The article explains what a data center is, why interconnecting multiple data centers has become essential for scale, cross‑region access, disaster recovery, and cloud‑native virtualization, and compares two VXLAN‑based DCI architectures—end‑to‑end VXLAN and segment VXLAN—along with the key underlying technologies.
The article compares VXLAN and MPLS, explaining their underlying virtualization concepts, cost and operational differences, and demonstrates why VXLAN is increasingly favored over MPLS for metro‑area and wide‑area network deployments due to lower hardware costs, simpler engineering, and flexible overlay capabilities.
The article explains what a SmartNIC (intelligent network interface card) is, how it differs from traditional NICs, its computing off‑load capabilities for networking, storage, and security, the problems it solves, various types, limitations, and its growing role in modern data‑center architectures.
ShopeePay replaces its traditional active‑standby design with a unit‑based multi‑active data‑center architecture—splitting user, public, and order data across independent units, employing routing tables, caches, and a dual‑active model that enables seamless failover, reduced latency, and continuous payment processing across two or more IDC sites.
The article examines how GPUs have evolved from gaming accelerators to essential data‑center processors for AI, HPC, and scientific workloads, and compares the latest server‑grade offerings from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel—including performance specs, memory technologies, interconnects, and software ecosystems—highlighting the fierce competition shaping the future of compute.
On May 12, the inaugural Immersion Liquid Cooling Intelligent Computing Industry Forum held online featured nearly forty industry representatives and saw Alibaba Cloud unveil three new immersion liquid cooling technical standards and two whitepapers, highlighting material compatibility, cabinet and server structure guidelines, optical module reliability, and recent research achievements toward sustainable, high‑efficiency data center solutions.
This article details the motivation, design decisions, architecture, and practical outcomes of creating a low‑code page‑building platform for the 百瓶 app, highlighting challenges in traditional development, the benefits of free layout, data and behavior centers, and future roadmap considerations.
This article explains what an Internet Data Center (IDC) is, traces its evolution from early server farms to cloud‑computing era, and details the hardware, power, cooling, networking, and management systems that compose today’s large‑scale data centers.
The article explains multi‑active deployment modes—same‑city, cross‑city, and cross‑city multi‑active—along with routing rules (random, user‑ID, region) and unitization, describing how sharding IDs map traffic to central or unit data centers, and detailing middleware solutions for storage, messaging, SOA, and Snowflake ID generation to achieve scalable, highly available architecture.
The article details Maoyan’s transaction data center, explaining its background, the need for a unified real‑time order model, the benefits of reduced coupling and improved data accuracy, and describes the system’s architecture, components, data collection, processing, task scheduling, monitoring, and future plans.
The article explains how the new NVMe ZNS (Zoned Namespace) standard, likened to a 5G upgrade for storage, improves SSD performance and lifespan, outlines its technical background, and describes how major hardware vendors and cloud providers are adopting it for data‑center and future consumer storage solutions.
This article reviews the evolution of data‑center infrastructure across three historic waves, introduces the fourth wave—Application‑Defined Infrastructure (ADI)—and examines how container technology, hypervisor‑based virtualization, hyper‑converged infrastructure, and Robin Systems’ ADI solution address the operational challenges of modern cloud‑native and stateful applications.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), covering its definition, how it differs from traditional networking, core advantages such as zero‑copy and CPU offload, typical use cases, the three main RDMA protocols, deployment requirements, and essential programming concepts and terminology.
This article explains how UCloud’s Big Bang system automates data‑center network construction—from manual wiring and IP allocation to layered design, resource allocation, configuration generation, and zero‑touch provisioning—enabling a ten‑thousand‑server network to be deployed in just a few hours.
The article analyzes how the AI era’s demand for ultra‑low latency and high throughput exposes fundamental limits of the traditional TCP/IP stack, and explains why RDMA’s kernel‑bypass, zero‑copy design, and emerging congestion‑control algorithms are becoming the preferred network fabric for modern data‑center workloads.
This article explains what an Internet Data Center (IDC) is, outlines its historical development stages, describes its core hardware and supporting infrastructure, and discusses current trends such as cloud computing, modular designs, and green energy initiatives shaping the future of data centers.
The 2022 Data Center Industry Landscape Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the data‑center ecosystem, detailing upstream equipment and software providers, mid‑stream service integrators, downstream users, and emerging technologies such as modular micro‑modules, intelligent power distribution, advanced cooling systems, high‑capacity switches, server architectures, storage hierarchies, monitoring platforms, DCIM, and prefabricated modular constructions.
