As the massive growth of information technology services places increasing
demand on the datacenter, Intel Corporation INTC today outlined its strategy to
re-architect the underlying infrastructure, allowing companies and end-users
to benefit from an increasingly services-oriented, mobile world.
The company also announced additional details about its next-generation
Intel^® Atom™ processor C2000 product family (codenamed “Avoton” and
“Rangeley”), as well as outlined its roadmap of next-generation 14nm products
for 2014 and beyond. This robust pipeline of current and future products and
technologies will allow Intel to expand into new segments of the datacenter
that look to transition from proprietary designs to more open, standards-based
compute models.
“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 servers we
continue to see significant opportunities for growth. In many cases, it
requires a new approach to deliver the scale and efficiency required, and
today we are unveiling the near and long-term actions to enable this
transformation.”
As more mobile devices connect to the Internet, cloud-based software and
applications get smarter by learning from the billions of people and machines
using it, thus resulting in a new era of context-rich experiences and
services. It also results in a massive amount of network connections and a
continuous stream of real-time, unstructured data. New challenges for
networks, computing and storage are emerging as the growing volume of data is
transported, collected, aggregated and analyzed in datacenters. As a result,
datacenters must be more agile and service-driven than ever before, and easier
to manage and operate.
The role of information technology has evolved from being a way to reduce
costs and increase corporate productivity to becoming the means to deliver new
services to businesses and consumers. For example, Disney* recently started
providing visitors with wirelessly connected-wristbands to enhance customers'
in-park experience through real-time data analytics. Additionally, a smart
traffic safety program from Bocom* in China seeks to identify traffic patterns
in a city of ten million people and intelligently offers better routing
options for vehicles on the road.
‘Re-Architecting' Network, Storage and Servers
To help companies prepare for the next generation of datacenters, Intel
revealed its plans to virtualize the network, enable smart storage solutions
and invest in innovative rack optimized architectures.
Bryant highlighted Intel's Rack Scale Architecture (RSA), an advanced design
that promises to dramatically increase the utilization and flexibility of the
datacenter to deliver new services. Rackspace Hosting*, an open cloud company,
today announced the deployment of new server racks that is a step toward
reaching Intel's RSA vision, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel
Ethernet controllers with storage accelerated by Intel Solid State Drives. The
Rackspace design is the first commercial rack scale implementation.
The networking industry is on the verge of a transition similar to what the
server segment experienced years ago. Equipping the network with open, general
purpose processing capabilities provides a way to maximize network bandwidth,
significantly reduce cost and provide the flexibility to offer new services.
For example, with a virtualized software defined network, the time to
provision a new service can be reduced to just minutes from two to three weeks
with traditional networks. Intel introduced Open Network Platform reference
designs to help OEMs build and deploy this new generation of networks.
Data growth is a challenge to all datacenters and transferring this large
volume of data for processing within a traditional, rigid storage architecture
is costly and time consuming. By implementing intelligent storage technologies
and tools, Intel is helping to reduce the amount of data that needs to be
stored, and is improving how data is used for new services.
Traditional servers are also evolving. To meet the diverse needs of datacenter
operators who deploy everything from compute intensive database applications
to consumer facing Web services that benefit from smaller, more
energy-efficient processing, Intel outlined its plan to optimize workloads,
including customized CPU and SoC configurations.
As part of its strategy, Intel revealed new details for the forthcoming
Intel^® Atom™ processors C2000 product family aimed for low-energy,
high-density microservers and storage (codenamed “Avoton”), and network
devices (codenamed “Rangeley”). This second generation of Intel's 64-bit SoCs
is expected to become available later this year and will be based on the
company's 22nm process technology and the innovative Silvermont
microarchitecture. It will feature up to eight cores with integrated Ethernet
and support for up to 64GB of memory.
The new products are expected to deliver up to four times^1,3 the energy
efficiency and up to seven times^1,2 more performance than the first
generation Intel Atom processor-based server SoCs introduced in December last
year. Intel has been sampling the new Intel Atom processor server product
family to customers since April and has already more than doubled the number
of system designs compared to the previous generation.
Roadmap for Expansion
The move to services-oriented datacenters presents considerable opportunities
for Intel to expand into new segments. To help bolster the underlying
technologies that power much of the next generation of datacenters, Intel
outlined its roadmap of next-generation products based on its forthcoming 14nm
process technology scheduled for 2014 and beyond. These products are aimed at
microservers, storage and network devices and will offer an even broader set
of low-power, high-density solutions for their Web-scale applications and
services.
The future products include the next generation of Intel Xeon processors E3
family (codenamed “Broadwell”) built for processor and graphic-centric
workloads such as online gaming and media transcoding. It also includes the
next generation of Intel Atom processor SoCs (codenamed “Denverton”) that will
enable even higher density deployments for datacenter operators. Intel also
disclosed an addition to its future roadmap – a new SoC designed from the
ground up for the datacenter based on Intel's next-generation Broadwell
microarchitecture that follows today's industry leading Haswell
microarchitecture. This SoC will offer higher levels of performance in high
density, extreme energy efficient systems that datacenter operators will
expect in this increasingly services-oriented, mobile world.
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