Blowing foam regression rationality Intel Analytics cloud Computing

An objective analysis of cloud computing is a combination of strategies, technologies, and applications that can help enterprise users integrate IT resources and flexibly allocate them to support business development changes. It is not the "castles in the castle" of it vendors or industry to induce users to break out of their real needs, but is created by the actual needs of users-today's complex economic environment, restrictions on it investment, and the pursuit of business agility give companies more emphasis on the full use of IT resources and ROI. Traditional IT environment construction often lacks unified planning, follow the headache, the head, the foot pain. The thinking of the foot is limited in scalability, flexibility, energy efficiency, and it is difficult to effectively improve the utilization of IT equipment, applications and data, and cloud computing is the best solution to help enterprise users solve these challenges. It should be based on user needs and adapt to the development and evolution of user needs, so there is a solid foundation and strong impetus, is the general trend, rather than empty "bubble."

Of course, from another point of view, the hot discussion around the cloud, and even some hype and occasion, also shows that people's recognition and affirmation of cloud computing. Any value of innovation will cause concern, but we should pay more attention to down-to-earth exploration and innovation, blown away speculation bubble.

Cloud deployment is not an overnight

Aside from some hype, another argument behind the cloud-bubble view is that cloud computing has not seemed to have a real cloud in the past few years, or that many users have made relevant investments and are not getting very good returns soon.

So users who question cloud computing are actually treating the cloud as a fully fledged technology that can be deployed and applied overnight. In fact, cloud computing is not a break from traditional it, but a gradual improvement, gradual optimization, its implementation and application is more like the transformation of the old City, rather than on the flat ground built a new town. It requires prudent decision-making, as well as phased deployment and implementation, and users face the difficulties and challenges they face at each stage.

In fact, the cloud computing innovation and development model also determines that it can not be step, a exploits, its technology, applications and services through the user's needs and in the industry and the user to develop and improve the development. As long as the user needs still exist, is still updated, cloud computing has the space for development, will not stop.

The fall of the cloud requires at least three steps.

The implementation and application of cloud computing will be implemented in phases, so what are the phases? Intel's view is that to achieve the main features and purposes, cloud computing should be at least three steps: The first step is the integration and pooling of IT resources; The second step is to automate the management of resources; The third step is to allow these resources to be self-improvement, Intelligent response to the needs of each user, to provide users with flexible, moderate resource support or services. All three steps to achieve, the relevant technology to truly mature, at least for a few years. Intel's cloud vision-interoperability, automation, and client adaptation-is designed to push these three steps to the ground, and the time they have reached the target has been set for 2015 years.

In this case, some users may have the idea that for companies that are still hesitant about using cloud computing technology, should they wait until all cloud technology, applications and services are basically mature before deciding whether to accept it? The idea, in fact, is another misconception about cloud computing that the cloud has to reach its most mature state to bring rewards. The real situation is that it doesn't have to wait until all the implementation stages are done to help the user. Each phase of the implementation will bring benefits to the enterprise, in its first phase, for example, many users are using virtualization technology to achieve their IT resource pooling, the application of this technology has simplified the IT infrastructure of many enterprises, Increase their efficiency and reduce the cost of their procurement, management, and maintenance.

In China, because the informatization of each industry starts late, the development condition is different, so in face of cloud computing, we need more adequate preparation and investment. Of course, the development of cloud computing in China has some innate advantages, such as a huge market and perfect IT industry chain, as well as the government's strong support, these three forces, it is likely to let China's cloud computing industry and market development speed.

Intel's dual roles and three only

This view of cloud computing, from Intel's long-term observation and practice of relevant technologies, industries and markets, may raise questions as to why Intel is so focused on cloud computing as a vendor positioned upstream of the industry who does not provide products and solutions directly to end users.

This problem can be solved with Intel's "dual role" in the cloud computing field and "three only". The so-called dual role refers to Intel in the field of cloud computing, not just the initiator of cloud technology innovation, cloud practice strategy research and experience sharing. The former is rooted in the cloud computing applications or services regardless of the form, what features or functions, it is inseparable from the core hardware, especially the processor platform support, only the processor platform for their optimization, their performance and functional potential to achieve maximum release.

The latter is due to the fact that Intel has been exploring the building and application of cloud computing by collecting, analyzing, researching and implementing its own cloud applications and service plans to enable its products to support a wide range of cloud applications and cloud services. And share the results to help more users identify the direction of cloud practice and help them avoid risk.

On the basis of the open architecture, from the above role, Intel has established its unique position in the cloud computing industry chain, which gives it three unique advantages over the cloud industry and market: It is the world's most important, heavyweight cloud organization, the Open Data Center Alliance ( ODCA's technical advisor, not only helps the consortium discover the true needs of the cloud computing application model, but also directs its own innovation based on these requirements, and it is able to be unaffected or influenced by any products and solutions that are ultimately sold, and to mobilize industry, users and their own resources, Provide forward-looking advice and guidance for users to explore in the cloud, with the ability to work with as many heavyweight vendors in the industry as possible, such as launching the Intel Cloud Build (Intel Cloud Builder) program to provide users with a rich and diverse range of cloud computing products and solutions.

Although Intel has a unique and important place and role in the cloud computing field, the development of this area requires the full collaboration of users and industry to really push. Intel sincerely hopes that this collaboration in the 2012 Year of the Dragon, and for a longer period of time will continue to show the "Dragon Lift Cloud" of the weather, is to let cloud computing such as the colorful Xiangyun general, lift the user's business, let them soar like Golden Dragon on top of nine.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)