Intelligent and Expandable High-End Intel® Server Platform
Codenamed Nehalem-EX
Stephen Pawlowski Intel Senior Fellow, Intel Corporation
The next generation expandable segment server processor, codenamed Nehalem-EX, is critical to today’s enterprise computing. For server consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, data demanding applications, and other technical computing environments, Nehalem-EX greatly improves scalable performance, memory bandwidth and capacity, flexibility, and provides advanced Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) features. At this Technology Insight, Steve Pawlowski provides an in-depth analysis of these technical advancements.
The Planet integrated new Dell PowerEdge* servers featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to provide customers with access to cutting-edge technology ahead of other IT hosting companies. The high-performance, energy-efficient Intel® processor–based servers are helping some customers double application performance while enabling The Planet to reduce power consumption. Read Maintaining an Edge in a Competitive Universe (281KB, PDF) for the details.
This Alinean white paper examines a recent server consolidation project by a large U.S. retailer who was able to reduce annual IT operating costs by modernizing their IT infrastructure and lower current cash outflows by leveraging attractive leasing options. Access Server Consolidation with IBM System x and BladeCenter* with Intel® Xeon® Processors to see what this company was able to gain by replacing a myriad of older x86-based servers.
IT@Intel Subject Matter Experts Sudip Chahal and Shesha Krishnapura explain why Intel IT buys high-end Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series based servers for both design computing and enterprise server virtualization environments. Why? Buying high-end Xeon 5500 can reduce four year server TCO by 42 percent compared to low-end Xeon 5500 processors.
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Intel helps design and deploy a data center that packs 25 percent more servers into 56 percent of the space compared to the previous outdated facility. Find out more in A Healthy Change for Humana (322KB, PDF).
Hear Matt Beckert, a senior financial analyst with Intel IT, talk about why Intel remained committed to its four-year server refresh rate in 2009 after current economic conditions forced a re-evaluation of the strategy. View Intel Stays Committed to Server Refresh (1:52, SWF).
Matt Beckert, a senior financial analyst with Intel IT, talks about Intel’s server refresh strategy; why Intel decided on a four-year refresh rate; and the benefits and savings Intel has realized to date. Watch the interview with Matt in Intel IT’s Server Refresh Strategy (4:39, SWF).
Intel IT developed a quantitative model to assist with server sizing to show that the headroom advantage offered by four-socket servers can increase flexibility and help avoid mid-life refresh in situations where there is greater uncertainty in workload growth forecasts and larger demand peaks. Discover more in A Quantitative Approach to ERP Server Platform Sizing (377KB, PDF).
Intel® Core™2 Duo and Xeon® processors 5400 series help Sample Digital accelerate media processing, consolidate servers, and deliver HD video to executives. Get the scoop in Sample Digital Streamlines the Hollywood Workflow (310KB, PDF).
Learn how massive consolidation and virtualization efforts at Siemens drives up to a 35 percent drop in IT costs. Siemens IT Solutions and Services standardized on Fujitsu Siemens Primergy* servers powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series and 5400 series to achieve a 17:1 consolidation ratio, reduced floor space requirements by 45 percent and cooling needs by 30 percent, and expects capital expenses and operations costs to drop by up to 35 percent. Read Massive Consolidation and Virtualization Effort Drives up to a 35 Percent Drop in IT Costs (496KB, PDF).
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Stephen Pawlowski