Intel and OpSource have been working with global IT and ecosystem leaders to identify next-generation cloud computing needs and ease your adoption to cloud services. Delivering technology for tomorrow’s cloud today, Intel and OpSource are helping to make the cloud work for you.
Recent advances in both hardware and software have enabled new usage models for networking, federation among multi-tenant servers, power management, and security that are shaping the infrastructure for both private and public clouds. In order to take advantage of these new use models, OpSource has worked extensively with Intel on capabilities like hardware-assisted virtualization performance, trusted compute pools, unified networking and policy-based power management.
Below are a list of capabilities and technologies that OpSource has worked with Intel on:
· Servers powered by Intel Xeon processors that automatically regulates power consumption and intelligently adjusts server performance according to your cloud’s workload needs, maximizing both energy efficiency and performance. These servers include hardware-assisted virtualization that enable increased virtual machine performance when using OpSource’s cloud service.
· Hardware-assisted encryption that helps secure your cloud service. The latest Intel® Xeon® processors also include processor instructions called Intel® AES-NI that enable pervasive encryption for OpSource’s customers by significantly accelerating encryption performance.To learn more, view this video.
· Build a foundation for trust, security, and compliance: A hardware root of trust can be used with Intel® Xeon® processor based servers with Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) to establish pools of trusted systems to increase the security and integrity of the cloud computing environment. Once platforms with higher integrity are established and can be identified, a valuable control point has been created for administrators trying to better protect sensitive workloads and data. Furthermore, Intel TXT protects servers against attacks to the hypervisor and BIOS, malicious root kit installations, and other firmware and lower-level software attacks. To learn more about trusting cloud services with Intel® Trusted Execution Technology, please view this video.
· Dynamically manage power and cooling in the data center: Intel offers data center power management technology that uses the processor, memory and power supply information in Intel® Xeon® processor based servers as the controls to report system power consumption and cap system power. This technology can set power to a policy defined by a IT management console, thereby allocating and dynamically balancing power at the rack, row, or data center level.
· Simplify the Network with 10 Gigabit Ethernet Unified Networking: Intel’s Ethernet 10 Gigabit adapters simplify networks while improving performance and reducing costs. Optimizations for virtualization accelerate throughput in virtualized servers running your cloud. 10 GbE unified networking allows customers to use a single, cost-effective Intel Ethernet adapter to carry storage traffic (including NAS, iSCSI, and Fiber Channel over Ethernet) over 10GbE.
Together, OpSource and Intel present considerable opportunities as you move forward with your cloud strategy and help make the cloud work for you.
