Digital transformation of is to provide enterprises with more advanced infrastructure and architectural design, and to transform cutting-edge technologies in the fields of AI, edge, etc. into production applications. However, for enterprises in thousands of industries, digital transformation is how to innovate business and applications, using IT and digital means to more agilely respond to the challenges of the business environment under the ever-changing and new business scenarios.
digital transformation, PaaS moves towards customization, cloud neutrality, data + intelligence
China IT’s last decade is a decade of rapid progress in the Internet and rapid development of cloud computing . Next, traditional industries and industries fully embrace the cloud and form a stage of industrial Internet and industrial innovation. Corresponding to the IT technology community, after the flexible cloudization of IT infrastructure, the PaaS platform has been established to connect the underlying technology with the upper-level applications, establish standards and mechanisms for resource scheduling and allocation, reduce the complexity of business and application deployment, and simplify business management processes and mechanisms.
In order to meet the innovation of thousands of industries, the PaaS platform continues to develop and iterate in addition to the general functions above, and needs to provide customized and dynamic platform capabilities for different applications of the enterprise. In addition, under the current situation of multi-cloud, private cloud and even customized cloud, the PaaS platform cannot allow users to be locked by one cloud. Conversely, users also hope to choose a cloud-neutral PaaS platform to flexibly adjust the configuration and call of IT resources. Third, from the perspective of cost-effectiveness and efficiency of IT resources, the PaaS platform also needs to balance performance and cost for enterprise users, as well as use the concept of data + intelligence to improve user development efficiency and application innovation.
In the digital transformation, UFIDA, a veteran domestic ERP manufacturer, released a strategic new product, YonBIP, a UFIDA business innovation platform, as early as August 2020, which is a brand new IT platform built to meet the new business challenges of corporate users in various industries. Subsequently, CSDN also focused on reporting its technical advantages in cloud native. "How is UFIDA YonSuite, which focuses on public cloud cloud, what is the strength of cloud native? 》. In the dialogue column "CP Talk about Xin" created by Intel, we once again saw UFIDA share its latest practical experience on the PaaS platform and the core features of UFIDA's BIP PaaS cloud platform iuap.
UFIDA BIP PaaS cloud platform iuap: programmable, data-driven, cloud-neutral, becoming a new innovation digital intelligence base
As mentioned above, BIP is a new cloud service platform for corporate users in various industries, and its core core is iuap PaaS cloud platform. The iuap platform is based on cloud native and microservice architecture. From the iuap architecture diagram below, we can clearly see that the technology platform built by iuap, YonBuilder low-code development platform, YonLinker connection integration platform, and multiple clouds with underlying IaaS have finally formed three middle-end products of the enterprise's business middle platform, data middle platform, and intelligent middle platform. In a complete and complex architecture like
, how does iuap meet the new challenges of enterprise innovation scenarios and application?
First of all, to deal with the rapid application development of innovative scenarios, iuap has the characteristics of programmability. The UFIDA iuap platform integrates various modules, such as the YonBuilder low-code development platform, open platform, connection integration platform, and DevOps platform, forming a full-cycle application construction service covering development, integration, testing, deployment, operation, operation and maintenance, lowering the development threshold and helping enterprises build rich applications.
Now, data is becoming more and more important. The iuap platform has implemented the full process of data governance to help enterprises quickly mine the value of data. iuap's data middle platform covers the entire process of data collection, processing and analysis, helps users build report analysis, application analysis, and provides toolchain products for data processing, data processing, and data governance .
On top of data, corporate business is shifting from traditional experience to smarter decision-making. As the digital and intelligent brain of the enterprise, the iuap Intelligent Middle Station has created a fully integrated platform from data to intelligence and then to business. Through AI platform + algorithm + knowledge graph technology, it can solve the diversified needs of the enterprise business with unified intelligent interaction methods and intelligent services.