The paper describes iQIYI’s Content Platform Data Center (OLTP), a unified data hub that solves microservice data‑island problems by providing hundred‑billion‑scale storage, high‑QPS reads/writes, field‑level change notifications, final consistency between MongoDB and Elasticsearch, active‑active high availability, and a generic SDK, now serving 26 business lines with thousands of QPS and hundreds of millions of rows.
The 2021 China DPU Industry Whitepaper outlines how NVIDIA’s BlueField DPU series—BlueField‑2, the upcoming 400 Gb/s BlueField‑3, and future BlueField‑4—offload and accelerate networking, storage, security, and AI workloads, offering programmable ARM cores, high‑performance NICs, and a rich DOCA ecosystem that reshapes data‑center infrastructure.
The article analyzes how hyper‑converged data‑center networking unifies compute, storage, and HPC on a lossless Ethernet fabric, addresses AI‑era performance bottlenecks, compares RDMA over Ethernet with InfiniBand, and outlines the core metrics, value, and key technologies that enable zero‑loss, low‑latency, high‑throughput operation.
Servers, the high‑performance backbone of cloud and data‑center infrastructures, differ from ordinary PCs in stability, hardware, and firmware; they come in various logical and physical forms, are classified by architecture, CPU count, and application, and the market now sees a competitive split between X86 and ARM designs.
This article explains the meaning of rack unit designations such as 1U, 2U, 4U and 42U, describes how server dimensions are defined by the U standard, outlines the specifications of 19‑inch racks, and discusses how rack size affects equipment density and cooling.
The 2021 China DPU Industry Development White Paper outlines DPU’s key use cases across data centers, cloud, security, AI, edge, storage and streaming, analyzes the competitive landscape among major vendors, and projects rapid global and Chinese market growth through 2025.
Guotai Junan's data center team passed the China Information Communication Research Institute's DevOps technical operations assessment at level 2+, showcasing their digital transformation journey, standardized practices, and concrete improvements in cost, incident, and monitoring capabilities, while sharing insights from senior leaders on future plans and industry impact.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Data Processing Units (DPUs), tracing their evolution from smart NICs, explaining their architecture, advantages such as workload offloading, zero‑trust security, and compute‑storage separation, and discussing future trends and NVIDIA's roadmap for integrated CPU‑GPU‑DPU solutions in data‑center and edge environments.
The article provides an in‑depth analysis of NVIDIA’s BlueField DPU series—detailing the roadmap from BlueField‑2 to BlueField‑4, the technical capabilities of BlueField‑3 across networking, security, and storage, and the DOCA ecosystem that enables programmable, hardware‑accelerated data‑center services, positioning DPUs as a core pillar of modern cloud infrastructure.
The article explains how hyper‑converged data center networking, driven by AI‑era demands for zero‑packet loss, ultra‑low latency, and high throughput, replaces traditional separate networks with a unified Ethernet‑based solution that simplifies operations, reduces cost, and enhances performance.
The article reports on Tencent Cloud’s new Brazil data center launch amid rumors of database leaks and Chinese state directives to limit WeChat use, details recent U.S. trade bans on Chinese tech firms, and announces Alpine Linux 3.15’s discontinuation of MIPS64 support.
This article explains Huawei Cloud Stack's proactive link monitoring system, detailing its point‑line‑plane architecture, golden metrics of packet loss and latency, detection techniques, system components, and key innovations such as strategy optimization, alarm aggregation, and visualized performance dashboards for cloud data‑center networks.
RDMA boosts data‑center performance by bypassing CPU‑intensive copies, but to realize its low‑latency promise you must build a lossless network using proper traffic classification—either Layer 2 PCP or Layer 3 DSCP—and combine PFC with ECN/DCQCN for precise congestion management.
The article analyzes how hyper‑converged data center networks use lossless Ethernet to unify general compute, high‑performance computing and storage, enabling lifecycle automation, intelligent operation, and significant compute capacity gains without expanding server count.
This article details Tongcheng Travel’s month‑long, zero‑downtime migration of hundreds of petabytes of Hadoop HDFS and YARN clusters across data centers, describing the background, migration strategies, lessons learned, tool enhancements, and future plans to improve data locality, balance, and monitoring.
