Enterprise and Data Center

Puppets telling the story of virtualization?  That’s right.  In this inagural episode of Tales of IT Utopia, the Minister of Plenipotentiary of IT Utopia  comes to the rescue of the IT Guy to takeson the Jinx and the Boss. Let us have your comments if you want to see more.

A detailed return on investment analysis by Intel IT showed that we can reduce data center costs by refreshing all servers after four years.

Intel’s Advanced Server Technologies Manager Jake Smith and VMWare’s Senior Director Ben Matheson, interact on the topic of virtualization. The pair discuss energy-efficiency, lower maintenance and software costs, performance issues and data center real estate as they look at the business benefits accrued through technological innovation.

Intel has teamed with leading companies and computer industry experts to publish a comprehensive IT Best Practices Series of books. The result is a single reference source for IT professionals who plan, develop, deploy, and manage Intel® Architecture-based e-Business environments. 

What are the benefits of Operating System Streaming?  Intel IT Systems Engineer Christian Black looks at OS streaming, one of the virtualization technologies.  He examines the pain of a failed hard drive and discusses Intel’s benchmarking of local drives verses a centralized virtual disk.

In this latest issue of the Intel Premier IT Professional program’s IT best practice magazine, Intel and industry leaders provide insights on successful technologies and practices to get you started on your way to IT Utopia.  Highlights include an Intel Product Roadmap from two perspectives (”tops-down” from industry trends and “bottoms-up” from the microprocessor), an interview with Intel CIO John Johnson, and an article on how Sony Imageworks utilizes their 8500 core data farm.

In this Intel Premier IT magazine article, Intel CIO John “JJ” Johnson talks about how Intel IT has upped the ante on the information aspect of IT while continuing to focus on technology. The components: a focus on design center efficiency, ERP replatforming, social media, and business process improvements.

Sony Pictures Imageworks deployed 3,000 new cores with Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors to help power the animation and digital effects behind its blockbuster films, including Spider- Man 3, Surf’s Up, Beowulf, and I Am Legend.  As this Intel Premier IT magazine case study reports, servers with Intel processors are helping keep real estate and power costs under control.

Taken separately, virtualization, service orientation and grid computing are “old news”.  But merge these three powerful technologies, and we’ve got a new information technology model that will fundamentally change the way we do business.  This Intel Premier IT magazine article is an extract from the Intel Press IT Best Practice Series book titled The Business Value of Service-Oriented Grids: Strategic Insights for Enterprise Decision Makers.  The book synthesizes multiple technology trends, including software and hardware architecture, high-performance computing, networking, and telecommunications, with business trends such as outsourcing, systems integration, hosting, and the emerging Internet portal data center.

New server and desktop technology, along with managed services, fill the infrastructure needs of small to medium-sized Businesses according to this Intel Premier IT magazine article.