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IT@Intel White Paper

Intel Information Technology


Business Solutions
June 2010

An Enterprise Private Cloud Architecture


and Implementation Roadmap

The private cloud is a shared Executive Overview


multi-tenant environment built Intel IT has defined an architecture and implementation roadmap for a private
on a highly efficient, automated, enterprise cloud designed to increase agility and IT efficiency.
and virtualized infrastructure.
The private cloud is a shared multi-tenant • Greater efficiency, including
environment built on a highly efficient, energy savings, due to better
automated, and virtualized infrastructure. resource utilization.
Other key elements of the cloud include • High availability with minimal
Sudip Chahal
Principal Engineer, Intel IT standardized application platforms provided incremental cost, by taking advantage
as a service and a self-service portal that of enhancements to industry-standard
Jay Hahn-Steichen enables business groups to request and hardware and software.
Systems Engineer, Intel IT manage capacity for their applications.
• Improved capacity management,
Das Kamhout During the design of our private cloud taking advantage of new business
Engineer, Intel IT architecture, we were able to take advantage intelligence tools.
of the extensive experience gained while
Rick Kraemer Because of the extensive scope of this
building the Intel IT design grid, a large multi-
Enterprise Architect, Intel IT initiative, we plan to deliver private cloud
tenant environment used for silicon design.
capabilities in phases over the next three
Hong Li The expected benefits of our office and or more years. As we add these capabilities,
Principal Engineer, Intel IT enterprise private cloud include: we expect that the cloud will become
Chris Peters • Increased agility, including significantly capable of hosting highly demanding,
Manager, Intel IT reduced provisioning times. mission-critical business applications.
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Contents Intel IT Cloud Computing Terminology


Executive Overview........................................ 1 We see cloud computing as a highly available computing environment where secure
services and data are delivered on-demand to authenticated devices and users utilizing a
Background............................................................ 2 shared, elastic infrastructure that concurrently supports multiple tenants.

Intel IT Cloud Computing Strategy..... 3 We identify several attributes that distinguish cloud computing from conventional
computing. These attributes are:
Intel IT Private Cloud • On-demand self-service
Expected Benefits........................................... 3
• Broad network access
Increased Agility ........................................... 3
• Resource pooling
Improved Infrastructure Efficiency... 4 • Rapid elasticity
High Availability and Security............... 4 • Measured service
Intel IT Private Cloud Architecture ..... 4 • Sharing by multiple tenants

Infrastructure as a Service .................... 5 Currently there are three primary categories of cloud computing service:
Platform as a Service................................. 6 Infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Computing infrastructure, such as servers,
Self-Service Portal........................................ 6 storage, and network, delivered as a cloud service, typically through virtualization.
IT Service Management Platform as a service (PaaS). Platforms that can be used to develop and
and Manageability ....................................... 7 deploy applications.
Manageability ................................................. 8
Software as a service (SaaS). Software deployed as a hosted service and
Security ............................................................... 8 accessed over the Internet.

