Corporate IT remains one center of cloud computing, but more technology workloads are coming under the domain of business line managers.
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In the cloud department, Intel datacenter experts will team up with a separate group at Carnegie Mellon to form the Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing (ISTC-CC, to initiates).
In fact, in what was perhaps most interesting is the remark by CEO Steve Jobs that they are moving the Cloud to the center of the computing experience, and turning the Mac and PC into just another device.
On the other hand, the move to cloud computing provided Intel with the ability to capture data center growth.
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"Cloud computing has brought a sea change to the data center--dramatically altering the economics of compute by changing the workload and optimal characteristics of a server, " said Andrew Feldman, SeaMicro CEO, who will become general manager of AMD's newly created Data Center Server Solutions business.
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Additionally, data center infrastructures need to enable shifts towards cloud computing and enhanced mobility, and applications will need to follow suit.
Two recent events reminded us this spring that cloud computing infrastructures are vulnerable to the same genetic IT flaw that plagues traditional data center operations: everything fails, sooner or later.
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Otellini described a world in which all the development of the past 30 years was but a prelude to the next decade, which will see even more change, and he positioned the user at the center of the computing experience with a spectrum of devices and cloud services around him or her, all interacting smoothly together.
IaaS covers most things that exist in a data center these days, but are delivered as a service from a cloud computing provider.
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