For today's episode of The AWS Report, I spoke to Billy Cox, Director of Cloud Strategy for Intel. We discussed the genesis of cloud computing, some historical trends, and ways that Intel is optimizing their processors for cloud-style workloads.
I really enjoyed speaking with Billy and I think you'll be able to see this in the video!
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-- Jeff
It's interesting that Intel are spending time looking at whether chip architecture can be optimised for cloud style workloads i.e. applications running on the likes of Hadoop, Memcached and the LAMP stack were mentioned. This sounds like there will be some interesting developments coming in the future for cloud optimised hardware which will make a difference not only for Amazon internally but also for those deploying private cloud software.
Combined with the work from the Open Compute project this should hopefully see some real improvements not only in performance but also with power utilisation, which is still a big concern.
Posted by: David Mytton | September 28, 2012 at 01:44 AM