Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and value IT brings to the business. We’ve shifted the emphasis away from reducing the number of physical data center facilities to focusing on approaches that leverage the full potential of our data centers worldwide. We expect our methods to achieve a nominal cost savings of about USD 1 billion by 2014. Learn about these strategies in Intel IT Data Center Solutions: Strategies to Improve Efficiency (497KB, PDF).
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Intel IT Data Center Solutions: Strategies to Improve Efficiency
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Optimizing the PC Segment of California’s IT Infrastructure
Monday, April 27th, 2009State of California IT professionals found that by creating a dynamic IT environment—standardized, centralized, automated, and mobile—the state can achieve a greener, more secure computing complex that improves productivity, delivering greater efficiency at a lower cost to taxpayers and the environment. This white paper documents California’s study of replacing end-of-life desktops with eco-efficient laptop computers. (more…)
Station Casinos: A Safe Bet
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009To help control IT costs and ensure a robust customer experience, the Station Casinos IT group virtualized its infrastructure by running VMware* virtualization software on Dell PowerEdge* servers equipped with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 and 5400 series. So far, the company has eliminated almost 100 physical servers, avoided $190,000 in hardware acquisition costs, and accelerated the deployment of new services from weeks to hours. Virtualization enables Station Casinos to continue to deliver fun and relaxation while keeping the company successful even in tough economic times. (more…)
Tyson Foods: Realizing Cost Savings and Improved Productivity Through Remote Management Capabilities
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Tyson started with 1,500 PCs (13% of their desktop environment), which were already capable of being managed with Intel® Standard Manageability, built into PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology. Within three days Tyson had enabled their infrastructure and three weeks later were well on their way to realizing the cost savings inherent in PCs with Intel vPro technology. Based on these results, Tyson plans to have 100% (11,500) of their desktop PCs refreshed with this technology over four years through their standard refresh program. (more…)
Thomson Reuters: Powering the Law
Monday, February 16th, 2009Thomson Reuters has been providing research tools and information to legal professionals for over 130 years and their services are used by nearly 95 percent of major U.S. law firms to research legal issues. Other Thomson Reuters databases provide vital information for science, healthcare, business, and other fields. With customer usage of its online research services growing rapidly, Thomson Reuters faced the challenge of expanding its IT infrastructure to support an increased demand while also containing costs to maintain profitability. Read how they expect to achieve a 25:1 server consolidation ratio, reducing power requirements and freeing up space. (more…)
Savvis: 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…)
Intel IT 2008 Performance Report
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Each year, the annual performance report from Intel IT has provided Intel Premier IT Professionals with valuable benchmark data and insights into how Intel is doing in it’s corporate IT mission. One important focus we report on is how Intel IT is adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services.
The progress toward 2008’s mission, Deliver competitive I + T, is also thoroughly documented with examples and data in this Information Technology 2008 Performance Report. Download your copy of this year’s comprehensive report to get insights on Intel IT’s progress in:
- Improving organizational health
- Reducing the cost of our overall operations, including carrying out our data center consolidation strategy, optimizing the WAN, accelerating server refresh cycles to optimize total cost of ownership, and saving us $95 million to date
- Adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services (see page 18)
- Delivering IT Solutions that drive business growth, such as our supply chain management solutions enabling Intel to be more responsive to our customers, better manage our inventory and enjoy cost savings
- Improving the on-line experience of our customers through the design, delivery and management of new infrastructure required for web 2.0
- Passing the halfway point on the complete upgrade of our enterprise resource planning system
- Partnering with Intel business groups to define, develop and enable technology and products that address the needs of enterprise IT organizations
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…)
Healthways: Nearing One Billion Claims a Month
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Processing nearly one billion claims a month — about one-third of the nation’s health claims, Healthways needs robust infrastructure to analyze nearly 100 terabytes of data, and keep pace with double-digit corporate growth. Read this case study about how Intel® multi-core technologies help Healthways grow their business without having to keep scaling out physically. (more…)
TIBCO Software Opts for Blades to Address Business Growth, Lower IT Costs
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009With software infrastructure that connects incompatible IT assets, process management software that orchestrates systems and people, and a range of other software products that enable the real-time processing and presentation of information, TIBCO Software found its proprietary servers were becoming outdated and overburdened. This case study takes a look at their decision to move from a proprietary operating system to Linux* and to upgrade from aging equipment to new, Intel technology–based servers. (more…)