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Why Build Your Own Cloud?
Compliance
Industries such as finance and healthcare face strict compliance requirements. Enterprise clouds achieve full lifecycle control of data from generation, storage, to destruction through physical isolation, creating an independent and secure operating environment that effectively eliminates potential data leakage risks.
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
Businesses require predictable IT costs and resource control. Enterprise clouds create a transparent cost model, removing hidden fluctuations from data volume and bandwidth, enhancing hardware utilization, and enabling full-cycle investment management for stable ownership costs.
Demand for low-latency business operations
Public clouds face latency issues from remote nodes and resource sharing, complicating real-time demands. Enterprise clouds place resources closer to users, ensuring stable low-latency responses for critical operations.
Business continuity assurance
Public clouds face constraints with operations and SLAs, complicating 24/7 requirements. Enterprise clouds offer flexible maintenance planning and dedicated recovery, ensuring stable operation of critical systems.
Challenges
Data security and compliance
Finance, healthcare, and public services have high privacy and compliance needs. Public and managed clouds limit data sovereignty and customization, complicating customer requirements.
Complexity and cost
Traditional private clouds have long deployment cycles and high costs, making them hard for small businesses to afford. Companies want to build a cloud but struggle to start, needing lighter, efficient solutions.
Insufficient integration of tech stack
The existing container orchestration tools have limited integration with IaaS platforms, resulting in low efficiency in automated operations and resource scheduling, which affects the speed of cloud transformation.
Difficult to support diverse workloads
Core apps emphasize architectural stability and comprehensive disaster recovery guarantees, while modern apps rely on elastic scalability and agile iteration, often requiring the introduction of multiple architectures running in parallel, which increases operational complexity and overall costs.
Demands
Businesses need a cloud solution for on-demand investment, flexible configurations, easy resource expansion, and self-management.
Multi-type load compatibility
Supports management of virtual machines and containers, simplifying migration and scheduling.
Diverse storage services
Offers block and file storage for databases and high-performance file systems.
Cloud networking & security
Offers cloud networking features like virtualization, firewalls, and load balancing, with a unified policy center for multi-layered security.
Tenant isolation and permission management
Ensure tenant isolation and role-based access control for resource security across teams.
Complete observability
Integrate logs, metrics, and tracing into a monitoring system to achieve resource visualization and rapid fault localization.
Automated operations management
Enhance efficiency with automation and observability for resource visualization and quick fault detection, lowering labor costs.
Production-level performance and high availability
Offers high IOPS storage with 99.99% SLA, ensuring continuous and stable business operations.
AI tasks lifecycle management
Manage AI training and inference tasks, from data prep to deployment, automating resource scheduling and scaling.
Security and compliance
Meet safety standards to ensure the platform complies with industry requirements for safety and compliance.
Hardware & software compatibility
Support for multi-vendor hardware devices and operating systems to build a unified management cloud resource pool.
Scale elasticity
Supports various deployment scales and elastic scaling, flexibly adapting to different business capacities and deployment location requirements.
Ecosystem cooperation
Compatible with mainstream PaaS and cloud management platforms, eliminating vendor lock-in risks.
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Public clouds
Dedicated cloud solutions from public clouds
Traditional IT vendor private cloud solutions
Pros
Pros
Complete technology stack
Pros
On-demand investment and rapid deployment
Pros
Simple operations
Pros
Complete technology stack
Pros
Avoid issues related to data security in public cloud
Pros
Integrated hardware and software delivery
Cons
Cons
Ensuring core business data security is challenging
Cons
Non-compliance with regulations
Cons
High long-term costs
Cons
Sensitive to network latency
Cons
High costs
Cons
Operations are complex, often vendor-managed
Cons
Technology stack binding
Cons
Hardware and software binding
Cons
Traditional OpenStack + Ceph has low productization, complex operations, and fails to meet critical business workload needs
SmartX Solution
SmartX Enterprise Cloud Platform provides a flexible, modular approach for user-built cloud solutions. It supports traditional and AI applications, covering corporate data centers, branch offices, and edge computing, while reducing costs and complexity.
Features
SmartX Enterprise Cloud Platform
Public clouds
Dedicated cloud solutions from public clouds
Traditional IT vendor private cloud solutions
Initial investment and long-term TCO
Initial scale (3 nodes), flexible expansion, low cost
No barriers, dynamic billing, incremental storage lead to unpredictable long-term costs
Initial hardware costs are high, and maintenance expenses add up, leading to uncontrollable long-term expansion costs
Single vendor hardware and software binding makes operation, maintenance, expansion, and upgrades difficult
Data control and security
Data is fully managed and controlled by the enterprise
Data is in the cloud, and companies have sovereignty, but concerns exist
Data is stored on the site, and outsourcing management has risks
Data is stored on the site, but management has risks
Operational complexity and responsibilities
Have automation capabilities with clear roles
Public cloud takes responsibility, clarity in accountability
Maintained by public cloud services with the enterprise team
Maintaining hardware combinations is complex, needing collaboration between vendors and operations
Critical business performance
Local deployment offers flexible hardware options for business needs
Remote deployment and network access methods struggle to meet latency-sensitive business needs
The technology stack aligns with public cloud, complicating adaptation to enterprise performance needs
The solution involves hardware devices, increasing costs for high business performance
Openness of the technology stack
Compatible with various hardware and applications
Users can select cloud services from the public list
Users can choose from the hardware and software list
The solution relies on vendors’ hardware, limiting choices
Deployment and launch speed
Optimized software deployment, completing setup and launch in hours
Cloud services activate in minutes, no local deployment needed
Deploying a public cloud stack locally takes days to weeks
Add hardware devices, usually done in weeks to months
Scalability
Non-disruptive scaling allows adding drives or nodes online
Scale cloud services anytime without enterprise intervention
Public cloud stacks have varying scaling methods
Can scale as needed, but hardware brand restrictions apply
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