Resources Tagged with 'enterprise'

Taken separately, virtualization, service orientation and grid computing are “old news”.  But merge these three powerful technologies, and we’ve got a new information technology model that will fundamentally change the way we do business.  This Intel Premier IT magazine article is an extract from the Intel Press IT Best Practice Series book titled The Business Value of Service-Oriented Grids: Strategic Insights for Enterprise Decision Makers.  The book synthesizes multiple technology trends, including software and hardware architecture, high-performance computing, networking, and telecommunications, with business trends such as outsourcing, systems integration, hosting, and the emerging Internet portal data center.

New server and desktop technology, along with managed services, fill the infrastructure needs of small to medium-sized Businesses according to this Intel Premier IT magazine article.

In this members exclusive webinar, Enrique Castro-Leon, enterprise and data center architect and technology strategist at Intel, and Parviz Peiravi, principal architect of enterprise solutions at Intel, discuss the convergence of virtualization, SOA and grids/distributed computing. Although these technologies are individually “old news” with roots back to the 1960’s and earlier, their convergence and the modular deployment of service-based applications are definitely “new news.” The presenters discuss how service modules, or “servicelets”, are appropriate for large and small enterprises.

Rick White, Lead Strategist for Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, gives an update on Intel’s product roadmap at the Houston Intel Premier IT Professional seminar. He sets the context for this update by explaining Intel’s view of the data center of the future, Intel’s eco-technology course, and Intel’s future architectures, processes and manufacturing to get us there.

Is “social engineering” another name for a con game?  Is it hacking?  ID theft?  Pretexting? Or all of the above?  Intel IT’s Jackee Ireland, Director of Global Information Security, defines the problem and explains Intel’s three-fold strategy to protect their enterprise.

Find what the bad guys are looking for.  That’s the philosophy behind Intel IT’s wargame exercises in which they ruthlessly attack their own data enterprise.  Intel IT’s Manager of Risk and Threat Analysis Kurt Nelson tells how the game is played and what benefits IT can accrue from playing it.

Rick White, a senior strategist with Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, presents an update on the Intel products for enterprise at a recent Intel Premier IT Professional seminar on the Intel campus in Chandler, Arizona. Topics covered include Intel in the Data Center, Eco-Technology, Server Technology, Client Technology and Process/Manufacturing/Architecture Update.

Six steps to “hook” a senior executive: 1) Search for lucrative targets; 2) Set up the front; 3) Offer the bait; 4) Set the hook; 5) Exploit the knowledge; and 6) Cover tracks and vanish. In this Intel Premier IT Professional local IT best practices seminar, Jerzy Run, Intel IT’s Director of Security Policy, Training and Awareness,  explains how “social engineering” uses these six steps to obtain confidential information, and what steps IT can take to protect their enterprise. 

Intel IT’s Timothy Casey, CISSP and Senior InfoSec Specialist, explains why attacking your own data enterprise can be a good thing.  It  provides intensive training to security professionals in advanced offensive threat design and it provides a detailed set of attack scenarios against an asset, useful for identifying complex, multidimensional vulnerabilities. Find out about Intel’s approach in this recent Intel Premier IT Professional IT best practices seminar presentation.

In this product roadmap update by Lead Strategist Jim Fister of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group presented at the Chandler 2007 Intel Premier IT Professional seminar,  Jim touches on a variety of topics.  From IT Top Ten Concerns to Intel’s new 45nm technology, from virtualization to eco-technology, this presentation show what impact these issues will have on future Intel client and server platforms.