{"id":10552,"date":"2013-07-23T23:24:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T04:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10552"},"modified":"2013-07-23T23:24:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T04:24:25","slug":"intel-re-imagines-the-data-center-with-new-avoton-server-architecture-software-defined-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10552","title":{"rendered":"Intel &#8216;Re-imagines&#8217; The Data Center With New Avoton Server Architecture, Software-Defined Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Intel isn&#8217;t just pushing <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/Tags\/avoton.aspx\">Avoton<\/a> as as low-power solution that&#8217;ll compete with products from <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/Tags\/arm.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">ARM<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/Tags\/amd.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">AMD<\/a>, but as the linchpin of a system for software defined networking and software defined storage capability. In a typical network, a switch is programmed to send arriving traffic to a particular location. Both the control plane (where traffic goes) and the data plane (the hardware responsible for actually moving the bits) are implemented in hardware and duplicated in every switch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/News\/Intel-Reimagines-The-Data-Center-With-New-Avoton-Server-Architecture-SoftwareDefined-Services\/\">Intel &#8216;Re-imagines&#8217; The Data Center With New Avoton Server Architecture, Software-Defined Services &#8211; HotHardware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Software defined networking replaces this by using software to manage traffic (OpenFlow in the example diagram below) and monitoring it from a central controller. Intel is moving towards such a model and talking it up as an option because it moves control away from specialized hardware baked into expensive routers made by people that aren&#8217;t Intel, and towards centralized technology Intel can bake into the <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/Tags\/cpu.aspx\">CPU<\/a> itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel isn&#8217;t just pushing Avoton as as low-power solution that&#8217;ll compete with products from ARM and AMD, but as the linchpin of a system for software defined networking and software defined storage capability. In a typical network, a switch is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10552\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[114,292,160,853],"class_list":["post-10552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-computer-architecture","tag-cpu","tag-intel","tag-sdn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}