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Posted Jun 30, 2008 Tales of IT Utopia: That Virtual Feeling
Puppets telling the story of virtualization? That’s right. In this inagural episode of Tales of IT Utopia, the Minister of Plenipotentiary of IT Utopia comes to the rescue of the IT Guy to takeson the Jinx and the Boss. Let us have your comments if you want to see more.
Posted Jun 27, 2008 Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance
Microsoft describes the elements of its Desktop Optimization Pack including Asset Inventory Service, Advanced Group Policy Management, Application Virtualization, System Center Desktop Error Monitoring, Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset, and the new Enterprise Desktop Virtualization.
Posted Jun 26, 2008 Brently Davis on Data Center Efficiency
Intel IT program manager Brently Davis suggests that data center efficiency includes both reducing the cost of computing and the cost of servers, while implementing data center consolidation and grid computing. He also touches on the top concerns for tackling such a project.
Posted Jun 13, 2008 Discussing Virtualization
Intel’s Advanced Server Technologies Manager Jake Smith and VMWare’s Senior Director Ben Matheson, interact on the topic of virtualization. The pair discuss energy-efficiency, lower maintenance and software costs, performance issues and data center real estate as they look at the business benefits accrued through technological innovation.
Posted Jun 9, 2008 Operating System Streaming
What are the benefits of Operating System Streaming? Intel IT Systems Engineer Christian Black looks at OS streaming, one of the virtualization technologies. He examines the pain of a failed hard drive and discusses Intel’s benchmarking of local drives verses a centralized virtual disk.
Posted Jun 9, 2008 Application Streaming Whiteboard Chat
In this short “whiteboard chat”, Intel Systems Engineer Christian Black talks about a better way to deliver applications to end users. He charts out how it works, and discusses the benefits.
Posted Jun 3, 2008 Bottoms Up or Tops Down? Intel Roadmap Delivers Increasing Capabilities for IT
In a point/counterpoint Intel Premier IT Professional magazine article, two Intel strategists look at the Intel product roadmap from opposing directions. Is it the industry trends like virtualization, energy-efficient computing and cloud computing that are driving technology development? Or is it the increasing performance and capabilities offered by the latest microprocessors. Read and then pick your side.
Posted Jun 3, 2008 Virtualization, Service Orientation, and Grid Computing: The Next Big Things
Taken separately, virtualization, service orientation and grid computing are “old news”. But merge these three powerful technologies, and we’ve got a new information technology model that will fundamentally change the way we do business. This Intel Premier IT magazine article is an extract from the Intel Press IT Best Practice Series book titled The Business Value of Service-Oriented Grids: Strategic Insights for Enterprise Decision Makers. The book synthesizes multiple technology trends, including software and hardware architecture, high-performance computing, networking, and telecommunications, with business trends such as outsourcing, systems integration, hosting, and the emerging Internet portal data center.
Posted May 29, 2008 Client Virtualization Best Practices
The emerging technology engineering team from Intel IT takes a look at how client virtualization, or the ability to deliver an operating system and/or application to an end user in a form other than its native format, allows for both providing a proven build and allowing users the flexibility of “owning” their own platform. IT technology evangelists Mike Breton and Dave Buchholz have the details.
Posted May 29, 2008 Reducing Client TCO through the Use of Virtualization
Intel IT is exploring ways of delivering IT core value to users through the use of virtualization technologies. Intel IT evangelists Dave Buchholz and Ed Jimison show how this virtual user environment can reduce IT support and management, and improve end-user experience.


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