As growth in demand for cloud computing ramps up, Silicon Valley companies are putting their chips on the table. Powerhouse Intel recently announced strategic investments in emerging cloud computing companies Adaptive Computing and Joyent. These companies provide some of the key building blocks to Intel's cloud computing vision which rests on four principles: efficiency, simplification, security, and open standards.
Businesses are increasingly attracted to cloud computing because the pay-as-you-go approach allows them to better control their costs, buying applications and data service as needed. This migration to a cloud computing model shifts more data and applications from the end-user's computing device (e.g. desktop, laptop, or smartphone) to the data center or service provider, adding complexity and increased demand for resources.
Adaptive Computing offers a solution to address increased complexity with software automation. In a statement released September 14, 2010, Adaptive Computing COO and president said, "As cloud computing demand has continued explosive growth, Adaptive Computing and its partners have applied Moab's unique competitive advantage of upgrading static self-service cloud projects to rich self-optimizing or intelligent workload-driven clouds."
Addressing the open standards principle in Intel's cloud computing vision, Joyent offers a set of products including SmartPlatform. SmartPlatform provides a JavaScript software development environment. “This infusion will enable Joyent to continue expansion of our Smart Technologies for cloud computing, including our SmartPlatform open source project and node.js support, to extend our product offerings and customer base,” said Joyent CEO David Young.
Explosive growth in data and traffic on the internet and a proliferation of new data-driven mobile devices, have challenged data center managers and service providers for years. Using conventional methods of adding and manually allocating resources is no longer sufficient. Virtualization has had only a limited impact. Cloud computing compounds those challenges. If Intel's vision is realized, solutions may be on the way.
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I live in the Silicon Valley and work at an influencial company that is discussing the exact probabilities of cloud computing. You are very correct especially about the pay-as-you-go approach.
I also agree about how the Adaptive Computing assists in influence.
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