Sunday 30 September 2012

aTCA - the solution for the cloud computing challenge

By Oded Amir


One of the most discussed and chased after markets in the computing, communications and software industries, cloud computing continues to take middle of the stage in the considering users, press, researchers and kit sellers. Though frequently referenced as"The Cloud," cloud computing represents a broad mixture of elements and technologies which has a very important role to play. From networking framework to seas of compute and disk servers and a broad set of specialized software the total market for cloud computing carries on expanding quickly. According to the Yankee group, worldwide earnings for 2010 totaled $37.8B and by 2015 that may have grown to $121.1B. SaaS (Software as a Service) continues to represent the bulk of this growth and together with the sub-structure of the info center is the hard center of any fluffy cloud.Many of the Telecomms service providers have raised questions about the"public cloud" relating to performance, service quality (QoS) and security and have now defined the"carrier cloud" that addresses these particular issues.

With AdvancedTCA technologies and platforms playing an important part in the telecoms and networking structure they become a natural choice for both carrier and public cloud solutions. The cloud stands for a good range of applications and services that are generally accessible on-demand thru the Net employing a mostly self-service model. Often tiered in a pay for what you use structure cloud computing services have elevated levels of pliancy and depend on access to huge resource pools. From a customer viewpoint some of the benefits of cloud computing can be seen as:

- Flexible access-access services anytime, from any location and any gizmo.

- Access to specialized resources

- Self serve -no/nominal IT abilities required to do.

- Collaboration - multiple users can work on files and documents from wherever (and whenever) they are.

- Less costly - No requirement to buy hardware or software. Most undeniably, pay for what you use.

- Vital It works like backup, security and upgrades and the like. Are done by the service providers

For a cloud service supplier there are numerous challenges that must definitely be met to be well placed to provide these benefits:

- Security (info, access) is imperative in a heavily virtualized environment

- Scalability on all dimensions of IT (processing power, storage, applications, network)

- Framework systems must economically scale to very high volumes and ideally do so in a grained fashion

- 24x7 accessibility with high QoS (Level of Service) - Service packaging as patrons need vertically integrated hardware, software, support solutions

- Effective resource function-Must be well placed to meet ever changing demand patterns with no need to over provision to meet worst case eventualities?

Optimising of datacenter efficiencies maximizing ROI on CAPEX and OPEX The design of the networking and computing framework becomes crucial to handling these challenges. Most implementations are completely based on standard Rackmount servers combined with network switches. A standard rack configuration would have 12 x 2U appliance servers with 2 x 1U switches totaling 26U. Now with Intel Based AdvancedTCA solutions one can achieve the same performance density in a 14U rack space.






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