Wall Street Systems, who help financial institutions and other enterprises improve their workflows and increase control of corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, FX trading, and global back office operations, found their clients wanted the ability to replace their SPARC* and specialized UNIX* boxes with off-the-shelf Intel systems. By offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux* versions of its best-selling financial applications, Wall Street Systems could create new revenue streams and sharpen its ability to compete aggressively against other financial software firms in its increasingly cost-conscious market niche. They also found they could cut costs itself by streamlining international operations. Read the case study. (more…)
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Wall Street Systems Boosts Revenues, Cuts Costs by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Monday, April 27th, 2009Arizona Public Service: Powerful Savings at the Power Company
Friday, April 24th, 2009Arizona Public Service (APS) is continually looking for new technologies that can contribute to the bottom line and to energy sustainability. The company’s IT group is no exception and is working to reduce power use and costs both in the data center and at the desktop. To reduce power usage, the IT team decided to acquire new desktops and laptops with energy-saving Intel® processor technology as part of the company’s hardware refresh program. In the data center, the APS IT team decided to save energy by consolidating its servers onto fewer, more powerful machines. Read about their ROI and the other ways APS IT measures success. (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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Digging Multi-Core Performance
Monday, March 30th, 2009Introducing new social networking features was creating processing challenges on the back end for Digg. In replacing its older servers with more powerful systems that could support business growth and new service rollouts, Digg chose Penguin Relion* servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series to increase processing density. Get the rest of the story. (more…)
The Ghost of Christmas Future, Part II
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
In my last column we were drifting in our holiday bliss, looking forward 25 years to how we will protect ourselves in a digital world. We have a world in which we and our proxies must have some strong, and preferably standardized, way of authenticating ourselves for everything from purchases to work. We need to bridge the gap between the heavy authentication security vendors will want and the transparency that users will need.
So how does it happen?
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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…)
Deploying ERP on Cost-effective Industry-standard Servers
Monday, March 16th, 2009Intel IT has successfully implemented an ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and supports more than 10,000 users. Four-socket servers play an essential role in this strategy and provide the performance, memory capacity, I/O expandability and proven technology required to run Intel IT’s larger production ERP instances. (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…)
Securing the Corporate Network at the Network Edge
Sunday, February 8th, 2009In this white paper, Intel IT documents its efforts to address ever-increasing security threats originating from within the corporate network. Intel IT designed and successfully deployed a pilot that provided an on-connection authentication service to two sites, securing the network at the network access layer. We developed best practices, automation scripts, and a solid strategy for effectively tackling global, corporate-wide deployment to over half a million network access ports in the future. (more…)