Perfection of Rebirth

Chapter 205 Data Center Vision

While Xiaonei was in full swing, brother companies Brilliant Games and Brilliant Payments were not idle either.Now Brilliant Games has a monthly income of more than [-] million from "Fishing Game" and "Happy Farm", which can be said to be the most profitable company in the group.

For a game company, the biggest cost is labor cost and server investment.As for Brilliant Games, currently they are making web games, and each game is framed by Jiang Hui, so they don't need too many people at present, so the labor cost support is very little.Although after the recent recruitment, there are more than 40 full-time employees and more than 50 interns, but the number of employees is insignificant compared to the revenue of Brilliant Games.

On the contrary, as the number of registered users of the official website of Brilliant Games increases, the demand for servers is increasing.Although Glory Games and Xiaonei are building their own server rooms, they are still enough for the time being, but if Glory Games wants to further develop online games, it will inevitably need more server resources, and the ever-increasing group buying, Douban Waiting for the new company's demand for servers will continue to increase, Jiang Hui feels that it is necessary to start planning the construction of the data center now.

A data center is a complex set of facilities.It not only includes computer systems and other supporting equipment, but also includes redundant data communication connections, environmental control equipment, monitoring equipment and various safety devices. Construction can only be started after full demonstration and discussion. The capital is not simply a few million or tens of millions.Although I don't want to invest billions of dollars at every turn in the future, it is still necessary to prepare an initial investment of three to five billion.

With the rapid development of IT technology, a new generation of high-density servers and storage devices continue to emerge.With the expansion of business and the improvement of informatization, today's data centers no longer just support some single applications or daily data storage and computing functions, but provide support and services for the normal operation of the entire business operation system .The future development of Guanghui Group will inevitably put forward higher requirements for the level standards and service capabilities of the data center infrastructure.

Shan Yu, director of Xiaonei Network, Brilliant Payment, and Brilliant Game Data Center, also raised many issues when reporting the data center concept to Jiang Hui.

"Currently, the energy consumption cost of the data center remains high and shows a rapid upward trend. There are many factors that cause this situation, such as the low utilization rate of the server, and the unreasonable design of the power supply system of the data center. Many domestic The electricity cost of the data center exceeds [-] million yuan every year, and we need to fully consider the energy consumption problem in the early planning,” said Shan Yu.

According to Jiang Hui's idea, the data center will be built by Guanghui Group, and all its subsidiaries will pay for it together, so that resources can be utilized to the greatest extent and unnecessary waste can be avoided.

"Shanyu, do you think it is possible for all the companies in the group to jointly build a data center?" Jiang Hui asked.

"Mr. Jiang, you have a good point in asking this question. At present, most institutional data centers cannot achieve flexible allocation of resources, and cannot fully realize resource sharing and improving equipment utilization. According to statistics, nearly half of the data centers More than 20% of the servers in the data center are idle or have extremely low utilization. The root cause of this situation is that traditional data centers are usually built on various independent information technologies, and various systems cannot communicate with each other. At the same time Because resources cannot be shared, the performance of servers and storage systems cannot be fully utilized. Therefore, sharing for data centers is a trend, but it is also a difficulty,” said Shan Yu.

"Do you have any brothers, sisters or classmates who are also working on the data center? I plan to officially start the preparatory work for the construction of the data center. I will try to finalize the construction plan this year, start construction next year, and put the Jiang data center into operation as soon as possible." , Jiang Hui said.

"I'll get in touch later. Since my mentor is researching data processing projects, there are quite a few seniors working in telecommunications, mobile and other data centers. I'll see if I can persuade some of them to come and join me in building a data center." , Flash Rain said.

"Well, in terms of salary, we can double their previous salary. As long as people are willing to come, everything is easy to talk about," Jiang Hui said.

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The construction of the data center is an inseparable part of the development of Guanghui Group. If the corresponding layout is prepared in advance, it will also have an advantage in cloud computing in the future. For the next step of the group's rapid development, especially after the launch of smartphones, the rapidly increasing The data processing business puts forward higher requirements for various enterprises.

However, things in the data center can't be rushed. After Jiang Hui arranged for Shanyu to plan, he began to shift his energy to Brilliant Games.The development of "Fishing Game" and "Plants vs. Zombies" arranged by Jiang Hui before, among which "Fishing Game" has already reaped rich fruits, and "Plants vs. Zombies" is about to be completed.

Brilliant Games is currently invincible in terms of domestic web games, but although several games have achieved good market response in China, Brilliant Games' international influence is limited.

"Plants vs. Zombies" did not become popular in China until it became popular in Europe and America in the previous life. It can be regarded as a game that is very popular all over the world.It couldn't be more suitable to regard this game as a product of Brilliant Games to enter the world.Therefore, during development, Jiang Hui had to go to the team to Chinese and English versions at the same time, and other language versions will be considered later.Jiang Hui is preparing to launch "Plants vs. Zombies" simultaneously for global customers.

"This game is the company's first product launched simultaneously globally. The technical department must ensure that major problems are avoided during the running of the game. If "Fishing Game" is the company's cash cow, then I hope that "Plants vs. Zombies" "is a banner of the company in the world, and when people think of games, they will think of Brilliant Games," Jiang Hui said to Zhang Weiguo, director of the technology department.

"Mr. Jiang, don't worry, we have actually finished the development of this game, and we have been working on the inside, just hoping to eliminate bugs and give players a better experience. In addition, the images of plants and zombies in our team have been optimized. , making them look more comfortable. Especially Wang Mengyu, an intern recruited by Mr. Jiang some time ago, has made a lot of contributions to the game's art," said Zhang Weiguo.

"Oh, is that so, is Wang Mengyu's performance okay?" Jiang Hui asked.

(End of this chapter)