IT Best Practices: Businesses are often guilty of operating at a pace that is measured and process driven, in reactive fashion. These businesses observe a problem or development in the marketplace and then collect data to understand and act upon [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Five people. Six months. $10 million in ROI. Those were the parameters and goals of Intel IT’s initial big data projects, which started in earnest three years ago. “We wanted to prove that big data analytics are [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Using big data technologies to analyze doctors’ notes helps Leeds Teaching Hospitals plan resources and spot under-billing.

IT Best Practices: Episode 62 – In this podcast we look at Intel’s deployment of McAfee Drive Encryption at Intel. A major component of security in an enterprise is securing the data on all those computers out there. In the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 61 – In this podcast we engage in a wide-ranging discussion on business velocity, security, and privacy with Intel’s Malcolm Harkins. Harkins has a unique view from his position as the Chief Security and Privacy Officer [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Intel and Amplidata address the storage challenges presented by the coming tsunami of unstructured data that will stress data center scalability.

IT Best Practices: Episode 60 – We’ve talked about Intel’s Bring Your Own Device program in previous podcasts. Intel enables employees to use their own smart phones, tablets, and other devices for work. Of those, about half – 20,000 in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 59 – Big data is a big focus for Intel. That means developing and deploying a variety of tools and methods to derive business value from the sea of data that surrounds us. These are datasets [See the full post…]

Transforming Storage: With huge numbers of users of a smart phone, tablet or laptop accessing the Internet and storing information there (especially pictures, music and video), the amount of data storage required to service all that activity is monumental. That [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: In a proof of concept, Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software on Intel Xeon processors shows potential to shrink a 30-day job to four days with linear scalability.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The Intel Xeon processor E3 product family enables T-Systems to bring big data to smaller businesses.

Intelligent Storage: Twelve million online visitors per day. Up to nine terabytes of data generated per event. Major League Baseball Advanced Media delivers live online streaming of every game, as well as the most complete, up-to-the-moment baseball information and interactivity [See the full post…]

Intel IT Business Review: As far as Intel IT leaders are concerned, analyzing massive quantities of data is not the endgame. It’s just the beginning. Intel IT’s Deep Insights research is exploring how to take big data to the next [See the full post…]

Research@Intel 2013: Using hybrid rendering it’s possible to process images like the ones in this demo at 80,000 pixels x 40,000 pixels. Watch this incredible demo from Intel Labs’ scientists showing how big data — such as weather maps or [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Oracle’s Jason Schaffer — Senior Director, Systems Development, Mikael Vidstedt — JVM Architect, Java Platform, and Ashok Joshi — Senior Director, Development: Oracle No SQL Database, give their perspectives on Intel and Oracle engineered systems for Big Data [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Data growth is not only driving up storage costs, but also transforming performance and efficiency requirements for storage systems. IDC estimated that in 2011, the amount of information created and replicated would surpass 1.8 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes) [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: You would have to live under a pretty large rock to be completely unaware of the “Intel Inside” marketing and branding campaign. But the breadth of Intel’s intent and capability to be “inside” might come as something of [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: REALTECH uses SAP HANA, optimized for the Intel Xeon processor E7 family, to enable big data analytics on mobile devices.

Intelligent Storage: Rite Aid deployed two Hitachi Data Systems HUS 130 storage arrays to provide a highly automated and flexible technology solution. Powered by Intel Xeon processor LC3528, these devices provide a reliable foundation for data archiving and disaster recovery [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: To create patient-oriented “digital hospitals,” China seeks to implement a unified national hospital information system (HIS) platform, applying advanced network and digital technologies to hospitals and relevant medical fields.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Hangzhou Trustway Technology Co. Ltd. significantly improves its transportation management capability using Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software on Intel Xeon processors E5 series.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Jinzhou City boosts healthcare initiatives with an optimized regional data center using UFIDA Medical healthcare solutions based on Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 and big data solutions.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT compared the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software (Intel Distribution) to two other Apache Hadoop distributions using a well-defined set of evaluation criteria. The evaluation criteria included aspects of platform architecture; administration, operations, and support; [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Shanghai Ideal upgrades its regional Global Eye digital video monitoring system for real-time analytics and storage, using Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software with the Intel Xeon processor E5 family shows speed and scale for energy analytics and Pecan Street, the Internet of Things.