Intel Cloud: Bring open Xeon "core" and storage

From the distant "cloud" to today's "cloud", it has become a key driver in the ongoing development of cloud computing, while it vendors and corporate users have focused on infrastructure and application solutions to improve the areas closely related to cloud computing, such as servers, storage, and Ethernet, In particular data centers such a carrier.

For the chip giants, Intel's innovation in the server sector is crucial to building high-performance, high-performance data centers, not only because their processors are central to the efficient and stable operation of the entire data center, but also because the x86 servers are becoming the first choice for cloud computing infrastructure. The Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series and the E7 series offer performance improvements of up to 60% and 3 times times the performance of previous generations, particularly the Xeon 5600 series, which is being applied by many users in the cloud computing field.

On the other hand, Intel and open architecture partners, based on open data centers, are starting to advance technology innovation and market development in cloud computing, building an open cloud ecosystem that will help advance this vision, especially the 2015 cloud vision that was officially released in October 2010.

At the same time, the Intel Xeon 5600 series features a better fit for the x86 Platform data center, which automatically adjusts power consumption and combines industry-leading energy efficiency and intelligence features to meet different workload requirements. At the same time, Intel Intelligent Energy-saving technology, and so on, to provide critical workloads to run the power required to operate, when not needed to save electricity, with the Intel Core-frequency acceleration technology, so that the processor can use the high frequency to operate at higher frequencies, Increasing execution speed on demand provides strong intelligent performance and flexibility to meet current and future cloud computing data center requirements.

As the foundation of current computing platform computing, virtualization technology enhances performance more effectively on the Intel Xeon 5600 series, increases consolidation ratios, enables integration of generations of servers into the same virtual server pool, and increases virtual machine failover, load balancing, and disaster recovery capabilities. Provides a solid foundation for a balanced and efficient cloud computing platform.

At the same time, the next generation of Intel Xeon E5 series processor products will be launched in the first quarter of 2012. With the current Xeon Westmere processor provides more powerful performance, the Xeon E5 processor will bring a more robust computing engine for future cloud computing data centers.

Flexible Open Storage Solutions

The above mentioned strong computing engine, in the data center also need to have a large amount of data storage equipment, storage, with the explosive growth of data in all walks of life, storage technology by the user's attention gradually increased, and even beyond the server. And the whole industry in the "convergence" concept of the trend, Intel can not immune, in the computing, storage and network integration concept of the cloud Computing data Center solution, for storage-related products to devote more effort.

How can it be used by more storage-system vendors and deliver superior performance while ensuring better compatibility, interoperability, and data migration between different vendors ' products and between different generations of the same manufacturer and other it devices within the datacenter?

Flexible and open storage scenarios

To meet the above requirements, Intel extends the Xeon product line to the storage system area, with a unique bright spot for a storage-system Xeon processor that delivers exceptional operational performance with multi-core and Advanced microarchitecture, and integrates intelligent features that help improve storage device processing efficiency, energy efficiency, and storage virtualization. This is the key to attracting storage vendors and users.

In addition, these highlights complement Intel's architecture with strong and sophisticated application development capabilities, can help enterprise storage devices to add more, newer features and application patterns, but also through the promotion of storage and server integration, the formation of both computing and storage capacity, the application of more flexible, can adapt to the changes in user needs in a timely manner, A more ideal solution for price/performance.

From the above, we can see that the upcoming next generation of Xeon E5 platform products and flexible storage, data center trend of convergence is unstoppable, Intel innovative product technology and Open Data Center Alliance and Cloud Building plan, make it more open to the era of cloud computing.

At the same time, data center solutions combined with the 2015 Cloud Vision, computing, storage, and networking based on Intel architecture, will make the future of cloud computing data center construction, application and management to a new level.