Intel: Large data creates new ecological environment

Cloud computing, large data brings a lot of opportunities for the entire ecosystem, and Intel is in a very open mode, hoping to work together with the industry chain to win the game.

"Now is the era of IT industry change, because the big data, cloud computing these two together, is the IT sector is currently seeing the biggest change." I call it the Information 2.0 version, if it is done, the world will appear qualitative change. "said Dr. Miaokai, chief engineer of Intel China, and CTO of the data Center software department.

In fact, Intel has done a lot of work on cloud computing, large data, and software, although it is primarily focused on chip-bottom technology. According to Dr. Miaokai, the world's latest statistics, 94% of the world's cloud-building systems are based on Intel processor servers, and Intel has acquired companies in recent years to improve I/O performance, network performance, and new storage patterns. It should be said that Intel software provides a number of tools beyond the hardware layer, including cloud management tools, low-level monitoring tools, and so on. In addition, Intel has a wide range of global cooperation, not only with hardware vendors, but also with end users.

"In fact, Intel software is very important. "Miaokai said," Intel software is divided into three pieces, one is the hardware support department, the software can show the hardware function to the user, to do some useful things; the second one has a large cooperative software developer, and currently Intel has a total of 7,000 software companies worldwide in partnership; The third is software that Intel has developed directly, such as McAfee, the Wind River Company and so on. ”

It is understood that Intel established a data center software division six months ago to address current trends in the industry, such as cloud computing, data center changes and large data Hadoop, including the next generation of storage technology, cloud security, power management, and many other aspects of the work. "Intel is a hardware company, but Intel's software is strong, and with the acquisition of McAfee and the Wind River, Intel has a large number of software engineers around the world that can be ranked among the top five software vendors in the world," he added. Dr. Miaokai, for example, Intel's Hadoop release is the Intel Software division working with the Open Source Technology Center, where hundreds of people have spent a lot of time working on high availability, reliability, and so on, with a lot of optimization based on the understanding and depth of Intel's underlying hardware platform, Performance improved 5~10 times, eventually turning Hadoop into a commercial product. Currently Intel has a large Hadoop data platform 200 node running for a year without any problems, indeed a very reliable system and platform.

"It's evolving from mainframe to PC, and the next third platform is big data plus cloud platforms." Dr Miaokai, "cloud computing is mainly the optimization of computing resources, is a radical and revolutionary optimization, but also a breakthrough business model, and ultimately achieve the goal of saving resources and enhancing efficiency; but big data is different, the key to big data is value, how to produce real business value, The need for processing speed is very important, followed by the processing of data in all aspects of the application, such as data mining, forecasting and so on. So big data means that we have a new ecological environment, a new ecological environment that is developing as fast as a cloud. ”

In Miaokai view, before it industry like a shaft, now from the cloud began to carry out horizontal integration, although only just walked less than half the distance, but the virtualization of storage, network, computing the entire bottom of the whole part of the integration together, the final unified management. "The newest concept is the software definition data center. Dr. Miaokai explained, "from the bottom, the previous years of virtualization from the beginning of computing, and then storage virtualization, now the network has also begun to virtualize, network software has brought many functions, very flexible, the so-called intelligent management resources, this is unprecedented." This brings many opportunities to the entire ecosystem. Intel is a very open model with a great deal of responsibility and we have to work together to win a total victory. ”

Specific to Intel's best practices in the country, Dr. Miaokai, "Intel works with telecom in Guangdong, such as phone records, user behavior data, and network data, which reaches 5.1TB of data, and many applications run on Intel's platform." "The introduction of Dr. Miaokai," We are also working with many Chinese partners and governments to make smart cities, including power grids, health care, transportation, urban safety, building monitoring and so on, one of the key focuses is medical, using Intel's platform, running very complex, very much medical data, such as in addition to text, forms, There are also data on medical images such as X-rays. Intel supports large data in the healthcare industry, leveraging the value of data, providing better services or improving current services. ”

Overall, Intel believes that large data is a very important direction, with the cloud is really a transformative leap, it may be the entire information society to a level. "If we are now living in the information Society of 1.0, cloud computing, large data will take us to Information 2.0, Intel is the will and determination to work together with the industry chain to do this thing well." Dr. Miaokai thinks. (Wen)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)