The 9th Data Center Standards Summit was held, Tencent data center intelligence and future exploration

Tencent Data Center Shanghai Technology Session

On November 24, the 9th CDCC Data Center Standards Summit was held in Shanghai. At the meeting, Tencent Cloud officially released Tencent Zhiwei's new product system. At the same time, a technical session was held to share with the outside world the exploration and practice of Tencent data centers in the field of intelligence, and to discuss the future trends of the data center industry under the dual-carbon background.

Tencent Cloud Vice President Shen Ke said in his speech at the summit that driven by the mission of "technology for good", Tencent Data Center has launched a new product system of Zhiwei through technological upgrading and ecological construction. This time The new products released have not only been applied and verified in Tencent's own business, but also fully considered the changes in demand from the market, preparing for future carbon-neutral energy management.

Create a new product system, covering horizontal scenarios and vertical fields

Tencent Data Center combines the current development trends of the digital economy and launches a comprehensively upgraded Zhiwei new product system, which not only covers Automated operation scenarios at different stages, as well as in-depth efforts in key vertical areas.

In terms of automated operations, Tencent Data Center has released the standard version, open source customized version and cluster management version of the Zhiwei platform. It can meet the automated operation and management needs of data centers at different stages and sizes, help customers quickly upgrade data center automated operations and management according to business scenarios, and help the data center industry and users achieve green transformation.

In key areas, we have launched the Tencent Intelligent Dynamic Environment Platform for data center power environment monitoring scenarios, the Tencent Tracking Platform for unattended data center scenarios, and the Tencent Intelligent Tracking Platform for carbon neutral scenarios. Carbon management platform. Among them, Tencent's intelligent dynamic environment platform has achieved the goals of plug-and-play, fast, accurate and stable data, and close to business needs by redefining standards and architecture. It has been applied in batches in TB campus.

See intelligence, in-depth exploration of product design and innovation

The new products released by Tencent this time allow intelligence to be "seen" in practice through design and innovation. Shi Lei, an expert on Tencent's data center smart products, said that Tencent's new generation smart platform has a closed-loop design of the product system for the entire process of business scenarios, using advanced technology to combine with scenarios while establishing a digital measurement system. It not only realizes intelligent closed loop of important scenarios, but also supports centralized management of large-scale data centers. In the future, it can also provide support for important development directions such as unmanned, green and low-carbon data centers.

Tencent Zhiwei’s intelligent development path is based on its continuous pursuit of operational automation on the one hand, and it is also inseparable from the collaborative efforts of industry partners. Li Xin, an expert on Tencent's data center smart products, said, "In addition to building corresponding product capabilities, Tencent is also constantly improving the entire closed business loop, from the initial "recruiting suppliers" to now looking for "comrades who trust each other." Sales, solution design, product delivery, operation, development and other links enable partners to form a matrix of partner formations

Intelligent support, technical practice and innovation of Tencent data center

Adherence to productization practices has provided effective support for Tencent’s data center planning and design expert Zeng Xianlong, saying, “Tencent’s productized data center has successively formulated relatively independent and easy-to-use functional partitions during the design process. Principles such as copying and expansion, nearby equipment, and universal interfaces; in the process of standardized design, technology is also continuously promoted, covering details such as cables and even the structural framework of modules. ”?With the continuous advancement of productized data center practice, coupled with the latest intelligent system, the efficiency of the entire data center design, construction, and operation has been effectively improved.

Redefining standards, Tencent's intelligent dynamic environment platform comprehensively maintains the security and stability of the data center. As the data center's power infrastructure and operating environment health monitoring system, the dynamic environment system is related to the safety and stability of the data center.

According to Yan Xiaoyun, head of weak current technology at Tencent's data center, "Tencent's intelligent dynamic environment platform can realize the collection, storage and calculation of monitoring data in seconds through the comprehensive application of Internet of Things technology and hardware interface technology, and it can be processed within 3 seconds. The underlying alarm upload platform is presented and has been gradually applied in Tencent data center campus. "Tencent Intelligent Dynamic Ring currently leads the industry in terms of the number of invalid alarms and data processing and transmission speed.

Exploring the "self-maintenance model", Tencent's self-maintenance meets the operation and maintenance needs of massive infrastructure in data centers. As Tencent Cloud's various businesses advance globally, more than 100 large-scale IDCs have been established around the world, with a total number of servers exceeding 1 million. Zhang Xi, Tencent Data Center Operations Service Manager, said that Tencent began to try to explore the self-maintenance model in 2017. By 2021, it has initially established a self-maintenance system that can meet the operation and maintenance needs of massive IDC infrastructure, achieving intensive Specialized service management, high-quality service delivery, and optimization of operation and maintenance costs. In addition, Tencent will continue to strengthen its self-maintenance capabilities and continue to expand the breadth and depth of infrastructure self-maintenance.

