Analyst and Industry Insights

Although the final report has yet to be be released, this IDC executive summary white paper is available to Intel Premier IT Professional members for a period of time.  In it, IDC summarizes how virtualization is changing the landscape of the x86 IT world and how IT shops are the beneficiary of this rapid change and increase in performance and functionality.

Alan Piklor, VMWare Corporate Account Manager, describes how virtualization can address data center challenges and obstacles. Piklor also describes what changes the virtualization market is going through as it enters the third generation, and provides an overview and case studies of VMware products.

John Archer, Senior Systems Engineer with BEA Systems, describes how BEA’s Liquid Infrastructure enables data center efficiency and flexibility, compares it to current data center application platforms, and explains the role it plays in SOA services.

Ron Broussard, VMware Systems Engineer, describes how virtualization can address data center challenges and obstacles.  Broussard also describes what changes the virtualization market is going through as it enters the third generation, and provides an overview and case studies of VMware products.

Mike O’Reilly, VMware Systems Engineer, describes how virtualization can address data center challenges and obstacles.  O’Reilly also describes what changes the virtualization market is going through as it enters the third generation, and provides an overview and case studies of VMware products.

At two recent Intel Premier IT Professional local IT best practices seminars, members had the opportunity to participate in a BMW Ride & Drive.  Not only did they get behind the wheel of the newest 507HP BMW M5 automobiles, but they were also able to get professional driving instruction and test drive a number of cars on a racetrack.  And as a part of the program, Dr. Joachim Taiber, General Manager of BMW’s IT Research Office and Brian Conner, BMW Partner Relationship Manager, discussed the IT Technology partnership between BMW and Intel.   These technology research areas include: Future Data Center and Workplace, Mobility/Wireless, Car Integration/Infotainment, Car Integration/Services, and Innovation. 

This white paper presents the results of a research study sponsored by Intel and conducted by Wipro Product Strategy and Architecture practice, designed to show the potential impact of Intel Centrino Pro processor technology on the total cost of ownership for business notebook PCs.  This analysis examines how the technology, which is based upon the same technology as Intel® vPro™ processor technology, can reduce infrastructure complexity and how it affects manageability and IT costs.

What does 3rd generation infrastructure-wide virtualization mean to enterprise?  And how can your organization take advantage of this maturing technology that enables you to separate the operating systems from the hardware and encapsulate an OS and an application into virtual machines.  VMware presents their ideas on this plus some real-world case studies in this Intel Premier IT Professional local seminar presentation.

Poor choices about what code to run — and the consequences of running it — could cause Internet users to ask to be saved from themselves. In this Winter 2008 Intel Premier IT magazine article, Professor Jonathan Zittrain suggests we look to generative solutions to solve the Internet’s problems.

Tom Foremski, editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, led a panel discussion at the Fall Intel Developer Forum that dealt directly with the friction that often arises between the burgeoning social media forces in the enterprise and the IT groups that find themselves in opposition to the kinds of needs created by those newer social networks.  The panel in this podcast includes Peter Kaminski, CTO of Socialtext, Jackie Medecki, attorney for social media and marketing at Intel, Jeff Moriarty, a social media/Web 2.0 design engineer at Intel, John Miner, an IT methodologist at Intel, and Eleanor Wynn, a social technology architect at Intel.