When 7-Eleven’s 800 field consultants and 2000 remote employees were due for a laptop/desktop refresh, the company decided to purchase laptops for all of them. View Six Billion Slurpees and Counting to get the details on how they improved employee and IT staff productivity and lowered both management and deskside incident costs.
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7-Eleven: Six Billion Slurpees and Counting
Thursday, September 10th, 2009Polycom: Securing Success
Friday, July 31st, 2009Polycom can centrally manage laptop security, remotely delete data, recover missing laptops, and make stolen computers unusable using the Intel, Lenovo and Absolute integrated software and hardware solution. Discover the details in Securing Success (569KB, PDF).
Mobile Manners #1: Privacy Please!
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Intel brings you Gabby and Gertrude who provide some clues on public laptop etiquette.
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Lost Laptops: More Expensive than you Think
Monday, June 22nd, 2009New research quantifies the primary factors driving the cost of a lost or stolen laptop. Learn from Intel IT’s best practices.
Evaluating Netbooks for Enterprise Use
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Intel IT performed a technology evaluation and verified that netbooks cannot replace users’ laptop and desktop PCs due to several factors. However, they could become companion devices that employees use in select situations and locations. Read Evaluating Netbooks for Enterprise Use covering the performance results and other details of this study.
Intel® Technology for Business Laptops
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009With a range of laptop products designed to meet the variety of needs presented by small, medium and large organizations, Intel has developed this good/better/best guide to aid IT groups in making better purchasing decisions. The document includes a clear comparison chart to explain the options available with the various Intel® mobile processors. (more…)
Ohio Health: Digital Health in the Heartland
Monday, May 4th, 2009Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers have helped Ohio Health scale its infrastructure capacity 150 percent over two years, and reduce heating and cooling costs $22,000 the first year. Physicians and nurses use Lenovo tablet and laptop computers based on Intel® Centrino®2 and Intel® Core™ 2 processors with vPro™ technology for free-form patient charting. Get all the details in Digital Health in the Heartland (496KB, PDF).
Optimizing 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…)
Arizona 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…)
IA: The Intelligent Architecture Investment
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009During his keynote, titled “IA: The Intelligent Architecture Investment,” Pat Gelsinger, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, discussed Intel’s latest client, server and embedded product lines, and gave developers an update on the latest programming tools available for the Larrabee architecture.
Intel’s complete Intel architecture future product roadmap was also revealed. Gelsinger said the “Nehalem” microarchitecture has received worldwide acclaim with the Core® i7 processor launch in 2008 and the recent Nehalem-based Intel® Xeon® 5500 series introduction. The Xeon 5500 series combines the world’s leading processor microarchitecture with a new memory and I/O subsystem, Intel® QuickPath Interconnect and Intel® Intelligent Power Technology to control power consumption.
Gelsinger said Intel and the industry now look to adopting more mainstream PC and laptop versions of the Nehalem microarchitecture, including 32nm manufactured versions with on-processor graphics, as well the multi-socket Nehalem EX server processor, all in production in the second half of 2009. The future Nehalem-EX processor will provide eight cores for the multiprocessor “intelligent server” market.
For embedded computers, Gelsinger discussed a range of recently announced Intel® Atom™ processor solutions with industrial temp for applications such as in-vehicle infotainment and industrial automation. He also disclosed, for the first time ever, the Nehalem-EP based processor (codenamed “Jasper Forest”) that is specifically designed to deliver increased compute density and integration required for embedded and storage applications.
Gelsinger also addressed Larrabee, which is Intel’s first many-core architecture designed for high throughput applications and features a programmable graphics pipeline that enables developer freedom. The Intel executive discussed availability of a C++ Larrabee Prototype Library and a future parallel programming solution based on “Ct” technology. The first Larrabee discrete graphics products are due in the late 2009/2010 timeframe.