Cloud Not Growing Fast Enough For Intel
July 24, 2015
Grazed from ThePlatform. Author: Timothy Prickett Morgan.
It is hard to believe, but one of highest-growth markets that the IT industry has ever seen – the transition from bare metal machines to fully orchestrated virtual infrastructure that we have come to call clouds – is not rocketing up fast enough for the world’s largest chip maker. So Intel is going to do something to stoke the fires even more, and that something is spend money.
Specifically, under a new program called the Cloud for All initiative, Intel is seeking to make cloudy infrastructure, whether public or private, the default way that organizations consume compute, storage, and network infrastructure and thinks it can do so by working at all levels of the cloud software stack to make it work better together and work best with Intel’s own technologies…
This is precisely why Intel has made heavy investments in the Lustre parallel file system commonly used in HPC systems and has also pumped $740 million into Cloudera, the largest of the Hadoop data analytics stack vendors. (This was also why Intel was tempted to do its own Hadoop stack, but that might have been as much about getting leverage with the big three Hadoop distributions, which includes MapR Technologies and Hortonworks.)…
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