Don't they really understand cloud computing?

Wen/Zhang Shule

"Who here can tell exactly what cloud computing is?" If you know a lot about cloud computing, raise your hand. "AMD Global senior vice president, Greater China President Deng at a conference last November, threw this problem, hundreds of people's meeting appeared a moment of quiet, unexpectedly no one raised their hands."

Who sits under the table? AMD Digital global executives, from HP, Dell, Microsoft, Micro, WYSE, as well as the dawn, Super Cloud, Shanda and other important partners, they really do not know the cloud?

The answer, of course, is no, but why is the spot so quiet? Is modesty? Is it prudent? Or disdain to answer?

Of course not, but in the eyes of major it and internet executives, there is a cloud that is different from each other, just as every person has an unusual Lin Daiyu in their eyes.

Cloud computing is a segmented market, it is not possible to use a unified model to achieve unification, even if the same use of AMD Hao-long processor technology, Microsoft's cloud services platform Windows Azure and the Crown of social networking Facebook uses a completely different cloud computing formula, the former serves developers and engineers , more professional and more intensive, the latter serving ordinary netizens and social life, more trivial and more dispersed.

The demand for cloud computing from the banking system is conservative and efficient, internal, must have a strong protection capabilities to avoid leaking trade secrets, the use of external, must have strong stability and manageability, to achieve 7x24-hour uninterrupted service; cloud computing from gaming is not just about being stable and manageable, If you can provide the user to build their own game world, it is the best ...

All this shows that each enterprise in the eyes of the cloud computing is different, and as a basis, must have a customized for their own cloud framework. That's why executives are silent.

The basic core of this cloud architecture is to "customize" according to different requirements.

Based on this, AMD's own cloud, with minimal investment, leads to greater efficiency and "anywhere computing", the newly created AMD Cloud relies on infrastructure built over 124,000 AMD CPU cores. At present, 30 large projects are using AMD Cloud, including AMD Apu and the new "bulldozer" core related design work. Every month, about 3,000 engineers around the world perform about 4000 jobs on the AMD cloud, keeping the AMD cloud at over 90% utilization--AMD almost all engineering projects are carried out in private clouds. Of course, the cost savings reached 6 million dollars.

Oneself, according to the needs of different users to customize the cloud structure, in fact, AMD to win the cloud computing nuclear "core" the key to the war. Pacific Insurance in the use of "based on the AMD computing platform of HP BL685 Blade server +vmware virtualization software", the performance of the data center is increased by 90%, the business operation cost savings of about 150 million yuan; Everbright Bank, China Life, Shanda Network and many other enterprises such as this, In AMD's customer-oriented cloud architecture has opened its own cloud road.

Obviously, AMD wants to go farther, at the end of February, AMD bought the famous low-power server manufacturer Seamicro 334 million dollars, which is undoubtedly a significant event in the whole server industry. Seamicro, a former Intel partner, is focused on developing high-density and Low-power server products in large-scale cloud computing environments. AMD's strategic intentions are self-evident.