Elmer, from that article quoting Gelsinger about the future of distributed computing:
Gelsinger: Intel is providing the building blocks that enable the dramatic transformation that converges the communication and computing environments. That's what Intel is driving. When you walk into the datacenter, for a second you see some communications front ends, you see some Web front ends, you see some middle tier servers, you see some back-end databases, and you see storage devices, and then some stuff that hooks them together. Those are the five big elements of the datacenter today. Our strategy is to deliver the building blocks for all of the above. The aggregated datacenter that's hooked together with fiber IP networks is increasingly built on Intel platforms. That's our strategy, and I think most of the industry trends are very favorable to us.
Storage devices? Is Intel planning to bring back the silicon disk, or go into competition with IBM, Compaq, EMC, etc.?
Tony |
