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 Cloud Computing TechnologyWelcome to Intel® Cloud Builders—a cross-industry initiative aimed at making it easier to build, enhance, and operate cloud infrastructure. Intel Cloud Builders is relevant to enterprises, hosters, telcos, and service providers looking for transformational guidance that will yield more simplified, secure, and efficient cloud infrastructure. Cloud computing is still in its early stages, with a wide variety of solutions available. As vendors strive to deliver new services and capabilities for the cloud, there is a need to balance the ease of deployment of highly integrated solutions with those that enable interoperability and flexibility to improve cost effectiveness. Without effective leadership and cooperation within the industry, cloud computing will evolve into fragmented solutions that are too expensive and too difficult to deploy and maintain. Intel is working with customers and the industry to realize the benefits of open, multi-vendor cloud solutions with capabilities that are federated, automated, and client-aware. Intel® Cloud Builder is an industry enabling program designed to ease the design and setup of cloud infrastructure. Learn more at the Intel® Cloud Builder Website Intel is working with leading cloud ISVs to deliver documented reference architectures and best known methods that provide starting points for building cloud infrastructure. These reference architectures consist of ISV software stacks running on a test bed of Intel® Xeon processor-based servers. n a public cloud, and in many private clouds, your data is on a server controlled by someone else, which means keeping your data secure is essential. In addition, new cloud architectures make new modes of attack possible. Intel® technology, including Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT), Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard Instructions (AES-NI), and Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) included in the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series improves security by enabling increased isolation and safer migration of virtual machines, faster data encryption/decryption, and hardware-assisted protection against launch-time attacks, making the cloud work for you.
As space, power, and cooling capacities become limited, maximizing efficiency plays a critical role in preparing for the cloud. Intel technology drives efficiency across multiple areas, including leading silicon power optimization and performance, advanced data center power management, and improved virtualization capabilities. For example, advanced technologies like Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager and Intel® Data Center Manager (Intel® DCM), along with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series, enable significant improvements in data-center efficiency, making the cloud work for you.
As a technical advisor to the Open Data Center Alliance, an independent organization of leading global IT managers, Intel will align our technology with many of the usage models defined by the Alliance that address key IT challenges. Some of the usage models Intel is advising on include trusted compute pools for better security, policy-based power management for improved efficiency, and balanced compute in the cloud for more simplified cloud infrastructure. Learn more.
For guidance on building cloud infrastructures, visit our Reference Architecture Library Intel Cloud 2015 VisionIntel’s Cloud 2015 vision represents our view on the data center transformation underway being driven by the rapid growth in users, data, and services and in the range of connected devices across the globe. IT is already facing significant challenges around space, power, and costs, among others, and this growth of users, data, and devices is placing new requirements and demands on the data center. A new class of solutions is emerging to address the evolution of the data center. Intel’s vision is cloud computing that is federated, automated, and client-aware, and which is built using open, interoperable, multi-vendor solutions to truly realize cloud’s promise.  - Federated: Communications, data, and services can move easily within and across cloud computing providers.
- Automated: Cloud computing services and resources can be specified, located, and securely provisioned on demand and with zero human interaction.
- Client-aware: Cloud computing services adapt seamlessly to the end user’s device regardless of the type of devices they are using.
Open Data Center Alliance The Open Data Center Alliance is an independent, non-profit organization of leading global IT managers who have come together to amplify their collective voice to set data center requirements for today and the future that enable flexibility and choice. Its mission is to deliver next-generation data center and cloud requirements to meet the challenges facing IT today and tomorrow, and to provide them in an open, industry-standard, and multi-vendor fashion. Intel serves as the technical advisor to this organization. Learn more about the Open Data Center Alliance Intel Open Data Center InitiativeThe Intel Open Data Center Initiative is Intel’s response to the Open Data Center Alliance’s mission of developing cloud solutions in an open, industry standard, and multi-vendor fashion. The goal of Intel’s initiative is to enable more secure, efficient, and simplified cloud data centers that preserve IT flexibility and choice. The initiative shapes our product development roadmap and technologies. It extends to Intel® Cloud Builders for the delivery of reference architectures and solutions that address customer requirements for cloud and next-generation data center deployments. Reference architectures will be added over time to address many of the evolving requirements provided by the Open Data Center Alliance and other IT end users. Learn more about Intel’s Open Data Center initiative Intel® Cloud BuildersIntel Cloud Builders brings together cloud leaders who provide best practices and practical guidance on how to deploy, optimize, and support a cloud infrastructure. In short, Intel Cloud Builders is the vehicle by which we enable proven solutions with the ecosystem that address key IT challenges in evolving to cloud and next generation data centers. Intel Cloud Builders will help you reduce exploration risk by delivering detailed reference architectures and best practices that you can use right now to build and enhance your cloud. Using this proven guidance from cloud leaders, you can build more simplified, secure, and efficient cloud infrastructure. A Paradigm Shift - Cloud computing is an important transition and a paradigm shift in IT services delivery—one that promises large gain in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are growing exponentially. The tools, building blocks, solutions, and best practices for cloud computing are evolving, and challenges to deploying cloud solutions need to be considered.
