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aTCA- the right choice for the cloud computing challenge

By Oded Amir


One of the most debated and chased after markets in the computing, communications and software industries, cloud computing continues to take center of the stage in the considering users, press, analysts and kit sellers. Though frequently referenced as"The Cloud," cloud computing represents a broad mix of elements and technologies which has an 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, world takings for 2010 totaled $37.8B and by 2015 that will 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 data center is the hard middle of any fluffy cloud.Many of the Telecomms service suppliers have raised issues about the"public cloud" regarding 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 role 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 often accessible on-demand through the Net employing a mostly self service model. Regularly tiered in a pay for what you use structure cloud computing services have raised levels of pliancy and depend on access to big resource pools. From a consumer viewpoint some of the benefits of cloud computing can be seen as:

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

- Access to specialized resources

- Self serve -no/nominal IT capabilities required to carry out.

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

- Less expensive - No duty to buy hardware or software. Most vitally, pay for what you use.

- Urgent It works like backup, security and upgrades and the like. Are done by the service suppliers

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

- Security (information, access) is vital in a heavily virtualized environment

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

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

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

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

Enhancing of datacenter efficiencies maximizing ROI on CAPEX and OPEX The design of the networking and computing framework becomes necessary to handling these challenges. Most implementations are based totally 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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