Every hard disk will fail. That’s a reality few of us care to think about, although if you’ve ever tried to do work on your laptop on a plane you’ve been profoundly reminded that it doesn’t take much movement to cause a hiccup. That’s not good for the spinning hard disk that you rely on. Solid-state drives promise to radically change how your mobile PC experience. SSDs give you faster boot up times, faster application load times, longer battery life, and you can toss them across the room (not that you’d want to). In this video, Intel engineers do a side-by-side demo between solid-state drive and hard disk drive technology, and discuss how SSDs are not just for the mobile user: they can save energy for IT folks in servers. They also toss the SSD across the room.

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It’s sometimes difficult to remember what the enterprise environment was like before workforces were mobile. It’s sometimes difficult to understand why the simple reality of not being in the office might have prevented some of us from doing the work we needed to do. In this video podcast, two Intel executives recall how we got to this point.

The change from a desktop-driven world to our current and increasingly mobile business environment was swift, but it was also deliberate. Intel CIO Diane Bryant and IT PC Fleet Manager John Mahvi remember the conversations, they remember the risks, and they are continuing to steer Intel’s massive workforce into the future with increased mobility, constantly improving energy performance, and a wireless existence that will surely make today’s mobility seem as staid as yesterday’s desktop offices.

Intel has been measuring “total cost of ownership,” or TCO, since 1995. Says Mahvi, “We’ve seen a 67 percent improvement in TCO for a PC fleet over that time,” citing support cost decreases and the promise of Intel’s vPro manageability, which will allow those costs to continue to drop.

See also:
Transcript of Intel’s Enterprise Laptop Strategy

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As a concept, “unified communications” has been around for awhile. It can mean anything from bringing all business communications into a single, seamless user experience to bringing global collaboration and conferencing technologies onto the same basic platform as traditional voice and text communications systems. It’s one of the most exciting ways in which technology is reshaping the corporate environment, and the implications for the enterprise are significant, ranging from greener, more sustainable business practices to drastically reduced friction, latency and overload of existing communications systems.

In this podcast, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Systems Marketing, Siemens Enterprise Communications Mark Straton predicts that the UC feature set will become the new baseline standard. Straton says that unified communications, as we currently know it, will will merge with voice, video, and mobility solutions to create comprehensive but modular UC solutions, with the lines between business applications like email, CRM, ERP, communications platforms, and communications devices blurring or disappearing completely.

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MobileUC means bringing unified communications applications to mobile workers with the same quality and reliability as we have at the desks in our offices. In this German language podcast, Marcus Birkl, vice president with Siemens Enterprise Communications, discusses the impacts and challenges involved with keeping productivity high, costs low, and workers connected. At Siemens, Birkl works with CEOs and CIOs to address the increased demands for faster response times, lower energy demands and power consumption, and the serious challenge of maintaining secure computing environments.

UC applications — from instant messaging to voicemail and presence — pose particular challenges to the enterprise, as mobility and remote access increasingly become a fact of life for the knowledge workforce. Siemens’s offerings in this area include HiPath Wireless, to support the all-wireless enterprise; HiPath MobileConnect, to extend secure FMC support for remote workers; and OpenScape Mobile UC Client, for RIM, Symbian and Windows Mobile 5/6. All offerings run on the OS UC server, launched earlier this year.

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MobileUC means bringing unified communications applications to mobile workers with the same quality and reliability as we have at the desks in our offices. In this podcast, Luc Roy, vice president with Siemens Enterprise Communications, discusses the impacts and challenges involved with keeping productivity high, costs low, and workers connected. At Siemens, Roy works to address the increased demands for faster response times, lower energy demands and power consumption, and the serious challenge of maintaining secure computing environments.

UC applications — from instant messaging to voicemail and presence — pose particular challenges to the enterprise, as mobility and remote access increasingly become a fact of life for the knowledge workforce. Siemens’s offerings in this area include HiPath Wireless, to support the all-wireless enterprise; HiPath MobileConnect, to extend secure FMC support for remote workers; and OpenScape Mobile UC Client, for RIM, Symbian and Windows Mobile 5/6. All offerings run on the OS UC server, launched earlier this year.

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The Intel Developer Forum recently concluded in San Francisco. In this video, sample from the cutting edge mobility products being shown at IDF, from Intel Atom Processor-powered Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) to Netbooks, to new WiMAX wireless Internet technology.

