Chip making giant Intel Corp. introduced a portfolio of data centre products and technologies for cloud service providers.
According to Intel, server, network and storage infrastructure is evolving to better suit an increasingly diverse set of lightweight workloads, creating the emergence of microserver, cold storage and entry networking segments. By optimizing technologies for specific workloads, Intel intends to help cloud providers increase utilization, drive down costs and provide consistent experiences to business.
The portfolio includes the second generation 64-bit Atom C2000 system-on-chip (SoC) designs for microservers and cold storage platforms (code named “Avoton”) and for entry networking platforms (code named “Rangeley”). These new SoCs are the company’s first products based on the Silvermont micro-architecture, the new design in its leading 22nm Tri-Gate SoC process delivering significant increases in performance and energy efficiency, and arrives only nine months after the previous generation.
Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the data centre and Connected Systems Group at Intel, said, the world has become more mobile and the pressure to support billions of devices and users is changing the very composition of data centres. Intel is providing the key innovations that original equipment manufacturers, telecommunications equipment makers and cloud service providers require to build the data centres of the future.