Posts Tagged ‘process’

Using an IT Business Value Program to Measure Benefits to the Enterprise

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Intel IT evaluates IT investment decisions using a customer-focused, data-driven process that demonstrates IT’s impact on the bottom line. Our IT business value (ITBV) program provides a consistent framework for measuring and evaluating IT products, services, and support in terms that reflect business benefits. Read Using an IT Business Value Program to Measure Benefits to the Enterprise (355KB, PDF) to get the latest on the success of the ITBV program.

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Geotrace Technologies: Oceangoing Multi-Core

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Geotrace Technologies realized there was enough demand to justify a full seismic processing and reservoir analysis center on board their specialized oceangoing vessel. They also figured they could save their customers valuable time by processing data as it was acquired instead of waiting until the ship was back in port. Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series met the limited power, air conditioning, and space requirements and provided faster results from offshore exploration. Read the details in this case study. (more…)

Faster Chip Design with Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series

Monday, March 30th, 2009

For Intel’s chip design process, increased design complexity and business requirements lead to exponential compute capacity growth and increased cost. To help us understand how the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series could address these challenges, we recently ran a broad range of industry-leading end-to-end electronic design automation (EDA) applications with more than 50 Intel silicon design workloads. We concluded that can replace up to 11 single-core processor-based servers with one quad-core processor-based server for some EDA applications, lower operational costs, and accelerate design cycles to achieve faster time to market. Get the rest of the details. (more…)

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, 2009

Introducing 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…)

NYSE Technologies: Optimizing Middleware to Increase Throughput and Reduce Latency and TCO

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

NYSE 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…)

The Ghost of Christmas Future: Identity Management in 2033

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

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By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.

It’s 7:30am on Friday morning. Your PDA wakes you with the latest Bach/Mozart/U2 synth medley it bought for you from the classics server off the web overnight; you’re fairly pleased with the purchase, since you didn’t even know the synthers were playing with that arrangement again. The “housething” system turns up the wall screen and flips on your favorite news channel. (more…)

Mortenson Reduces IT Support Costs by Building on Intel® vPro™ Technology

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

In evaluating the activation of Intel® vPro™ technology-based PCs, Mortenson, a privately-held commercial and industrial construction company and a leader in using 3D/4D virtual design and construction technology, concluded they would gain the greatest benefits by reducing IT support costs and end-user downtime. For example, by leveraging the tight integration of LANDesk* with Intel vPro technology, Mortenson can improve their current re-imaging processes by taking advantage of the remote management capabilities built into PCs with Intel vPro technology. It is estimated that through remote re-imaging, Mortenson could reduce travel and IT support time in half. Read the details on how they achieved a break-even point in 12 months. (more…)

Simplifying the Provisioning Process

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology and Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology include a core component called Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT). Intel® AMT extends management capabilities for in-band and out-of-band management. As a security measure, these features may not be active when received from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendor. Intel AMT must be activated (or provisioned) in order to benefit from these additional management capabilities. This paper focuses on four key aspects of enterprise mode provisioning of Intel AMT systems.

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Improving Security and Productivity through Federation and Single Sign-on

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Intel IT has developed a single sign-on strategy and process that provides seamless user access to both internally and externally hosted applications, improving the security of sensitive user profile information, reducing maintenance and costs, and simplifying the user experience. Single sign-on enables centralized storage of sensitive user profile information through the use of standards-based identify federation, and this information remains under Intel’s sole control. (more…)