Resources Tagged with 'data center'

A detailed return on investment analysis by Intel IT showed that we can reduce data center costs by refreshing all servers after four years.

Intel’s Advanced Server Technologies Manager Jake Smith and VMWare’s Senior Director Ben Matheson, interact on the topic of virtualization. The pair discuss energy-efficiency, lower maintenance and software costs, performance issues and data center real estate as they look at the business benefits accrued through technological innovation.

In this Intel Premier IT magazine article, Intel CIO John “JJ” Johnson talks about how Intel IT has upped the ante on the information aspect of IT while continuing to focus on technology. The components: a focus on design center efficiency, ERP replatforming, social media, and business process improvements.

Sony Pictures Imageworks deployed 3,000 new cores with Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors to help power the animation and digital effects behind its blockbuster films, including Spider- Man 3, Surf’s Up, Beowulf, and I Am Legend.  As this Intel Premier IT magazine case study reports, servers with Intel processors are helping keep real estate and power costs under control.

Balancing capability and capacity can be a real challenge when data centers are provisioned in a piecemeal fashion. SGI took a different approach, as this Intel Premier IT article documents, by tailoring a hybrid solution to fit a wide range of workflows.

The modularization of the data center promises to change the dynamics of how and where information is stored in the digital economy. This Intel Premier IT magazine articles features Rackable Systems, who deliver large-scale data centers to go with water-cooled AC systems included.

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.

In this one-minute video, Intel IT infrastructure service manager Stephen Tadman summarizes his Virtualization Enables Data Center Efficiency presentation from a local IT best practices seminar.

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.