Looking 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…)
Posts Tagged ‘hosting’
Virtualization Enables Data Center Efficiency
Friday, May 29th, 2009Savvis: Making the Right Choice
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009An industry leader in delivering virtualized infrastructure and hosting services, Savvis has 29 data centers worldwide. They were looking to boost performance, increase scalability, and lower power consumption for a managed compute service offering that included a dedicated physical server for the customer’s use, connected to a virtualized pool of Savvis’s server resources to provide enterprise-class, high-availability failover. Read about how the Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series became an essential part of their technology mix. (more…)
Improving Security and Productivity through Federation and Single Sign-on
Monday, February 2nd, 2009Intel IT has developed a single sign-on strategy and process that provides seamless user access to both internally and externally hosted applications, improving the security of sensitive user profile information, reducing maintenance and costs, and simplifying the user experience. Single sign-on enables centralized storage of sensitive user profile information through the use of standards-based identify federation, and this information remains under Intel’s sole control. (more…)
Developing an Enterprise Cloud Computing Strategy
Saturday, January 24th, 2009Security risks, the lack of mature technology and standards, and other concerns prevent widespread enterprise adoption of external cloud computing today. Intel IT is developing a cloud computing strategy based on growing the cloud from the inside out, initially growing our internal virtualized computing environment to support an increasing number of cloud-like attributes over time. Additionally, Intel is already taking advantage of external cloud computing technologies including software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This white paper documents our findings and suggests which applications are not suitable and which are suitable for hosting in external clouds at present. (more…)
Testing Live Migration with Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration
Monday, January 19th, 2009Live migration is an essential technology for an agile, dynamic data center environment based on server virtualization. Previously it has not been possible to perform successful live migration between servers based on different generations of processors, each with different instruction sets. In this proof-of-concept testing of live migration using Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration (Intel® VT FlexMigration) assist and the Enhanced VMotion feature of VMware ESX 3.5U2*, Intel IT was able to successfully complete manual and automated live migrations of virtual machines (VMs) containing complex enterprise applications between two- and four-socket servers based on two generations of Intel® Core™ microarchitecture. Our testing showed that live VM migration using Intel VT FlexMigration assist and VMware Enhanced VMotion is robust enough for hosting Intel IT business applications in a mixed production environment. Read the details in this white paper. (more…)
Intel® Centrino® 2 vPro™ Processor Technology Live Chat Session
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Demonstrating the new capability of conducting a chat session within a banner ad, Intel hosted a session focused on the Intel® Centrino® 2 vPro™ Processor Technology. Read all the questions and answers from the Intel experts in this transcript. (more…)
Dennis Morgan on Rich vs. Thin Client
Monday, September 8th, 2008Intel senior security analyst Dennis Morgan presents a short analysis of the benefits of a rich client vs. a thin client.