The whitepaper from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, provides a comprehensive analysis of DPU background, technical characteristics, reference architecture, application scenarios, and a comparative review of existing DPU products, highlighting its role in modern data‑center infrastructures.
The article explains how modern data‑center compute demands drive the need for high‑throughput, low‑latency networking, compares TCP/IP with RDMA‑based solutions such as InfiniBand, iWARP and RoCE, and recommends loss‑less Ethernet for large‑scale HPC deployments.
This article explains how VXLAN extends Layer‑2 networks over IP using UDP encapsulation, enabling seamless VM live migration and massive tenant isolation, compares VXLAN with traditional VLANs, details packet structure, VTEP/VNI roles, gateway designs, and the EVPN control plane for efficient forwarding.
The article analyzes how AI‑driven workloads, exploding storage and compute capabilities, and distributed architectures expose the limits of traditional three‑network data‑center designs, and explains why a lossless, hyper‑converged Ethernet network with zero‑loss, low‑latency, high‑throughput characteristics is becoming essential.
The article explains how Douyin (TikTok) and other major Chinese tech firms operate massive self‑built data centers with terabit‑level outbound bandwidth, detailing server counts, infrastructure design, and CDN acceleration that enable hundreds of millions of users to stream video smoothly.
VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN) is a network‑virtualization overlay that encapsulates Ethernet frames in UDP packets to create logical Layer‑2 domains over IP networks, enabling seamless VM migration, massive tenant isolation, and flexible gateway designs, while EVPN provides a scalable control plane for dynamic tunnel management.
The article examines how FPGA’s pipeline parallel architecture provides latency‑critical advantages over CPU and GPU for both compute‑intensive workloads such as matrix operations and AI inference, and communication‑intensive tasks like encryption and high‑throughput networking, while also discussing deployment models, power efficiency, eFPGA trends, and the evolving Chinese FPGA market.
Data Processing Units (DPUs) have evolved from early I/O processors to modern programmable ASICs and FPGA-based accelerators, integrating networking, storage, and compute functions to offload workloads from CPUs, with contributions from companies like Fungible, Nvidia, Intel, and emerging Chinese firms, shaping data‑center and edge architectures.
The article provides a systematic analysis of why modern data centers must evolve, detailing the rise of DPU and IPU technologies, their technical stages, advantages over traditional NICs, current challenges such as power and cost, and their pivotal role in edge and cloud computing futures.
This article examines the emerging Storage Class Memory (SCM) market, outlines its various technologies, evaluates performance and cost trade‑offs, explores three concrete use cases—AI training acceleration, instant data recovery, and greener data‑center operation—and discusses the latency and workload‑model challenges that must be solved for widespread adoption.
This article explains the origins of China's Low‑Carbon Day, defines carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and highlights how Alibaba Cloud’s green technologies—such as high‑efficiency cloud computing, liquid‑cooling data centers, and clean‑energy trading—contribute to reducing emissions and supporting the nation’s double‑carbon goals.
The article provides an overview of ByteDance's massive data center infrastructure, detailing server quantities, total outbound bandwidth reaching several terabits, the role of dual‑link designs, and how CDN acceleration enables billions of users to access Douyin and related services smoothly.
The article analyzes how the widening gap between CPU compute growth and network bandwidth drives the rapid emergence of smart NICs, outlines their functions, market forecasts, industry chain, key technologies such as EDA and IP cores, and compares global leaders with Chinese vendors, highlighting technical challenges and future trends.
The article explains NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe‑oF), its evolution from PCIe‑based NVMe, the various transport mechanisms such as RDMA, Fibre Channel and TCP, and why networking is essential for high‑performance, shared, and disaggregated storage in modern data centers.
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of China’s DPU market in 2021, covering DPU definitions, classifications, technology roadmaps, industry chain, business models, key applications, competitive landscape, and future trends in data centers, edge computing, telecom, and autonomous driving.
Alibaba Cloud’s Zhangbei data center in Hebei leverages abundant wind energy, advanced air‑handling units, and pioneering liquid‑cooling technology to achieve a PUE below 1.2, cutting carbon emissions and exemplifying the green, low‑carbon infrastructure goals outlined in China’s new data‑center development plan.
The article explains how the adoption of flash storage, the limitations of legacy SCSI protocols, and the emergence of PCIe‑based NVMe and NVMe‑oF have transformed data‑center architectures, delivering higher throughput, lower latency, and better support for demanding database and memory‑intensive workloads.
