According to foreign media reports, along with the Intel developer forum is approaching, now is a good time for the current situation assessment of Intel and take measures in future. For IT manager, they should not focus on PC and processor business, or whether Intel entered the smart mobile phone and tablet computer market, but should be expanding Intel data center business efforts. Intel Xeon processor has seized the server market, according to InformationWeek data, Xeon processor by 95% enterprises, 80% enterprises around the widely used Xeon processor.
For more than a year, Intel has been in the implementation through three stage strategy reengineering data center business plan. The optimization of infrastructure, improve the efficiency of energy use and load processing efficiency; secondly, the expansion of the processor and the component design, meet the new load demand, especially the big data, cloud computing, high performance computing, network and storage system; thirdly, to provide the software in each part of the infrastructure of abstract layer, defined to automatic software accelerate the transformation of the data center.
Intel has been in the X86 processor to more market. This means that Intel's engineers have been analyzed in load for all IT, and the application of cloud computing, /Hadoop large data distributed database, shared virtual server farms, customized high performance computing application, storage systems, and even network exchange, data packets and network services compared with general enterprise application in the CPU, memory and I/O occupied aspects different.
Intel's expansion strategy, using the special communication processor, network accelerator and parallel processing coprocessor to consolidate the Xeon processor advantage. Since its acquisition of Fulcrum, Intel increase has become an important manufacturer switch chip market. Intel may have advantages, software compatibility to promote its technology, the advantages of higher performance coupled with and for various load optimization platform, can help Intel to win the CISCO, DELL and HP's business is still a question to be answered. However, in view of Intel in technology and chip manufacturing advantages, it attracts the giants of the possibility of very high.
Intel technology into the data center
Intel hopes to bring in Windows and Linux on the market advantage to cloud computing, all services (XaaS), the integration of data and storage, 10Gbps or higher bandwidth network market. Intel's goal is obviously aspects make their technology is applied in the data center.
Last year, Intel unveiled with Facebook and eBay and other large cloud computing service providers cooperation plan, custom chip development the company based on the standard design. This allows customers to use a custom accelerator, the energy consumption management hardware or other functions to strengthen the standard X86 kernel, the load of the system performance optimization of concrete.
Another unresolved issue is whether Intel will fulfill the chip into the use of low energy consumption, high density system market commitment. Although Intel continues to develop atom kernel, but it shows to Zhi Qiang, Haswell and Broadwell design continued attention and other initiatives, Intel hope that customers choose the more expensive, higher margin products.
