OS and Software

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.

After first examining evolving customer needs and the tension between users and IT, this presentation from Microsoft goes on to look at alternative desktop deployment models and how Microsoft desktop optimization accelerates deployment and increases managability.   The presentor then details Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization. 

Senior product marketing manager Brian Duckering with Symantec looks at application lifecycle management and the core technologies associated with it.  He closes his presentation with several use cases that demonstrate how the software virtualization solution can benefit organizations.

In this presentation from Citrix, the challenges of traditional application deployment are examined in light of new developments with a service-oriented approach to application delivery.  The presenter continues with an explanation of application virtualization scenarios, the benefits of client-side application virtualization and a solution for streaming a single, standard desktop image.

With the increasing cost of managing desktop PCs and the associated operating systems and applications, IT is looking to improve manageablity and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). This has resulted in two trends which the presenter examines: investment in better means to manage the clients, and centralization of some aspect of the compute environment of data, application, OS or hardware.

Intel IT infrastructure service manager Stephen Tadman examines the options for hosting solutions and looks at how provisioning, maintenance, compute utilization and consolidations will change over time.  He then provides some guidance for which applications are the best fit for two virtualization implementation approaches.