Usages and Technologies
Audio-enabled presentation, ~50 mins.
Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and value IT brings to the business. We’ve shifted the emphasis away from reducing the number of physical data center facilities to focusing on approaches that leverage the full potential of our data centers worldwide. We expect our methods to achieve a nominal cost savings of about USD 1 billion by 2014. Learn about these strategies in Intel IT Data Center Solutions: Strategies to Improve Efficiency (497KB, PDF).
Intel IT established a four-year server refresh rate across our design computing environment. By replacing aging servers on a regularly scheduled cadence, Intel has realized operational cost savings, avoided incremental data center capital spending, and gained capacity. The strategy saved Intel USD 45 million in 2008, and we expect to achieve savings of up to USD 250 million over eight years. Read Realizing Data Center Savings with an Accelerated Server Refresh Strategy (260KB, PDF).
This new interactive data center experience provided by Intel and Dell gives you the opportunity to explore various server strategy, new techology, power and cooling, and mangement options. There’s a handy ROI calculator that allows you to select from hundreds of servers and use your specific information on server quantities, power costs and data center efficiency, virtualization goals and more to produce a printable summary. Take the Data Center 360 Tour.
Looking at various ways in which virtualization enables data center efficiency, Intel IT’s Virtualization Service Manager Steve Tadman and Senior Technologist Richard Wagner present at recent Intel Premier IT Professional IT-to-IT events.
Virtualization Enables Data Center Efficiency
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Take a tour of an Intel greenfield data center with a unique two-story construction and hot/cold aisles design. This world-class data center contains a number of data center power delivery and air cooling innovations.
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Take a virtual tour of this data center that was retrofited from a former wafer fabrication facility (fab) with a three-story design and several distinct data centers within it.
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Intel and CXO Media teamed up to recognize organizations that have led the way in best practices for data center management and client management. This year’s winners, Applied Materials, Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe, Inc., and RichRelevance, demonstrated that they drive innovation to make a substantive impact on their business. Read on to find out how these organizations have used Intel technology to truly make a difference.
Winners of Intel Premier IT Knowledge Awards Announced
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Intel helps design and deploy a data center that packs 25 percent more servers into 56 percent of the space compared to the previous outdated facility. Find out more in A Healthy Change for Humana (322KB, PDF).
To increase data center energy efficiency at one of our older data centers in India, Intel IT’s Data Center Services group collaborated on a technology study with the IT compute organization and Intel Facilities Management to develop a comprehensive approach to metering power usage. Read Increasing Data Center Efficiency through Metering and Monitoring Power Usage to learn about the methods we developed to identify and measure efficiency improvements, and the instrumentation we used to continuously track power usage effectiveness.