Intel IT tested large silicon design workloads substituting lower-cost solid-state drives for part of a server’s virtual memory — resulting in a 1.74X performance-normalized cost advantage while delivering up to 88% of the performance. See the details in The Advantages of Solid-State Drives for Design Computing (214KB, PDF).
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The Advantages of Solid-State Drives for Design Computing
Sunday, October 11th, 2009Emerging Client Technologies
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009At a recent Intel Premier IT Professionals event, Intel IT Technology Evangelist Dave Buchholz and Intel IT Client Architect John Dunlop discuss dynamic virtual clients, solid state drives, netbooks in the enterprise and more.
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Enterprise-wide Deployment of Notebooks with Solid State Drives
Thursday, September 10th, 2009Intel 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).
Solid-State Drives in the Enterprise: A Proof of Concept
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Intel IT conducted a proof of concept to determine the potential of solid-state drives (SSDs) to replace hard disk drives (HDDs) in the enterprise that included performance tests, measurement of power consumption, and total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) analysis. We found that using SSDs to replace data HDDs in disk arrays could increase I/O performance up to 8x for comparable TCO, and that using them as internal server OS disks reduced the time required for common support tasks such as installs and reboots by up to 73 percent. (more…)
Improving the Mobile Experience with Solid-State Drives
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009Intel IT is evaluating solid-state drive (SSD) technology to better understand the benefits to users and the impacts on the enterprise. A proof of concept study, that includes extensive benchmark testing as well as deployment of notebooks, is demonstrating some significant advantages of SSDs over traditional hard disk drives for both users and IT. These include faster system performance, lower energy consumption that extends battery life, and the potential to reduce IT support costs. Read the details on why Intel IT sees this as a logical step in improving users’ experience with mobile computing at Intel. (more…)