Private Cloud Implementation Plan.... 9


Infrastructure Capability Phasing....... 9
Application Phasing..................................10 BACKGROUND At the same time, Intel IT is continually
challenged to reduce cost.
Conclusion............................................................11 Today, Intel IT operates a massive,
worldwide computing environment Conventional approaches to computing
For More Information..................................11 that supports about 78,000 Intel have constrained our ability to meet these
employees and includes approximately needs. For example, in traditional enterprise
Acronyms..............................................................11 100,000 servers. computing, servers are dedicated to specific
applications, and each server is sized to
About 20 percent of our servers are used support application growth and spikes in
to provide a broad range of office and demand. This results in low physical server
enterprise computing services to Intel’s utilization and limits the ability to quickly
employees, customers, and partners. This provision new server capacity. In addition,
office and enterprise environment includes capacity planning to support new IT
applications for online collaboration, e-mail, initiatives has been complicated by the need
IT@INTEL and calendaring, as well as large business to manually gather configuration, historical
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organization—and with thousands of needs to date, the accelerating pace of moved to a new enterprise architecture
other industry IT leaders—so you can business is driving a need to respond more based on a cloud computing approach.
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INTEL IT CLOUD us to take advantage of public clouds over INTEL IT PRIVATE CLOUD
time, as standards emerge, the technology
COMPUTING STRATEGY matures, costs are lowered, and security EXPECTED BENEFITS
The Intel IT cloud computing strategy, concerns are overcome. We anticipate that our enterprise
shown in Figure 1, is designed to deliver At the same time, we are opportunistically private cloud will deliver key benefits
benefits including increased agility and taking advantage of specific public cloud both to Intel IT and to Intel’s employees.
more efficient resource utilization. services offered by external providers These benefits include increased agility,
when they provide benefit to Intel. For improved infrastructure efficiency, and
Our primary strategy is to grow the cloud
example, we have already deployed several high availability.
from the inside out. We are building a private
cloud for office and enterprise computing, software as a service (SaaS) applications,
including expense and time card tools, Increased Agility
based on a highly virtualized, energy-
health benefit applications, and social Our goal is to meet business needs more
efficient, and flexible environment. This
media applications. quickly. The private cloud will enable business
approach offers many of the benefits of
groups and developers to rapidly acquire
public clouds, such as increased agility and Because of the significant scope of our
and manage their own cloud capacity, and—
efficiency, without the risks associated with private cloud project, we are planning to
within pre-defined limits—dynamically scale
hosting Intel’s sensitive applications and implement the private cloud in phases over
resources to meet their application needs.
data outside the firewall. It also positions several years.

Current Mid Term Long Term

Private: Intel Network Private: Intel Network Private: Intel Network

Hosting Platforms Build/Grow Enterprise Private Cloud Evaluate Hybrid Clouds. Federated IaaS

Office/Enterprise Design Grid Office/Enterprise Design Grid Office/Enterprise Design Grid

Legacy Environments Legacy Environments Legacy Environments


Internal Internal Internal
Clients Clients Clients

External Clients External Clients External Clients

Public: Internet Public: Internet Public: Internet

IaaS SaaS IaaS SaaS IaaS SaaS


• Caching • Job search • Caching • Job search • Caching • CRM
• Benefits/Stocks • Benefits/Stocks • Backup and • Benefits/Stocks
• Sales restore • Job search
• Client image/VM • Sales
• Storage • Productivity
• Manageability • Collaboration

CRM - customer relationship management; IaaS - Infrastructure as a service; SaaS - Software as a service; VM - virtual machine

Figure 1. The Intel IT cloud computing strategy grows the cloud from the inside out.

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The private cloud is evolving from our Improved Infrastructure Efficiency applications and data outside the firewall. We
current virtualization initiatives, which have The foundation of the private cloud is a expect that our private cloud will enable us
already demonstrated that we can reduce shared virtualized infrastructure: Computing to extend even higher levels of availability to
provisioning time to weeks, compared with resources are virtualized and pooled to serve all applications without the need for costly
months in the conventional computing all business groups using a multi-tenant specialized hardware and software. This is
environment. model. We anticipate that this will result in due to new high-availability capabilities that
increased efficiency by driving higher levels virtualization software will support over time, as
We expect to further reduce provisioning
of resource utilization within each pool. This well as the availability of mission-critical features,
time using a self-service portal and
enables us to reduce power consumption such as Machine Check Architecture Recovery, in
automated workflows. Ultimately, we
overall by consolidating the workloads from higher-end industry standard servers.
expect that this will enable users to obtain
infrastructure capacity within minutes. older, less-efficient servers onto a smaller
number of more power-efficient, new servers.
To help ensure that we can quickly adjust
overall cloud capacity to match business
This can reduce costs by lessening the need INTEL IT PRIVATE CLOUD
to add data center capacity.
requirements, we are developing business ARCHITECTURE
intelligence (BI) capabilities that facilitate High Availability and Security We defined a private cloud architecture
strategic capacity planning and better to establish the overall direction of our
By building a private cloud, we can deliver the
monitoring of near-term demand signals private cloud and to provide a foundation
benefits of public clouds without incurring the
and long-term trends. for further development and innovation.
risks associated with hosting Intel’s sensitive

