We all know that Santa and his reindeer personally deliver each and every gift. To every single kid. On the planet. In one night. So, imagine what Santa could do if he had help. Say, from an expert in distribution and delivery, who knows how to leverage the cloud.
United Parcel Service (UPS) is forecasting record-breaking shipments this holiday season. Between Black Friday and New Year’s Eve, UPS estimates that they will deliver more than 700 million packages. And, tech’s fingerprint is all over that, from beginning to end. At the front end, online and mobile commerce are major factors in the increase in the number of shipments. The convenience of text and email alerts, along with the ability to track packages in real time, give gift-givers peace of mind. Down the line, UPS relies heavily on advanced technologies for operational efficiency to ensure on-time delivery. (And, speaking of operational efficiency, you can download the NORAD app to track Santa here.)
In a recent interview with FoxBusiness.com, Juan Perez, the CIO for UPS, spoke about the advantages his company realizes from cloud-based technologies. “We use cloud as a mechanism to develop applications faster, to be able to scale more effectively and manage the cost of development so that we can continue to build additional technologies in the future” Perez said. He goes on to say that UPS is really a technology company that supports an incredible amount of logistics services.
Bringing Cloud Benefits To All
The beauty of cloud technologies is that they work for all customers—not just the Fortune 500. It’s estimated that nearly 80% of workloads will be running on cloud architecture by 2024.1 This cloud transformation is in progress and will continue to gain momentum. You can assist in your customers’ transformation with help from Intel®.
Intel® Cloud for All is an initiative to accelerate widespread adoption of cloud solutions. The effort includes collaboration with industry-leading SDI vendors to bring easy-to-deploy solutions to market. It also works to optimize SDI stacks to fully leverage Intel® architecture capabilities, and advance open standards.
Building Blocks For Cloud
Supporting Cloud for All, Intel® Data Center Blocks for Cloud make it easier and faster for you to create solutions for your customers. Intel Data Center Blocks are configurations that are purpose-built and optimized to address the needs of specific market segments. Among these are:
Cloud Blocks for VMware— accelerating the development of SDS solutions that run mission-critical applications, virtual desktops and streamline IT operations
Cloud Blocks for Microsoft—server systems optimized for Windows Server 2016 and the implementation of software-defined storage and private cloud
Consequently, these blocks help to remove barriers to entry and open new market opportunities for Intel® Technology Providers. Because they are pre-certified and fully validated, they reduce complexity and speed your time to market. Therefore, your focus is on your value-add and customer-centric solutions, with the assurance of Intel quality and reliability standing behind you.
These fully-validated blocks deliver performance, reliability and quality for solutions to handle your customers’ demanding cloud workloads. Like delivering all those gifts from a miniature sleigh with eight tiny reindeer.
1 Intel® and Bain analysis 2016
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