This brief from Intel and Oracle explains how building enterprise solutions with Oracle software optimized for hardware utilizing the latest Intel® Xeon® processors delivers high optimization for intelligent performance, automated energy efficiency, and flexible virtualization capabilities. Download Intelligent Infrastructure from Oracle and Intel (117KB, PDF).
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Intelligent Infrastructure from Oracle and Intel
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009A New Virtualization Standard for Federal Agencies
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009To 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…)
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…)
Better Together: Rich Client PCs and Cloud Computing
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009With more and more services delivered from the cloud, new questions arise about the optimal enterprise client computing strategy. Which combination of client platforms and service delivery models best meets the needs of users and IT organizations? This new white paper looks at the Intel IT environment, which contains a mixture of conventional and cloud computing services, and concludes that the ability to perform local computing on the client offers the best user experience and the flexibility to run different types of applications. (more…)
Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series Animation
Monday, March 30th, 2009Take an animated tour to get a better idea of how the new Intel® Xeon® Processors 5500 Series can optimize your data center with the latest performance innovations. (more…)
GigaSpaces: A Scalable, Cost-Effective Stack for Highly Concurrent Financial Services Applications
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Intel, Sun and GigaSpaces have partnered to offer an optimized hardware and middleware stack, targeted at the unique needs of banks, capital market firms, insurance companies and other financial institutions. The platform was tested with highly concurrent risk management, real-time analytics and online applications, typical with financial services companies. This case study describes how this very scalable solution provides both low latency and high throughput in both HPC and online application environments. (more…)
NYSE Technologies: Optimizing Middleware to Increase Throughput and Reduce Latency and TCO
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009NYSE Technologies is working with Intel to prove that improving efficiency by processing vast amounts of market data in a matter of microseconds is compatible with reducing the total cost of ownership. This case study looks at how these competing objectives are achievable by optimizing NYSE Technologies’ ultra low-latency middleware, Data Fabric*, on a single server using Intel’s four-socket, quad-core architecture. (more…)
Defense-in-Depth Strategy Optimizes Security Video
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Intel developed a defense-in-depth strategy to optimize information security using interlocking prediction, prevention, detection and response capabilities. It is a structure designed to support consistent and comprehensive security controls throughout the organization while allowing flexibility needed to manage risk. Intel information security strategist Matthew Rosenquist has details in this video.
You can also find the related Defense-in-Depth Optimizes Security white paper.
Defense-in-Depth Strategy Optimizes Security
Monday, February 2nd, 2009Intel IT, recognizing that attackers are human opponents who constantly evolve new tactics and that it would be prohibitively expensive to protect every vulnerablity, has developed a defense-in-depth strategy that optimizes security in using interlocking prediction, prevention, detection and response capabilities. Read the details in this white paper. (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