ARM looks to the Cloud

ARM has developed an approach for an Intelligent Flexible Cloud (IFC) environment to meet the latency, power and size constraints for next-generation networks.

IFC marries SoCs with a common layer of enabling software and distributed network intelligence, building on technologies such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) which, combined with distributed intelligence, enable applications to move out in the network to where data resides.

The initiative has met with enthusiastic endorsements from silicon vendors Altera, Xilinx, AMD, AppliedMicro, Cavium, Marvell and EZChip.

“The scalability of ARM technology, combined with the networking systems expertise of our partners is increasing node intelligence and configurability, laying a new foundation for software-defined functions and applications,” says ARM vp Charlene Marini.