The EPA’s ENERGY STAR* is developing new ICT metrics, researching the energy consumption of 200+ data centers. In July 2007 it updated its requirements for computers to include idle mode. In this episode, Allyson Klein interviews Katharine Kaplan.

Episode 37 of Intel Chip Chat: Equipped with Intel Atom processors and WiMAX – ready, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) deliver an Internet, multimedia and voice experience in a pocket-sized package and long battery life. For more information on MIDs, see: [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…]

Intel’s Doug Fisher and VMware CTO Steve Herrod met at VMworld 2008 to discuss the collaboration between Intel and VMware that will continue deliver leading virtualization deployments. Fisher is vice president, software and solutions group and general manager of SSG’s [See the full post…]

Intel’s Xeon 7400-series processor made a solid impact in 2008, with multiple top scores in benchmark surveys and powerful implementations. What does it mean for virtualization performance, especially as the enterprise moves toward virtualizing its most critical applications with a [See the full post…]

PCIe 3.0 will double the bandwidth of the previous generation of this I/O interconnect and will improve power management of platforms – from notebooks to new generation servers.

At VMWorld 2008, “Virtualization 2.0” was the talk of the show. Intel’s Andy Fields met up with Dave Martin from VMware to discuss the collaboration between the two companies, and to explain the impacts of the newsmaking Dunnington release on [See the full post…]

Time is money. BI Accelerator speeds database query response times by 10x to 100x. Here, Scott Allen, of the SAP Alliance Team at Intel, talks with Sun Microsystem’s Gilly Clough. Clough is a principal SAP architect, and they discuss the [See the full post…]

The Core i7 microprocessor (built on Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture) represents a major advance in computing to enable chips to handle more data. In this video podcast, Ronak Singhal, a lead architect on Nehalem, says the chip design is an overhaul–the [See the full post…]

Intel enables the right hardware and software development for dedicated solutions in the growing consumer market segments for ubiquitous Internet in the digital home.

At Intel’s Jones Farm Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, the new Core i7 chip is going through the rigors of testing. Stephen Gunther is Power Management Architect at Intel who shows how the new Turbo Mode feature revolutionizes multi-core processor performance, [See the full post…]

Business are modernizing their SAP landscapes, preparing for ERP6.0 migration. Intel’s Enis Skillern speaks with James G. White, SAP modernization director for HP, about the technologies from the two companies that help enterprises keep costs low while allowing for maximum [See the full post…]

Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization usage by allowing IT managers to deliver high availability solutions with the agility to address disaster recovery and real time workload balancing. Intel, virtualization, chip chat, disaster recovery, workload balancing

Intel and HP recently announced the world’s best four-socket TPC-C benchmark result — a showing of 634,000 transactions per minute. HP’s Aaron Spurlock joins Noe Garcia from Intel to discuss the specifics of how the HP Proliant DL580 G5 server [See the full post…]

This past Fall, Intel announced that the Xeon 7400-series processors posted record performance results, marking the first time that the industry has seen 1.2 million database transactions per minute on an 8-socket IBM server. It was announced by Intel Executive [See the full post…]

Intel’s Xeon 7400-series processors posted record performance results, in time for this announcement from Intel Executive Vice President Pat Gelsinger at IDF 2008, in San Francisco. This podcast includes the IDF announcement of those Xeon performance results, which marked the [See the full post…]

Microsoft’s hypervisor-based server, “Hyper-V,” is part of the company’s offerings — along with presentation virtualization and application virtualization — aimed at helping companies to take full advantage of virtualization and quad-core technology. The server virtualization product, in conjunction with Intel’s [See the full post…]

Intel’s introduction of 45nm technology last year brought with it new levels of innovation and data center efficiency. With a trend toward bigger servers using virtualization, however, comes a need for increased performance headroom. In this podcast, Intel’s Chris Peters [See the full post…]

New technologies are helping the enterprise to save time, money and energy, while eliminating downtime. When virtualization meets the data center, the savings can be profound. Intel’s and VMware’s “Flex Migration” allows VMware’s VMotion to take advantage of all the [See the full post…]

It didn’t take long for wireless computing and the mobility it affords to become an accepted part of the landscape of public spaces, offices and homes. But there was still a catch: you couldn’t stay connected outside of the hotspots [See the full post…]

It’s been awhile since we first began hearing about WiMAX, and it may have sounded impossible at first. Not to Frank Gruber. He says it was inevitable, that it works, and it’s cool. Beginning this week, you can think of [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…]

Providing point-to-point high-speed links to distributed shared memory, Intel QuickPath technology unleashes Nehalem’s parallel processing performance.

So you’ve gone wireless. Now think about where you can go, and what you can do, now that you’re not tethered to the wall. We ventured out to hot spots in San Francisco, to check out mobility in action, and [See the full post…]