Server industry eventful Spring: New product acquisition frequently

Spring new atmosphere, stepping into 2012, the server industry and the extension of the data center is a frequent event. From Intel Xeon E5 turned out, set off a wave of new server hot to AMD fierce direct tracking release of fresh CPUs, from Lenovo restructuring business to Dell Business transformation, from Oracle Acquisition Cloud computing company RightNow to IBM buy green hat; from EMC, VMware Build company Canopy to Amazon and eucalyptus integrate public and private clouds, and so on. I thought it was a good omen for the eventful spring.

First, new products: E5 Show proudly unique Oracle

Intel Xeon E5 boasts the most cost-effective processor in Intel's history, not only for superior performance but also for power consumption. Intel's many partners have a keen sense of smell, gearing up to launch a server with Xeon E5. IBM rack-style tower blade complete product line, Dell 12th generation server leisurely walk, HP Gen 8 server is dedicated to the data center. Cisco, Fujitsu, Huawei, EMC, Lenovo and Acer also caught up with the launch of the Xeon E5 server product.

If the emergence of E5 Xeon to create a busy manufacturer of the spring Festival, then the Oracle should be considered more exotic, in the acquisition of Sun after the comprehensive strength has soared, the head of the Intel Xeon E5 Processor Conference, the head of Oracle "The Sun also rise" hardware system integration Performance tour, Oracle has launched the Netra SPARC T series based on SPARC T4 processor Communication Class Server products this quarter, fully supporting the special load requirements of the communications industry in terms of basic applications.

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The Xeon E5 processor has the advantage of large memory support, built-in technology, I/O, AVX Technical support, and SPARC T4 is an improved product of Oracle's first SPARC T3 processor after the acquisition of Sun, which performs better in single-threaded and cryptographic performance. Each has its own characteristics, can only say that the Xeon E5 and SPARC T4 each lead coquettish.

Second, the acquisition of the Wind: IBM into the acquisition of the protagonist

The so-called acquisition result is nothing more than fish. The whole 2012 spring, the acquisition of events occur frequently, the author does not complete statistics as follows:

AMD buys Silicon Valley new creation company Seamicro;

Google buys more than 200 IBM patents;

IBM buys cloud computing software manufacturer Green hat;

Rocket Software acquisition of IBM Icluster;

Oracle announces completion of acquisition of Cloud computing company RightNow;

INTEL1.25 billion dollar acquisition of QLogic part of the business;

IBM completes acquisition Cloud analysis software company DemandTec;

IBM completes acquisition of mobile software vendor Worklight;

Dell buys firewall and security software company SonicWALL;

Cisco completes the purchase of optical fiber interconnection technology manufacturers Lightwire;

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From the above, we can see that the emergence of the acquisition event is so natural, it is called it fashion sense full. Cloud, is it hot enough? Mobile interconnection, is it hot enough? Safe, hot enough? Are you still surprised when acquisitions are related to these keywords? Look again, who is in the acquisition of--AMD aim at the Seamicro product line of the micro-server; The biggest acquisition this quarter comes from IBM,IBM's interest in integrating cloud and business intelligence is clear.

Third, frequent cooperation: cloud is the theme of IBM remains the focus

Unity is strength, if the acquisition is the fish of the situation, then cooperation is powerful joint realization of the process of mutual win. In the 1 quarter of the server industry, a few strong alliances.

SMIC signed an agreement with IBM to develop industry-compatible 28 NM technology;

Amazon integrates public and private clouds with eucalyptus;

Mobily with Huawei to push the first business delivery platform in the Middle East;

IBM and other manufacturers to establish the world's largest chip production technology alliance;

Dell and Microsoft jointly develop a private cloud entry system;

Amazon together with check point to build a cloud security platform;

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The reasons for cooperation between manufacturers are not only to learn from each other, but to win. This quarter's main cooperation content and the second part of the acquisition of the same category, cloud Building, cloud technology development, cloud security is still the most important manufacturers cooperation. It is clear that IBM is a great catalyst for cooperation. In particular, IBM and other manufacturers to form the world's largest chip production technology alliance. A large technical alliance, bringing together a number of manufacturers think tanks to solve the next generation of semiconductor technology innovation issues and 28, 20 and 14 nm technology and other technical topics attracted attention.

Four, cloud data center prance

When it comes to data centers, we naturally think of the magnificent data center layouts of Google, Facebook, IBM, and Apple. Data center is the focus of enterprise IT equipment, including front-end power supply, refrigeration to physical support platform cabinets, power distribution, environmental monitoring and software management, and so on. And with the cloud on the edge, cloud data Center as a 1-quarter focus is not difficult to guess.

2012 China IDC industry manufacturers gathered to discuss the cloud data center;

Beijing and Mongolia build 5 million server cloud data center;

Dell will build more than 20 cloud data centers in Asia;

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The goal of the Cloud data center is real-time dynamic response and a reasonable allocation of application load to increase productivity while reducing TCO. With the increasing complexity of business, the reality of large data demand that the future data center must be high-density and high integration with intelligent and energy-saving dual energy protection. In this view, the Cloud data center will be the best choice for the future. Cloud computing is not equivalent to utility computing, which provides standardized, modular datacenter services on demand. This is precisely the plight of the cloud data center, how to standardize, how to weigh the availability of cloud data center and solve its energy efficiency problems, is still the key to the cloud data center to be solved.