Introducing new social networking features was creating processing challenges on the back end for Digg. In replacing its older servers with more powerful systems that could support business growth and new service rollouts, Digg chose Penguin Relion* servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series to increase processing density. Get the rest of the story. (more…)
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Digging Multi-Core Performance
Monday, March 30th, 2009The Ghost of Christmas Future, Part II
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
In my last column we were drifting in our holiday bliss, looking forward 25 years to how we will protect ourselves in a digital world. We have a world in which we and our proxies must have some strong, and preferably standardized, way of authenticating ourselves for everything from purchases to work. We need to bridge the gap between the heavy authentication security vendors will want and the transparency that users will need.
So how does it happen?
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The Ghost of Christmas Future: Identity Management in 2033
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
It’s 7:30am on Friday morning. Your PDA wakes you with the latest Bach/Mozart/U2 synth medley it bought for you from the classics server off the web overnight; you’re fairly pleased with the purchase, since you didn’t even know the synthers were playing with that arrangement again. The “housething” system turns up the wall screen and flips on your favorite news channel. (more…)
Molson Coors Brews Up Increased Business Efficiency and Enhanced System Defense with Intel® vPro™ Technology
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Based upon the success of a proof-of-concept pilot using PCs with Intel® Core™2 Duo processors with Intel® Standard Manageability, which is built into PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology, Molson Coors Brewing Company made a strategic decision to convert 4,011 desktop and 3,840 notebook systems to PCs with Intel® management technology over the next three years. The company, one of the world’s largest brewers, concluded that the Intel management capabilities can deliver the greatest results in improved asset management and patch management. Furthermore, the firm can realize improved end-user productivity, power savings and expanded security with System Defense. Read the details in this case study. (more…)
Thomson Reuters: Powering the Law
Monday, February 16th, 2009Thomson Reuters has been providing research tools and information to legal professionals for over 130 years and their services are used by nearly 95 percent of major U.S. law firms to research legal issues. Other Thomson Reuters databases provide vital information for science, healthcare, business, and other fields. With customer usage of its online research services growing rapidly, Thomson Reuters faced the challenge of expanding its IT infrastructure to support an increased demand while also containing costs to maintain profitability. Read how they expect to achieve a 25:1 server consolidation ratio, reducing power requirements and freeing up space. (more…)
Pharmacy Department Accrues Wide Range of Benefits in Mobile Point of Care Pilot
Saturday, February 14th, 2009The Macclesfield District General Hospital, part of the East Cheshire NHS Trust, introduced a Mobile Point of care pilot designed to evaluate the business value of using Mobile Clinical Assistants, based on Intel® mobile clinical assistant reference design, to better manage pharmacy workflows. One result: 27 per cent reduction in the number of missed doses and improving both patient safety and quality of care. Read more about the pilot in this case study. (more…)
Intel IT 2008 Performance Report
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Each year, the annual performance report from Intel IT has provided Intel Premier IT Professionals with valuable benchmark data and insights into how Intel is doing in it’s corporate IT mission. One important focus we report on is how Intel IT is adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services.
The progress toward 2008’s mission, Deliver competitive I + T, is also thoroughly documented with examples and data in this Information Technology 2008 Performance Report. Download your copy of this year’s comprehensive report to get insights on Intel IT’s progress in:
- Improving organizational health
- Reducing the cost of our overall operations, including carrying out our data center consolidation strategy, optimizing the WAN, accelerating server refresh cycles to optimize total cost of ownership, and saving us $95 million to date
- Adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services (see page 18)
- Delivering IT Solutions that drive business growth, such as our supply chain management solutions enabling Intel to be more responsive to our customers, better manage our inventory and enjoy cost savings
- Improving the on-line experience of our customers through the design, delivery and management of new infrastructure required for web 2.0
- Passing the halfway point on the complete upgrade of our enterprise resource planning system
- Partnering with Intel business groups to define, develop and enable technology and products that address the needs of enterprise IT organizations
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…)
Healthways: Nearing One Billion Claims a Month
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Processing nearly one billion claims a month — about one-third of the nation’s health claims, Healthways needs robust infrastructure to analyze nearly 100 terabytes of data, and keep pace with double-digit corporate growth. Read this case study about how Intel® multi-core technologies help Healthways grow their business without having to keep scaling out physically. (more…)
TIBCO Software Opts for Blades to Address Business Growth, Lower IT Costs
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009With software infrastructure that connects incompatible IT assets, process management software that orchestrates systems and people, and a range of other software products that enable the real-time processing and presentation of information, TIBCO Software found its proprietary servers were becoming outdated and overburdened. This case study takes a look at their decision to move from a proprietary operating system to Linux* and to upgrade from aging equipment to new, Intel technology–based servers. (more…)