Intel's Cloud 2015 Vision
Cloud computing is a game-changing IT paradigm which has dramatically and drastically changed the way the whole ecosystem of IT services getting created, deployed, delivered, managed and consumed. It brings in a large amount of gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when data centers are increasingly challenged by the rapid growth in the number of users and volume of data. Yet, while much of the discussion of the cloud tends to focus on the data center, client devices of all types continue to play an essential role in accessing and consuming these services. Intel views this transformation as an opportunity to deliver architectures that enhance and optimize the cloud. This vision comprehends an end-to-end model for next-generation cloud architecture, including both the data center as well as broad range of end-point client devices. The vision comprises three key areas: Federated, Automated and Client-Aware.
Federated means communications, data, and services can move easily within and across cloud infrastructures. The vision calls for a level of federation that enables the movement of workloads and data from one service provider to another, burst implementations between internal private cloud and public cloud providers if additional capacity is needed and secure and reliable data flow across vendors, partners and clients
Automated means that cloud computing services and resources can be specified, located and securely provisioned with little or zero human intervention, interpretation, instruction and interaction. Today data center management remains a manual things and the vision calls for path-breaking technologies, methodologies and tools for enabling complete and compact automation of several manual tasks including dynamically allocating and de-allocating resources to agreed-upon service levels and optimizes the data center for maximum resource utilization and power efficiency.
Client-aware means that client computing solutions adapt seamlessly to the end-users' devices and usage model regardless of the type of client system they are using. In an client-aware environment, the cloud takes advantage of client capabilities and capacities to optimize application delivery and consumption and to sharply enhance the user-experience in a secure fashion.
Cloud computing is a game-changing IT paradigm which has dramatically and drastically changed the way the whole ecosystem of IT services getting created, deployed, delivered, managed and consumed. It brings in a large amount of gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when data centers are increasingly challenged by the rapid growth in the number of users and volume of data. Yet, while much of the discussion of the cloud tends to focus on the data center, client devices of all types continue to play an essential role in accessing and consuming these services. Intel views this transformation as an opportunity to deliver architectures that enhance and optimize the cloud. This vision comprehends an end-to-end model for next-generation cloud architecture, including both the data center as well as broad range of end-point client devices. The vision comprises three key areas: Federated, Automated and Client-Aware.
Federated means communications, data, and services can move easily within and across cloud infrastructures. The vision calls for a level of federation that enables the movement of workloads and data from one service provider to another, burst implementations between internal private cloud and public cloud providers if additional capacity is needed and secure and reliable data flow across vendors, partners and clients
Automated means that cloud computing services and resources can be specified, located and securely provisioned with little or zero human intervention, interpretation, instruction and interaction. Today data center management remains a manual things and the vision calls for path-breaking technologies, methodologies and tools for enabling complete and compact automation of several manual tasks including dynamically allocating and de-allocating resources to agreed-upon service levels and optimizes the data center for maximum resource utilization and power efficiency.
Client-aware means that client computing solutions adapt seamlessly to the end-users' devices and usage model regardless of the type of client system they are using. In an client-aware environment, the cloud takes advantage of client capabilities and capacities to optimize application delivery and consumption and to sharply enhance the user-experience in a secure fashion.
