Using its ‘Cloud-in-a-Box’ demonstration tool, Intel on Friday showed technologies that will deliver a more secure, energy efficient cloud that can be deployed faster than ever before.

Dubbing it the “smallest data centre”, Intel, showcased “cloud technology demonstrator”, a suitcase-size device that has two 1U servers on the chip maker’s Xeon processors to display some of the latest advancements the company has packaged into its chip technology.

The device demonstrates features such as simplification, virtualisation, security and open standards for cloud, which is part of Intel’s Cloud 2015 vision.

Some of the features showcased through the “demonstrator” includes Intel Trusted Execution technology (TXT) which builds security into the silicon, AES New Instruction (AE-NI) which embeds encryption and decryption at the chip level and Power Node Manager, which lets managers to set power budgets for the servers and “tune up” the power and cooling depending on the servers at work.




Briefing reporters, Intel Data Centre Group (APAC) Marketing Programme Manager Nick Knupffer said, “given that our future business is largely going to be from cloud, we wanted to package our processors with capabilities that would make cloud manageable, use low power, secure and open and show the advantages it brings.”

The chip maker estimates more than 2.5 billion people with nearly 15 billion devices will access Internet by 2015.

By then, Internet traffic is also expected to reach a zettabyte — or one million million billion bytes — indications that cloud would achieve astronomical growths in four years.
“We envision cloud to be able to securely connected or federated, capable of automatic provisioning and provide best experience on all kinds of devices from smartphones to desktops,” Nick Knupffer added.

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