Cloud User Interfaces

Management Portals Customer Portals Data Elements


• Service request • Service templates
Service Security Service • Service level agreement • Images
Self-Service
Catalog Manager Manager • Service offerings • Reports

Enterprise Cloud

Service Management Platform


• Service desk • Release • Configuration • Capacity • Change • Service-level • Incident and
management management management management management problem management

Platform as a Service (PaaS) Security Manageability


• Database • Reporting • Service business • Presence • And so on • Identity and access • Event management
• Analytics • Web • Workflow • Contacts management Databases
• Configuration and • Change management database
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) • Data protection compliance
• Customer relationship management
Automation

Application layer • Security intelligence • Resource provisioning • Intrusion detection system


• High availability • Load balancing • Virtual machine • Aggregation
and disaster recovery • Multi-tenancy isolation • Quality of service • Software, platform, • Work load • Business intelligence
and infrastructure orchestration • Complex event processing
Virtual layer security
• Virtual network • Virtual storage • Virtual compute • Service integration • And so on

Hardware layer
• Firmware • Server • Network
• Hardware • Storage

Figure 2. The primary elements of Intel IT’s private cloud architecture.

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The primary elements of our architecture applications, owned by different business within each pool. It also enables implementation
include infrastructure as a service (IaaS), groups, to transparently share common of more advanced services, such as balancing
which provides dynamically scalable resources underlying physical resources, such as servers workloads across physical servers and storage
based on virtualized infrastructure; platform and storage. Rather than purchasing physical frames. Workload balancing is achieved with
as a service (PaaS), which builds on IaaS and servers, software, data center space, and VM live migration, which migrates virtualized
simplifies application development by adding network equipment, our internal customers applications between physical resources within
standardized stacks of services used by a will receive these resources as VMs. a resource pool in a way that is transparent
wide range of applications; and a self-service to users and does not interrupt the service
To build this infrastructure, we are
portal that enables business groups to provided by the application.
accelerating our adoption of virtualization.
request, manage, and track cloud resources.
Today, we have virtualized 15 percent of We also anticipate that we will be able to
The cloud will also include some internally
the servers used for office and enterprise extend high availability to most applications
hosted SaaS multi-tenant applications. This
computing. Our goal is to increase this rate to by using techniques such as automated
SaaS element could grow in the future to
70 to 80 percent of our office and enterprise VM restart in conjunction with networked
support increased collaboration between Intel
servers within about two years. storage design.
and other companies, and hybrid internal-
external cloud hosting services. We plan to achieve this through server We plan to implement a common disaster
refresh in combination with consolidating recovery architecture, independent of the OS
Our architecture is shown in Figure 2. The
the workloads of multiple older servers into and applications. In the event of a disaster,
primary focus areas are described below.
VMs onto new, more powerful servers based this architecture is designed to enable
on Intel® Xeon® processors. At the same rollover of all designated applications within
Infrastructure as a Service
time, we are aggregating and consolidating a resource pool to another site.
IaaS is the virtualized multi-tenant
physical resources, such as servers, storage
infrastructure underpinning our private Over time, we expect to take advantage
frames, and network bandwidth, into large
cloud. IaaS infrastructure delivers compute of continuing technology improvements
pools, as shown in Figure 3.
services, typically in the form of a virtual to further increase security and quality of
machine (VM) with associated storage and This enables us to achieve increased efficiency service for the applications running in this
network connectivity. This enables multiple by driving higher levels of resource utilization shared multi-tenant environment.

Global Virtualization Manager


and Global Scheduler

Resource Pool
Local
Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Area Network

Applications Applications Applications

OS OS OS

Hypervisor

Server
Storage
Area Network

Figure 3. Private cloud infrastructure as a service: Large resource pools based on virtualized infrastructure provide greater flexibility and efficiency.
Resources of each physical host are virtualized and presented as multiple virtual machines to run multiple OS and application instances. Private Cloud IaaS
consists of pools of virtualized resources (compute, memory, storage, bandwidth) spanning multiple hosts and storage frames. Multi-tenancy (different
resource pools for different customers) are on shared physical infrastructure.

