Unisys, Intel Announce Deal for 'Mission-Critical Cloud, Big Data Workloads'

Unisys Corporation UIS today announced that it is partnering with Intel Corporation INTC to bring to market a breakthrough secure computing platform designed to handle the most demanding requirements of mission-critical cloud and big data workloads, while offering Unix clients a cost-effective path off legacy RISC-based platforms onto an Intel-based environment. The new platform, to be released later in 2013, will build on the unmatched security Unisys delivers in mission-critical computing.^1  It will combine Unisys' advanced secure partitioning (s-Par®) technology with the innovative computing and security features of Intel® Xeon® family processors, providing  an extremely flexible and powerful environment. The platform will support a range of Intel's high-performance, availability and security innovations for the Xeon processor family. As a leading Intel enterprise partner, Unisys believes that the platform will be the first architecture based on Intel Xeon processors to bring enterprise-level security, availability, scalability and predictable performance to the three key IT challenges facing enterprises today: o Harnessing the power of the cloud. The Unisys-Intel platform will enable organizations to host Linux, Windows and migrated Unix application workloads on the same platform and provision them across all delivery models – from high-availability mission-critical environments to public clouds – with levels of security and performance required for each workload. o Applying big data to real-world applications.  The platform will provide extraordinary scalability for big data solutions. It can run open-source Hadoop queries in a single secure partition, adding virtual machines as necessary to solve complex problems in real time. o Migrating from Unix-RISC systems. By bringing partitioning and other mission-critical attributes of RISC systems to an Intel x86 platform, the platform will provide a cost-efficient migration path from RISC systems running Unix applications without diminishing system performance. Leading industry analysts estimate that segments of the cloud computing, big data and Unix-RISC migration markets represent an aggregate market in excess of $23 billion, opening potential joint growth opportunities for Unisys and Intel over the next several years.