Cloud Computing: Intel Plans to ‘Reimagine the Datacenter’

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Dan Woods.

Intel, has a new message for the industry: If you want to meet the challenges facing business to day, if you want to get the most business value out of the cloud, big data, the Internet of Things, and high performance computing, you need a sophisticated and optimized vision for your data center.

“Datacenters are entering a new era of rapid service delivery,” said Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel. “Across network, storage, and compute we continue to see significant opportunities for growth for individual organizations and for the industry. But in most cases, it requires a new approach.”…

Intel has aways been known as a company that makes chips, the processors that are the engines that allow software to run. But in recent years, Intel has moved up the stack and created a group led by Bryant that is focused on the data center.   In a short time, the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group has become a large part of Intel’s business, responsible last year for 22 percent of the company’s revenues and 33 percent of profits. Bryant predicts that the 2011 revenue of $10 billion will double by 2016…

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