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Increase Flexibility and Lower Your TCO with Server Virtualization. Server virtualization is changing the way IT organizations operate. And Intel® server processors are extending the benefits of software virtualization far beyond consolidation to increase data center flexibility, productivity, and TCO. Intel® server processors with virtualization built in, such as the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series, the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series, and the Intel® Itanium® processor 9300 series, deliver these benefits. To help you get the most out of virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features. These hardware-assist features accelerate fundamental virtualization processes throughout the platform to reduce latencies and avoid potential bottlenecks, giving you better value from your server and software investments. Because Intel server processors let you do more with less, you can realize energy efficiency and reduce server sprawl. And with remote management features, the ease of failover, and seamless live migrations, you can keep both you and your users happy with reduced support costs and increased uptime levels. ROI Analysis Resultsintel Virtualizing business-computing environment would generate substantial estimated savings of USD 17.6 million to 27.7 million over five years. Reduced server capital costs were the largest contributor, followed by network switch and storage savings. |  See how virtualization using Intel® Xeon® processors enables you to boost performance and lower costs Go to the intel ROI Estimator |
| Implementing virtualization Intel IT has begun deploying virtualized production environments at several data centers. This multi-year initiative has showed virtualization benefits including faster deployment, server consolidation ratios between 10:1 and 16:1, and faster recovery. Download the PDF |
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Manage WorkloadsGoalsConsolidation with virtualization can reduce complexity by reducing the number of physical devices. But as the number of virtual servers and storage systems increases, other types of “sprawl†can be created. Your IT staff may find themselves occupied with different IT problems – instead of solving business issues. You need all of your provisioning, management and diagnostic tools available on a single pane of glass for simplified systems management and monitoring. The AdvantagesIBM offers innovative software solutions designed to help you simplify and unify management across your virtualized infrastructure. Support ongoing cost savings- Utilize capacity and energy management to enable further consolidation and reduce data center energy costs.
- Enable common integrated management tools across the infrastructure, regardless of domain or platform.
- Increase IT staff productivity.
Improve service delivery- Accelerate identification and remediation of issues and bottlenecks.
- Map dependencies in real time across components to proactively identify potential issues.
- Automate routine administrative tasks to improve response time and reduce user error.
Increase business agility- Accelerate planning and implementation with reference architectures and decision support frameworks.
- Leverage open standards and reuse standardized design elements to create a more modular architecture.
- Proactively plan for future capacity and energy needs of the business.
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Webcast: Virtualization Management Best Practices in Virtualization Management with Tony Iams, Senior Analyst, Ideas International Register for WebcastAutomate ProcessesGoalsAs your marketplace and the world change, your business needs to adapt with them. Which means your IT systems need to be flexible. With a virtualized infrastructure, you have the ability to assign resources to your highest priority business needs. But how do you make the systems even more responsive? With automation. With automated processes based on best practices and business rules, you can reduce manual errors as your IT systems automatically respond to changing business conditions. The AdvantagesIIBM offers solutions designed to automate your virtualized infrastructure to meet regulatory demands and market changes. Support ongoing cost savings- Provision across silos from bare metal to OS, to applications and storage and network to reduce time to market for new services from days to minutes.
- Reduce human errors using automated processes.
- Implement policy-based infrastructure to improve compliance with evolving regulatory requirements.
Improve service delivery- Support higher service levels with an infrastructure that is more self-aware and self-healing.
- Better manage demand spikes and differentiate genuine demand from security attacks on the infrastructure.
- Ensure business priority alignment with IT priorities, automatically provisioning and reassigning resources as needed by the business.
Increase business agility- Support business-based decision making with a more versatile IT options.
- Reduce the risk and cost for business strategy implementation.
- Ensure alignment of infrastructure services to business objectives.
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Webcast: Optimizing IT Service Delivery with Cloud ComputingImprove agility and business effectiveness with Cloud Computing. Register for WebcastOptimize DeliveryGoalsYou need business priorities to drive your IT infrastructure (not the other way around.) You need your users to be able to self-provision IT resources as appropriate. Delivery optimization solutions put business users and processes in control to dynamically drive the underlying IT infrastructure. This can help assure that resources are delivered in the most timely and efficient manner. The AdvantagesIBM offers delivery optimization solutions that can support self-provisioning, on demand, cloud-based "virtual enterprises" that are entirely unconstrained by physical barriers or location and more. Support ongoing cost savings- Automatically reserve and reclaim computing power to virtually eliminate underutilization.
- Support standardization with business-ready cloud offerings for significant gains in productivity and rapid return on investment.
- Gain awareness of usage-based costs to highlight efficiency opportunities and facilitate granular chargeback.
Improve service delivery- Provide self service capabilities for provisioning application stacks as services.
- Ensure that resources are directed to the workloads that matter most to business clients.
- Support elastic scaling to avoid disruptive capacity shortfalls.
Increase business agility- Facilitate rapid provisioning of new services or resources and the scaling of established services to dramatically increase business agility.
- Support creativity by almost entirely decoupling business decisions from infrastructure constraints.
- Preserve business capital by exploiting pay-as-you-go, self-service access to virtualized resources virtually anywhere and anytime, whether internal or external to the organization.
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