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aTCA - the right 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 often referenced as"The Cloud," cloud computing represents a broad mixture of elements and technologies which has a crucial role to play. From networking framework to seas of compute and disk servers and a broad set of specialised software the total market for cloud computing carries on expanding swiftly. According to the Yankee group, worldwide earnings for 2010 totaled $37.8B and by 2015 which 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 info center is the hard middle 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 outlined the"carrier cloud" that addresses these categorical 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 decent range of applications and services that are often accessible on-demand through the Net using a principally self serve model. Regularly tiered in a pay for what you use structure cloud computing services have high levels of pliancy and rely on access to huge resource pools. From a customer point of view some of the benefits of cloud computing can be seen as:

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

- Access to specialised resources

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

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

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

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

For a cloud service provider there are numerous challenges that must definitely be met to be able to provide these benefits:

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

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

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

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

- Effective resource function-Must be in a position to meet ever changing demand patterns with no necessity to over provision to meet worst case scenarios?

Optimizing of datacenter efficiencies maximising ROI on CAPEX and OPEX The architecture of the networking and computing framework becomes vital to managing these challenges. Most implementations are completely based on standard Rackmount servers mixed 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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