VIDEO - Hear Intel IT Principal Engineers, Sudip Chahal and Shesha Krishnapura, talk about Intel IT's analysis that has led them to standardize on high-end processors for two-socket servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization.
CASE STUDY - R Systems worked with Intel and Dell to upgrade a 288-node HPC cluster by deploying new customized Dell servers equipped with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to help a customer increase aggregate application performance by 200 percent.
ASSESSMENT TOOL - Servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series offer incredible performance increases while helping to lower your total cost of ownership. When comparing 4-year old server technology to servers based on the Intel Xeon 5500 series, you can experience a ROI in under 12 months.
CASE STUDY - The Planet integrated new Dell PowerEdge servers featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to provide customers with access to cutting-edge technology ahead of other IT hosting companies.
VIDEO - Watch this brief, engaging youtube.com video to learn how Intel server products meet or exceed rigorous quality standards both company-wide and according to international requirements.
CASE STUDY - Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is extending its virtual environment with the latest Intel® architecture, saving USD 450,000 on hardware acquisition and increasing IT agility.
WHITE PAPER - This paper describes performance gains achieved by upgrading to the latest version of SAS v9.2 on Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) platform. SAS Forecast Server workload is utilized. Paper also describes usage of Intel compiler and Intel software tools.
WHITE PAPER - This paper demonstrates the value of a Xeon 7400 Dunnington system, the Dell IT group has virtualized more than 5,000 servers and saved the company over US$29 million using a scalable, worldwide virtualization model.
WHITE PAPER - This paper will give an overview of the best servers for virtualization.
CASE STUDY - Intel helps design and deploy a data center that packs 25 percent more servers into 56 percent of the space.
JOURNAL ARTICLE - We present a cloud-computing-based architecture that improves the resiliency of the existing solutions anti-malware solutions, and we describe our prototype that is based on existing Intel platforms.
WHITE PAPER - This paper demonstrates the importance of keeping your hardware up to date in the data center. When replacing older servers, we have found we can achieve consolidation ratios ranging from 7:1 to 13:1 depending on the workload and other factors, while substantially reducing energy consumption.
PRESS RELEASE - Google Inc. today announced its next-generation Google Search Appliance* (GSA) 6.0, which delivers extraordinary search power for the enterprise, powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. Building on the capabilities of its predecessors, this appliance allows enterprises to search billions of documents.
BOOK - This article will explains how servers consume power, how to estimate power usage and the mechanics of cooling. It also discusses the major components impacting power consumption and where the inefficiencies lie.
BOOK - Some of the most useful benchmarks and metrics in evaluating server performance are provided in this article along with descriptions to help IT managers identify the ones that best fit their organization.
VIDEO - This article, we presents an overview of the state of the art of botnets and stealthy malware, then develops and presents several promising anti-botnet defense strategies that specifically target current and emerging trends in botnet development.
WHITE PAPER - Learn why Intel IT decided to move ahead with server refresh in 2009 after current economic conditions forced us to re-evaluate our strategy. Analysis found that delaying server refresh for a year would increase our costs by USD 19 million.
IT BRIEFING - Learn about Intel IT's cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy for one of its data centers in Israel that has a potential business value of more than USD 3 million. The solution was designed to avoid idle compute servers, use a tiered storage system, and offload backup from the main data center.
IT BRIEFING - Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series provide a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design new data centers, achieving greater performance and energy efficiency. The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series brings intelligent performance to the world's most trusted server architecture.
IT BRIEFING - To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.
WHITE PAPER - Read this paper and get a look at how the next generation microarchitecture's dynamically scalable and design-scalable features directly contribute to power efficiency and performance.
WHITE PAPER - Intel IT is engaged in developing a broad, ongoing sustainability strategy to help Intel consume fewer resources and emit less waste. In analyzing the business case for IT sustainability, we identified the bottom-line benefits and defined the metrics that enabled us to effectively reduce our environmental footprint.
WHITE PAPER - Read the details of this storage optimization plan, which identifies opportunities that can reduce Intel's storage capacity requirements by 27 percent over the next five years while maintaining storage costs and delivering significant return on investment.
WHITE PAPER - Developing reliable metrics for comparison of energy-efficiency performance is the first requirement.
WHITE PAPER - High-density rack-mounted servers reduce space, cooling, networking, cabling, and management costs - as well as total power consumption - compared to low-density configurations having far few servers per rack.
CASE STUDY - In this case study learn how Intel® processor-based blade servers helped TIBCO Software keep up with business growth while lowering IT costs.
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