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Learning from Our Design Grid Environment


During the development of Intel IT’s office and enterprise private cloud, we were able to take advantage of the extensive experience
we gained between 2006 and 2008 building a large cloud-like grid computing environment to run silicon design jobs. This environment
already has delivered benefits, such as increased efficiency and agility, similar to those we are aiming to achieve with our office and
enterprise cloud.
The design grid creates a pool of compute resources, including tens of thousands of servers, located across multiple sites. By sharing
these resources across sites, we can use our capacity more efficiently and apply Intel’s global computing resources to individual silicon
design projects.
Today, Intel’s designers submit jobs to the grid; these run on servers wherever there is available capacity across the grid. Both the location
and the type of hardware used are transparent to the user.
By using the grid, we have increased design compute server utilization to an average 80 percent worldwide. This, together with proactive
server refresh, has reduced the need to add data center capacity, delivering about USD 200 million in business value to Intel over several
years by enabling us to avoid expensive data center construction.
In addition, the approaches and techniques pioneered during the development of the design grid have provided key learnings that we are
applying to our office and enterprise cloud. These include comprehensive business intelligence capabilities used to analyze utilization and
plan capacity, a self-service approach that enables users to provision capacity and manage resource utilization, and extensive automation
to ensure standardization and data quality across the environment. We are also using key IT personnel that worked on the design grid to
help drive our internal cloud project.

Platform as a Service provide at least two primary PaaS platforms: example, if the application receives a greater
One of our goals is to enable our developers one based on our industry-standard number of requests for Web data than
to spend more time on creating applications enterprise computing stack and one based expected, it can request a rapid increase in
and less on systems engineering tasks. To on open-source technologies. Each stack the number of Web front-end servers.
achieve this, our PaaS solution provides provides developers with a standard set of
developers with standard platforms for capabilities, initially including a database, Self-Service Portal
application development while relieving them Web server, authentication and authorization The self-service portal provides business
of most of the tasks traditionally associated services, and an application server role. We groups with a graphical interface that they
with maintaining a server OS, such as plan to over time add other services, such as can use to directly request, manage, track,
patching, configuration, and monitoring. analytics and reporting. and retire private cloud services and capacity
to meet their business needs and demands.
We have built our PaaS solution on top of Application developers request and manage
the IaaS base environment. This allows their PaaS application platforms through the We first implemented a basic self-service
the platform to respond dynamically to self-service portal described in the following portal for our office and enterprise
demand by taking advantage of IaaS section. They select server platforms or application developers in 2008. This custom
capabilities. The platform is a standard complete software stacks based on the portal, developed using off-the-shelf tools,
service that applications can utilize; each requirements of each application. has enabled developers to rapidly create
platform component can grow and shrink VMs for short-term use during application
To fully benefit from all PaaS capabilities,
as necessary to meet the needs of the development. The portal uses automated
developers need to adapt their applications
application at each phase of its life cycle. workflows to accelerate and streamline the
to be able to react to changing conditions,
provisioning process.
Our PaaS architecture is intended to promote which may require them to invoke the
and facilitate standardization of our most appropriate IaaS and PaaS services via API To meet the broader requirements of our
important application environments. We will calls from within their applications. For enterprise private cloud, in late 2009 we

