{"id":12791,"date":"2015-03-16T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=218531"},"modified":"2015-03-16T17:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:10:26","slug":"datacentred-adds-arm-64-bit-to-openstack-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/datacentred-adds-arm-64-bit-to-openstack-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"DataCentred adds ARM 64-bit to OpenStack cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"DataCentred<\/p>\n

DataCentred is adding ARM-based OpenStack services to its public cloud portfolio<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Manchester-based cloud services provider DataCentred has added ARM AArch64-based servers to its OpenStack-based public cloud platform, a product of its recently announced<\/a> partnership with Codethink. The company’s head of cloud services told BCN the company is responding to customer demand for putting ARM-based workloads in the cloud.<\/p>\n

As part of the move the ARM AArch64 architecture, which allows 32-bit and 64-bit processes to be executed alongside one another, will be added to the company\u2019s OpenStack-based public cloud offering; the company said it will run the platform on HP M400 ARM hardware, and give customers access to Intel and ARM architectures alongside one another within an OpenStack environment.<\/p>\n

DataCentrerd said the move will help drive down the cost of data centre operation and of the cost of virtualised instances within a customer\u2019s service framework.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to be the first OpenStack public cloud operator to feature 64-bit ARM instances. This breakthrough is testament to the considerable skill and expertise of our OpenStack cloud development team.\u00a0 This is probably the first example of Moonshot AArch64 running in Europe outside of HP\u2019s development labs, and certainly the first example of generally available Moonshot backed AArch64 instances in an OpenStack public cloud anywhere in the world,\u201d said Mike Kelly, chief executive and founder of DataCentred.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that ARM themselves are pleased to hear of this development, as a real world deployment. OpenStack is one of the big success stories for Open Source software, and is likely to be the environment through which enterprise migrates, in a vendor neutral way, to take advantage of elastic cloud compute,\u201d Kelly added.<\/p>\n

Matt Jarvis, head of cloud computing at DataCentred told BCN there\u2019s currently a scarcity of ARM in the cloud.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis deployment is driven by customer demand – we have both new customers who want to access ARM64 on-demand, and existing customers who we’ve been talking to about proof of concept ARM workloads for some time,\u201d Jarvis said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is significant interest from the worldwide community of technology companies currently working with ARM hardware to have access to develop platforms on-demand, along with specific vertical market interest in ARM as part of a longer term technical strategy targeting reduction in operating cost due to power savings,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

ARM for compute seems to be fairly scarce in the cloud world, though it\u2019s clear that OpenStack incumbents are looking to bring the software platform to all kinds of architecture beyond x86. Oracle is looking to marry SPARC and OpenStack while IBM and Rackspace are both working towards getting the open source software platform working on OpenPower.<\/p>\n

DataCentred said it plans to move the Moonshot-powered cloud service into production sometime later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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