In their quest to reduce environmental impact and improve manageability of college computing resources, Lone Star College collaborated with HP and Intel to slash PC energy consumption. Get the details of their HP Compaq Business Desktop PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology deployment in this Lone Star College (390KB, PDF) case study.
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Wednesday, September 9th, 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.
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).
A New Virtualization Standard for Federal Agencies
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009To achieve the highest payoff from initiatives such as organizational agility and continuity, data security, and the cost of operating an IT infrastructure, federal agencies need to implement virtualization platforms that provide:
- Optimal performance and headroom for consolidation
- Energy and space savings along with manageability to minimize data center costs
- Features supporting a wide range of virtualization usage models
This solutions brief from Intel and Microsoft explains the complementary hardware and software solutions that help federal agencies effectively manage, process, and share information across their vast networks. (more…)
Solving Enterprise IT Challenges for Federal Customers
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Intel offers a variety of innovative technologies that help increase security and manageability while offering improved performance and reduced operating costs. This solutions brief details how Intel® technologies can help federal IT organizations solve complex problems that include:
- Choosing the right technologies
- Increasing security for platforms and data
- Lowering costs
- Improving energy efficiency
High-powered Business Results with Lower Power Costs
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009This technical white paper from Intel and Microsoft describes how Windows Server* 2008 running on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series is the first platform to deliver automated power management that scales energy usage in real time to fit workload performance needs and system and data center power and thermal policies. (more…)
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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Scaling Performance Forward
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009These materials for a roundtable discussion examine the performance of the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series for reservoir simulation and other energy applications, and also look at platform readiness for future 32nm products.
7.94MB, PDF
Virtualization
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009These slides provided the basis for a roundtable discussion on the impact of new Intel server processor and virtualization technology on servers, workstations and clients.
2.12MB, PDF