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began enhancing the portal to support the we will begin to collect data showing the for managing the overall capacity of the
entire application life cycle. This year, we average throughput of specific applications entire cloud, maintaining a buffer of unused
completed the first iteration of this and business groups. We will be able to capacity that can be assigned to individual
new environment, in which developers use the portal as our primary method for applications as needed. Via the self-service
can acquire, with a few clicks, our understanding incoming demand signals and portal, business groups request and manage
standardized platforms. The portal also establishing a more complete supply chain capacity for individual applications, up
reports consumption of each cloud resource for IaaS capacity. to pre-defined limits based on business
relative to the amount allocated. demand. These limits will be specified
IT Service Management using policies established in service level
The portal enables users to acquire capacity
much more quickly than with previous and Manageability agreements.
methods. During the first year of use, our The Intel IT private cloud is a highly dynamic, The infrastructure team will add private cloud
conservative goal is to enable developers virtualized, and automated environment. infrastructure as necessary to ensure that
to obtain fully configured set of VMs Managing this environment will require capacity is not a constraint to the business
within three hours of submitting a request, significant changes in the area of IT and to ensure optimum utilization. Over
compared to a time frame of weeks in service management, which we define as time, we plan to implement manageability
our current virtualized environment. Over the IT business processes, policies, and automation to enable the infrastructure
time, we plan to progressively reduce this roles we use to operate IT services. We team to further increase responsiveness
to minutes rather than hours. Other key also anticipate significant changes in the and efficiency. A key goal is to minimize
benefits include the ability to shorten manageability area, including the tools that infrastructure costs by maintaining a very
development cycles by creating multiple we use to monitor and manage infrastructure thin overhead of unused capacity across
test environments and conducting testing and applications. the private cloud and adding infrastructure
activities in parallel. capacity on a just-in-time basis.
IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT
Later this year, we plan to extend use of the
Intel IT uses an IT service management Business Intelligence
portal to all private cloud development and
framework, based on the Information The private cloud will include comprehensive
test environments, and then to establish
Technology Information Library approach, to BI capabilities, enabling us to quickly and
the portal as the standard interface for
create business policies and processes for automatically gather data that previously
requesting IaaS capacity for production
customer services, guide manageability design may have required extensive manual effort.
applications. Application owners will be able
for those services, and receive information These capabilities will enable us to deliver
to move an application through the life cycle
about the health of each service. some of the more advanced capabilities.
from development to production, eliminating
For example, we will need reliable BI tools
laborious manual processes; the underlying We are continuing to use this framework
to ensure, based on utilization data and
environment will optimize the platform as we implement our private cloud. For
demand signals, that we maintain the
based on the requirements of the life cycle example, creation and deletion of virtual
optimum cloud capacity buffer.
stage, and provide information about how environments are handled as standard
capacity is being used. We also are planning changes and documented in our existing BI tools that enable us to quickly analyze
other new features, such as the ability to change management database. historical consumption and purchasing
create VM templates that can be reused and information, performance and utilization
However, we anticipate significant changes
shared among users. trends, and summaries of alerts and
to business processes in several areas.
security-related events, will provide us with
The portal is also enabling other important
Capacity Management actionable information that we can apply to
business process changes. Initially, the most
Capacity management in our private cloud a broad range of scenarios.
important of these is the ability to directly
monitor incoming demand rather than differs radically from capacity management
Costing Information
relying on manually produced forecasts. As in a conventional computing environment.
When users request capacity through the
we extend the use of the portal to the full Since early 2010, a centralized cloud self-service portal, we will provide them
cycle of development, test, and production, infrastructure team has been responsible with information about the cost of that

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Mobile Business PCs and Cloud Computing


For many enterprises, cloud computing poses new questions about the optimal business client computing strategy. With more and more
services being delivered from the cloud, which combination of client platforms and service delivery models best meets the needs of
users and IT organizations?
Today, the Intel IT environment contains a mixture of conventional and cloud computing services. These are delivered primarily to mobile
business PCs, as well as some handheld devices. We have found that whether services are kept in-house or outsourced to the cloud, mobile
business PCs offer the best user experience and the flexibility to run different types of applications across our diverse employee population.
Only mobile business PCs support the full range of service delivery methods in our environment. In addition, they deliver full mobile computing
capabilities for our users, including the ability to work offline.
In addition, due to the continuing consumerization of IT and to employee requests, we are evaluating the use of a growing number of
mobile companion devices as core business tools. These will complement our mobile business PC standard, allowing employees to securely
access cloud-based information and services from a range of devices.
We are currently evaluating client-side virtualization technologies that will enable us to combine the performance advantages of local
execution on mobile business PCs with the benefits of centralized management, providing users with access to both locally installed and
cloud-based applications. These technologies take advantage of hardware capabilities in PCs with Intel® Core™ processors, such as Intel®
Virtualization Technology, to provide increased security and virtual machine isolation.

