An analysis of AMD's leading edge in cloud computing

As it technology advances, the cloud brings more reliable consolidation across the IT industry, and companies are looking to achieve greater flexibility and efficiency through cloud computing. According to research institutions, cloud computing will grow at a rapid rate of 26% per cent in the next few years, 5 times times faster than the traditional IT market.

The entire IT industry unanimously recognized that the rapid development of cloud computing will have a significant impact on it technology innovation, not only with cloud computing is the most closely related to the server industry is undergoing a great change, the various segments of almost all manufacturers are beginning to actively in this emerging market deployment.

AMD, the world's leading semiconductor manufacturer, should be one of the first companies to be the most active in the cloud market. Early on, AMD used cloud computing as an important strategy for future development, offering a full range of product solutions from cloud servers to cloud terminals, with a focus on the ease of deployment, flexibility, and total cost of ownership of the cloud, Won the favor of many customers. It is understood that more than 2 million AMD processors have been used in cloud computing environments worldwide.

Why is AMD doing so in the cloud computing world? We may be able to get a glimpse of it through some examples.

Compared with traditional servers, cloud servers require high capacity, high-density, high performance and low energy consumption, and are highly cost-effective. For example, its latest "bulldozer" architecture, compared to the mainstream of the market at the same price server processor, performance increased by 89%, power consumption reduced by 20%, but its price is lower than similar products 34%, and, each core energy consumption is half lower, room occupancy reduction of 2/3, platform price can be reduced by 2/ 3, perfect to help enterprises achieve more flexible and efficient cloud computing deployment, reduce long-term use costs.

It is reported that many domestic large enterprises have launched a platform based on AMD computing servers, such as China Everbright Bank, China Pacific Insurance, China Life and so on. The following is the introduction of the China Pacific Insurance using AMD computing platform to create an efficient "data center virtualization Platform" Case to analyze the AMD computing platform in the cloud application of a strong advantage.

China Pacific Insurance Co., Ltd. a virtual server-centric data center was officially launched and put into operation in December 2009. As of now, the data center has hosted tens of thousands of of branches of thousands of IT systems, many of the key business has been farewell to the original independent business processes, and moved to the new data center unified virtualization platform. According to China Pacific Insurance Company virtualization Project leader, the new virtual server as the core Data center of the full start-up, so that the entire group has been decentralized from it to centralized, from equipment-intensive to application-intensive successful transformation, in order to promote the data center to the intensive direction, To improve the overall level of corporate information construction has laid a good foundation.

After the completion of the data center project with the virtual server as the core, the intensive development model of China Pacific Insurance Data Center has been gradually formed, and the data center has achieved satisfactory results in deployment efficiency, IT system availability, it platform manageability, system compatibility and cost saving. Specifically, first, the new server deployment efficiency increased more than 10 times times, it takes 2 hours to deploy a new physical server before, and now it only takes 10 minutes to deploy a new virtual server, and the efficiency will be increased by more than 100 times times if the physical equipment purchase approval, payment settlement and equipment transportation time are counted. ; second, it system availability improves at least 90%, and when hardware failure occurs, it technicians can use vmotion technology to seamlessly migrate virtual machines that are serving externally to any physical server, not only to avoid accidental loss of data, It also ensures continuity and integrity of key business processes; third, it platform manageability 200%, management time can be reduced by 70%, due to the relatively centralized hardware equipment, it technicians can eliminate the rush to overhaul, and the use of VMware The Vcenter component can realize centralized management of Windows, Linux, UNIX and other operating system platform on the same interface, easily complete the control, supervision, debugging and maintenance of all kinds of servers; The system compatibility is better, and can realize to the old system (such as Windows NT, SCO and other systems) compatible, effectively protect the original it investment; a conservative estimate, the overall cost of the project is saved at least 1-1.500 million yuan.

China Pacific Insurance also gives full recognition to the excellent performance of HP Blade servers based on the AMD computing platform. The head of the China Pacific Insurance Company virtualization Project said that compared to the traditional rack server, the HP BL685 Blade Server, as a highly intensive operation Quad Blade server with multi-core technology, has excellent processing power, and its overall price is more than the same computing power, The same space occupies the rack server cheap 10%-20%, in saving space, reduce energy consumption, optimize the cooling and so on have outstanding advantages, this is very consistent with the data center to build a balanced performance and investment economy of the general principles.

China Pacific Insurance case let us see the AMD server in the solution of the enterprise resource allocation of the great advantage, its strong appearance, not only to help enterprises improve operational efficiency and solve the security of privacy issues, but also solve the cost of enterprise investment. I believe that with the continuous improvement of the cloud infrastructure, the future Internet Application Center will be transferred to the cloud applications, strong data resource analysis will be transferred to the cloud, all walks of life will be in the cloud to redistribute business resources. Because only in this way, can truly reflect the real effect of cloud burst out!

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)