http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog IT@Intel Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:43:44 GMT Clearspace 2.5.9 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-02T15:43:44Z http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/02/data-center-execution-and-unit-costing I was recently involved in a project where Intel IT SMEs from disciplines including Server, Storage, Data Center, Network, and Finance reviewed and updated our Data Center Strategy ( Intel IT Data Center Solutions: Strategies to Improve Efficiency ) for data_center intel_it it@intel virtualization servers roi strategy nehalem xeon_5500 value Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:10:55 GMT matthew.j.beckert@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/02/data-center-execution-and-unit-costing 2009-11-02T16:10:55Z 3 weeks, 4 days ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/data-center-execution-and-unit-costing http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12770 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/13/silos-and-server-huggers-are-they-holding-your-it-organization-back As I started my transition into a new job within Intel IT a few months ago, I discovered that one our internal IT strategic imperatives was “Partnership”.   I have to admit that at first I dismissed this a simply one of many standard business partnership engineering operations strategy 5500 business_value intel_it chris_peters value server huggers architecture it@intel virtualization nehalem xeon cto silo it cio it_operations Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:46:46 GMT christopher.p.peters@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/13/silos-and-server-huggers-are-they-holding-your-it-organization-back 2009-10-13T14:46:46Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago 2 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/silos-and-server-huggers-are-they-holding-your-it-organization-back http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12689 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/11/more-on-the-cash-machines Watch Diane Bryant, Intel CIO, talks about the cash machines in data centers in this press breifing . Haven't heard about the amazing cash machines for your data centers yet?! Better check it out now: Installing Cash Machines in your Data Center it@intel xeon performance power energy_efficiency intel virtualization value cost_savings intel_it it cio server data_center xeon_5500 roi case_study jimmy_wai Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:26:13 GMT jimmy.wai@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/11/more-on-the-cash-machines 2009-10-12T05:26:13Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/more-on-the-cash-machines http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12684 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/09/installing-cash-machines-in-your-data-center At a recent event our CIO, Diane Bryant, talked about our continued plan to replace old servers in our Data Centers ( http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44213/135/ ). Here is a summary of her key points: Not replaceing servers could have costed Intel intel_it it it@intel jimmy_wai roi server server_refresh nehalem data_center data_center_cooling data_center_power virtualization energy_efficiency intel case_study value cost_savings Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:10:04 GMT jimmy.wai@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/09/installing-cash-machines-in-your-data-center 2009-10-09T08:10:04Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/installing-cash-machines-in-your-data-center http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12673 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/01/20/must-have-technologies-for-your-next-client-system-refresh After spending the last 6 months researching emerging technologies around the IT Client platform, I have identified two must have technologies when considering your client refresh.  The first is Solid State Hard disks.  While the cost is a concern at ssd roadmap virtualization roi client vt-d it performance Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:40:49 GMT david.a.buchholz@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/01/20/must-have-technologies-for-your-next-client-system-refresh 2009-01-20T16:40:49Z 10 months, 1 week ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/must-have-technologies-for-your-next-client-system-refresh http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=11827 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/09/25/microsoft-hyperv-updated-to-support-intels-xeon-7400 I'm sure you've already seen press on the new 7400 series of processes. It is a really exciting time to see 6 core procs coming out. Being an engineer that supports enterprise applications and technologies this should provide a lot of extra power to xeon xeon_7400 hyper-v virtualization brian_mccann green_data_centers server_consolidation Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:27:21 GMT brian.w.mccann@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/09/25/microsoft-hyperv-updated-to-support-intels-xeon-7400 2008-09-25T15:27:21Z 1 year, 2 months ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/microsoft-hyperv-updated-to-support-intels-xeon-7400 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=11573 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/08/20/can-client-virtualization-lead-to-a-simpler-it-environment For the past year I have been working with several client technologies that revolve around the area of Client Virtualization. As I looked into these technologies and benchmarked them, I began to realize several key things.   