In the video, Jon Haas of Intel’s EcoTechnology Program Office explains how The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and information service delivery, is tackling the energy issues. Data center managers around the world are running into limits related to power, cooling, and space – and the rise in demand for the important work of data centers has created a noticeable impact on the world’s power grids. In response, the members of The Green Grid have taken up the challenge of developing metrics to measure data center efficiency and the tools to improve it. (more…)
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The Green Grid
Friday, April 17th, 2009Intel Solid State Drives
Monday, April 13th, 2009Intel IT explains the benefits we’ve seen from using Intel Solid State Drives (SSD) in our environment, including gains in productivity and reliability, and savings in energy costs. We also show a demo comparison between a laptop with a SSD and a conventional hard drive. (more…)
Intel Security Use Cases
Friday, April 10th, 2009Intel IT security specialists discuss new enterprise security use cases that we can implement using Intel® vPro™ technology. We focused on three high-priority, high-value categories — e-Discovery and investigations, data protection and loss prevention, and system health and updates — and successfully performed lab tests to validate each use case. (more…)
Solid-State Drives in the Enterprise: A Proof of Concept
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Intel IT conducted a proof of concept to determine the potential of solid-state drives (SSDs) to replace hard disk drives (HDDs) in the enterprise that included performance tests, measurement of power consumption, and total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) analysis. We found that using SSDs to replace data HDDs in disk arrays could increase I/O performance up to 8x for comparable TCO, and that using them as internal server OS disks reduced the time required for common support tasks such as installs and reboots by up to 73 percent. (more…)
Better Together: Rich Client PCs and Cloud Computing
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009With more and more services delivered from the cloud, new questions arise about the optimal enterprise client computing strategy. Which combination of client platforms and service delivery models best meets the needs of users and IT organizations? This new white paper looks at the Intel IT environment, which contains a mixture of conventional and cloud computing services, and concludes that the ability to perform local computing on the client offers the best user experience and the flexibility to run different types of applications. (more…)
Selecting Server Processors to Reduce Total Cost
Monday, March 30th, 2009Intel IT is standardizing on Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 for two-socket servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. Our testing and analysis demonstrate that the newest high-end Intel® Xeon® processors based on Next-Generation Intel® Microarchitecture codenamed Nehalem can significantly enhance server performance, providing an opportunity for Intel IT to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by 42 percent. (more…)
Take the Data Center Efficiency Challenge
Monday, March 30th, 2009To spur creativity in harnessing the efficiency of the Intel® Xeon® 5500 Processor Series to help create more energy efficient data centers, Intel recently announced the Data Center Efficiency Challenge. This competition turns the cameras on you and asks you to submit a video proposal for how your organization plans to utilize Intel technology to drive more efficiency for your datacenter.
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Replacing Micro-Management with Macro-Leadership
Monday, March 30th, 2009
By Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
Last week, I had a fascinating conversation with the vice president of software development for a large technology company. The focus of our discussion was good and bad leadership styles.
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Probe New Client Security Use Cases
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009The Intel IT white paper, New Security Solutions Using Intel® vPro™ Technology, provides client security insights, examining 10 security use cases in high-value categories — data protection and loss prevention, system health and updates, and e-discovery and investigations. (more…)
EDS: Increasing Call Center Productivity
Friday, February 27th, 2009EDS and Intel have worked together to successfully prove that when deployed, Intel® vPro™ Technology can save an enterprise three times their investment costs over three years while extending remote management capabilities. One example of production deployment includes an EDS-managed call center located in Canada. As call centers frequently have a high employee turnover rate, company policy requires a terminated call center agent’s workstation to be “wiped clean,” deleting all files on the disk drive. With vPro Technology, the task can be performed remotely resulting in productivity that equates to answering 370 calls a year—an efficiency improvement. (more…)