Intel Announces ‘Cloud for All’ Initiative to Deliver Benefits of the Cloud to More Businesses
July 23 2015 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Includes Industry Investments and
Collaborations to Unleash Tens of Thousands of New Clouds; Intel
Announces Collaboration with Rackspace to Deliver Easy-to-Deploy
Clouds
Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Cloud for All
initiative to accelerate cloud adoption by making public, private
and hybrid cloud solutions easier to deploy. Through a series of
investments and collaborations in the cloud software ecosystem,
Intel believes the initiative will help businesses take advantage
of the cloud benefits to deliver new capabilities and digital
services, leading to tens of thousands of new cloud
deployments.
While the Intel Cloud for All initiative is designed to benefit
clouds of various sizes and types, enterprise cloud adoption has
been particularly stifled by complexity, lack of scalability and
gaps in open source enterprise-grade features. Removing these
obstacles will enable companies to deploy more highly optimized and
scalable cloud infrastructure that delivers new services more
efficiently.
“The cloud has been critical to the digital services economy and
has enabled tremendous innovation and business growth, but broad
enterprise adoption is not happening fast enough,” said Diane
Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data
Center Group. “We believe that through this initiative we will
enable our customers to realize the benefits and innovations gained
from the latest cloud computing technologies.”
Unlocking the Next Wave of Cloud Deployments
Consumer services from major cloud service providers have driven
the first wave of cloud adoption, accounting for 75 percent of
current cloud usage. However, over the next five years,
opportunities created from the Internet of Things and big data
analytics solutions will be leading drivers for enterprise cloud
growth. According to industry research firm IDC, organizations will
spend an additional $142.8 billion on infrastructure for both
public and private cloud environments in the next three years
(2016-2018) to boost efficiency and business agility1.
The Intel Cloud for All initiative will focus on three primary
areas to accelerate new cloud deployments and help businesses get
the most from their cloud infrastructure:
- Investing in the ecosystem to
accelerate enterprise-ready, easy-to-deploy software defined
infrastructure (SDI) solutions;
- Optimizing SDI solutions to deliver
highly efficient clouds across a range of workloads by taking full
advantage of Intel platform capabilities; and
- Aligning the industry and engaging the
community through open industry standards, solutions and routes to
market to accelerate cloud deployment.
New Collaboration with Rackspace*
As a key part of this initiative, Intel is announcing today a
new collaboration with Rackspace*, the co-founder and leading
operator of OpenStack*, the predominant open source cloud software
platform. Intel and Rackspace will establish the OpenStack
Innovation Center to focus on driving enterprise features and scale
optimizations into the OpenStack source code.
The OpenStack Innovation Center will include the world’s largest
OpenStack developer cloud consisting of two 1,000-node clusters
that will be available to the OpenStack community-at-large to
support advanced, large-scale testing of OpenStack performance,
code and new features. These testing clusters are expected to be
available within the next six months.
The companies will also focus on the delivery of new enterprise
features and optimizations that are aligned with the OpenStack
Enterprise Working Group and community priorities. New modules of
courseware will also be offered to onboard and increase the number
of open source developers actively contributing to the success of
the community.
Teleconference and Presentation
Intel will hold a teleconference today at 10:00 a.m. PT (1:00
p.m. ET) to discuss the Cloud for All initiative and the Rackspace
collaboration. The live teleconference can be accessed in the
United States at 1-888-339-2688 and outside the United States at
+1-617-847-3007 with the passcode 83629340. To view the slide
presentation, click here. A replay of the teleconference will be
available shortly at
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/07/23/intel-announces-cloud-for-all-initiative-to-deliver-benefits-of-the-cloud-to-more-businesses.
Supporting Resources *available at 10:00 a.m.
Pacific*
- Intel blog: Cloud for All
- Intel blog: SDI Stacks
- Intel podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/intelchipchat/cloud-for-all
- Rackspace release:
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/newsarticles/rackspace-collaborates-with-intel-to-accelerate-openstack-enterprise-feature-development-and-adoption/
- Rackspace blog:
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-and-intel-form-the-openstack-innovation-center
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1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker,
market forecast, July 2015.
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