As a major medical institution, the majority of this healthcare system’s PCs are used for mission-critical patient care—from maintaining patient records to clinical workstations. With this in mind, the healthcare system looked to Intel® vPro™ technology specifically to take advantage of the following: improved application patch management, simplified OS provisioning, and improved end-user and IT support productivity. Read the ROI analysis in Texas-Based Healthcare System Administers Patch Management and IT Support Efficiencies with Intel® vPro™ Technology (203KB, PDF).
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Texas-Based Healthcare System Administers Patch Management and IT Support Efficiencies with Intel(R) vPro(TM) Technology
Monday, August 31st, 2009Increasing Data Center Efficiency through Metering and Monitoring Power Usage
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009To 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.
Erie Insurance: A Policy of Productivity
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009To increase user uptime while reducing IT support costs, the Erie Insurance IT team decided to deploy PCs based on the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor with vPro™ technology. Access A Policy of Productivity (539KB, PDF) to see how the IT team projects power savings of $45,603 over three years, productivity savings of $161,253 over three years, and an estimated ROI of 167% over three years.
Virtualization Enables Data Center Efficiency
Friday, May 29th, 2009Looking at the various IT hosting service options today and in the future, Intel IT Operations Manager Steve Tadman compares the strategies, implementation approaches and service capabilities of the data center utility and dev on demand options. (more…)
Intelligent Infrastructure from Oracle and Intel
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009This brief from Intel and Oracle explains how building enterprise solutions with Oracle software optimized for hardware utilizing the latest Intel® Xeon® processors delivers high optimization for intelligent performance, automated energy efficiency, and flexible virtualization capabilities. Download Intelligent Infrastructure from Oracle and Intel (117KB, PDF).
Leading Virtualization 2.0
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization which focuses on increasing service efficiency through flexible resource management. Download Leading Virtualization 2.0 (2.70KB, PDF) to read how Intel is driving virtualization beyond consolidation into a solution for maximizing business agility.
The Power Efficiency of the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009What power efficiency does the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series offer for the energy industry? These slides set the stage for a roundtable discussion on that topic plus the ROI of a high performance computing refresh.
Power Efficiency of the Intel Xeon 5500
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IBM Systems Evaluation Tool for Intel
Thursday, May 21st, 2009This new return on investment analytics tool provides a preliminary, high-level analysis of your current systems environment costs based on your projected growth needs and server replacement cycles over the next five years. The results are contrasted to a consolidated Intel-based IBM BladeCenter* or System x* solution with estimated savings potential. (more…)
Reduce Energy Usage while Increasing Business Productivity in the Data Center
Monday, May 11th, 2009Drawing from his book The Green and Virtual Data Center, StorageIO Group Founder and Senior Analyst Greg Schulz talks about the most significant issues facing IT in terms of “greening” the data center. He explains the energy savings mode of the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series as well as illustrating the differences between energy efficiency and energy avoidance in the new processor.
The Changing Dynamic of the Data Center
Monday, May 11th, 2009Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst with StorageIO Group, discusses the new data center architecture and how the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series fits into that architecture offering efficiencies in terms of energy efficiency and in terms of getting more work done in a shorter period of time with a smaller footprint.