ByteDance’s data centers, including Douyin’s, operate with terabit‑level outbound bandwidth, housing up to hundreds of thousands of servers across China and abroad; the article breaks down server counts, total export bandwidth, CDN acceleration, and the network designs that enable billions of daily video streams.
The article examines how ByteDance, Douyin, TikTok and other Chinese tech giants operate massive data centers with terabit‑level outbound bandwidth, millions of servers, and extensive CDN and load‑balancing architectures to support hundreds of millions of concurrent users.
This article explains how Douyin (TikTok) and its parent companies operate massive data centers with tens of thousands of servers and multi‑terabit outbound bandwidth, using dual‑link designs, CDN acceleration, and load‑balancing to support hundreds of millions of concurrent users.
The article examines ByteDance's massive data‑center infrastructure, detailing server counts, multi‑terabit outbound bandwidth, dual‑link designs, CDN acceleration, and comparisons with other Chinese tech giants, illustrating how such scale enables seamless video streaming for hundreds of millions of daily users.
This article examines ByteDance’s self‑built data centers, estimating server counts, total outbound bandwidth reaching several terabytes, and the role of CDN acceleration and multi‑link designs that enable billions of users to stream video smoothly.
This article introduces the high‑performance NVMe storage protocol, its architecture, advantages over traditional SATA/SAS, the evolution of NVMe‑oF with RDMA and Fibre Channel, and provides links to related technical resources and download materials.
The 2021 Data Center High‑Quality Development Conference in Beijing showcased the release of industry indexes and low‑carbon white papers, awarded Alibaba Cloud for liquid‑cooled cloud computing innovations, and detailed China's rapid data‑center growth, emerging liquid‑cooling technologies, and collaborative standard‑setting efforts.
JD.com’s AIDCTwins platform leverages low‑code modeling, IoT sensing and cross‑platform 3D visualization to create a digital twin of its massive data‑center infrastructure, dramatically cutting labor costs, enabling real‑time updates, and boosting intelligent, green operation across thousands of servers and racks.
The article explains how Nutanix's hyper‑converged infrastructure combines general‑purpose servers, local storage, and intelligent software to replace traditional siloed data‑center components, offering scalable, fault‑tolerant, and cloud‑like performance for enterprise IT environments.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of data centers, covering definitions, classifications, cloud‑compatible designs, scale and availability tiers, lifecycle stages, energy consumption metrics, power and cooling technologies, network architectures, and emerging industry trends.
The report outlines China's new infrastructure development, focusing on 5G network construction, the evolving concept of data centers integrating cloud computing, blockchain and AI, and the shift toward modular data center designs to improve scalability, efficiency, and global competitiveness.
This article explains the fundamentals of UPS systems, describing standby, line‑interactive, and double‑conversion topologies, their operational principles, economic mode based on ITIC curves, and various redundancy configurations such as parallel N+1, centralized and distributed bypass, and dual‑bus architectures for data‑center reliability.
This article examines JD Intelligent Cloud’s self‑developed modular servers, highlighting their innovative front‑back I/O design, liquid‑cooling integration, custom Intel CPUs, and performance gains that address high PUE, deployment complexity, and scalability challenges in modern data centers.
The article analyzes how the rapid rollout of 5G and the expanding capacity of modern data centers are creating a long‑term boom for optical modules, detailing market forecasts, network architecture shifts, supply‑chain consolidation, domestic chip advancements, and the competitive positioning of key industry players.
JD.com’s self‑developed white‑box switch, built on open‑source SONiC, delivers automated zero‑touch provisioning, GRPC‑based configuration, warm‑reboot upgrades and millisecond‑level telemetry, ensuring stable, high‑performance networking for global massive events like the 11.11 shopping festival.
This article explains the fundamentals of VXLAN, its tunnel-based architecture, why it is needed for virtual machine migration and multi‑tenant isolation, how it differs from VLAN, the packet format, VTEP and VNI concepts, tunnel establishment methods, gateway types, and detailed forwarding processes within both centralized and distributed VXLAN deployments.
The article explores the consequences of destroying Alipay’s storage servers, detailing typical financial data center architectures, backup strategies, power redundancy, fire suppression systems, and the practical challenges of crippling such facilities, while highlighting regulatory and physical security measures.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of SmartNICs, describing their three main architectures—multicore ASIC, FPGA‑based, and FPGA‑enhanced—detailing performance benefits, design trade‑offs, and example feature extensions for modern data‑center networking workloads.
RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) enables lossless, high‑performance data transfer in data‑center networks by extending InfiniBand over Ethernet, with RoCEv1 operating at Layer 2, RoCEv2 adding UDP/IPv4/IPv6 routing, and Soft‑RoCE providing a software‑only solution for environments lacking RDMA‑capable hardware.
The article defines SmartNICs, outlines their key capabilities such as off‑loading processing to programmable hardware, compares major vendor implementations—including Broadcom, Nvidia/Mellanox, Intel, Xilinx, Netronome, and Pensando—and discusses market trends that position SmartNICs as the next wave of FPGA‑based acceleration for data‑center workloads.
This article explains the VXLAN technology, its tunnel‑based architecture, why it is needed for virtual machine migration and multi‑tenant isolation, how it differs from VLAN, the roles of VTEP and VNI, gateway designs, and the detailed packet‑forwarding processes in both centralized and distributed data‑center networks.
In the next decade computing power will become a ubiquitous utility akin to water or electricity, forming a new digital infrastructure delivered through cloud platforms, while China’s “new infrastructure” strategy drives upgrades, smart retrofits, and AI‑enabled services, confronting material limits, cooling demands, and heightened security‑computing challenges to enable a democratized, energy‑efficient computing era.
This article explains how to partition data‑center networks, apply security‑level (等级保护) controls with firewalls and VRF, compares common three‑layer and flat topologies, and outlines future directions such as elasticity, simplicity, and openness for next‑generation data‑center networking.
This article explains VXLAN technology, covering its definition, tunnel architecture, VTEP and VNI concepts, differences from VLAN, packet format, tunnel establishment methods, gateway types, and detailed forwarding processes for both same‑subnet and cross‑subnet communications in data‑center networks.
The article explains how SmartNICs—available as multi‑core ASIC, FPGA‑based, or FPGA‑enhanced designs—offload networking, storage, and compute tasks from CPUs, improve bandwidth and power efficiency, and outlines their architectural forms, development methods, and example feature extensions for modern data‑center environments.
At the ODCC 2020 summit, Alibaba's Fangsheng open source project received the Excellent Project Award, released detailed server, cabinet, and power hardware specifications and corresponding test standards, showcased a compliant product prototype, and outlined future open‑source developments for cloud data center infrastructure.
The IDC Q2 2020 report shows global data‑center hardware markets where server revenue surged 19.8% to $24 billion, storage revenue fell 5% to $6.3 billion, and Ethernet switch revenue slipped 6.3%, with China outperforming in all three segments.
A roundup of recent tech news covering a Cisco sabotage case, a London data‑center fire, Linux's 29th anniversary, Gartner's China ICT trends, major cloud investments, Windows 95 milestones, Didi's GPU server launch, Hainan's DNS project, Dell’Oro's market report, executive share reductions, and an upcoming global operations conference.
The article analyzes the rapid growth of China's IDC market—highlighting its 29.8% year‑over‑year increase in 2018, the drivers behind this surge, regional distribution patterns, emerging trends such as large‑scale and edge data centers, and how these compare with global data‑center dynamics.
The global IDC service market is increasingly dominated by third‑party providers as telecom operators withdraw, with enterprises shifting workloads to the cloud, leading to rising M&A activity, higher market concentration, and distinct wholesale and retail IDC business models driven by 5G and cloud growth.
China's Internet Data Center (IDC) industry, valued at 1600 billion yuan in 2019, is transitioning from basic services to high‑performance, cloud‑driven solutions, with CAPEX and OPEX dominated by infrastructure and power costs, while 5G and cloud growth fuel further market expansion.
This article reviews the evolution of data‑center infrastructure through three historic waves, introduces the fourth wave of application‑defined infrastructure (ADI), and examines how container technologies, hypervisor‑based virtualization, hyper‑converged infrastructure, and Robin Systems’ ADI reshape cloud computing and large‑scale IT operations.
Suning’s data center team completed a record-breaking migration of 26,888 servers across 75 days, detailing the planning, tight time windows, intensive communication, cross‑team coordination, risk management, and efficiency gains that enabled zero‑downtime migration and significant cost savings for future operations.
This article explains various Cisco tools and architectures for data‑center structure management and automation, including Cisco Data Center Network Manager modes, Network Insights applications, and a detailed comparison of FabricPath, VXLAN flood‑and‑learn, VXLAN MP‑BGP EVPN, and MSDC Layer 3 spine‑leaf designs.
