State of California IT professionals found that by creating a dynamic IT environment—standardized, centralized, automated, and mobile—the state can achieve a greener, more secure computing complex that improves productivity, delivering greater efficiency at a lower cost to taxpayers and the environment. This white paper documents California’s study of replacing end-of-life desktops with eco-efficient laptop computers. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘centralization’
Optimizing the PC Segment of California’s IT Infrastructure
Monday, April 27th, 2009Wall Street Systems Boosts Revenues, Cuts Costs by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Monday, April 27th, 2009Wall 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…)
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…)
Air Economizer Proof of Concept Webinar
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Intel IT conducted a proof of concept to see if an air economizer could be used to cool production servers with 100% outside air. In this archived webinar, Don Atwood, data center and server operations manager in five states in the United States and Central/South America, discusses the proof of concept and the results. (more…)
Intel Application and Desktop Virtualization Forum: Landscape of Computing Models
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008With 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. (more…)