Spying on Intel enterprise computing the afterlife

"Computing is the cornerstone of the digital world, computational intelligence can bring experience, creativity, change power ... Computing is power. Yang, president of Intel China, has a strong grasp of the importance of computing.

"Figure 1:intel Chinese President Yang"

2011, Intel tried to make a number of attempts in the field of enterprise computing: Cloud Computing-Yun Danjing, Cloud Building, Open Data Center Alliance three-point orderly March, critical business computing-the next generation Xeon E7 processor patronage, High-performance Computing-Xeon E5 processor first landed on the global High-performance computer 500 rankings list. As computing power has become an important driving force for economic development, Intel has turned from a chip vendor to a computing solution provider. Can Intel's enterprise Computing architecture model help companies take off? Let's find out.

Listen to the three steps of cloud computing

"Appreciating the Cloud" "Three steps"

Cloud computing, called the 2011 line under the "whole City in Love" popular language. In a geometric multiplication of data center requirements, cloud computing is breaking into it, providing the possibility of achieving a highly scalable and efficient and flexible deployment of the IT world. He stressed that consumer and corporate spending on cloud computing would "soar" over the next few years, surging from $23 billion trillion in 2010 to $110 billion trillion in 2015. Cloud computing concept hype, cloud computing practice but let a lot of enterprises deterred. Intel does not believe that this evil, in the cloud computing landed practice, resorted to unique tricks. At the end of 2010, Intel presented the "2015 Cloud Vision", followed by the initiative to establish an "Open Data Center Alliance" as a cloud vision to achieve the needs of the basis for the collection of "Cloud Building plan" for cloud landing of the implementation of the reference program construction.

1. "2015 Cloud Vision"

"Figure 2: Intel 2015 Cloud Computing Vision"

This is the goal of Intel's cloud computing. The vision includes three key points, interoperability, automation, and client-side adaptation. "Interoperability" refers to the safe sharing of data between public and private clouds, where data and services can move without hindrance between the cloud and the implementation of different cloud computing infrastructures. Automation refers to the cloud computing network, which automatically helps different applications and resources to operate safely without human intervention, reduces energy consumption in the data center, and enables enterprises to focus on innovation rather than management, including provision of services, resource monitoring, reporting usage, refunds and balancing workloads; Client-side adaptation refers to the ability of a cloud-based application to dynamically identify and utilize terminal equipment to automatically determine which applications, commands, and processes should be on the cloud, or on laptops, smartphones, or other devices. Intel's outlook on cloud computing requires data centers and service providers to enable cloud-aware devices to be dynamically tuned to take full advantage of the features and capabilities of client devices to secure access and best use across multiple devices.

2. Open Data Centre Consortium (ODCA)

The word is fierce, professional enough to think that the major alliance of Technology manufacturers. Fact。 The Open Data Center Alliance, an eco-chain built by Intel, is a gathering of industry users, including China Unicom, Shell, BMW, Nokia, Baidu and Tencent. Set up from the end of 2010, a short span of one year, members have more than 300, behind them are more than 100 billion dollars in the annual IT investment.

What does it mean to converge to an Open Data center consortium? Intel has amassed more than 300 business users to raise their views and demand. In other words, to care for the user. Intel plays a technical advisor role in the Alliance, which provides the next generation data center and cloud computing requirements in an open, industry-standard, multi-vendor way. OK, put forward the demand, who will solve the problem, no hurry, Intel still has a step, that is, "cloud Building plan."

3. Cloud Build Plan (Cloud builders)

According to the requirements of the enterprise users, Intel is gathering another set of people, of course, this time is it vendors. As many as 40 heavyweight hardware and software developers, solution providers, and cloud computing operators, including Cisco, EMC, Vmware, Huawei, Microsoft and NetApp, have assembled to deliver 60 reference architectures to help users overcome the difficulties of deploying cloud computing practices, based on the needs of enterprise users. Help users realize the simplicity, efficiency and security of cloud computing platforms.

Figure 3: Cloud Build Plan

Intel Enterprise calculates the three-step relationship as follows "Figure 4":

"Figure 4"

As can be seen from "Figure 4", the three have a complementary relationship. Starting with cloud vision, Intel brings together enterprise users to demand (Open Data Center Alliance), feedback to it vendors for cloud building plans, and finally feeds Open Data Center Alliance members.

"Commenting on cloud computing" "Three Steps"

The biggest bright spot in Intel's cloud computing "three steps" is the Open Data Center Alliance. Understand the needs of enterprise users to target the deployment of cloud services for the enterprise. Different enterprise user IT departments have mixed demand for cloud computing, just as 100 hearts

With 100 hamlet in the eye, a different understanding of cloud computing is a key point for the enterprise IT department to determine the direction of implementing cloud computing, and cloud computing has a myriad of views. This requires service providers to provide differentiated innovative services to win the trust of enterprise users. First listen to the needs of users is particularly important.

As a technical advisor, Intel is like a matchmaker, connecting business users and service providers, and ultimately achieving the cloud vision. "Cloud vision" to achieve not only the need for chips, but also the need for innovative hardware and software technology, not only the underlying IAAS security, embedded communications, equipment interconnection, large data and business analysis, but also needs the upper application and service support. Intel is smart in the right direction to invest in the cloud, and by acquiring or injecting a service provider, it will eventually pull the Intel next-generation chip market. At the 2011 Intel Investment Global Summit, Bryan Wolf, managing director of Intel Investment enterprise Computing and data center infrastructure, said Intel was investing actively in the improvement of Open data centers and cloud ecosystems. Intel has invested in Nirvanix (Enterprise Cloud storage services), Joyent (cloud computing software and services), Univa (It workflow optimization), Uit (Enterprise and cloud storage solutions), and so on. It seems that the Intel cloud computing "three-step" is to let the enterprise user IT department to achieve a smooth cloud deployment at the same time, so that service providers to win the trust of users, but also let themselves invincible.

As the saying goes, "Fish and paws can not be both", in the Intel Cloud computing "three steps" seems to be overturned, Intel won the double harvest of enterprise users and service providers. However, this is only an optimistic demonstration of the current, as for the 2015 cloud computing vision can be achieved, but also to see how the trust between enterprise users and service providers to maintain, Intel as a go-between to play a role in harmony, the final vision success or failure by Intel's own performance to decide.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)