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Thinking about Cloud Computing?

Posted by Catherine Spence Jan 22, 2009

Cloud Computing is getting a lot of press lately as a way to quickly add new computing capability and reduce costs. Many enterprises, including Intel, are determing how best to extend to the cloud.

By "cloud" we are referring to a complex computer network, most often the internet. Cloud computing consists of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).

The Intel strategy is to grow the cloud from the inside out. We are taking advantage of SaaS and IaaS where possible and we are building a private, internal cloud (iCloud) computing environment. Find out more by reading the following white paper:

Developing an Enterprise Cloud Computing Strategy

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OS Streaming in Intel Training Rooms

Posted by Catherine Spence Jan 5, 2009

OS Streaming can deliver considerable manageability benefits to Intel IT training rooms with multi-user PCs. To evaluate performance and utilization in a production environment, we conducted proof of concept (PoC) testing in two rooms located in different buildings on an Intel campus. We found that OS streaming improved manageability and delivered fast client boot times with moderate server and network utilization, even during worst-case boot storms.

See full paper posted at:

http://download.intel.com/it/pdf/Improving_Managemability_with_OS_Streaming.pdf

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Intel Developer Forum Demo: Streaming Media over WiMax

Posted by Catherine Spence Aug 19, 2008

If you are at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week you might want to visit the System-on-a-Chip Community for a very cool demonstration of streaming media over WiMax. Our Intel IT Team put this demostration together working with the Intel product developers and their ecosystem partners.

This demonstration shows a connection between a corporate office and a remote branch office via WiMax. The branch office uses an all-in-one appliance (a secure mesh router) containing a WiMax radio. The corporate office has a WiMax basestation and streams multimedia content over the network connection back to the branch office.

The secure mesh router in the demonstration is built using an Intel(R) EP80579 Integrated Processor formerly known as Tolapai. EP80579 is the first integrated processor that is a system-on-a-chip (SOC). This is important because it hails a new generation of smart, flexible, light and simple devices for the embedded internet. As an IT Researcher I'm no product expert so check out the full official SOC Press Kit for more details.

Here are some pictures from IDF: