Analyst and Industry Insights

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.

As animation technology has become more sophisticated, so too has its need for computing power. Now, Intel’s multi-core processors are boosting production output for Pixar Animation Studios.  Read this intriguing article on how the Pixar artists take advantage of more cpu cycles to create even more realistic animated characters from the Intel Premier IT magazine Winter 2008 edition.

Karl Kempf was the first person to mount a microprocessor on a Formula One race car, and today he is an Intel Fellow and Director of Decision Technologies at Intel Corporation. He recently explained how the microprocessor has changed Formula One racing.

This on-line version of the Winter 2008 Intel Premier IT magazine is available for download. In addition to the entire magazine, downloads of the individual articles are also available below.

By building upon a solid foundation of security, data center consolidation, innovation and other best practices, Northorp Grumman strategically invests in the future via educational, workforce and other initiatives. Vice-president and CIO Tom Shelman explains how Northrop Grumman uses IT as a catalyst for faster growth.

VMware Premier Partner Foedus has delivered over 600 virtualization engagements.  At the recent New York City Intel Premier IT Professional best practices seminar, they explain their implementation technology.

To give you a taste of the IT best practices content we present at the local Intel Premier IT Professional seminars, we’ve posted several video presentations including the accompanying slides. This virtual seminar includes the following presentations:

• Managing IT for Business Value, by Ron Miller, Intel IT Portfolio Manager
• Reinvigorating the Business Client, by John Hengeveld, Senior Technology Strategist with Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group
• Aligning IT with Business Automating PC Management by Kevin Unbedacht, Senior Technologist from Altiris
• OpenManage* and Integration with Microsoft Operations Manager by Kent Sparling, Enterprise Technologist in the Canadian Advanced Systems Group, Dell Canada
• Security, Compliance and Disaster Recovery Best Practices by Jonathan Clemens, CISM, CISSP, Intel IT Enterprise Security Oversight Manager

Patrick Leonard, VP Engineering and Product Strategy from Rogue Wave Software, addressed the financial services breakout session at the recent New York Intel Premier IT Professional best practices seminar. In his presentation, he explains the trends toward concurrency and multi-core, why you should care about multi-core, and some of the current concurrent computing approaches. Rogue Wave Software provides reusable software components and services to professional developers for enterprise-class application development.

McKesson worked with Intel’s Software and Solutions Group to analyze application performance for their Horizon Patient Folder application. In this presentation from the recent New York City Intel Premier IT Professional best practices seminar, McKesson product manager Chris Pate describes the process and the role that dual-core servers and virtualization played in reducing the total cost of ownership.

In this Intel Premier IT Professional presentation, Robert Schultes, Senior Manager of Global Intel Alliance for VMware, Inc. and Jaymes Davis, Virtualization Practice Manager for Entisys, join forces to discuss the virtualization of an SAP infrastructure — first in theory, and then in practice.