Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

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…)

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…)

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

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The meaning of the “v” in Intel® vPro™ Technology

Monday, March 16th, 2009

We asked Intel customers as well as technical experts from Intel and Microsoft to tell us what the “v” in Intel vPro Technology meant to them.
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No Ceiling: The Ultimate in Mission-Critical Scalability

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Intel and Microsoft have a shared vision of a dynamic data center environment. This solutions brief describes how the two companies are delivering new levels of scalability and reliability with servers based on the energy-efficient 45nm Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series plus Microsoft Windows Server 2008*, Microsoft SQL Server 2008*, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008*. (more…)

Premier Bankcard Accelerates Business Intelligence

Monday, September 29th, 2008

To effectively reach their market of underserved but credit worthy consumers, Premier Bank must sift through millions of financial records.  This case study documents how Intel, Microsoft and HP technology contribute to this daunting data mining task.

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Intel Application and Desktop Virtualization Forum: Enabling the Optimized Desktop

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

After first examining evolving customer needs and the tension between users and IT, this presentation from Microsoft goes on to look at alternative desktop deployment models and how Microsoft desktop optimization accelerates deployment and increases managability.   The presentor then details Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization. 

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