Cloud Computing: Disrupting the Data Center to Create the Digital Services Economy

Grazed from CIO. Author: Diane Bryant.

I had the pleasure of joining Tom Krazit on stage at the Gigaom Structure’14 conference to share Intel’s vision of the data center in support of the growth of the digital services economy. We are in the midst of a bold industry transformation as IT evolves from supporting the business to being the business. This transformation and the move to cloud computing calls into question many of the fundamental principles of data center architecture.

Two significant changes are the move to software defined infrastructure (SDI) and the move to scale-out, distributed applications. The speed of application development and deployment of new services is rapid. The infrastructure must keep pace. It must move from statically configured to dynamic, from manually operated to fully automated, and from fixed function to open standard. As we have many times in our history, Intel is embracing this transformation and driving technology innovation to re-architect today’s data centers for the future…

As a first step, we start with a commitment to deliver the best technology for all data center workloads-spanning servers, network and storage. We started by augmenting our industry leading, general purpose Xeon processors with workload-optimized products, such as our Atom SoC processors for lightweight web-hosting, Xeon Phi for highly parallel processing, and the new Xeon D SoC series for hyperscale environments…

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