In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Roger Foreman, a product marketing manager from Dell, stops by to talk about managing power in the data center with Open Manage Power Center, which allows an IT [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In a follow-up to last week’s episode, Sylvie Kadivar, director strategic marketing from Samsung, stops by to talk about how memory technology benefits a number of benchmarks. She also discusses [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Steve Steir, VP of platform engineering at VCE, stops by to talk about the company’s converged infrastructure deployments. The VCE Vblock consists of a standard deployment of network, [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Pat Buddenbaum from Intel and Vikram Kumar from Oracle discuss mission critical platforms and workloads in the context of the TPC-C benchmark and the five million transactions per minute Intel [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 28 – It’s been amazing to watch technology converge to make the cloud possible. Connection speeds, processing power, and the explosion of connected devices all contribute to this transformation in the compute experience. It might seem [See the full post…]

Silicon Minds: Alan Turing was born on June 23, 1912. Well before World War II he conceived of a machine which could compute and it was a machine that, although an abstraction, could solve problems. It was a monumental achievement [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 27 – The Gartner Group just released its eighth annual Supply Chain Top 25, identifying global supply chain leaders and highlighting their best practices. It’s an elite group of companies, and coming at number 7 this [See the full post…]

Connected Social Media’s Kevin Edwards knows a thing or two about Apple technology. In this podcast Jason Lopez chats with Kevin about the highlights of the company’s newest announcements at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012.

Inertia – Apple WWDC 2012: In the mid-90s, when the Wintel platform came to dominate the sweet spot of the business/consumer computer business, Apple at least had one loyal constituency: high end users. While Apple didn’t sell a lot of [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Jeff Word, a VP at SAP, stops by to talk about SAP HANA, the first enterprise-scale completely native in-memory database. Keeping the database in RAM means that business data (point [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: David Fair, from the LAN Access Division, stops by to talk about the new Intel Direct Data I/O Technology introduced with the Intel Xeon processor E5 family, which allows NICs [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 26 – There was a time when Intel Corporation didn’t run on an Intel platform. Until the early 90s, Intel ran on a proprietary RISC-based platform for its silicon design and manufacturing environments. At the time, [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Tim Roddy, Sr. Director Product Marketing from McAfee, chats about some of the biggest security concerns when moving data and applications to the cloud including malware, compliance issues, [See the full post…]

Silicon Minds: Open source continues to make gains despite the perception that its era has passed. Just recently, the NYSE Technologies announced it was using the open source software called Drupal to make collaboration tools and for content management, an [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 25 – Intel is a large operation, with ninety thousand employees and an equal number of servers. Like a lot of organizations, Intel has been virtualizing servers over time to increase utilization and efficiency, and to [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Tony Pearson, a master inventor from IBM, stops by the program in advance of the IBM Edge event to give some background on Edge and talk about his various presentations. [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Representatives from the Pecan Street project and the Texas Advanced Computing Center stop by to talk about their energy lifestyle research project, also known as a Smart Grid. They’re deploying, [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Frequent guest Dylan Larson, Director of Server Platform Marketing, stops by to complete our coverage of the Intel Xeon processor E5 launch. He discusses the benefits of the new platform, [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Das Kamhout, lead technical advisor for the ODCA, chats about the group’s Proposal Engine Assistant Tool (PEAT), which helps guide IT managers through their cloud purchasing decisions and [See the full post…]

Inertia – Interop 2012: What are some of the hot issues in IT? In this edition of Inertia, we took to the floor of Interop to talk with experts, IT pros and vendors. OpenFlow, which was an Interop Labs demo [See the full post…]

If the growing IT complexity in many enterprises helps to foster employee creativity, collaboration and productivity, then security pros want to enable and not limit the diversity of apps, platforms and hardware. That’s the message from McAfee’s Tyler Carter at [See the full post…]

The Interop Network Operations Center, the NOC (said like “knock”) as it’s known, is more than a bunch of geeks connecting all the gear they can get their hands on. It helps engineers understand how to solve real world problems. [See the full post…]

Complexity is one of the issues with buzz at Interop 2012, Las Vegas. Don Clark of NEC says until now there hasn’t been a single source solution to manage complexity in the data center. NEC’s ProgrammableFlow PF6800 Controller, the first [See the full post…]

Barracuda Networks: From the floor of Interop, Oliver Wai and Anuj Sawani talk about the IT climate of growing complexity and the emergence of more sophisticated data management strategies.

IT Best Practices: Episode 24 – Employee theft is not a new problem. It does, however, have new dimensions to it in this era of data sophistication. And insider incidents have taken on new prominence in the public consciousness as [See the full post…]