Wall Street Systems, who help financial institutions and other enterprises improve their workflows and increase control of corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, FX trading, and global back office operations, found their clients wanted the ability to replace their SPARC* and specialized UNIX* boxes with off-the-shelf Intel systems. By offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux* versions of its best-selling financial applications, Wall Street Systems could create new revenue streams and sharpen its ability to compete aggressively against other financial software firms in its increasingly cost-conscious market niche. They also found they could cut costs itself by streamlining international operations. Read the case study. (more…)
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Wall Street Systems Boosts Revenues, Cuts Costs by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Monday, April 27th, 2009Faster Chip Design with Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
Monday, March 30th, 2009For Intel’s chip design process, increased design complexity and business requirements lead to exponential compute capacity growth and increased cost. To help us understand how the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series could address these challenges, we recently ran a broad range of industry-leading end-to-end electronic design automation (EDA) applications with more than 50 Intel silicon design workloads. We concluded that can replace up to 11 single-core processor-based servers with one quad-core processor-based server for some EDA applications, lower operational costs, and accelerate design cycles to achieve faster time to market. Get the rest of the details. (more…)
Improving EDA Batch Application Performance
Monday, March 30th, 2009Intel IT and Synopsys conducted a joint performance assessment of 64-bit Intel® multi-core platforms running Synopsys VCS* application for simulation and Synopsys Proteus* application for optical proximity correction (OPC). Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series improved performance as much as 13.14x for simulation workloads and 11.39x for OPC workloads compared to 64-bit Intel® Xeon® processors with a single-core. Based on our performance assessment, we are beginning to deploy servers based on the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series in our data centers to achieve greater performance and significantly increase compute capacity within the existing data center footprint. (more…)
Replacing Micro-Management with Macro-Leadership
Monday, March 30th, 2009
By Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
Last week, I had a fascinating conversation with the vice president of software development for a large technology company. The focus of our discussion was good and bad leadership styles.
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GigaSpaces: A Scalable, Cost-Effective Stack for Highly Concurrent Financial Services Applications
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Intel, Sun and GigaSpaces have partnered to offer an optimized hardware and middleware stack, targeted at the unique needs of banks, capital market firms, insurance companies and other financial institutions. The platform was tested with highly concurrent risk management, real-time analytics and online applications, typical with financial services companies. This case study describes how this very scalable solution provides both low latency and high throughput in both HPC and online application environments. (more…)
Not-for-Profit Hospital Delivers Better Patient Care with Mobility
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009Southeast Alabama Medical Center (SAMC) had a legacy network that could not provide the coverage and reliability that clinicians required for VoIP throughout the facility. In the hospital’s highly mobile and collaborative environment, nurses and medical staff do extensive work while in motion throughout the facility. The campus had been created over the years by joining multiple buildings, of varying floor levels and many concrete walls still intact throughout, into one large facility. This made for a very challenging RF environment. Read the details on how SAMC deployed enhanced Mobile Collaborative Care applications (e.g., Unified Communications) as well as Secure Wireless applications which were critical for their growth and improved patient satisfaction. (more…)
Improving Security and Productivity through Federation and Single Sign-on
Monday, February 2nd, 2009Intel IT has developed a single sign-on strategy and process that provides seamless user access to both internally and externally hosted applications, improving the security of sensitive user profile information, reducing maintenance and costs, and simplifying the user experience. Single sign-on enables centralized storage of sensitive user profile information through the use of standards-based identify federation, and this information remains under Intel’s sole control. (more…)
Developing an Enterprise Cloud Computing Strategy
Saturday, January 24th, 2009Security risks, the lack of mature technology and standards, and other concerns prevent widespread enterprise adoption of external cloud computing today. Intel IT is developing a cloud computing strategy based on growing the cloud from the inside out, initially growing our internal virtualized computing environment to support an increasing number of cloud-like attributes over time. Additionally, Intel is already taking advantage of external cloud computing technologies including software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This white paper documents our findings and suggests which applications are not suitable and which are suitable for hosting in external clouds at present. (more…)
Testing Live Migration with Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration
Monday, January 19th, 2009Live migration is an essential technology for an agile, dynamic data center environment based on server virtualization. Previously it has not been possible to perform successful live migration between servers based on different generations of processors, each with different instruction sets. In this proof-of-concept testing of live migration using Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration (Intel® VT FlexMigration) assist and the Enhanced VMotion feature of VMware ESX 3.5U2*, Intel IT was able to successfully complete manual and automated live migrations of virtual machines (VMs) containing complex enterprise applications between two- and four-socket servers based on two generations of Intel® Core™ microarchitecture. Our testing showed that live VM migration using Intel VT FlexMigration assist and VMware Enhanced VMotion is robust enough for hosting Intel IT business applications in a mixed production environment. Read the details in this white paper. (more…)
Accelerating Silicon Design with Multi-Core Expandable Platforms
Thursday, November 20th, 2008An Intel IT analysis of servers using compute-intensive multithreaded and distributed electronic design automation applications shows Intel® Xeon® 7400 Series Processor based servers provide potential acceleration in silicon design time-to-market while helping to reduce operational costs. Read the IT@Intel white paper. (more…)