Usages and Technologies
Audio-enabled presentation, ~50 mins.
Virtualization offers small and midsize companies an extremely cost-effective option for transforming IT into a simpler, more powerful computing infrastructure, for distinct competitive and profitability gains. Get the details in this joint IBM, Intel and VMware white paper. (more…)
This new interactive data center experience provided by Intel and Dell gives you the opportunity to explore various server strategy, new techology, power and cooling, and mangement options. There’s a handy ROI calculator that allows you to select from hundreds of servers and use your specific information on server quantities, power costs and data center efficiency, virtualization goals and more to produce a printable summary. Take the Data Center 360 Tour.
Looking at various ways in which virtualization enables data center efficiency, Intel IT’s Virtualization Service Manager Steve Tadman and Senior Technologist Richard Wagner present at recent Intel Premier IT Professional IT-to-IT events.
Virtualization Enables Data Center Efficiency
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ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, announced qualification and support of over ten server platforms based on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series (previously codenamed “Nehalem”) from major server vendors. See the press coverage on reuters.com.
Compucom, provider of IT solutions to Fortune 1000 companies, describes how Compucom customers who have deployed PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology lower support costs, improve user uptime, experience faster patch management, and have the building blocks for more-secure, remotely-managed client virtualization.
Take a virtual tour of this data center that was retrofited from a former wafer fabrication facility (fab) with a three-story design and several distinct data centers within it.
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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).
Intel conducted proof-of-concept testing and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to assess the virtualization capabilities of Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. A server based on Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 delivered up to 2.6x the performance and up to 2.05x the performance per watt of a server based on Intel® Xeon® processor E5450, resulting in the ability to support approximately twice as many virtual machines for the same TCO. Download Virtualization with the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series: A Proof of Concept (877KB, PDF) to get the specifics.
Rich Nockels, senior manager with Intel Americas, discusses optimum PC refresh cycles based on recent research and user experience. (more…)