InCloud OpenStack Cloud OS V5.5 From Inspur

Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co.,Ltd released version 5.5 of its InCloud OpenStack cloud OS at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canada.

The software, used in the financial services, securities and enterprise sectors in China, offers capabilities in large-scale services delivery across multiple availability zones and geographies, accessibility and ease of management, stability and scalability, and intelligent operation and maintenance.

InCloud OpenStack v5.5 adds:

• Features for large-scale deployments. InCloud OpenStack 5.5 can support multiple data centers across multiple regions. In one implementation, the company achieved an OpenStack deployment with around 1,000 nodes in a single region for a non-telecom customer and a total of more than 1,400 nodes are in production. It offers one-click deployment and graphical resource layout via containerized images that are independent of the host OS. Resource arrangement is managed visually with system templates or a custom drag-and-drop template.

• Unified management of diverse compute types. It offers unified management of VMs, bare metal instances, and containers on the same platform. Resources can be adjusted in parallel to achieve integration and sharing of cluster computing, storage and network resources to reduce operation, maintenance and management costs.

• Multi-region support. The switch from test deployment to large-scale production deployment presents challenges for OpenStack operators. To achieve large-scale data center delivery capabilities, InCloud OpenStack 5.5 optimizes multi-region management to achieve division and separate management of large clusters. All regions use the same set of Keystone systems to resolve the system bottlenecks caused by cluster expansion.

• Layered security. It adopts a layered security enhancement design to secure the cloud platform from the dimensions of the hypervisor system, VMs and user access. It adopts the firm’s security sector governance products to reinforce the hypervisor and VM layers.

• Disaster tolerance. It offers DR capability that spans multiple data centers. A current InCloud OpenStack deployment covers three data centers in two regions. The solution provides disaster tolerance for dual center, dual active capability within 150km in the same city and remote data center recovery. The solution uses the company’s proprietary network facility, centralized storage facilities and cloud management to guarantee BC in terms of data, network and business operation for customers. The solution can help customers save costs, increase operational reliability and achieve efficient failure management with one-click visual failure switching solutions.

“The growth of OpenStack in China is impressive,” said Jay Zhang, VP, Inspur. “Over the next five years, we expect a CAGR of 40% for this market segment. Ongoing development of standardized APIs and excellent heterogeneous resource management and programmability are key drivers in the thriving OpenStack ecosystem, and Inspur plans to maintain and expand its OpenStack leadership, taking full advantage of this growth trend.“

The company is an innovator in open compute and open technologies, and major proponent for OCP, ODCC, Open19, OpenStack and Openpower foundations. The firm strives to build a design base and then to customize and meet standards. Meanwhile, the company will contribute to those communities by providing access to technologies through open source sharing, and to assist the convergence of fellow communities and open source applications.

“Inspur is a Gold member of the OpenStack Foundation and has been throwing investment year upon year participation in OpenStack.” said Jonathan Bryce, executive director, OpenStack Foundation, “We move forward the community with contributions from companies. Inspur has dozens of developers who contribute to different projects in OpenStack and has worked to build OpenStack appointment in China which is one of the fast-growing markets.“

User profiles:

• Financial industry: The company participated in the deployment of China’s largest OpenStack-based financial cloud. It achieved integration of Internet financial services with OpenStack to ensure innovation and application deployment.

• Securities industry: Everbright Securities company Ltd. worked with the company to deploy a securities cloud, with the goal of providing support for application development and testing as well as centralized management of branched clouds through resource pooling, containerization and SaaS. The overall cost saving is around 20 million.

• Energy industry: The firm helped Sinopec Henan Petroleum company build an OpenStack cloud platform to provide centralized resource management for subsidiaries in 19 cities, over twenty production and management systems, and fuel card and customer service systems in over 2,000 gas stations and convenience stores. Utilization rates rose by 60%, energy consumption fell by 45%, and operation and maintenance efficiency rose by 300%, with an 80% reduction in operation and maintenance costs.