Radhakrishna Hiremane Shridhar will be talking about virtualization with the new VMware vSphere on IBM Intel processors on August 12, 1 PM EST.  He'll be joined by Bob Zuber, Program Director, High Performance, IBM.   The webinar is designed to help IT managers better understand scalable virtualization infrastructure, enterprise application virtualization, reduced TCO, and efficiency benefits along with a special financing opportunity.  

To register for the session “Virtualize with the new VMware vSphere on IBM Intel processors and take advantage of special financing” please visit

http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=141535&s=1&k=C47B398CE28768E91D34E61574D736B2&partnerref=Intel03

Has your organization’s IT team or an individual really made an impact in managing your client fleet or data center? If so, they may have an opportunity to be recognized for their efforts through the Intel Premier IT Knowledge Award from CIO and Intel. Honorees and their winning best practices will be prominently featured in an upcoming issue of CIO magazine. The deadline is January 28, 2009, so get the details now: http://www.premieritawards.com/IPIK_2009_application.html?AWARDID=1

Have you seen that Mel Gibson movie What Women Want where supposedly Gibson’s character can read women’s minds and really know what they want? Well, we don’t pretend to be able to read your minds…but we do have some insights as to what IT professional want.

I know these things because I manage the Intel Premier IT Professional website where we post all sorts of IT best practice resources. And I track what pages our members go to, what white papers, videos, podcasts or presentations they download, what local seminars they attend, what comments they make on our postings. Our motivation for doing this is to be able to provide best practice resources on the topics of most interest to IT professionals.

So, for 2008…what would you guess are the most popular areas of the Intel Premier IT Professional web site? In typical TV late night host fashion, I give you the top 10 beginning with #11..read on to see why the top 10 starts at 11.

11 Competing on Analytics Chapter Two: What Makes an Analytical Competitor?

10 Business Value Index Demo

9 Gemini Division

8 Multi-core Architecture technology brief

7 Competing on Analytics Chapter One: The Nature of Analytical Competition (No longer available due to agreement with publisher; However Chapter 2 is still available which is why I've included it at #11 above.)

6 Intel Information Technology Performance Report

5 Intel Premier IT Professional web site web tour

4 IDC: Choosing the Right Hardware for Server Virtualization white paper

3 The Intel Premier IT magazine winter 2008 edition

2 The Intel Premier IT magazine summer 2008 edition

1 Intel product roadmap presentation

So what's surprising on this list? A couple of things: One is that the Intel Premier IT magazine was far and away the number one area on the web site if you combine the #2 and #3 items above. If you've seen the magazine, you know it's a quality product with 15-20 articles each issue covering the latest best practice learnings from Intel and industry leaders, case studies, a CIO profile, an Intel product roadmap and even some fun stuff. So maybe it shouldn't be surprising. The latest edition just hit the streets and so it doesn't even show up on this list yet. You can see the winter 2009 soft copy on the Intel Premier IT Professional website now.

The enormous popularity of the Competing on Analytics book excerpt is also surprising. We've published two chapters of the book and both of them have garnered significant views. I think it shows IT professionals find the concept of building competitive strategies around data-driven insights intriguing.

The other surprising item was the increased popularity in videos. Two videos and one flash demo cracked the top 10, and even beyond the top 10 overall viewership has soared. In fact, we had to recently quadruple our bandwidth to make sure our members have a good user experience downloading The latest postings in our Video archives include virtualization chalk talks, Intel CIOs addressing social media issues, a Sony Imageworks case study and some fun Intel® vPro^TM technology videos.

So, do any of the top 10 surprise you? They shouldn't because you told us - not only through your comments but through your activity. We'll continue to serve up this great content plus more. Thank you for contributing and we'll continue to listen!

Microsoft announced On June 26, 2008 link to Microsoft press release the immediate availability of Hyper-V for download at http://www.microsoft.com/Hyper-V or can be obtained via Windows Update July 8th for customers who have already deployed Windows Server 2008.

Jeff Woolsey (Microsoft) and Joakim Lialias (Intel) discuss Microsoft’s Virtualization Strategy and specific benefits of Hyper-V technology in conjunction with Intel’s Vt hardware-assisted virtualization.

http://www.youtube.com/v/FDO6x9uJbzk&hl=en