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*BREAKING NEWS* - 'Nehalem' Effect Devastates Data Centers
Posted by Craig Paul Wallace Oct 22, 2009
In my previous blog I enthused about the upgrade I had from a mechanical hard disk drive(HDD) to a solid state drive (SSD) in my corporate notebook PC. As you can see I am a very happy PC user! But I hear you ask, why would Intel consider such an expensive upgrade to a corporate PC?
Well helpfully our IT department has just published a paper to explain that decision
You can find the full paper here:
http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-3914
Firstly I am not unique within the company. Over 10,000 people have, or will soon, receive an SSD upgrade to their Corporate PC. Starting with the most mobile of the workforce, the sales and marketing teams, who spend much of their working lives travelling to and from their respective customers. This is being carried out as a mid-life upgrade, so as you can imagine there needs to be a good reason for this scale of investment.
The benefits fall into two categories. Soft benefits and hard benefits (Return on Investment). Firstly soft benefits, what do we mean by this term? Well this is the benefit to the end user, I covered my personal view on this in my last post, it’s the improved productivity the better battery life, the reliability. The benefits it’s hard to put a figure on. You know they exist but what are they worth to the company?
Then there are the hard benefits. These you can measure in terms of monetary values. So what were the hard benefits we measured for SSD deployment:
Drive failures reduced by 90%
Employee time lost due to drive failures reduced by 90%
Reduction in IT time spent dealing with drive failures of 96%
This all adds up to a pretty significant pay back on the investment we are making in this technology. So what is holding you back?
post-vPro Live Chat.
Hello Members,
The vPro Live Chat held on 30th September and was a huge success. Altogether, we had 4 countries participating, over 10 experts sharing their plentiful knowledge, and vast amounts of queries being posed.
The experts....
Throughout the 2 hour session the vPro experts were asked many a question, for example; how to measure the financial benefits of vPro without implementing (TCO tool), what the usages of vPro are for SMBs and very small fleets of employees, and what they thought the future of vPro looked like.
For a full transcript of the Live Chat - click here.
We would like to thank all of you that participated and hope that your questions were answered. If not, please post a discussion and await a response.
A sneak peak of what's to come...
Xeon Live Chat in November. Further details to be published soon.
Your IT Galaxy Team
Coming soon! Live chat with Intel® vPro™ Technology experts.
Posted by Craig Paul Wallace Sep 21, 2009
Bio: David is a TME in the Platform Technology Enabling Group in Swindon. Having spent 14 years with Intel, he is currently responsible for supporting and promoting Intel vPro and related business computing technologies.
Bio: Steve has been with Intel 23 years and worked in multiple roles covering business clients, servers, infrastructure, embedded, communications and HPC. His current role is ensuring that the IT ecosystem in Europe is able to effectively build new value add services around new technologies Intel is building into Business Clients. Main focus here over the last two years has been with the vPro platform and in particular with Active Management Technology.
Bio: Steve is based in Swindon UK and is a member of the EMEA Solution Support Team. He joined Intel in 1988 and has worked in various technical and managerial roles. He is currently responsible for enabling and supporting deployments of Intel® vPro™ Platforms into Enterprise customers
Bio: With 20 plus years of IT technical and management experience, Stuart’s recent roles in Intel have included European Product Manager for Intel’s vPro Technology. He is now driving technology adoption and business development for the UK System Integrator market sector.
Bio: Martin works within Intel's Worldwide Architect organisation and has over 25 years of experience within the Computing industry. Martin has worked for Intel for 9 years across several business lines including software development and consultancy. For the past three years he has worked alongside Intel’s global IT Outsourcing partners to integrate and enable Intel vPro platform technologies into new and existing enterprise client solutions and managed desktop service offerings.