April 1, 2016
Chip maker to collaborate with two startups to help companies move computing jobs through multiple clouds
Santa Clara, California: Intel Corp. announced new chips targeting cloud computing as well as partnerships to address concerns of companies that have stayed on the sidelines of that technology trend.
April 1, 2016
Chip maker to collaborate with two startups to help companies move computing jobs through multiple clouds
Santa Clara, California: Intel Corp. announced new chips targeting cloud computing as well as partnerships to address concerns of companies that have stayed on the sidelines of that technology trend.
The Silicon Valley giant, whose chips power the vast majority of server systems, on Thursday expanded its Xeon line with new models that boost computing performance. Intel executives, at an event in San Francisco, also pointed to built-in features that could boost the security of cloud computing jobs.
Intel also announced a collaboration with two startups, CoreOS and Mirantis Inc., could make it easier for companies to move computing jobs between competing cloud services, or between their own data centers and the cloud.
“Any business is going to use multiple clouds,” said Diane Bryant, the Intel senior vice president who heads Intel’s data-center group. “The concern is, ‘please don’t lock me in.’ ”
The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker has benefited from the immense numbers of servers purchased by cloud services like those of Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet’s Google Inc. But it also wants to spur innovation at smaller cloud providers and the many other companies trying to equip their own data centers with cloudlike technology.
An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.
Courtesy: MarketWatch
