Intel Layout Cloud and IoT

Software defines the entire data center from computing, network to storage

At present, the whole industry is in a very important new business transformation period, cloud computing and the rise of large data to restructure the entire industry pattern, in response to the industry change, Intel Data center business will be the new growth of the three major dynamic definition: cloud, large data, high-performance computing. In this change, there has been a fundamental shift in the way information and communication technologies interact, and it has evolved from a business support function to the business itself, which Intel calls the digital services economy, and if it is a tool for communicating service business and consumer demand, then cloud computing is already the infrastructure for delivering those services.

So the industry has the concept of software-defined data centers, its core is the better deployment of cloud-based services and the corresponding applications, which in the public cloud domain there are some cases, such as Alibaba, Tencent and other applications of this technology, and this architecture is very dynamic, that is, as new users continue to join, The system can also be extended. Intel's job is to integrate the technologies used by these individual cloud service providers into a mainstream technology that can target more customer usage requirements and be met through dynamic cloud-based service architectures and environments.

"We need to redesign our data centers and we need to innovate together so that data centers need to be defined by applications and services." Beanna, senior vice president of Intel Corporation and general Manager of Data Center division.

Large data needs to analyze the data, but also means a chance to provide business value, provide business insights, businesses can better understand consumer behavior, better control security and risk, let data analysis to eliminate unwanted garbage to improve operational efficiency. The big data is a market of billions of or even tens of billions of dollars, which will reach $50 billion by 2020, much of which will be built on Intel's architecture, as Intel can reduce costs by 40% and increase its efficiency by 90%, enabling large data solutions to be truly possible.

In addition, Intel has a solid partnership with Cloudera in addition to its own large-data-processing Hadoop release, which Intel announced last week to invest 740 million dollars and acquire a 18% per cent stake in the company. Intel's investment in Cloudera is valued at $4.1 billion, and its version of Hadoop is discarded as part of the deal, and Intel will gradually move from its own customized version of Hadoop to the Cloudera edition, which can provide an enterprise-wide solution, Help enterprise users to seize 50 billion of the market opportunities.

In addition to the huge demand for computing power and scalability, as the cloud computing technology, the concept and the network gradually combined, the general chip computing capacity and the diversification of business needs, network function virtualization (NFV) and Software Definition Network (SDN) is becoming the trend of the whole industry, For Intel, the processor-maker, the market is also the new frontier in which it has been exerting its strength to enter.

"While the market is worth 16 billion of dollars, our current share in the market is about 5%, in other words, we have a very high potential for growth," said Rose Schooler, vice president of Intel's Data Center Business department and general manager of communications and storage infrastructure. Network Load has four main links: the first is the application, such as billing, operation of the real system within the scope of the application; the second is control, including routing protocol, dialogue management; The third is the packet, which has QoS, data compression, and so on; the last one is the signal, including the transcoding and signal processing. It turns out that these tasks are handled by different dedicated hardware devices, and now Intel is replacing all kinds of proprietary hardware by constantly improving processor performance and integrating graphics processors and signal processors, and the benefit is that the platform is universal, and the functionality relies entirely on software, without the need to buy expensive dedicated hardware, The data center is refactored.

An End-to-end intelligent system scheme in the era of IoT

We are entering an era of "everything Intelligence", and 2013 of McKinsey's survey shows that the number of interconnected devices has increased by 300% over the past five years. However, because many intelligent systems lack the connection with cloud, storage and other technologies, they often cannot make rapid response in practical application. Intel hopes that in the construction of Intelligent city, the future, whether it is security, transportation, environment and other uses of infrastructure, can be better in tandem, through the front-end data collection and analysis, and then by the cloud platform, such as back-end strength of effective data mining and analysis.

The collaboration with the Environmental Monitoring Company, Roche, is a new attempt by Intel in the area of environmental monitoring and emission reduction, with Intel providing the back-end cloud platform services and terminal gateway devices for the company, from the terminal to the cloud, based entirely on Intel's architecture Computing solutions. Roche can use gateway devices to integrate the various pieces of sensor information, and then to provide information to the cloud to deal with, to ensure the safety of coal mines, enterprise emissions detection and control, the cooperation between the two sides can be very good for large enterprises to control energy pollution emissions.

Beanna that the End-to-end value to users is the consistency of the architecture. In fact, there are two main benefits to architecture consistency: first, developers are easier to develop; second, the consistency of device safety and management becomes very important. Intel does have tremendous value in this area by concatenating end-to-end value chains, providing developers with a consistent development platform and a secure and trusted management platform.

From what has been said, Intel's strategy is to focus not only on providing the leading chip computing power, but also on accelerating the development and deployment of End-to-end solutions for retail, security monitoring, network communications, and on-board systems. In the future to connect the traditional system and the new system, so that the original isolated system into interconnected equipment, and through filtering, analysis, sharing can ultimately better solve by the intelligent life of social problems.