These technologies are client virtualization streaming operating_sytems application saas innovation Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:00:06 GMT david.a.buchholz@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/08/20/can-client-virtualization-lead-to-a-simpler-it-environment 2008-08-20T21:00:06Z 1 year, 3 months ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/can-client-virtualization-lead-to-a-simpler-it-environment http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=11451 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/05/02/a-different-way-to-create-and-execute-applications Wouldn't it be great if we could buy an application and not have to worry about whether it was designed to run on Windows XP, Windows Vista, MAC OS X or some flavor of linux?   How about when you buy a personal computer you don't have to make a client_architecture software_development virtualization alternate_compute_models Fri, 02 May 2008 17:05:32 GMT tom.a.mant@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/05/02/a-different-way-to-create-and-execute-applications 2008-05-02T17:05:32Z 1 year, 6 months ago 3 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/a-different-way-to-create-and-execute-applications http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=11123 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/01/28/what-is-the-future-of-software-development-in-large-companies For decades there had been a simple model in place when it came to consuming software within large companies. It had only two branches, one involved creating something new while the other installation and configuration. Simply stated: "Make versus Buy." sdlc virtualization software_development Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:16:48 GMT john.e.simpson@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/01/28/what-is-the-future-of-software-development-in-large-companies 2008-01-28T15:16:48Z 1 year, 10 months ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/what-is-the-future-of-software-development-in-large-companies http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10860 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/12/31/new-year-s-information-security-resolutions-2008 With the old year grinding to a close and opportunities of a new year opening before us, it is a good time to take a moment and make some new year's information security resolutions. Some are good holdovers from last year and a few are new to the list. security value information_security optimal_security model risk matthew_rosenquist rosenquist virtualization social_media Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:23:00 GMT matthew.rosenquist@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/12/31/new-year-s-information-security-resolutions-2008 2008-01-01T00:23:00Z 1 year, 11 months ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/new-year-s-information-security-resolutions-2008 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10828 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/12/04/hosting-platform-standards-too-restricting   After over 10 years of engineering enterprise application hosting systems, my current assignment is as Product Manager of Platform Reference Designs (PRDs). PRDs define the technology, capability, and service standards blueprint for hosting virtualization hosting_standards server_consolidation standardization Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:24:00 GMT javier.apostol@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/12/04/hosting-platform-standards-too-restricting 2007-12-04T15:24:00Z 1 year, 11 months ago 3 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/hosting-platform-standards-too-restricting http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10789 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/10/02/virtualization-security-dream-or-nightmare As the industry moves towards the next big leap, virtualization, I can't help wondering will this be a security professionals dream or nightmare?   Disruptive technology: I generalize virtualization as the necessary separation and security virtualization information_security optimal_security model risk matthew_rosenquist rosenquist Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:16:00 GMT matthew.rosenquist@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/10/02/virtualization-security-dream-or-nightmare 2007-10-02T15:16:00Z 2 years, 1 month ago 7 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/virtualization-security-dream-or-nightmare http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10649 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/09/11/parking-lot-virtualization Recently, a colleague and I spoke to a group of IT administrators in Washington, DC. We left our car in a self-park parking lot in which the attendants had everyone leave their keys in their car, in lieu of keeping them on a valet "key board". They data_center it virtualization Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:25:00 GMT tvb@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/09/11/parking-lot-virtualization 2007-09-11T21:25:00Z 2 years, 2 months ago 43 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/parking-lot-virtualization http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10593 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/08/13/jumping-on-the-client-virtualization-bandwagon As this is my first post in this forum, let me start by introducing myself. My name is John Dunlop and I am an IT Enterprise Service Architect responsible for Intel's IT client solution architecture. I've had this role for less than a year, having client virtualization client_architecture client_management Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:46:00 GMT john.dunlop@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/08/13/jumping-on-the-client-virtualization-bandwagon 2007-08-13T21:46:00Z 2 years, 3 months ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/jumping-on-the-client-virtualization-bandwagon http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1014