Intel Announces ‘Cloud for All' Initiative to Deliver Benefits of the Cloud to More Businesses
Includes Industry Investments and Collaborations to Unleash Tens of
Thousands of New Clouds; Intel Announces Collaboration with
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
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
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;
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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
As a key part of this initiative,
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
Teleconference and Presentation
Supporting Resources *available at
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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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Released Jul 23, 2015 • 12:00 AM EDT