Chinese technology major Tencent has announced that it has successfully completed a migration of its applications and services onto its own cloud.
The Register stated that the tech giant, which provides customers with apps and services such as WeChat, qq.com, and Tencent Video, first considered migrating its own apps onto its own cloud in 2018.
The idea to shift its services onto a Tencent-owned cloud came after the company realised that its many services had all begun building and operating their own data infrastructure to manage and accommodate for peak traffic requirements, hence resulting in considerable wastage from unused capacity across Tencent’s operations.
The Register suggested that the Chinese government might see Tencent’s move as informing China’s plan to migrate five million data centre racks out of urban areas into remote areas in China, with better access to renewable energy.
With this transition, improved efficiency, reduced wastage, and better usage of data storage infrastructure will be necessary for the continued smooth functioning of services which rely on cloud computing and data centres.
Tencent is not the only hyperscale cloud company to migrate its own services to its own cloud: for instance, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have all made steps towards moving their services out of internal private infrastructure, onto cloud.
Benefits of Cloud Migration
In a series of comic panels written in Mandarin Chinese, Tencent expressed its confidence that the migration of its services onto its own cloud was a game-changing move, which would reduce wastage from unused space, improve the company’s efficiency, and enhance the quality of its services to customers.
Tencent explained the benefits of cloud migration for Tencent’s customers, noting that cloud migration of virtual machines could be done quickly, and would increase data storage space, which is especially important given the high optimum number of concurrent users on Tencent’s applications.
The company said that it has moved workloads that consume 50 million cores to its cloud, saving $446 million, and achieved an overall efficiency which is 30% better than the industry standard. Tencent added that losses and errors in computing and virtualisation on cloud servers must be kept to an absolute minimum, to enhance service quality for customers.
In addition, Tencent mentioned that there has been a 50% utilisation rate for the new cloud infrastructure, which has strong DDOS protection and an increased bandwidth 7.6 times greater than pre-cloud migration, promoting and enabling better connectivity between its users.
Tencent remains confident that the project to migrate its services to a Tencent-owned cloud will demonstrate its capabilities as a public cloud operator and innovator.
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