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Click to view BillSunderland's profile
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As this is my first blog on this forum, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Bill Sunderland and I have been working at Intel for 12 years primarily working on Server Hardware Engineering and the last three years of which I have focused my efforts on Program Managing the Virtualization Engineering release for Intel IT. I have recently published a WP demonstrating the methodology used as described below.

Intel IT planned, engineered, and has begun deploying a virtualized business-computing production environment at several data centers, a rollout that will continue through 2008. Our initiative has already confirmed anticipated virtualization benefits such as faster, more automated deployment. We are initially consolidating older servers running applications that are not mission-critical; we see opportunities to achieve 16:1 consolidation ratios.

Click here to read the WP: Implementing Virtualization in a Global Business-Computing Environment

I would be interested in hearing your experiences and/or questions regarding virtualizing IT environments!

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We wanted to determine whether the adoption of the new Intel 45nm process technology could deliver additional benefits to our data center strategy: Improving virtualization performance while reducing power consumption. Intel IT is using server virtualization to substantially reduce costs associated with underutilized servers such as higher capital, support, maintenance,power and cooling. Watch this video for the recent testing parameters and results found by Rob Carpenter.


For the full details behind the tests and results, read the white paper 45nm Quad-Core Processors for Energy Efficiency
Let us know how you think the 45nm processors would benefit your data center strategy.

Additional white papers on testing we did on the 45nm processors:
Chip Design using 45nm Quad-Core Xeon Processors

Accelerating EDA Application Performance with 45nm Quad-Core Processors

To read the predecessor to the 45nm testing done on the 65nm quad-core, see Rob's blog with video white paper
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The full paperComparing Multi-Core Processors for Server Virtualization

Lastly, a tribute to Rob Carpenter. Without his work, none of this would be possible: Fond Stories Over Coffee: The Passing of a Friend

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Like most other companies these days, Intel is facing a growing demand for computing resources. As a result, our computing costs are going up along with that demand. All of these issues prompted us to take a hard look at our data center strategy, to see where we could make it more efficient.

Therefore, we’ve launched into a significant undertaking. We’ve started the process to End of Life (EOL) or consolidate our data centers down to just eight strategic locations. This effort is planned to take us eight years, but we’re working to pull this in sooner. This initiative enables us to reduce costs, improve server and storage utilization, create higher density & more energy efficient data centers, and allows us to keep pace with our company’s rapid rate of innovation. The effort could deliver up to $750M in Net Present Value. View my video blog for more information.


I would be interested to hear your comments, questions and have you share with us what your company is doing to drive efficiency within your data centers.

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