capacity to Intel. This will not generate a We will need tools that extend today’s failed, applications tightly linked to that
chargeback to the user; instead it will be a capabilities to allow us to compare different infrastructure would fail with it.
reporting detail that lets Intel employees execution alternatives across the entire IT
and their managers understand how well or environment, based on priority and efficiency Security
poorly they are utilizing shared Intel assets. policies defined in workload metadata, and The security of Intel’s data and applications
We have found that reporting the cost data if necessary move the workload to another remains a critical focus as we develop
is enough to help people make decisions location with minimal human intervention and implement our cloud strategy. We are
based on the information. Business groups and without interrupting service. acutely aware of our responsibility as an IT
use cost data during project planning when organization to maintain the security and
Identifying the causes of application
having to choose between options and integrity of both corporate intellectual property
performance problems is particularly
during operations when seeking ways to and personal information, regardless of where
important during initial adoption of the
reduce expense. it resides or is being used.
private cloud, to help ensure that users
have confidence in the new environment Private and public clouds create new
Manageability
and do not request excess capacity in security challenges in areas such as resource
A dynamic virtualized, multi-tenant
order to ensure adequate performance. isolation, security event management,
environment results in many new
However, because the private cloud will and data protection. In a non-virtualized
manageability requirements and
be built on a virtualized infrastructure environment, the separation provided
possibilities. Key requirements include
with built-in high availability, detection of by physical infrastructure is assumed to
optimal runtime placement of virtualized
faults below the OS level won’t have the provide a level of protection for applications
workloads and comprehensive VM
same urgency that it has had historically. and data. As we increase the use of a
performance monitoring and diagnostics.
In the past, if part of the infrastructure shared multi-tenant environment based on

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virtualization, business groups will require PRIVATE CLOUD Our phasing takes advantage of key
differentiated security policies based on new enabling technologies in industry-
data classification and mission criticality, and IMPLEMENTATION PLAN standard hardware and software. These
more visibility into secure data flow in the We plan to phase in private cloud technologies, which make it possible to
cloud, and how business-specific security capabilities over the next three-plus build a large private enterprise cloud, include
policies are enforced. years; as the private cloud matures, major improvements in the scalability of
we plan to progressively migrate virtualization software and servers based
Key security focus areas include data
applications from our conventional on Intel Xeon processors. The addition of
encryption and segregation, VM isolation,
environment to the cloud. features to Intel® Virtualization Technology
secure VM migration, virtual network
and off-the-shelf virtualization software will
isolation, and security event and access
monitoring. Externally facing applications, Infrastructure Capability Phasing make it feasible to provide cost-effective
We are taking a pragmatic approach to high availability, increase VM isolation, and
accessible by business partners or consumers,
implementing the enterprise private cloud. increase application quality of service.
are an area of particular concern; we
anticipate providing further detail about Like other IT organizations, we have limited Selected near-term, mid- and long-term
our security approach for externally facing resources and must prioritize and phase in the technical capabilities are described below
applications in the future. desired capabilities over time, while continuing and shown in Table 1.
to support our legacy environment.

