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Extending Intel’s Enterprise Private Cloud with Platform as a Service

Extending Intel’s Enterprise Private Cloud with Platform as a Service

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing platform as a service (PaaS) to accelerate custom application deployment and promote cloud-aware application design. Our traditional application deployment process is less-than-ideal, taking as much as 140 days to deploy a new application. [See the full post…]

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Enhancing Cloud Security Using Data Anonymization

Enhancing Cloud Security Using Data Anonymization

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is exploring data anonymization—the process of obscuring published data to prevent the identification of key information—in support of our vision of a hybrid cloud computing model and our need to protect the privacy of our [See the full post…]

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Delivering Cloud-based Services in a Bring-Your-Own Environment

Delivering Cloud-based Services in a Bring-Your-Own Environment

IT Best Practices: As Intel IT builds cloud infrastructure and enables cloud services, one of the goals is to make those services available to as broad a range of devices as possible. To do so, we are integrating our cloud [See the full post…]

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Extending Intel’s Enterprise Private Cloud with Platform as a Service

Extending Intel’s Enterprise Private Cloud with Platform as a Service

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing platform as a service (PaaS) to accelerate custom application deployment and promote cloud-aware application design. Our traditional application deployment process is less-than-ideal, taking as much as 140 days to deploy a new application. [See the full post…]

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Enhancing Cloud Security Using Data Anonymization

Enhancing Cloud Security Using Data Anonymization

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is exploring data anonymization—the process of obscuring published data to prevent the identification of key information—in support of our vision of a hybrid cloud computing model and our need to protect the privacy of our [See the full post…]

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Power Management Technologies with Dell – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 46

Power Management Technologies with Dell – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 46

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…]

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Advantages of Converged Infrastructure with VCE – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 45

Advantages of Converged Infrastructure with VCE – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 45

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…]

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Inside IT: Why The Device Matters in a Cloud-Centric World

July 3rd, 2012 |
Inside IT: Why The Device Matters in a Cloud-Centric World

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…]

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Client-aware Services in the Cloud

Client-aware Services in the Cloud

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is transforming our application delivery model to enable the back-end cloud and the front-end client to work together to support an increasing number of combinations of operating systems, devices, and computing models. Our goal is [See the full post…]

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Carestream Health: Supporting Medical Imaging in the Cloud

Carestream Health: Supporting Medical Imaging in the Cloud

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Carestream Health boosts the capacity of its cloud-based medical imaging service with the Intel Xeon processor E5 family.

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Brain Researchers Speed Up Science with Thecus Storage

Brain Researchers Speed Up Science with Thecus Storage

Intel – The Personal Cloud: In their research at the University of California, Berkeley, Jack Gallant’s team processes a lot of data. By adding an Intel Atom processor-powered Thecus network-attached storage device to their lab, the researchers are getting more [See the full post…]

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The Open Data Center Alliance’s Proposal Engine Assistant Tool – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 43

The Open Data Center Alliance’s Proposal Engine Assistant Tool – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 43

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…]

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Why the Device Matters in a Cloud-centric World

Why the Device Matters in a Cloud-centric World

As services and data move to the cloud, Intel IT has found that the end–point device is not only retaining its relevancy, but is also becoming even more important. This belief runs contrary to the industry assumption that the abstraction [See the full post…]

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Inertia: Interop 2012, Las Vegas

May 14th, 2012 |
Inertia: Interop 2012, Las Vegas

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…]

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iStreamPlanet: Driving Video Delivery in the Cloud with the Intel Xeon Processor E5 Family

iStreamPlanet: Driving Video Delivery in the Cloud with the Intel Xeon Processor E5 Family

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 family gives media leader iStreamPlanet an immediate 20 percent performance hike.

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The Personal Cloud: Law Firm Restores PCs in Two Hours vs. Two Days

The Personal Cloud: Law Firm Restores PCs in Two Hours vs. Two Days

Intel – The Personal Cloud: Dibble & Miller uses WD Sentinel small office storage server to back up PCs and cut PC-restore time from two days to two hours. The firm now has enterprise-grade backup at a small-business price

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The Personal Cloud: The Thecus Network-attached Storage Device

The Personal Cloud:  The Thecus Network-attached Storage Device

Intel – The Personal Cloud: Marketing firm switches from DVDs to Thecus network-attached storage device for backup; slashes archival work time by 85 percent, improves reliability, gains terabytes of growing room. Read more in this IT Whitepaper.

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Architecting Backup and Recovery with Software-based Storage from Red Hat – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 42

Architecting Backup and Recovery with Software-based Storage from Red Hat – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 42

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…]

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Betting the Verb Farm: Using a Personal Cloud Helps a Virtual Agency Thrive

Betting the Verb Farm: Using a Personal Cloud Helps a Virtual Agency Thrive

Intel – The Personal Cloud: Verb Farm is a full-service editorial shop based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in information design. The agency works with companies and creative agencies of all sizes to deliver strategic content, and has endeared itself to [See the full post…]

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Building a Private Cloud with Piston Enterprise OS – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 41

Building a Private Cloud with Piston Enterprise OS – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 41

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…]

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Castilla-La Mancha: Building a Community in the Cloud

Castilla-La Mancha: Building a Community in the Cloud

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The Spanish province of Castilla-La Mancha enhances services while saving costs with Intel Xeon processor 5650 and Cisco.

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Nimbula Director and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 39

Nimbula Director and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 39

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…]

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Intel and Dell – What is Cloud Computing?

February 14th, 2012 |
Intel and Dell – What is Cloud Computing?

IT Best Practices: Dell and Intel IT experts discuss where cloud computing began, where it is now, and what quantitative and qualitative results it can bring to your enterprise.

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Open Data Center Alliance Activities Update – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 38

February 10th, 2012 |
Open Data Center Alliance Activities Update – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 38

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Marvin Wheeler, chairman of the Open Data Center Alliance, gives an update on the group’s activities including new usage models for cloud computing, proof of concept solutions from [See the full post…]

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Intel and Dell – The Value of Cloud Computing

February 6th, 2012 |
Intel and Dell – The Value of Cloud Computing

IT Best Practices: Gain insight from Intel IT and Dell on different cloud computing models employed by companies today, and discover ways some companies are using cloud to drive innovation.

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