Dive Brief:

• Intel has introduced Intel Cloud for All, which includes "industry investments and collaborations to unleash tens of thousands of new clouds," company officials explained. 

• Intel executives said the initiative should accelerate cloud adoption among enterprises by making public, private and hybrid cloud services easier to deploy.

• According to industry research firm IDC, organizations will spend an additional $142.8 billion on infrastructure for both public and private cloud environments by 2018..

Dive Insight:

Some companies wishing to deploy cloud have struggled with “complexity, lack of scalability and gaps in open source enterprise-grade features," Intel said.

Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Data Center Group, said: "The cloud has been critical to the digital services economy and has enabled tremendous innovation and business growth, but broad enterprise adoption is not happening fast enough... We believe that through this initiative we will enable our customers to realize the benefits and innovations gained from the latest cloud computing technologies."

If Intel Cloud for All can fulfill its promises, businesses may be able to overcome some cloud obstacles and deploy new infrastructure more quickly and easily.