In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: John Lee from Appro and Allan Snavely from the San Diego Supercomputer Center chat about the Appro designed and Intel processor Gordon supercomputer that is designed to be used for [See the full post…]

Silicon Minds: The legend goes that Don Massaro, President of Shugart Associates in the 1970s, drew the 5.25 inch dimension of the minifloppy diskette on a napkin at lunch. “That’s not quite true,” says Don Massaro. “If you go look [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Tom Trainer, senior product marketing manager at Red Hat, stops by to talk about the company’s storage software appliance. It allows cloud and data center managers to deploy [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Derek Chan, head of technology for global operations at DreamWorks, visits Chip Chat to talk about the intersection of technology and movies and what benefits the company has seen when [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive from the Intel Xeon E5 processor launch, Allyson discusses the new Dell PowerEdge server line based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family with Brian Payne, an [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive from the Intel Xeon E5 processor launch, Allyson talks with Todd Brannon from Cisco about the company’s Unified Computing System 3rd generation of fabric computing. Cisco’s products [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this livecast archive from the Intel Xeon processor E5 launch, Gary Thome, Chief Architect, Infrastructure Software and Blades/VP of Strategy from HP, chats about the launch of the new [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this livecast archive from the Intel Xeon processor E5 launch, Brinda Ramaiya from IBM talks about the 10 year anniversary of BladeCenter products as well as the company’s new [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 22 – We are awash in data today. That presents a challenge for the IT organization. But if real meaning can be extracted from all that data – structured and unstructured, human-generated and machine-generated – it [See the full post…]

Inertia: Two-steps-forward-one-step-back has been an apt description for much of professional web-based media. As Joe Casale, CEO of Casale Media says, “I’ve heard it said there’s four steps to putting an ad on TV and like 90 steps for doing [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Lisa Onstot from Dell discusses the new PowerEdge 12G Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family. Benefits include increased performance, storage, and memory as well as improved acoustics, [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Christopher MacGowan, the CTO of Piston Cloud Computing, chats about Piston Enterprise OS, the company’s cloud OS based on OpenStack. The solution takes advantage of Intel based servers [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 21 – Blue screens have been around for about as long as there have been PCs. They’re a major challenge for an organization, and they can significantly reduce productivity.. In spite of that, not enough has [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Raul Caro from FONAFE talks about the organization’s cloud computing efforts in virtualizing over 180 servers, which provide services for over 5000 users. FONAFE’s deployment won the Open [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Steve Gillaspy from Cisco chats about the company’s new generation of Unified Computing System products based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family. Product benefits include unified management, increased performance [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Otis Lackey from IBM stops by to talk about the new IBM xSeries servers – x3650 M4, x3550 M4, and x3500 M4 based on the Intel Xeon E5 processor family. [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Brian Johnson from Intel Ethernet stops by to talk about the Intel Ethernet converged network adapters (X520 and X540), storage and IO control, multi-tenancy, and recent advancements in VMware vSphere [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 20 – There’s a trend in the enterprise that challenges IT: how can we secure productivity gains by allowing employees to use smart phones for work, without compromising security or creating a huge management problem? Now [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Jim Ganthier from HP stops by to discuss the launch of the HP Proliant Gen8 server line based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family. The line, top to bottom, [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Roger Foreman from Dell discusses the importance of power management technologies such as Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager and Data Center Manager, and integration on the latest generation of Dell [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Bill Mannel from SGI and Bill Thigpen from NASA discuss the launch of SGI ICE X based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family and using high end computing at [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Jay Judkowitz from Nimbula gives an update on new features of Nimbula Director, the company’s IaaS product. Since the release last fall, they’ve added persistence block storage functionality, [See the full post…]

IT Security: Defending against intrusion was a hot topic at previous RSA conferences. But users are using their devices outside the network perimeter of their organizations, which exposes data like never before. In this podcast we asked several security experts [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Jon Koomey from Stanford discusses his new book Cold Cash, Cool Climate, which covers how to profit from tackling climate change and how industry can drive consumers. For the IT [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive from Oracle OpenWorld, Dan Young from Indiana University talks about virtualizing the university’s Oracle database applications on Intel platforms to improve performance, address reliability and availability concerns, [See the full post…]