Table 1. Private Cloud Infrastructure Capability Phasing

Near Term Mid Term Long Term


Business • On-demand self-service • Automated workflows • IT business intelligence solutions for
Transformation • Measured services • Capacity planning transformation enabling business decisions
Compute, • Default to virtualized • Cross-site disaster recovery • Lockstep virtual machines
Resiliency • Automated virtual machine restart • Machine Check Architecture Recovery • Near-native virtualization performance
Storage • Thin-provisioning • Storage resource pools and quality of service • Solid-state data center
• Data deduplication • Incremental forever backups and recovery • Continuous data protection
• Consolidated backup and restore
Network • 10 GbE • Unified fabric • 40 GbE
• Distributed virtual switch –– compute
–– storage
Security • Non-production virtual machines • Secure live virtual machine migration • Public cloud federation
in demilitarized zone • Virtual machine isolation • Pervasive encryption
• Event and access monitoring
Management • Infrastructure inventory and health • Auto end-to-end life cycle management • Cloud brokerage and federation
• Basic business intelligence - capitalization, • Private-public cloud live migration
performance, and health
• Automated patch/provision
Data Center • Energy savings via virtualization • Cross-platform power and data center • Near-linear power scaling
management • Power usage effectiveness improvements
Clients • Client virtualization • Expanded small form-factor support • Client-aware services optimized across a
• Mobile business PCs plus handhelds range of clients

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Table 2. Intel IT Enterprise Private Cloud Application Phasing

Internal or External Use Near Term Mid Term Long Term


Infrastructure services, Internal and external use Pre-production and All All
including network, hosting, selected production
security, and manageability
Line of business and Internal use only All All All
departmental applications

Externally facing applications All All All


Mission-critical Internal use only Pre-production and All All
selected production
Externally facing applications NA Pre-production All

All = Production and pre-production

NEAR TERM VM migration and increased VM isolation. competitive advantage or include sensitive
(CURRENT TO 18 MONTHS) Other planned capabilities include a unified data will continue to be hosted within Intel
We will continue to broaden the capabilities compute and storage fabric designed to rather than outsourced to public clouds.
of the self-service portal, as we expand reduce complexity and cost.
As the technology capabilities of our private
its use to the production environment. We cloud increase, we anticipate moving an
anticipate increased energy and cost savings LONG TERM increasing number of these applications
through server refresh as we accelerate (MORE THAN THREE YEARS) from our conventional computing
implementation of virtualization across As private and public clouds mature, we environment to the private cloud. Over
our environment. We anticipate being able expect to be able to take advantage of time, the private cloud will be able to host
to provide high availability as a default services providing increased efficiency production instances of some of our most
capability across the environment. and flexibility, such as cloud brokerage demanding internal applications, including
and federated identity management with externally facing applications, as shown in
MID TERM public clouds. Other anticipated capabilities Table 2.
(18 MONTHS TO THREE YEARS) include continuous data protection, solid-
state storage, near-native virtualization At the same time, we will continue
The private cloud will become capable of
performance, and increased security using to outsource some applications to
running our most critical applications. We
pervasive encryption. We plan to continue to external clouds. In general, we expect
expect to implement just-in-time centralized
automate areas that require manual effort. that candidates for outsourcing will be
capacity planning, using new BI capabilities.
applications that do not provide competitive
To safeguard the private cloud, we plan
Application Phasing advantage, can be run at a lower cost
to implement cross-site, application-
In general, applications that are mission- outside Intel, are not mission-critical, and
independent disaster recovery. New
critical, have demanding requirements, provide do not contain sensitive information.
security capabilities will include secure live

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CONCLUSION FOR MORE INFORMATION


CONTRIBUTORS
Our enterprise private cloud is Find additional IT@Intel white papers
designed to deliver critical business at www.intel.com/IT. Uttam Shetty
benefits, including reduced Ravi Subramaniam
• “Developing an Enterprise Cloud
provisioning times, higher resource
Computing Strategy”
utilization, high availability, and ACRONYMS
improved capacity management. • “Architecting Software as a Service
for the Enterprise” BI business intelligence
Because of the extensive scope of this IaaS infrastructure as a service
initiative, we plan to deliver private cloud • “Better Together: Rich Client PCs
and Cloud Computing” PaaS platform as a service
capabilities in phases over the next three or
more years. As we add these capabilities, we • “Intel Cloud Computing Taxonomy SaaS software as a service
expect that the cloud will become suitable and Ecosystem Analysis” VM virtual machine
for hosting highly demanding, mission-
critical business applications.

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