Cloud Computing: Intel Updates Data Center Strategy As More Devices Forces More Innovation
September 12, 2012
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Chris Preimesberger.
Intel, whose processors are firing away in 95 percent of all data centers, literally has been at the center of the data center world for generations. However, with all that power and influence in the silicon hardware sector, it has never been recognized by the general public — and Wall Street, for that matter — as the major player in the software world it is.
That non-awareness is changing. Intel, with 12,000 of its 100,100 full-time people employed in its software development and testing division, now describes itself as the fifth-largest software producer in the world. And this isn’t just about firmware; we’re talking about software applications in all forms…
The world’s largest chip designer and maker now wants to have more of an influence in how all that software runs inside those boxes and inside new-generation data centers. To do this, it needed a new approach, and Sept. 11 it sent Diane Bryant (pictured) to the Intel Developer Forum here at Moscone West to explain it all…
Read more from the source @ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Intel-Updates-Data-Center-Strategy-More-Devices-Forces-More-Innovation-330019/