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The Planet: Maintaining an Edge in a Competitive Universe

PremierIT — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:54:32 +0000

The Planet integrated new Dell PowerEdge* servers featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to provide customers with access to cutting-edge technology ahead of other IT hosting companies. The high-performance, energy-efficient Intel® processor–based servers are helping some customers double application performance while enabling The Planet to reduce power consumption by using the new servers in its data centers.

R Systems: Breakthrough Performance for HPC

PremierIT — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:54:16 +0000

R Systems worked with Intel and Dell to upgrade a 288-node HPC cluster by deploying new customized Dell servers equipped with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to help a customer increase aggregate application performance by 200 percent.

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center: Delivering Agile Healthcare

PremierIT — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:26:04 +0000

For Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, IT plays a critical role in providing quality patient care, producing groundbreaking medical research, and facilitating effective teaching. They are extending their virtual environment with the latest Intel® architecture, saving USD 450,000 on hardware acquisition and increasing IT agility.

Canada’s Fastest Supercomputer

PremierIT — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:32:40 +0000

The SciNet consortium at the University of Toronto has installed a 4,000-server IBM System x* iDataPlex* supercomputer, powered by more than 7,500 Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series compute cores, that gives Canadian researchers a supercomputer that’s over 10 times more powerful than any other system in Canada and saves enough energy every year to run more than 700 homes.

7-Eleven: Six Billion Slurpees and Counting

PremierIT — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:42:32 +0000

When 7-Eleven's 800 field consultants and 2000 remote employees were due for a laptop/desktop refresh, the company decided to purchase laptops for all of them. Get the details on how they improved employee and IT staff productivity and lowered both management and deskside incident costs.

Lone Star College System

PremierIT — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:21:44 +0000

In their quest to reduce environmental impact and improve manageability of college computing resources, Lone Star College collaborated with HP and Intel to slash PC energy consumption.

State of Tennessee: State Health Leaders

PremierIT — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:26:40 +0000

Tennessee, a leader in advancing healthcare IT, is moving toward an interoperable digital health environment across the state. Intel® Xeon® processor and Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology – plus Intel expertise – are helping Tennessee build eHealth success. Read State…

Winners of Intel Premier IT Knowledge Awards Announced

PremierIT — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:33:42 +0000

Intel and CXO Media teamed up to recognize organizations that have led the way in best practices for data center management and client management. This year's winners, Applied Materials, Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe, Inc., and RichRelevance, demonstrated that they drive innovation to make a substantive impact on their business.

A Healthy Change for Humana

PremierIT — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:39:50 +0000

Intel helps design and deploy a data center that packs 25 percent more servers into 56 percent of the space compared to the previous outdated facility. Find out more in A Healthy Change for Humana (322KB, PDF).

Polycom: Securing Success

PremierIT — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:51:16 +0000

Polycom can centrally manage laptop security, remotely delete data, recover missing laptops, and make stolen computers unusable using the Intel, Lenovo and Absolute integrated software and hardware solution. Discover the details in Securing Success (569KB, PDF).