Cloud computing: Intel brings cloud promise to reality

The group has seen $17m in savings after two years of journey.

PENANG, MALAYSIA:

For a few years now, the debate about ‘cloud computing’ and its importance in the future of information technology (IT) has been heavily argued by IT fanatics.

Some believe that it is all hype, whereas, some believe that it will surpass the internet in importance. Intel Corporation, for one, believes that the promise of cloud has become a reality for them.

At the Intel Apac Summit 2011 in Malaysia, Intel organised an event to highlight its vision and strategy on cloud computing, updates of cloud innovations and the industry’s efforts on benefits of cloud commuting to enterprise across the Asia pacific region.

Intel Apac Director Liam Keating expressed confidence about Intel’s cloud commuting journey that started two years ago.

“We see real benefit. Over the past two years we have seen over $17 million in savings to date from our internal cloud effort” Keating told the Summit.

Intel’s private cloud does possess some significant benefits, including immediate provision, higher responsiveness, lower business costs, and flexible configurations and secured infrastructure which indirectly improve the velocity and availability of IT Services.

Data Center Group’s Leadership Marketing Director Allyson Klein informed the Summit about the rising numbers in the connected world in Asia Pacific, saying over 1 billion users would be a part of the connected world in the region by 2015. Intel has shown significant growth in the data center processors about twice in 10 years and 2x in 5 years in data center acceleration. Klein claimed that cloud’s contribution to date center growth will be about 20% by 2015.





Published in The Express Tribune, July 28^th, 2011.