Enterprise and Data Center

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.

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.

Sun Microsystems officials are touting the performance of the Solaris* operating system when run on servers powered by Intel’s upcoming “Nehalem EX” processors.

IBM has announced benchmark results for the Thomson Reuters Market Data System v6.3 that measure the performance of the IBM BladeCenter* HS22 server running Reuters Market Data System v6.3.

Virtualization offers small and midsize companies an extremely cost-effective option for transforming IT into a simpler, more powerful computing infrastructure, for distinct competitive and profitability gains. Get the details in this joint IBM, Intel and VMware white paper.

Intel IT tested large silicon design workloads substituting lower-cost solid-state drives for part of a server’s virtual memory — resulting in a 1.74X performance-normalized cost advantage while delivering up to 88% of the performance. See the details in The Advantages…

To help Intel consume fewer energy-related resources and produce less waste, Intel IT is executing a sustainability strategy based on our Sustainability Baseline Model, a tool developed in-house that quantitatively measures and predicts the environmental impact of key changes related to IT.

Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and value IT brings to the business. We’ve shifted the emphasis away from reducing the number of physical data center facilities to focusing on approaches that leverage the full potential of our data centers worldwide. We expect our methods to achieve a nominal cost savings of about USD 1 billion by 2014.

Intel IT established a four-year server refresh rate across our design computing environment. By replacing aging servers on a regularly scheduled cadence, Intel has realized operational cost savings, avoided incremental data center capital spending, and gained capacity. The strategy saved Intel USD 45 million in 2008, and we expect to achieve savings of up to USD 250 million over eight years

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