It is also worth mentioning that the iuap technology platform is based on the architecture of cloud native and microservices. Through cloud native encapsulation, it can neutrally schedule and use multiple cloud platforms on the underlying layer, and use various computing power types of underlying layer through heterogeneous computing, providing an overall computing power platform for upper layer applications. Under the new PaaS platform of
, Intel's hard-core strength is needed to support
. Now we are in the cloud native era, the following trend is shown: software deployment will be more flexible, and with the support of microservices and containers, it will be decomposed into smaller modules; heterogeneous computing puts higher requirements on computing power and security. Therefore, in the process of creating a new generation of intelligent applications based on cloud platforms, if enterprises want to better meet user needs, they need to upgrade at the infrastructure level to bring more value to enterprise applications.
The other party involved in the discussion in "CP Talk about the core" is Intel , an IT underlying core software and hardware technology manufacturer, has been paying close attention to the development of the industry. In response to the implementation of emerging technologies such as cloud native and artificial intelligence , Intel is providing software and hardware products, through cooperation with excellent companies such as UFIDA through the combination of software and hardware and joint optimization, to achieve the results of "1+12" of digital transformation capabilities.
At present, Intel has created a rich software and hardware solutions in the cloud native field, at various levels such as computing, networking, storage, and security.
Intel® Xeon® processors provide rich AI acceleration technologies, such as DL boost technology integrates operating instructions for low-precision data formats into the AVX-512 instruction set, using low-precision data calculations to further improve throughput. Using Intel AVX512 technology can effectively improve the performance of cloud platform. For example, cloud service provider Synesis chose the Intel AVX-512 instruction set and Aleph compression algorithm to improve the utilization efficiency of processor, memory and storage resources in the cloud platform, so as to help customers more effectively deploy their services in smart cities, public safety and other fields with lower TCO.
at the software level, through the open source cross-platform high-performance library oneDNN, it can optimize deep neural networks at op-level and instruction set-level. To integrate heterogeneous architectures, oneAPI provides an open, standards-based cross-architecture programming model to simplify workload development across CPU, GPU, FPGA and other architectures.
The UFIDA OCR system calls identification tickets more than 2 million times a month. As users grow, the system pressure increases. Migrate the system to OpenVINO, and run and optimize through OpenVINO. Without major adjustments in the original OCR model, the system's response time is greatly reduced, from the original three seconds to the current few seconds.
When enterprises go to the cloud has become a trend, the security of cloud data has also become an important technical issue. Intel SGX technology protects data and application code so that it cannot be stolen by other processes. In terms of data storage and transmission, for data compression and encryption and decryption security, Intel QAT accelerator encrypts, decrypts and decompresses data through a special chip.
Under the trend of containerization development, Intel has made special expansions for containerized scheduling. Intel applies RDT to it. In a multi-cloud and multi-tenant environment, RDT technology ensures that high-priority processes obtain sufficient bandwidth and intelligently manage the allocation of key resources, thereby ensuring efficient and stable business.
Relying on the various hard-core technologies mentioned above, Intel uses rich and comprehensive software and hardware products to help UFIDA iuap platform, and will jointly promote enterprises to explore more business innovation opportunities.
Conclusion
In this issue of "CP Talk about the Heart", there are Chinese software and digital transformation leading players UFIDA, and Intel, a technology manufacturer with the underlying hardware and software, and they are more like forming a pair of digital transformation CPs. This discussion and sharing of "CP" talks about how PaaS platforms can better provide enterprises with agile and efficient IT capabilities in the current digital transformation, which deserves more attention and reference from industry developers.
It is revealed that Intel will release a new generation of Sapphire Rapids platform early next year, and a number of acceleration features to optimize AI and cloud services will emerge.Intel will also combine the new platform to create more new solutions that deeply integrate software and hardware, and work with UFIDA and other companies to provide enterprises with a multi-cloud integrated innovative experience platform with lower costs, higher performance and higher security.
The above discussion is only some important content interpretations of the video dialogue of "CP Talk about Xin". I want to listen to Intel and UFIDA technology experts chat about innovative PaaS platforms, and see how Intel AI and cloud-native technology combine with UFIDA BIP PaaS cloud platform iuap to achieve a magic effect of 1+1 greater than 2.
