the R & D of Yunyuan's Storage.

At present, most domestic manufacturers have made a large route for Yunyuan's cultivation storage to transform the distributed storage of the previous generation. However, because the renovated storage system is not a real Yunyuan patent storage, it is impossible to use the characteristics of flexible, flat, and lightweight containers, and there are more restrictions on performance. The report of the Yunnian Foundation (CNCF) also pointed out that storage has become one of the main challenges of whether Yunxin technology can continue to develop.

Chen Liang said that companies using Yunxing Technology usually put data on local storage, and the flexible characteristics of Yunyun's birth will cause microservices to jump between different servers at any time. When microservices are beating Visit. Compared with the unreliable local storage, distributed storage can make up for this disadvantage well, but the performance of distributed storage is not as high as local storage. Therefore, how to unify the local and distributed data storage architecture, and give full play to the advantages of the two, becoming the pain point of Yunyuan's cultivation storage.

In response to this pain point, Pengyun Network believes that it is necessary to fully construct a new cloud -originating storage system to manage different storage architectures, instead of using traditional distributed storage product forms.

The technical precipitation brought by the many years of distributed storage is the confidence where Pengyun Network dares to innovate. After more than a year of independent research and development, the Pengyun Network Cloud Pymalist Reserve Product Zettastor Hasp (hereinafter referred to as: HASP) was officially released in January 2022.

Hasp is equivalent to setting up a high -performance management platform on different data storage systems. Because the architecture is independently developed, HASP can make a new definition of the data storage form, and realize the reading and writing interaction between the local storage and a variety of different storage types (including the storage of the public cloud), so that flow.

In addition, HASP provides a standard Linux file system interface to block the differences in different data storage systems for cloud native applications. When using, the most intuitive perception of users is that they only need to operate on a standard file system to use the use of underlying data storage systems.

The movement of data on the cloud is more flexible, and the performance requirements of the bottom storage will be higher. Chen Liang said that what kind of file system has a direct impact on the performance of HASP.

"In the early days of HASP research and development, we investigated all the open source file systems on the market and found that no one can give full play to the performance of high -speed storage media such as NVMe SSD/SCM/PM, so we decided to study a high -performance file system self -developed self -developed high -performance file system In terms of the file system, there are nearly 50 patents that can be applied for. "Chen Liang introduced to 36 氪.

After using the self -developed file system, HASP can three times the performance of the data storage, and at the same time, it can save storage resources and ensure that the experience does not decrease.

Chen Liang uses an example of the financial industry. Many financial institutions have high requirements for business stability. In order to ensure data security, a large amount of redundancy will be generated -that is, enough backup. After an cache log data enters the system, first pass through the middleware, and then fall into the bottom -layer storage system. Each layer passes by, the data will be backup. However, HASP can reduce data redundancy by uniformly managed the different storage systems of the bottom layer, which can ensure that the data reliability can also provide higher performance. Now, HASP has been used in the current financial customers of Pengyun Network. Ten years of technical accumulation allowed Pengyun Network to get a advance ticket in advance when the large -scale outbreak of the Yunnian era.

Master data and master the future

At the Chinese IT Leadership Summit in 2010, there was a milestone discussion. Ma Yun, Ma Huateng and Li Yanhong both expressed their views on cloud computing. The other two were conservatively attached to cloud computing technology, but Ma Yun bluntly said: "This is the customer's need. If Ali does not do cloud computing, it will die in the future."

Today, China's technological development is also here. However, the keywords should be replaced with "autonomous and controllable".

As early as 2019, the "China Cloud Industry Development White Paper" of the Development Center of the State Council focused on pointing out that by 2023, my country's government and enterprises will exceed 60%. Mainstream IT infrastructure. At the same time, my country's cloud industry chain has a long period of time its core technology independent research and development, and the prominent problems of lagging lag in innovation and application ecosystem construction.

Three years have passed, "autonomous controlled" is even more arrowed on the string. The current data, whether it is ownership, storage, and transportation, has become the top priority of national security. Everyone can feel the changes in wind direction in the past two years -epidemic, international relations, economic turmoil ...

In March of this year, Figma's confession and other incidents also hit the industry again -"Go to IOE" for many years, domestic software companies, are you ready to accept it all? When it is increasingly elusive in the future, only the present can be caught. From the upper -level policy to the specific landing, the ship of China's cloud industry is slowly turning.

"Now the attitude of the customer's side has changed significantly. Needless to say, it is not necessary to say that the consciousness of autonomous and controllable is that the customer's recognition is also rapidly increasing." Chen Liang introduced 36 氪.

Especially in the mid -to -high -end market, Pengyun Network has gradually felt that customers "better understand" of the independent structure, and pay more attention to the stability of the system and whether the product architecture is really developed by the manufacturer. If not, it will greatly affect the customer's willingness to procurement.

Chen Liang believes that the progress of China Cloud Computing's 10 -year development has allowed Pengyun Network to come to a node before the outbreak.

Pengyun Network has been prepared for the future. At present, Pengyun Network has completed the adaptation of the entire domestic software industry chain, including operating systems such as Feiteng, Zhaoxin, Longxin, Shenwei and other chips, Kirin, UOS and other operating systems. "The domestic cloud market will go out of a very different road from abroad -after the development of public cloud for many years, the requirements of 'autonomous controlled' now will make a large number of transformed enterprises consider mixed clouds and private cloud architectures. Higher requirements for the performance of storage products are also the future opportunities of Pengyun's aiming. "Chen Liang said.

At the same time, the improvement of computing power also provides strong help for economic development. In March of this year, a report jointly compiled by IDC, Inspur Information, and Tsinghua University Global Industrial Research Institute showed that the computing power index was increased by an average of 1 point, and the digital economy and GDP will increase by 3.5 ‰ and 1.8 ‰, respectively.

It is conceivable that the newly launched Yunyuan Dyeing product Zettastor Hasp, which is launched by Pengyun Network, is drawing a blueprint for future cloud computing.

With the change of regulatory, data mining and application innovation, enterprises emphasize the control of data, the life cycle of data is pulled longer, and the infrastructure of data is being restructured. Pengyun network products can move data flexibly between clouds, while performance and stability coexist. In the industries that are under digital transformation, such as finance, manufacturing, and energy, the data will glow endless vitality.

The journey is undoubtedly far away. Oracle was established in 1977 in the last century, and it took more than 30 years to establish a giant status in the field of database. The EMC established in 1979 has also undergone about ten years of development to break the IBM's independence. For the ancient industry, only the wine that can make time can only be made.

In the next ten years of cloud computing, the game point has become "autonomous and controllable", which is a endurance race for all domestic manufacturers.

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