Intel is challenging the performance of mainframe and Unix-based data centres with the new Xeon processor E7 v2 family that will let customers migrate their mission-critical mainframe workloads on to an industry-standard platform.
Targeted at scientific, big data and cloud computing, the new processors will enable companies to build systems that will allow large-scale in-memory computing.
Using analytics enables businesses to make decisions that improve top-line and bottom-line results. The Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family delivers new capabilities to process and analyse large, diverse amounts of data to unlock information that was previously inaccessible.
Big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) are providing enormous opportunities for many organisations to grow as they create revenue-generating services from the information they are able to derive.
The big data technology and services market is expected to grow 27% annually through 2017 to reach $32,4-billion.
A leading driver of this growth is the immense amount of data coming from connected devices making up the IoT, which is projected to grow to 30-billion devices by 2025.
Investments in the highest performing technologies and analysis solutions can also deliver significant cost savings. For example, Intel’s IT organization expects to achieve cost savings and increased bottom-line revenue of nearly half a-billion dollars through use of analytics solutions by 2016.
The Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family has triple the memory capacity of the previous generation processor family, allowing much faster and thorough data analysis.
In-memory analytics places and analyses an entire data set – such as an organisation’s entire customer database – in the system memory rather than on traditional disk drives.
This method is gaining in popularity due to the increased need for more complex analytics. Industry analyst firm Gartner expects 35% of mid- to large-sized companies will adopt in-memory analytics by 2015, up from 10% in 2012 and predicts at least 50% of Global 2000 companies will use in-memory computing to deliver significant additional benefits from investments in enterprise resource planning (ERP).
Built for up to 32-socket servers, with configurations supporting up to 15 processing cores and up to 1.5 Tb of memory per socket, the new processor family achieves twice the average performance of the previous generation.
These enhancements help businesses that run mission critical applications including business support systems (BSS), customer relationship management (CRM), and ERP to operate more efficiently, at lower cost and with faster response times.
To reduce data bottlenecks, the Intel Xeon Processor E7 v2 family features Intel Integrated I/O, Intel Data Direct I/O and support for PCIe 3.0, achieving up to four times the I/O bandwidth over the previous generation and providing extra capacity for storage and networking connections.
System uptime and reliability also remains a key requirement for mission critical applications. The Intel Xeon Processor E7 v2 family continues Intel’s tradition of delivering world-class reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS).
Intel Run Sure Technology10 is designed for “five nines” solutions essential for business-critical data by reducing the frequency and cost of planned and unplanned downtime.
Starting today, 21 system manufacturers from around the world will announce more than 40 Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family-based platforms.