Resources Tagged with 'consolidation'

Intel IT enterprise architect Travis Broughton, IT infrastructure service manager Stephen Tadman , and principal engineer and lead enterprise architect Alan Ross examine the options for hosting solutions and look at how provisioning, maintenance, compute utilization and consolidations will change over time. They then provides some guidance for which applications are the best fit for two virtualization implementation approaches.

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.

Intel IT planned, engineered, and has begun deploying a virtualized business-computing production environment at several data centers, a rollout that will continue through 2008. The initiative has already confirmed anticipated virtualization benefits such as faster, more automated deployment. Intel is initially consolidating older servers running applications that are not mission-critical; but the company sees opportunities to achieve 16:1 consolidation ratios. This paper discusses the methodology used to achieve these results.  

Intel’s Data Center Efficiency program manager Craig Bolton provides an overview of Intel’s virtualization programs.  This Intel Premier IT Professional local IT best practices presentation from a recent Houston seminar also explains the radical impact these programs have on Intel’s data center consolidation efforts.  

Intel IT program manager Brently Davis covers the active virtualization programs at Intel.  This Intel Premier IT Professional local IT best practices seminar also explains the radical impact these programs have on Intel’s data center consolidation efforts.

What does 3rd generation infrastructure-wide virtualization mean to enterprise?  And how can your organization take advantage of this maturing technology that enables you to separate the operating systems from the hardware and encapsulate an OS and an application into virtual machines.  VMware presents their ideas on this plus some real-world case studies in this Intel Premier IT Professional local seminar presentation.

Heard about the “data center demons”? If you are wresting with blowing through your data center’s power limit, experiencing “server sprawl” or needing to reduce operations and maintenance costs, then this presentation from the Gartner IT Symposium will offer some solutions. Josh Hansen, Intel® Xeon® Platform Marketing Manager at Intel, discusses the Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300 Series based platforms.

Rising data center and storage costs are having a significant effect on total cost of ownership. To help reduce costs, Intel has devised an eight-year transformation plan based on four principles: consolidate, virtualize, optimize, and standardize. An aggressive data center efficiency plan will shake up the way Intel delivers IT resources. Read the details in this Winter 2008 Intel Premier IT magazine article.

As Intel IT’s virtualizes its design center, it has a goal of saving USD 77 million. This recent Intel Premier IT Professional best practices seminar presentation by Brently Davis, Intel IT Program Manager, describes Intel’s objectives and progress on their data center virtualization program.

This IT@Intel brief describes how Intel IT tested a four-socket server based on the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series, and demonstrated scalable, predictable performance with up to 32 consolidated server workloads in virtual machines (VMs).