Value--The ultimate weight of cloud computing

There is a story: a corporate president listening to people talking about cloud computing, and their CIO said: "Find some information on cloud computing to me." The CIO told Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8510.html ">it Manager:" Study cloud computing. The IT manager said to his men, "we're starting to cloud computing." "The story is that cloud computing is still stuck in the concept of eating." In fact, after a few years of baptism, more and more enterprises have not been confused by the concept, blindly launched cloud computing. Cloud computing wants to convince users that more and more real people need to be brought up.

So what is the value of cloud computing for businesses? Different suppliers according to their own advantages, opinions, management convenience, cost savings and so are one of the reasons. At the just-concluded Chongqing Cloud Fair, the concept of "value Cloud" presented by AMD seems to be a good answer to this question.

The value cloud is just meant to create value for customers, in fact, this is not the only meaning, from the general speech of AMD Deng, we feel that "value cloud" means from the actual needs of customers, innovative products and technologies to provide customers with "customized" cloud. At the same time, it means to work closely with partners to innovate, build cloud computing "value ecosystem" for customers "tailored" cloud applications, and ultimately realize the whole industry chain of "cloud value."

With the help of cloud computing, ordinary users can access the network at anytime, anywhere, and realize the sharing and management of data in the cloud, such as uploading documents. For enterprises, you can easily access a variety of highly scalable, flexible IT resources, rapid deployment of enterprise applications, without increasing hardware investment under the premise of meeting the rapid growth of business needs.

The concept of "value cloud" is not only the result of the analysis and practice of AMD over the years in the cloud computing field, but also the requirement of cloud computing practice, the deployment and application of cloud computing has become the first priority with the large-scale landing of cloud computing this year.

Cloud computing landed on several fronts requiring maturity. First, the requirements of the background processing capacity, scheduling capacity to reach a considerable level; second, the need for a mature application model; Third, the terminal has enough capacity to meet the cloud application of the rendering.

In terms of background processing capabilities, computing, especially processor technology, is critical. The background processing capability includes not only the arithmetic ability, but also the I/O throughput ability, the data exchange ability among the cores and so on. In addition, in order to ensure the promotion of background processing at the same time, covers the area, cooling, power supply and other surrounding the pressure is not too large, the power of the processor is also very important. The value that this brings to users is lower TCO and higher performance.

In the application mode, the flexible scheduling and management of computing ability is very important. This is based on processor support for virtualization, expansion of other computing resources such as memory, and increased core density. This brings value to the user is the optimal allocation of resources and maximize utilization.

On the terminal side, in order for the end users to be able to smoothly from the cloud to obtain the required variety of resources, the terminal must have a strong integrated capabilities, including computing power and graphics processing capabilities, and can provide a long-term endurance to ensure that users use cloud computing anytime, anywhere. The value that this brings to the user is the seamless application experience.

From "Cloud computing" to "value cloud" transition, is to be in the above three aspects to continuously meet the needs of users, to provide users with value. As the pioneer and promoter of the concept of "value cloud", AMD has made its own efforts in these aspects. From the server side, AMD is committed to low power, nuclear density, open platform architecture and virtualization. In the terminal, AMD give full play to the advantages of graphic display, the introduction of APU products, and further optimize the cloud terminal experience feeling. Clearly, AMD has already laid the groundwork for a "value cloud" in technology.

In fact, "value cloud" in foreign countries is not a new concept, the value of cloud concept is being a lot of users into the application of cloud. At present, the global 2 million Hao long processor is used in cloud computing, in this process, AMD realized the system's best per watt energy consumption, significantly reduced power consumption, increased memory bandwidth and capacity, support the rapid development of customer business in all walks of life. Microsoft chose AMD Hao Dragon as the Windows Azure Cloud Computing Service platform's only processor; Facebook's data center is using AMD's customized server technology.

Fortunately, in China, the cloud computing environment, in the user's demand more and more meticulous push, many enterprises have begun to focus on the value of users. From Beijing, Chengdu, Wuxi and many other urban cloud projects to many OEM launched the various terminals based on APU, the value of the cloud is increasingly the core concept. This will also promote cloud computing is no longer the concept of clouds, but to become users feel the rain.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)