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When we launched our Cloud Builders community in Oct 2010, we had about 20 cloud builders reference architectures. Since then we have been adding several new reference architectures to our reference architecture library. One quick primer. Lets see if some one can answer "what is in a reference architecture?" Hint: You will find the answer in the Cloud Builders Reference Architecture Library page

The reason for this blog is to introduce our brand new RAs - Huawei and Nimbula. Let me go over each in detail:

Huawei: Huawei SingleCLOUD* solution is designed for the cloud computing data centers. Using SingleCLOUD solution, Cloud Service Providers can construct network-based office environments which provide “pay as you go” server and storage services for enterprises, especially for small and medium enterprises. This reference architecture discusses the Huawei SingleCLOUD solution optimized on Intel Xeon® processor-based platforms and describes how to implement a base-solution to build a more elastic and complex environment of cloud computing.

Nimbula: Based on Nimbula’s Cloud Operating Sytems, Nimbula Director allows customers to efficiently manage both on- and off-premise resources by transforming under-utilized private data centers into easily configurable compute capacity and providing controlled access to extern clouds. For this paper, Nimbula and Intel have worked together to prototype a private cloud computing test bed running a private cloud on a cluster of 12 Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers. Using the Nimbula Director API, via the command line as well as the Web-based interface, accounts were created based on organization hierarchies, assigned appropriate permissions to users and groups, monitored and managed resources, demonstrated the elastic nature of resource scaling, and configured the use of cloud federation to enable bursting into external cloud during times of high demand.

Visit the ever growing reference architecture library to learn more about these RAs. Also please visit the Fellow Travellers page to learn more about these partners.

Stay tuned to hear from me on the new RAs that we will be announcing soon

Two Chinese companies are climbing to cloud computing success thanks to Intel® Xeon™ processor 5600 series.

Focused on R&D and business applications for cloud computing services, 21ViaNet launched China’s first business computing service platform, providing Internet infrastructure services to customers. To improve its service and reduce operating costs, 21ViaNet upgraded to servers with Intel Xeo processor 5600 series with a cloud computing model using Intel® Virtualization Technology. The advanced virtualization features have doubled the computing performance of older-generation processors.

“The significant advantage and superior performance provided by Intel® Virtualization Technology and the computing performance of the Intel Xeon processor 5620 meet our needs to upgrade our cloud computing platform servers and enable us to deliver an Internet infrastructure service to our customers with a cloud computing mode while reducing costs and improving services at the same time,” explained Jiang Jianping, CTO of CloudEx Technology Co., Ltd., the division that operates the business cloud computing service platform.

China Telecom urgently needed to implement cloud computing research and optimize its data center to reduce operating costs and energy consumption. Incorporating Intel® Data Center Manager into its cloud computing experimental platform, which was based on the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series, laid a solid foundation.

“Built on the Intel Xeon processor and Intel Data Center Manager, China Telecom’s cloud computing prototype experimental platform utilized the improved computing and energy-efficient features of the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series and provided reliable testing data for the scaled deployment of China Telecom’s cloud computing framework,” said Ding Shengyong, project manager for China Telecom.

For the whole story, read our new 21ViaNet and China Telecom business success stories. As always, you can find these, and many others, in the Intel.com Reference Room and IT Center.

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