OS and Software

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.

Intel Capital has a long history of investment in open source software companies, and has augmented that effort by establishing the Open Source Incubator Program. In this Intel Premier IT magazine article, Intel Capital says the time is ripe for accelerated adoption in the enterprise, calling open source a cornerstone of sound IT strategies.

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.

With the move to Intel® processors and the growing success of OS X as a consumer operating system, Apple’s Macintosh* and other computers are proving to be more and more interesting to businesses and government agencies.  In this Intel Premier IT magazine article, the author takes a look at the due diligence required to make sure that they can integrate into the existing environment, be managed seamlessly, save money, and help employees be more productive.

Intel IT studies streaming operating system software and virtual hosted desktops to determine which compute model makes more efficient use of servers and network resources.  Get the scoop in this Intel Premier IT magazine article.

In this brief summary of the Intel Application and Desktop Virtualization Forum, Intel shows how success is a function of delivery model, hardware and process.