The development of IT has led to a large variety of hardware with different specifications and heterogeneous software platforms. It is essential to unify the management of these infrastructure resources to mask the underlying differences between hardware and platforms. This allows for the delivery of resources in a standardized manner to meet upper-layer business demands, while also supporting features such as project management, metering and billing, and workflow approval. These capabilities enhance the management of resources throughout the delivery process.

A cloud platform fundamentally serves business systems and, as an underlying support structure, should aim to be as simple and intelligent as possible in use. Therefore, the platform needs to provide rich, user-friendly, and straightforward O&M functions to meet the needs of daily operational tasks. These include features like snapshots, live migration, and resource orchestration. The focus is on offering practical, easy-to-use solutions that allow teams to focus their energy on more valuable activities such as business optimization and innovation.

Whether driven by business needs or policy requirements, enterprise customers place high demands on the availability of services and the reliability of data. A cloud platform must ensure continuous service capability and be designed with high availability across the entire system to guarantee the continuity of cloud-hosted business operations. In addition, it must offer backup and disaster recovery capabilities to address potential logical errors and extreme failures. This ensures that in the event of such incidents, data can be rolled back and business operations can be restored.