Case Studies

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.

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.

BMW is all about performance, whether it’s on the track, in the data center, in the consumer driving experience or in the dealerships. Details are in this Winter 2008 Intel Premier IT magazine article or the unabridged web-only version. Or watch the video on How the Microprocessor Has Changed Formula One* Racing, with an interview of Karl Kempf, Intel Director of Decision Technologies.

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.

Rising data center and storage costs are having a significant effect on total cost of ownership. To help reduce costs, Intel has devised an eight-year transformation plan based on four principles: consolidate, virtualize, optimize, and standardize. An aggressive data center efficiency plan will shake up the way Intel delivers IT resources. Read the details in this Winter 2008 Intel Premier IT magazine article.

St. Cloud State University increases IT productivity by remotely troubleshooting and repairing PCs with Altiris Manageability Toolkit for Intel® vPro™ Processor technology.

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.

Intel IT implemented a low-cost thermal storage system that maintained cooling at a high-density data center during an electrical power outage. This enabled the data center to survive the outage without costly damage to servers. The details of this system are in this new IT@Intel white paper.

Intel’s Catherine Spence, with the IT@Intel Platform Program Group, discusses Intel’s evolutionary approach to advanced services over IP including the unifying of voice and messaging with collaboration capabilities.

Ruthlessly attack your own enterprise? That’s right. Intel’s IT uses wargaming as a risk assessment methodology to provide actionable information about real world threats and vulnerabilities to their computing environment. Get the details from this recent Intel Premier IT Professional best practices presentation.