Posts Tagged ‘Intel’

PCs as Strategic Assets

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

By actively managing Intel’s PC fleet as a strategic asset, Intel IT has consistently decreased total cost of ownership for PCs. We also evaluate and put an emphasis on the top-line productivity benefits that new PC technologies bring to our employees, such as adopting the use of notebook PCs, new wireless technologies, voice over IP, and remote asset management to help increase productivity while driving down the high cost of supporting PCs. Read PCs as Strategic Assets (718KB, PDF).

Implementing Intel® vPro™ Technology to Drive Down Costs

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Intel IT offers guidelines for achieving quick returns and long-term value with Intel® vPro™ technology, based on the first year of a multi-year deployment program. This paper describes the methodology used in planning, developing and deploying Intel vPro technology and quantifies our cost savings for this deployment. Download Implementing Intel® vPro™ Technology to Drive Down Costs (401K, PDF) from intel.com.

Leading Virtualization 2.0

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization which focuses on increasing service efficiency through flexible resource management. Download Leading Virtualization 2.0 (2.70KB, PDF) to read how Intel is driving virtualization beyond consolidation into a solution for maximizing business agility.

A New Virtualization Standard for Federal Agencies

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

To 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, 2009

Intel 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

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High-powered Business Results with Lower Power Costs

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

This 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…)

REvolution R Enterprise on Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series Systems

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

At the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series launch event for the pharmaceutical industry, REvolution Computing discussed how REvolution R Enterprise improves the performance of widely-used tools in gene expression microarray analysis, and how they’ve seen real-world performance gains with the new Intel Xeon processor.

REvolution R Enterprise

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Microsoft and Intel Virtualization

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Shai Ofek, Lead Technical Product Manager for Microsoft, provides insights on Windows Server* 2008 R2, System Center Virtual Machine Manager and server virtualization with Hyper-V at the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series launch event.

Microsoft and Intel Virtualization

2.42MB, PDF

The Power Efficiency of the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

What 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

3.99MB, PDF

Scaling Performance Forward

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

These 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.

Scaling Performance Forward

7.94MB, PDF