In this one-minute video, Intel IT infrastructure service manager Stephen Tadman summarizes his Virtualization Enables Data Center Efficiency presentation from a local IT best practices seminar.

In this members exclusive webinar, Enrique Castro-Leon, enterprise and data center architect and technology strategist at Intel, and Parviz Peiravi, principal architect of enterprise solutions at Intel, discuss the convergence of virtualization, SOA and grids/distributed computing. Although these technologies are individually “old news” with roots back to the 1960’s and earlier, their convergence and the modular deployment of service-based applications are definitely “new news.” The presenters discuss how service modules, or “servicelets”, are appropriate for large and small enterprises.

In this brief summary of the Intel Application and Desktop Virtualization Forum, Intel shows how success is a function of delivery model, hardware and process.

After first examining evolving customer needs and the tension between users and IT, this presentation from Microsoft goes on to look at alternative desktop deployment models and how Microsoft desktop optimization accelerates deployment and increases managability.   The presented then details Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization. 

Senior product marketing manager Brian Duckering with Symantec looks at application lifecycle management and the core technologies associated with it.  He closes his presentation with several use cases that demonstrate how the software virtualization solution can benefit organizations.

In this presentation from Citrix, the challenges of traditional application deployment are examined in light of new developments with a service-oriented approach to application delivery.  The presenter continues with an explanation of application virtualization scenarios, the benefits of client-side application virtualization and a solution for streaming a single, standard desktop image.

With the increasing cost of managing desktop PCs and the associated operating systems and applications, IT is looking to improve manageablity and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). This has resulted in two trends which the presenter examines: investment in better means to manage the clients, and centralization of some aspect of the compute environment of data, application, OS or hardware.

Intel IT infrastructure service manager Stephen Tadman examines the options for hosting solutions and looks at how provisioning, maintenance, compute utilization and consolidations will change over time.  He then provides some guidance for which applications are the best fit for two virtualization implementation approaches.

Intel IT is exploring ways of delivering IT core value to users through the use of virtualization technologies.  IT evangelist Dave Buchholz shows how this virtual user environment can reduce IT support and management, and improve end-user experience.

The emerging technology engineering team from Intel IT takes a look at how client virtualization, or the ability to deliver an operating system and/or application to an end user in a form other than its native format, allows for both providing a proven build and allowing users the flexibility of “owning” their own platform. IT technology evangelist Mike Breton has the details.