Intel IT has begun to deploy up to 10,000 notebooks with solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of hard disk drives (HDDs) this year, following an evaluation that showed significant benefits including reductions in IT support costs and improvements in user productivity. Get the detailed analysis on the SSD benefits that motivated Intel IT to move forward in Enterprise-wide Deployment of Notebooks with Solid State Drives (197KB, PDF).
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Enterprise-wide Deployment of Notebooks with Solid State Drives
Thursday, September 10th, 2009Intel’s 2H09 Public Desktop, Server and Mobile Roadmap
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009Are you wondering what’s in store from Intel the rest of this year? Find the latest product and technology roadmap covering Intel’s desktop, server and mobile product lines in this 2H09 public roadmap. (more…)
Increase Productivity By Providing Notebooks Beyond The Road Warriors
Monday, June 1st, 2009Intel commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the benefits that North American enterprises have experienced as a result of increased notebook deployments beyond just the road warriors to the entire enterprise. In conducting in-depth interviews with 322 PC decision-makers at North American companies with 1,000 or more employees, Forrester found that these companies achieved improved employee productivity, faster response times, more informed decisions, a competitive advantage for customer-facing employees, reduced costs of supporting remote or home-based workers, and better attractiveness in the job market as a result of deploying notebooks to users. (more…)
Reduce Energy Usage while Increasing Business Productivity in the Data Center
Monday, May 11th, 2009Drawing from his book The Green and Virtual Data Center, StorageIO Group Founder and Senior Analyst Greg Schulz talks about the most significant issues facing IT in terms of “greening” the data center. He explains the energy savings mode of the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series as well as illustrating the differences between energy efficiency and energy avoidance in the new processor.
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…)
IA: The Intelligent Architecture Investment Slides
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009In his recent keyote at the Intel Developer Forum, 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. (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.
Intel Solid State Drives
Monday, April 13th, 2009Intel IT explains the benefits we’ve seen from using Intel Solid State Drives (SSD) in our environment, including gains in productivity and reliability, and savings in energy costs. We also show a demo comparison between a laptop with a SSD and a conventional hard drive. (more…)
Intel’s Laptop Strategy, featuring Diane Bryant and John Mahvi
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009In 1997, Intel IT made a strategic decision to move to laptops based on facts, but also a gut instinct. Hear Intel CIO Diane Bryant and Intel PC fleet manager John Mahvi explain how that that decision helped Intel lower costs, raise productivity, reduce energy and even provide some unexpected benefits. (more…)
The Return on Investment for PC Refresh
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009What is the financial logic that Intel IT uses to justify a regular refresh of the Intel PC fleet? John Mahvi, PC Fleet Manager for Intel IT, diagrams the logic that Intel uses to maintain a refresh cadence of approximately three years. This cadence gives Intel the benefits of increased security and manageability capabilities, as well as increased productivity and lower overall costs. (more…)