387. Moore's Law
"Boss, the WeChat message has already notified it."
Wen Xuwei was sitting in front of the computer at this time. After hearing the report from his subordinates, he nodded slightly, and then ordered him to go down to work.
Recently, Wen Xuwei did not work in the Science and Technology Park, but led his team to work in Guangnan Data Center. The time was not long, and it lasted for about two weeks.
Wen Xuwei likes to stay in this computer room, and the processing efficiency is much faster. But Song Wenhui had already told him clearly a while ago that no matter how big the problem on the computer room was on site, he would not recommend that Wen Xuwei go to the computer room again. Although the company has a high personnel mobility, the new employees recruited one after another can basically meet the daily maintenance requirements.
Just recently, the subsidiary companies operating the Guangnan Data Center have been opened, and the personnel of regular security, administrative finance, and on-site operation and maintenance have been put into work one after another.
Of course, the office conditions of Guangnan Data Center are not very good now. The main body of the first phase has been completed, but the second phase will not be completed until at least mid-June, and the office area of the data center will not be completed until September. Most of the current employees can only barely squeeze in the office area of the first phase. The exhaust air and heat dissipation sound of the upper computer room is quite loud, while the noise of the construction of the second phase is even louder.
Wen Xuwei thought about it and found that Meng Guyun was a tough place. It’s really not a pity for resigning employees to be unable to withstand it.
When he thought that he was crying in the toilet in the computer room earlier because of too much pressure, he couldn't help but feel that time passed quickly.
If the entire Mengguyun's cloud computing system had not been gradually improved, he would not have been able to withstand it to be honest.
Of course, Meng Guyun's success is a great price for Wen Xuwei. Not to mention the amount, if you have more, you will lose hundreds of kilograms in a year. If Meng Guyun cannot make it in the future, he may be able to take weight loss classes to make money.
It was nine o'clock at this time, and Wen Xuwei got upstairs to the computer room upstairs. In fact, most of the area on the first floor is also the computer room area, but the office building has not been built yet, and the employees can only squeeze on the first floor, so the computer room area on the first floor is temporarily vacant.
After walking upstairs, many employees were making adjustments to the servers on the rack, and some were connecting to new machines.
Now, almost every batch of machines in Guangnan data center will be put into production immediately after debugging, and the whole thing is always at full load. How fast the machine can be added depends on the company's decision to allocate how much money it will be to buy new machines.
Wen Xuwei walked while looking at the vacant rack. The upstream suppliers sent out two to three batches of machines, and it was estimated that the first phase of Guangnan would be completely full. According to the supply time Song Wenhui said, it was probably when the second phase was completed, and the time point was blocked accurately, so there was basically no chance for people to rest. Of course, Wen Xuwei should not come here often after this. After all, the staff was in order, and he was paddling when he came.
Wen Xuwei walked to the control room, and there were employees on duty inside. The dense screens were filled with a large number of charts. Of course, it was said that it was on duty, but the status of thousands of machines was really unrealistic to see with the naked eye. The monitoring relied on the automatic monitoring and automatic operation and maintenance of the main control system. In fact, there were not many people who had to operate it.
"Wen Gong!"
As soon as Wen Xuwei entered the door, the employees greeted him warmly. He nodded, found a place to sit down, and called out some things on one of the computers to check.
As expected, before the completion of the second phase of Guangnan Data Center, the Qingdao Data Center would break ground. Time is tight, but with the experience of building Guangnan Data Center, Qingdao Data Center has saved a lot of time in its early operation. After all, the special team that originally operated the Guangnan Data Center project has accumulated some experience.
After the Guangnan Data Center is turned on and then the construction of Qingdao Data Center begins, the cash pressure on the entire Mengguyun can be reduced.
In fact, according to the service pricing provided by Mengguyun, if you really need to calculate the hardware cost, the profit margin is quite profitable. However, when operating a data center, the statement inside is much more complicated.
The construction cost of the entire Guangnan Data Center Phase 1 and 2 is as high as 200 million yuan. After that, Mengguyun's investment in adding machinery and equipment will reach 200 million or 300 million yuan. To put it simply, that is, the revenue of cloud computing business - (electricity, network cost, personnel cost). This number can override the early construction and machine cost, and then the entire data center will officially enter the profit stage.
According to Song Wenhui's estimate, this will not be achieved until at least the beginning of 2014. Because it will take time to put into production in the second phase, and the additional machines in the second phase will be 200 to 300 million yuan. But after this time, the profits that Dan Guangnan can contribute will be quite considerable.
Wen Xuwei also said this to Song Wenhui, but unexpectedly, she let Song Wenhui pour some cold water on it.
The problem is simple, it is nothing more than hardware updates.
Most people know Moore's Law in the chip field, saying that the number of integrated circuits on a chip needs to be repeated every 18 months. As an IT product, servers are naturally affected by chip or other hardware upgrades.
A very simple truth is that the hardware performance doubles, but the power consumption is equivalent, so the difference in the benefit-cost ratio is also revealed. For example, a new machine can provide 50 minimum basic cloud packages when virtualized, while the old machine can only virtualize 25, and the power consumption of both machines is the same. This is equivalent to the same electricity cost, but due to hardware upgrades and other reasons, the new machine can provide greater computing performance.
For cloud service providers like Mengguyun, the longer the better, because once the hardware costs are recovered, the remaining time is to pay as much operating costs as it pays, it generates as much profit.
But if the data center area is limited and companies in Menggu also need greater computing performance, it is certainly inevitable for Mengguyun to continue to purchase new machines.
If Mengguyun's expansion speed is now, there is no need to worry about this. But the earlier the data center is built, the more hardware it should be upgraded within a few years. It is certain that the investment is large, after all, it is calculated as 100 million yuan if it is just a random amount. For example, Guangnan Data Center, Song Wenhui also said that in a few years, it will definitely cost more hardware money, but how to upgrade it depends on the actual hardware and the market at that time.
Wen Xuwei heard Song Wenhui mention it a few words, but just now, the situation inside is not something he can grasp. But thinking about it is true that there is really something that happens once and for all in the world, so where can there be any company going bankrupt? If technology needs to move up, the management idea must be the same.
And all this must be a headache for Song Wenhui.
Chapter completed!