Intel launches micro-server, network, storage technologies to power cloud datacentres
September 5, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
Chip-maker Intel has launched a second-generation family of system-on-chip (SOC) for micro-servers, a silicon suited for software-defined networking, and a rack designed for telecommunications and cloud service providers to build datacentres of the future. The portfolio of datacentre technologies will help cloud service providers drive efficiency and flexibility into their infrastructure to support growing demand for new services, according to Intel.
As server, network and storage infrastructure technologies evolve to better suit an increasingly diverse set of lightweight workloads, they create a need for micro-server, cold storage and entry networking products. By optimising technologies for specific workloads, the new products will help cloud providers increase utilisation and drive down costs, the company said…
"As the world becomes more and more mobile, the pressure to support billions of devices and users is changing the very composition of datacentres," said Diane Bryant, senior vice-president and general manager of the datacentre and connected systems group at Intel…
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