According to the plans of five-six years ago, the processors on ARM architecture to date were to take some significant share in the market of solutions for servers. Let's say five percent.
As practice shows, ARM-making market has all chances to go to Intel territory. Let us explain. We are talking about software-configurable communications (SDN, Software Defined Networks) and virtualization of network functions (NFV, Network Function Virtualization). Both technologies are, in fact, doing the same - turn the administrator's workstation in the network management center channels. In other words, switches and routers can be replaced by calculation units conventionally with a set of general-purpose software (conditional, if we talk about on ARM processors, in the case of x86 is really ordinary universal Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron).
According to experts, NFV - untilled field, opening the way to mass server market is young and unknown companies. As an example of an interesting start with hardware virtualization of network functions source causes an event that took place this winter at the Mobile World Congress. In particular, the company AppliedMicro, which has previously noted release server processors (SoC) on ARM architecture, has announced a partnership agreement with the German provider and system integrator - now Kontron.
For Kontron AppliedMicro company has developed a modular NFV-oriented Symkloud server. According to specialists - is the perfect solution on all sides with great prospects. And if this undertaking cross with X-Gene ARM-platform company for the organization of the remote data storage systems, it can turn explosive mixture that in the long term promises from the inside to undermine Intel's monopoly in the server market (below photo for all three platforms - Intel (first left) , X-Gene and AppliedMicro .
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