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Recently, international authoritative consulting agency Forrester released “The Forrester WaveTM: Public Cloud Container Platforms, Q1 2022 “report, the report shows that Ali Cloud entered the global Public Cloud Container platform” leader “quadrant, this is the first time that Chinese Cloud computing vendors enter this quadrant.
Figure 1 Alibaba Cloud enters the Global Forrester 2022 Q1 Public Cloud Container Platform “Leader” quadrant. Q12022 PublicCloudContainerPlatforms, view the full report: reurl. Cc / 3 jynvl)
Forrester, one of the world’s most authoritative IT consulting and evaluation agencies, conducted in-depth analysis and scoring of the eight most important container platform providers in terms of product, strategy, and market performance, 14 criteria and 29 detailed evaluation criteria.
Leading oversized container service practice, accelerate thousands of industries to embrace the cloud
Alibaba’s technology architecture has been evolving in the cloud for 15 years. Since 2011, Alibaba has started to promote the implementation of group application containerization in order to solve the problems of its core business cost and operation and maintenance efficiency. With more than 10 years of container technology reserves and actual combat experience, Ali Cloud container service has the support capacity for large clusters, and has taken the lead in China to achieve a breakthrough in the scale of a single cluster of 10,000 nodes and 1 million PODS, which can help enterprises easily cope with the increasing scale demand.
On November 11, 2020, Ali Group achieved 100% application of cloud bio-tech, e-commerce micro-services, middleware and other applications, as well as search, big data and AI businesses, all running on the basis of a unified container platform, expanding over one million containers within one hour, task scheduling efficiency up to 20,000 per second, and reducing cost by 50%. Scale application delivery efficiency increased by 100%. While extensively supporting the group’s application of cloud biotechnology, Ali Cloud container service also provides services for tens of thousands of enterprises on the cloud to realize the modernization of application transformation and upgrading, helping an increasing number of industries, including the Internet to retail, finance, manufacturing, transportation, etc., to accelerate innovation by using cloud native technology.
FIG. 2 Practice history of Alibaba Yunyunyuan
Forrester report:
“Ali Cloud is the leading public cloud platform in China and the Asia-pacific region, and its container services have expanded globally. Alibaba Group has widely embraced cloud native, with more than 90 percent of its applications running on its Kubernetes container service. Ali Cloud effectively translates this experience into a wide range of cloud-native services that empower customers to build digital businesses.”
Comprehensive cloud native open source contribution, continue to lead China’s cloud native innovation and development
At present, Ali Cloud ranks the top among Chinese enterprises in GitHub contribution ranking of open source community, with more than 2,600 open source projects, more than 30,000 contributors, and more than one million stars and followers. Cloud native is reshaping the entire software life cycle. In order to help enterprises and developers make more efficient and convenient use of cloud native technology, Ali Cloud has invested in a comprehensive cloud native open source contribution based on its own research and community ecological cooperation, covering key areas such as container, microservice, Serverless and application delivery, and has given back to the world’s top foundations. It has donated cloud native application delivery and management platform KubeVela, cloud native application automation engine OpenKruise, edge container platform OpenYurt, Cloud native data orchezation and acceleration system Fluid, and multi-cluster management platform to CLOUD native Computing Foundation CNCF Projects such as OCM, Inclavare Containers, open source container runtime for confidential computing scenarios, and ChaosBlade, a chaos engineering tool for distributed high availability fields, build better connections between the cloud, the community and developers, help the cloud to create greater technical and commercial value and accelerate the development of the digital economy.
Figure 3 Ali Cloud Container & Cloud native Application Delivery ecological Open Source Project (part)
Forrester report:
“Ali Cloud not only promotes the cloud native developer ecosystem in China, but also makes great contribution to the global cloud native open source community (there are 9 Sandbox/incubation projects under CNCF from Ali Cloud). It has built a complete cloud native open source ecosystem, and the layout of technological innovation is both broad and deep.”
Powerful container application lifecycle management platform, the best solution for enterprise cloud native digital transformation
Under the future trend of cloud computing brought by cloud native, container has become the new interface for users to use cloud. Since the release of Ali Cloud container product nearly 7 years ago, it has grown into a cloud native operating system for enterprises, and its technology and service capabilities are becoming increasingly mature. Alibaba Cloud container service ACK downward encapsulates 30 cloud products, forming a new interface for the interaction of the entire automated operation and cloud platform, thus improving the elastic capacity and automated operation and maintenance capacity of the system, and promoting the upgrade of the integration of software and hardware. As early as Q3 2019, Forrester’s review report on the public cloud enterprise container platform was called “the public cloud container platform most suitable for enterprises to carry out cloud native digital transformation”.
In 2021, enterprises will embrace containers more actively, and have higher requirements on the startup efficiency, resource cost and scheduling efficiency of container core technology. Ali Cloud container team also supports the upgrade of the new generation of container architecture, and continues to tap the potential of containers through full-stack optimization of containers, bare metals, operating systems and other technologies. Compared with the open source solution, Aliyun container service ACK can achieve 40% performance improvement, 50% reduction of container network delay, 100% increase of heterogeneous resource utilization, and achieve full link observation.
At the same time, 5G, AR, AIoT and other scenarios continue to promote the evolution of the new generation of cloud architecture. Under ali Cloud’s deployment architecture of “One cloud and multiple forms”, Ali Cloud container service comprehensively upgraded to ACK Anywhere, and released distributed container management cloud platform ACK One, Ali Cloud container service ACK release, ACK Agile version and other innovative products to further expand the boundary of cloud. This enables enterprises to experience low-cost, low-latency and localized public cloud product capabilities in their self-built data centers, realizing unified cluster management, unified resource scheduling, unified data disaster recovery and unified application delivery, and making advanced cloud computing technologies at their fingertips.
FIG. 4 Aliyun Container service ACK product family
Forrester report:
“Ali Cloud has strong capabilities in service grid support, container and VM runtime support, container mirroring support, security features and policies, cost management, hybrid cloud support, edge computing support, container storage and networking; Customers also praised its observability in logging and monitoring, efficient management of the cluster lifecycle, and seamless integration with multiple services. Deep capabilities in verticals such as microservices development support and DevOps automation. Alibaba Cloud Container service is especially suitable for global enterprises targeting The China and Asia Pacific markets or local companies with overseas operations to gain comprehensive cloud-native digital transformation capabilities based on advanced practical experience.”
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