Bangalore: Addressing the incredible growth of data traffic in the cloud for enterprises, Intel Corporation has announced the record-breaking Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family to facilitate the business to utilize the upcoming opportunity created by the increased consumption of internet by the people. These new processors deliver leadership performance, best data center performance till known, breakthrough I/O innovation and trusted hardware security features to enable IT to scale. These processors are not only at the heart of servers and workstations, but will also power the next generation of storage and communication systems from leading vendors around the world.

Forecasts call for 15 billion connected devices and over 3 billion connected users by 2015. The amount of global data center IP traffic is forecasted to grow by 33 percent annually through 2015, surpassing 4.8 zetabytes per year, more than 3 times the amount in 2011. At these levels, each connected user will generate more than 4GB of data traffic every day. In order to scale to meet this growth, the worldwide number of cloud servers is expected to be more than triple by 2015.

“The growth in cloud computing and connected devices is transforming the way businesses benefit from IT products and services,” said R. Ravichandran, Business Development Director, APAC, Intel. “For businesses to capitalize on these innovations, the industry must address unprecedented demand for efficient, secure and high-performing datacenter infrastructure.  The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family is designed to address these challenges by offering unparalleled, balanced performance across compute, storage and network, while reducing operating costs.” 

With the best combination of performance, built-in capabilities and cost-effectiveness, the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product families are designed to address these requirements of cloud, consumerization and big-data, and become the heart of the next-generation data center powering servers, storage and communication systems.