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Intel this week announced the release of its newest mobile technology, Centrino 2. Centrino 2 features an enhanced CPU utilizing Intel’s 45 nanometer technology, new graphics and chipset, and more powerful wireless connectivity. This latest version of the Centrino platform will lead the way as consumers continue to demand more hi-def video, longer battery life, and greater mobility, and as businesses look to securely manage a workforce on the go. In this video we hear from Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager of the Mobile Platforms Group, and from Erik Reid, director of marketing with the Mobile Platforms Group, both speaking at the launch event in San Francisco.

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When Intel’s research teams think about the future of computing – from mobile devices with near-limitless functionality to technology for the developing world to virtual worlds and advanced robotics, they are literally mapping our future (a future that could include, for example, a cafe table with networking ability). In this podcast preview of the 2008 Research@Intel Day, to be held at the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, we hear from some of Intel’s key players when it comes to the next generations of technology. Hear what Intel Research is focusing on now from Andrew Chien, vice president, corporate technology group and director of Intel Research; Intel Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Corporate Technology Group Justin Rattner; and Eric Brewer, director, Intel Research Berkeley.

Research Day is a chance to check in Intel on the future impacts that its advanced chip technologies will have on human health, mobility, innovation and, of course, computing – from Terascale architecture, software and programming issues to visual computing challenges.

You can hear more from Andrew Chien, here talking about essential computing, “the vision that drives Intel Research.” Justin Rattner shares some thoughts on virtual words as a precursor to the 3D Internet, and Eric Brewer, also a professor of comptuer science at the University of California, Berkeley, talks about how research from his Berkeley lab could lead to better technologies for the developing world.

Past coverage of Research@Intel Day

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Enterprise computing has come a long way from the days of centralized mainframes in the 1970’s to the fully distributed desktops and laptops we see today. With the workplace becoming more technologically diverse and increasingly mobile, desktop IT workload grows exponentially with each new user and configuration. Is there a solution that can give IT centralized control while still providing end users with a familiar interface? Yes there is – VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure allows you to centrally deliver virtual desktops from your secure datacenter to your end users. Virtual desktops look and behave like traditional PCs. Therefore, users can still customize their desktops, download additional applications without adding to the IT support queue. VMware virtualization helps you take back control of the desktop.

This podcast features VMware Desktop Specialist Todd Dayton in an interview that dives into the architecture behind VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, applicable use cases and tips on how to get started.

The Server Virtualization Blog has a great and concise explanation of the VM value proposition in a recent post by Bridget Botelho, including links to case studies.

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In this video podcast straight from Intel’s Spring IDF in Shanghai, the spotlight is on the keynote demos that showed power and performance in newer, smaller and more innovative form factors, many powered by the Intel’s Atom processor. Many of the demonstrations focused on mobility, and they all provided an exciting look at some of the technologies that are just around the corner.

Dr. Ren Ng, president and CEO of Refocus Imaging, led a demo of his company’s light field cameras, which record the full light field as it enters the camera, ultimately extending the capabilities of conventional digital cameras and “turning camera hardware into software.” Ng explains that by doing this, light field cameras “bring the economics and power of Moore’s Law to the camera system.” (snapshots from their Web site illustrate the demo, which they re-created live, on stage at IDF!).

Also on hand was Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMware. He shared the stage with Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, to demonstrate a flex migration across four generations of hardware as well as the value of the deep collaboration between Intel and VMware.

There was a live demo by Classmate PC, following the news-making announcement of the new, second generation classmate (”featuring a 9-inch LCD screen, 6-cell battery, 512MB memory, a 30GB hard disk drive and a built-in webcam“), the unveiling of Intel’s Tukwila Itanium processor (“Two billion transistors in one processor”), and a mobility-focused Asianux demoonstration of the breadth of Moblin Usage, including a new way to play video from the Web and a new way to order Chinese food.

A Montevina demo was noteworthy after Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter, revealed that Intel’s next generation mobile platform, Montevina, will provide twice the 3D processing power of any current integrated solution.

Demos showcasing Neusoft driver assistance, Fuwa robot, Adobe Air, Sobey real-time rendering and MID & mobile designs rounded out the event.

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