With the rapid growth of data center volume and delivery volume, Tencent has built a technical support system with Tencent characteristics. Zhang Haitao, head of Tencent Data Center Operation Technology, said, "Tencent's technical support system can maximize the quality of Tencent's data center chain from the system level." At the same time, Tencent's data center is also looking to the future, focusing on the use of wind and solar storage and comprehensive energy. , discovery and response to potential risks of green energy-saving technologies, balanced and coordinated development of artificial intelligence and human skills, customized equipment, etc., to actively prepare for the construction of a more complex and larger-scale data center technical support system to cope with ultra-large-scale data The development trend of centralized and customized data centers.

Focus on security management and explore the path of “unattended” data centers

With the rapid development of the data center industry, unattended operations will be a new trend. In addition, while many computer rooms are gradually expanding in size, they are located far away from core cities, which has led to increasingly severe security management challenges faced by data centers.

Huang Xiangqi, an AI algorithm expert at Tencent’s Security Platform Department, said that Tencent’s data center has already laid out plans for exploring unattended computer rooms in the future, and has many years of experience in the deployment and implementation of its own large-scale computer rooms. This newly upgraded Tencent Tracking is jointly created by the IDC Platform Department, Security Platform Department, and Network Platform Department. It can realize real-time tracking of people active in the park through machine vision AI technology and Internet of Things technology; through end-to-end online personnel The management system realizes the comprehensive electronicization of the park entry and exit process; and with the blessing of core technologies such as self-developed high-performance video distribution services, high-precision IoT positioning technology, and the H5 graphics rendering engine specially optimized for data center scenarios, it is moving towards unmanned Keep moving in the direction of duty.

Practice the dual-carbon policy and face the green future of data centers

"Dual-carbon" is my country's national strategy and important commitment. In his keynote speech, Liang Jiaqi, head of green energy and dual carbon at Tencent Data Center, focused on Tencent’s data center’s thinking and practice on carbon neutrality. He said, "The underlying green technology architecture system Tencent has accumulated over the years has laid a good technical foundation for zero-carbon data centers. In the future, Tencent also plans a zero-carbon IDC system, including wind power, photovoltaics, energy storage, and waste heat recovery inside and outside the park. Centralized configuration of trigeneration, etc.; assisted by market-based procurement of green electricity and green operations, and supported by intelligent energy management, the proportion of investment in forest carbon sinks, ocean carbon sinks, and carbon-related technologies such as CCUS will be increased by creating sustainable solutions. Sustainable development of data centers provides society with green, low-carbon and sustainable computing power. ”

The key to realizing intelligent management of energy and carbon in data centers is to realize system automation. Li Fei, an expert on Tencent’s data center smart products, said, “Tencent’s smart data center can help data centers achieve standardized automatic collection and digital modeling. The energy-saving and emission reduction solutions covered by the new generation smart carbon management platform are also extensive and comprehensive. It can help data centers quickly implement management and analysis decisions of corresponding data.

"At the same time, Tencent Data Center has also carried out long-term layout planning in the field of carbon management through the establishment of expert teams and cooperation with universities, hoping to eventually solve various problems and challenges that the industry may face in the future.

Good things come in pairs, let’s get double awards

In addition, the “Data Center Technology Achievement Award”, known as the “Nobel Prize” in the IDC industry, was also grandly released at this summit. ** *30 technologies, 2 talents with outstanding contributions and 6 young technology talents received honors. Among them, Zeng Xianlong, an expert architect of Tencent data center, has achieved outstanding results in data center technology, standards and applications and won the Youth Technology Award. Talent Award.

The "Micro Integrated Data Center Natural Cooling Technology" jointly applied by Tencent and Chongqing Jiaotong University won the first prize of the "Data Center Science and Technology Achievement Award". While maintaining data center functions and security standards, it has greatly reduced the energy consumption of micro data centers.

Outlook

Tencent Data Center Senior Director Yang Xiaowei and Zhiwei Platform R&D Center Director Yue Shang attended the meeting.

Yang Xiaowei pointed out, “Data center infrastructure construction is currently facing a window of rapid development. Under the dual-carbon background, Tencent Data Center will combine its rich technical advantages and operational management practices. Experience helps the data center industry move rapidly in the direction of green intelligence. ”

Yue Shang said, “Tencent’s data center product development strategy and excellent operating system are the source of power for Tencent Zhiwei’s rapid development. Under the great changes of double carbon, we used the platform of this conference to launch a new product system, technology system and ecological system. In the future, we have the determination and ability to work with ecological partners to contribute to the development of the data center industry and the realization of green data centers and smart data centers. ”