Network standardization and WAN optimization are key focus areas in our efforts to improve our data center efficiency. Through standardization of our network service offerings, standards and reference designs, and access layer infrastructure, we can now serve a larger community [See the full post…]

The people of Intel IT are deploying next generation data centers that deliver increased compute power but use much less energy. It starts at the microprocessor level. The latest Xeon chips, which are at the heart of Intel’s newest servers, [See the full post…]

Accelerating server refresh, virtualizing our server resources, and utilizing data center virtualization have significantly reduced Intel IT’s overall energy consumption levels and compute costs. These efforts alone have driven us to realize 35% of our data center efficiency goal of [See the full post…]

Intel IT is increasing data center facility efficiency by integrating innovative designs and approaches to reduce power consumption, using modular designs with the latest technologies, and building higher density data centers rather than spreading out server load. Hear from Don [See the full post…]

Intel IT’s Data Center Strategy is on track to create $650M of value for Intel’s business. They’ve realized over 30% of this already, with server refresh and data center virtualization driving a large portion of the value. Hear about how [See the full post…]

Most engineers love having a technical problem to solve. When it comes to sustainability challenges, Intel’s Yoram Hassidim is a great example, whether it’s his water recycling system he built on the roof of his home or a PC innovation [See the full post…]

Just raising the temperature one or two degrees on the thermostat in a data center can make a difference to a company’s energy bill. But it’s not as easy as it seems. Data centers support Intel’s chip business and precise [See the full post…]

In this audio podcast, Allyson Klein interviews Boyd Davis, general manager of Intel’s data center group marketing, takes us through innovations and challenges in the smallest data centers to the world’s largest Internet data centers. Data Center Efficiency Intel Chip [See the full post…]

Virtualization offers great advantages in the data center. And it’s good on the client side, too. Intel IT’s Dave Buchholz says that companies must face the reality of managing the corporation’s assets while allowing knowledge workers to perform at a [See the full post…]

In college Dean Blevins was recycling, and even met a certain someone across the street because of it. Now he’s involved in paring down servers at Intel to save energy and costs. More on IT Sustainability from Intel

Matt Bodin of Intel IT shows us how to do some cool remote control tricks (or, as anyone in IT can attest, some powerful actions) on client laptops located anywhere in the world, such as installing SSD software and an [See the full post…]

With a passion for sustainability, Mike Breton, Intel IT Technology Evangelist, shows off some disruptive technologies and proofs of concepts for the home and office. In this video podcast, Breton shows a comprehensive home automation system which integrates everything into [See the full post…]

In this video, two Intel engineers, Sudip Chahal and Shesha Krishnapura, talk about their findings in the comparison of high-end Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with the low-end ones. Sudip handled tests of the microprocessor series in enterprise tasks and [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

Although the latest virus scare has yet to materialize into an attack — security experts tell us that Conficker, as of April 1, 2009, remains dormant — it puts a exclamation point on the notion that IT departments need clear [See the full post…]

It may seem obvious that planning pays. But for those CIOs and their staffs, managing an IT infrastructure often occurs in an environment where problems are moving targets. Many organizations have little time to plan ahead. But they must. “You’re [See the full post…]

In this video we hear from Sudip Chahal, principal engineer with the Intel IT Enterprise Architecture Group, talking about a new white paper from IT@Intel, “Evaluating Two- and Four-Socket Server Virtualization Platforms.” Chahal talks about the proof of concept testing [See the full post…]

This is the last in a series of three videos from IT@Intel, each featuring Omer Ben-Shalom, Principal Engineer with the Intel’s Information Technology Group. In these videos Omer demonstrates how Intel vPro technology System Defense filtering can be integrated with [See the full post…]

This is the second in a series of three videos from IT@Intel, each featuring Omer Ben-Shalom, principal engineer with Intel’s Information Technology Group. In these videos Omer demonstrates how Intel vPro technology System Defense filtering can be integrated with Security [See the full post…]

This is the first in a series of three videos from IT@Intel, each featuring Omer Ben-Shalom, Principal Engineer with Intel’s Information Technology Group. In these videos, Omer demonstrates how Intel vPro technology System Defense filtering can be integrated with Security [See the full post…]

In this podcast, The Register’s Tim Phillips speaks with Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura about developers’ adoption of multi-core technology. Krishnapura sees that, while multi-core processors have been around for awhile, now is an especially exciting time for multi-threaded software, given the [See the full post…]

The current uptake in high performance computing means mostly good things, but it also comes with a few built-in challenges. The paradox of this particular progress is this: when you scale hardware, you oftentimes scale power consumption, right along with [See the full post…]

Intel IT has designed a new system to reduce energy costs, recycle excess heat, and the reduce environmental impact of the data center. In Part 2 of this podcast, Intel IT Data Center Design Engineer Doug Garday plugs in some [See the full post…]

Instead of wasting all the excess heat your data center generates, wouldn’t it be more efficient to reuse it to heat offices, water, and more? With the growing number of data centers being built, now is the time to integrate [See the full post…]

In a big company like Intel, users get their software in a variety of ways – on their desktops, delivered over a network, or some combination of those. Catherine Spence, an enterprise architect with Intel IT Research and Technology Development, [See the full post…]