Software Defined Infrastructure:iWarp is a standards-based technology for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Ethernet adopted by Microsoft SMB Direct.  This video explains how it works and the advantages over a RoCE solution.

Intelligent Networking: Solve the problem of increased network demands and the growing need to support virtualization with 10GbE Intel Ethernet.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Solve the problem of increased network demands and the growing need to support virtualization with 10GbE Intel Ethernet.

Intelligent Networking: Reviews memory management features and inter-VM (virtual machine) communications schemes that can be applied to dramatically improve performance and determinism for packet processing workloads in virtualized environments.

Intelligent Storage: This Solution Reference Architecture showcases an end-to-end solution available today to address a specific storage challenge, in this case VM Image Hosting, using Ceph storage software on the Fujitsu CD10000 System

Intelligent Networking: The Intel Open Network Platform Server (Intel ONP Server) r1.3 reference architecture provides a validated template to spur adoption of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) in telecom carrier networks, cloud data centers, and enterprise environments. [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: This paper outlines an approach for Service Assurance in an SDN/NFV world that enables more open and deterministic service deployment and resource usage.

Intelligent Networking: This paper describes a solution stack tested to demonstrate high performance Evolved Packet Core (EPC) performance on Intel Xeon Processors.

Solve the problem of complex, costly legacy infrastructures with an upgrade to 10 GbE Intel Ethernet.

This Intelligent Networking White Paper shows that by leveraging OpenStack Enhanced Platform Awareness features such as SR-IOV, NUMA, Huge Pages and CPU Pinning, line-rate NFV application deployment can be faciliated.

Intelligent Storage: This Solution Reference Architecture showcases an end-to-end solution available today to address a specific storage challenge, in this case Microsoft Exchange Workloads, using Maxta Storage SW.

Intelligent Storage: The adoption of cloud computing creates many challenges and opportunities in big data management and storage. This paper discusses a collaboration between Qihoo 360 Technology and Intel to optimize the storage infrastructure in their Internet Portal Datacenter (IPDC).

Intelligent Storage: Intel General Manager Bev Crair and EMC VP Boaz Palgi discuss how Intel and EMC ViPR cloud storage solutions help manage and extract value from data through software-defined data center networks and storage.

Intelligent Storage: To meet expanding demand in Japan for high-capacity cloud archiving, backup, and content delivery, Sakura Internet is deploying a large object store using storage software from Amplidata and Intel Xeon processor-based hardware from Quanta QCT.

Intelligent Storage: In late 2012, the University of São Paulo began an initiative called Cloud USP to give teachers, students, and staff access to a dynamic IT infrastructure. Based on Citrix CloudPlatform, the private cloud runs on a FlexPod architecture, [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Customers moving to unbound clouds struggle to manage their data freely across both private and public clouds. To address this challenge, NetApp delivers new unified, scale-out innovations that enable enterprise customers to flexibly and efficiently manage and control [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Automate and monitor storage tiering for the best access to your data and to balance retrieval speeds versus costs with automated software powered by Intel processors.

Intelligent Storage: Intel and NetApp leaders cover new unified compute-intensive, virtualization-aware storage infrastructure for efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

Intelligent Storage: To protect irreplaceable deep-sea video footage, Hawai’i Undersea Research Laboratory is transferring terabytes of data to an HP X5220 Network-attached Storage system based on Intel Xeon processors. The solution accelerates data retrieval, increasing staff efficiency by 75 percent [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Digital music distribution and technology company INgrooves is growing rapidly, signing contract after contract to distribute music for independent labels and artists. The company had originally deployed a traditional storage platform from a large manufacturer, but as their [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: To address data growth and storage cost, IBM and Intel are introducing IBM Storwize V7000Z with Intel.

Intelligent Storage: Erasure Code and Intel Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library.

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

Intelligent Storage: This infographic explains the benefits delivered by the Intel Open Network Platform Switch and Server Reference Designs for SDN and NFV deployments.

Intelligent Storage: Maximize Efficiency for your Lightweight Scale-Out Workloads.