This article explains Cisco's VXLAN flood‑and‑learn spine‑and‑leaf architecture, covering its standards compliance, encapsulation format, underlay and overlay network design, multicast and ingress replication, host discovery, routing, and multi‑tenant support for both Layer 2 and Layer 3 environments.
This article explains Cisco's evolution from traditional three‑tier data center designs to modern spine‑and‑leaf and Clos network architectures, highlighting the limitations of STP, the introduction of vPC, and the benefits of virtualization for high‑bandwidth, low‑latency server connectivity.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of server fundamentals, covering hardware components, CPU architectures, storage and RAID configurations, as well as network card functions, classifications, connector types, and related optical and copper cabling options.
The article analyzes the rapid evolution of data‑center networking from early gigabit links to the current 25G access + 100G interconnect architecture, examines IEEE 200G/400G standards, server and optical‑module trends, and concludes that 400G is poised to overtake 200G as the next dominant bandwidth solution.
This article provides a comprehensive Q&A overview of NVMe over TCP, covering its specification status, required host components, performance characteristics, namespace limits, OS support, comparisons with NVMe/RDMA and FC, and practical deployment considerations in data‑center environments.
FPGA, a reconfigurable hardware architecture, offers low latency and high efficiency compared to CPUs, GPUs, and ASICs, making it ideal for both compute‑intensive and communication‑intensive tasks, and Microsoft’s multi‑stage data‑center deployments illustrate its scalability, flexibility, and impact on cloud services.
The article explains how hyperscale data‑center operators are transitioning from 100 Gbps NRZ Ethernet to 400 Gbps links using 56 Gbps PAM‑4 signaling, detailing the technical advantages, channel‑impairment challenges, and Synopsys’s silicon‑validated PHY solution.
Tencent’s 2019 infrastructure breakthrough revealed a million‑plus servers, 100 Tbps network bandwidth, modular data centers, self‑developed hardware and software innovations that together slashed total cost of ownership by 30%, boosted efficiency, and pushed cloud elasticity to new heights.
The article explores how Alipay’s financial data is protected through multi‑site data centers, hot and cold backups, and disaster‑recovery mechanisms, explaining why destroying a single server—or even multiple facilities—won’t instantly erase users’ funds, and outlining the lengths required to truly cripple the system.
The article examines Alipay’s data‑center architecture, redundancy schemes, backup strategies, power‑supply design, fire‑suppression systems and physical security measures, illustrating why destroying its storage is far more complex than simply “blowing up” a server.
The article examines how Alipay’s financial data would survive a physical destruction of its servers by explaining multi‑site data center architectures, hot and cold backups, power redundancy, fire‑suppression systems, and the role of partner banks in data recovery, highlighting the extensive resilience measures in modern financial infrastructures.
The article explains how SmartNICs offload networking, storage, and compute tasks from CPUs to improve server performance and reduce power consumption, outlines three SmartNIC architectures—multicore ASIC, FPGA‑based, and FPGA‑enhanced—and details design methods and functional extensions illustrated with thirteen practical examples.
The article explains how financial platforms like Alipay protect user funds through multi‑site data centers, hot and cold backups, power redundancy, fire‑suppression systems, and strict location standards, showing why destroying a single server would not erase all stored money.
The article explains how Alipay’s financial system uses multi‑site, multi‑center architectures, hot‑standby, active‑active, and cold‑backup strategies, along with stringent A‑class data‑center standards, to ensure that even catastrophic physical attacks cannot erase users' money.
The article details how China Mobile's Beijing network management center uses massive monitoring screens, big‑data analytics, AI, VR and advanced data‑center automation to ensure near‑perfect connectivity for tens of thousands of subway passengers during peak hours and major events.
This article explains what FPGA (Field‑Programmable Gate Array) is, why it offers lower latency and higher energy efficiency than CPUs or GPUs for both compute‑intensive and communication‑intensive workloads, and details Microsoft’s three‑generation FPGA deployment strategy in its data‑center and cloud infrastructure.
At the ODCC 2019 Open Data Center Conference in Beijing, Alibaba server architect Guo Rui unveiled the open‑source “Fangsheng” project, detailing a new cloud‑server architecture that addresses ultra‑large scale, diverse customer needs, and intense competition by improving cooling, power efficiency, modularity, and deployment flexibility for Chinese cloud data centers.
