The open architecture of cloud computing industry power has been formed

Looking back on this more than half a year to open the architecture of the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13637.html "> Cloud Industry Power Development and change, whether the Open Data Center Alliance from more than 70 members from more than 150, As well as the news of the formation of the China Working Group, or the news of its first version of the Application Model roadmap, or the changes in the number of Intel Cloud Building plan members and related cloud computing reference architectures, none of which suggests that this strength is growing and that it has formed a cohesive Will soon bring a stronger and broader impact on the entire cloud computing industry.

As the technical advisor to the Open Data Center Consortium and the initiator of the Intel Cloud Build program, Intel will play an important role in this industry. Its next step in the server processor platform, as well as in the open architecture storage and networking products technology, each innovative initiative will promote the entire Open Data center area of product technology and solution innovation, and then bring users with the application model or experience innovation and innovation opportunities.

From this point of view, in the next six months of this year, for all concerned about cloud computing, especially based on the open architecture of cloud computing, there is still a lot of hot spots worthy of sustained attention. One is the release of the first version of the Application Mode roadmap for the Open Data Center Alliance, as we have described in the previous article, this roadmap will have a landmark impact because it will be the first time a heavyweight user community has explicitly presented its application model planning and related technical requirements in the cloud computing field to the IT industry, This is a rare guide to technology development and innovation for all it vendors who are interested in becoming bigger and stronger in the cloud era.

After opening the Data Center Alliance Public Roadmap, another focus of the year to attract all cloud computing industry partners and users may be Intel's upcoming Xeon E5 platform. This is Intel's next-generation processor platform for the mainstream dual server, and its main innovation is to import the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture that has been highly recognized by users on desktop and notebook platforms. In general, the evolution of micro-architectures and process processes, which are guided by the Intel Tock Pendulum strategy, always leads to more significant performance and energy efficiency improvements. Therefore, the performance and energy efficiency performance of the E5 is particularly expected.

Of course, if only the performance and energy efficiency improvements, then objectively, the Xeon E5 may not be much attention, especially to all concerned about cloud computing people to give full attention. The real allure of the Xeon E5 platform is that it delivers significant performance and energy efficiency, as well as strong support for key storage technologies and the possibility of providing onboard Gigabit Ethernet adapters.

While the details of these aspects are currently inconvenient to disclose, but friends who have read our last issue of it, may recall that Intel, at the level of Open Data center solutions, also wants to provide core components of storage and network equipment based on open architecture, and proposes innovative directions for server and storage integration. The support of the E5 platform for important storage technologies, especially some important storage standards, may provide an important platform for this innovation direction. This platform will hopefully reduce the development threshold of storage systems, allowing server vendors to enter this area, as well as vendors who had previously only been involved in storage products and program development, and were able to take this opportunity to enter the server area, or more opportunities for development, and to bring richer choices to end users.

There is no need to reiterate the support for onboard Gigabit Ethernet adapters. Everyone knows that the network card from the independent to the onboard (LOM) basically means that the maturity of its technology and cost reduction has reached a turning point. So this is certainly a good news for users who want to build open architecture cloud computing data centers with state-of-the-art Ethernet technology.

It is believed that under the traction of the Open Data Center Alliance Application Mode Roadmap, with the support of the Intel Xeon E5 processor platform, the 2011-second half of the open architecture cloud computing industry will go more smoothly, the emergence of technological innovation will be more and more frequent, more and more exciting. But before we witness these changes. The topic of "it extra" will temporarily leave cloud computing and move to key business. The content of the next issue of it extras will be launched around this topic. This is because Intel, together with its partners, has just released a Xeon E7 processor and a large number of server systems based on E7 for performance, energy efficiency and RAS (reliability, availability, maintainability) comparable to RISC minicomputer, It provides a solid foundation for enterprise users to run key business applications on an open architecture platform; On the other hand, because cloud computing has been able to cover many applications in the enterprise, the key business applications still need a separate platform or architecture to support, so we also need to discuss this.

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