Can micro-servers compete for data center?

Under the impact of cloud computing model, the server market presents new features, one of the notable changes is the rise of micro-server. What is a micro-server? The biggest feature of a micro-server that differs from a general-purpose server is low power consumption, which typically uses the arm-architecture processor chip or Intel's Atom processor.

The large-scale popularization of cloud computing makes the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13999.html "> workload appear lightweight and parallelization, especially large-scale Web applications such as CDN. In this context, the use of general-purpose servers in power and cost is too wasteful. The role of micro server in this kind of application situation is more and more obvious, power consumption and cost advantages are self-evident.

Micro-servers are becoming an emerging force in the server market, and mainstream server vendors such as HP and Dell are also starting to test micro-server products. Upstream chip makers such as Intel are also innovating their own atom chips, and AMD will launch a 64-bit ARM processor next year. Application providers such as Redhat and Novell also launched an enterprise Linux distribution for ARM architecture processors. The ecosystem of micro-server is forming, the future micro-server will become the new growth point of server market.