The server industry moved eastward to China

In September, a strategic cooperation message in the server industry was particularly eye-catching – Red Hat and Straits had strategic cooperation. This means that Inspur has become one of the few OEM partners of Red Hat globally, enjoying the best price and top priority technical support. It is reported that OEM partners are the highest level partners of Red Hat. The first step in the strategic cooperation between the two parties is to be based on Red Hat's next-generation enterprise operating system Linux 7 and Inspur NP series tower servers, NF series rack servers, storage servers, and NX series blade servers. The seamless integration and deep integration of computing products; In the selection of users, Inspur will also recommend the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system. After that, both parties will also carry out in-depth cooperation on the cloud computing, big data, storage, virtualization and other aspects of the Red Hat Enterprise OpenStack platform. This is a strategic cooperation between the world's largest enterprise-level open source vendor and China's largest server vendor. It can be said that in a large global context, cooperation between the two parties will have more room for imagination:

First, the trend of eastward migration of the server industry is obvious. At present, China has become a bright spot in the growth of the global server market. Not only has the amount of server purchases increased, but Chinese server companies have also begun to emerge in the international market. According to Gartner's first-quarter server sales data released in 2014, Inspur ranks first in China and fifth in the global market, with a year-on-year increase of 288%, making it the fastest growing global manufacturer.

According to Scott Musso, vice president of the Red Hat Global Strategic Alliance, “The trend of the server industry moving eastward to China is obvious. In response to the global market trend, we must shift our focus to the Chinese local market. Inspur is the leader in the Chinese server market and our new strategic focus It is necessary to start from the wave. "It is reported that Red Hat is gradually increasing its technical strength in China. Its 300-person R&D team in Zhongguancun, Beijing will discuss further cooperation with Inspur. “The x86 server industry center has been moved from the United States to China. In January this year, Lenovo’s acquisition of the IBM x86 server business was a very good example.” Zhang Xianmin, president of Red Hat Greater China, also predicted that “the market share of Chinese server companies in the world and China will be Will be further improved."

The second is the inevitable path for international cooperation. As a localized company in China, Inspur continues to grow bigger and stronger while also expecting to enter the international market. Therefore, cooperation with global companies is the only way. Hu Leiyun, vice president of Inspur Group, believes: “We must have more and more extensive international cooperation in the middle part of the entire industrial chain. We can support our market position in China and pave the way for our international strategy. Bridge selection.” From the perspective of partner selection, Inspur first values ​​the other party's influence in the global market, and then examines whether both parties have common technical knowledge and values, and finally whether the future technology vision of both parties is the same. The Red Hat company has the above three conditions and is advocating global open-source trends in technology. In the future, the cooperation between Inspur server and Red Hat will play a positive role in helping Inspur move toward the world.

Third, open source cooperation is a general trend. It is worth mentioning that the cooperation between the two parties is not only at the hardware and operating system level, but will also be more focused on innovative solutions. For the cooperation between the two parties, Hu Leixi said that the first is product mutual certification, to ensure that the entire series of server products of Inspur and the latest enterprise operating system of Red Hat Linux 7 have a closer cooperation, give full play to the system reliability, performance and maintainability The advantages of hardware and software platforms. Secondly, in the field of cloud computing, including virtualization, cloud management platforms and big data, and Inspur facing cloud computing, key application hosts, etc., will all develop more comprehensive cooperation through the shared development roadmap. Thanks to open source technology, virtualized container, Docker, and KVM technologies have begun to attract more users. Scott Musson also stated that in moving to the cloud environment, customers are no longer concerned about which of the underlying virtualization technologies are from, but focus on the overall cloud management platform. This is a major trend. Correspondingly, VMware also officially announced support for OpenStack in the near future. Red Hat is a major contributor to OpenStack on the IaaS platform. Inspur's own cloud OS is based on OpenStack. Therefore, Zhang Xianmin believes that further cooperation based on cloud computing OpenStack or even big data will be even more exciting.

Fourth, Chinese customers further benefited. The cooperation between the two parties can provide delivery protection on the one hand, that is, corporate customers can concentrate on purchasing servers, operating systems, and cloud computing products with Red Hat products through Inspur, providing customers with convenient supply chain management. On the other hand, customers can get strong support for follow-up technical support. If there are new problems in the future, customers can obtain complete and complete soft and hard services directly through Inspur. Unlike previous individual purchases, who is responsible should be responsible for solving the problem. In this way, customers will significantly reduce the cost of use and difficulty of use. As the market share of Inspur server continues to expand, and customers further agree with open source products, more customers will benefit from it in the future.