Linux containers provide fundamental isolation capabilities and allow an application to be packaged along with its dependencies. By coupling Linux containers with image-based container technology, such as the docker format, and orchestration technology, like Kubernetes, IT organizations can quickly realize [See the full post…]

Application teams have tools for managing their development lifecycle — from source code control and automated testing to continuous integration and automated deployment. But as a database developer or DBA, you’ve lacked the proper tooling to help you keep pace [See the full post…]

Shorter time to value, lower risk and greater flexibility? With benefits like these, it’s definitely time to get agile.

The agile methodology is an alternative to traditional project management, like waterfall. It helps development teams respond to unpredictability through incremental, [See the full post…]

Organizations are saving 70%+ by switching from Oracle to MongoDB. When evaluating databases, it is helpful to consider the relative costs of each solution — not just the cost of the software, but also the hardware, development and deployment costs. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In order to increase user productivity and reduce IT costs, Intel IT plans to make getting a new laptop or switching from one device to another as easy as getting a new smartphone. Historically, our users [See the full post…]

Constraints on talent undoubtedly hurt enterprise growth and profitability. If organizations can’t hire the right people, they can’t move the business forward. More than ever before, HR must be closely aligned with the goals of the business and attract, develop, [See the full post…]

Traditional application deployment models move applications from development through testing and into production. Along the way, the application and the runtime environment must be kept in alignment to ensure that testing and certi cation done in the prior step remains [See the full post…]

INTRODUCING ZULU ENTERPRISE
Azul Systems, the leader in Java runtime solutions, presents Zulu Enterprise, a certifed, fully supported version of OpenJDK and compliant implementation of the Java Standard Edition (SE) speci cation for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and the [See the full post…]

There’s a lot of hype around unstructured data. However, a recent survey of 300 database administrators (DBAs) suggests that most organizations will continue to focus on managing structured data.

Learn more about what’s hype and what’s common practice when it [See the full post…]

SGI UV 300RL is an advanced, in-memory computing system for large or growing Oracle Database In-Memory environments. This paper describes the future-ready, modular architecture of SGI UV 300RL that enables enterprises to accelerate analytics and achieve real-time business at near [See the full post…]

Apache Cassandra is a NoSQL distributed database written in Java and designed for reliability and high scalability. Data nodes are spread across lots of commodity servers and even between datacenters. Information is kept in-memory for fast read and write response [See the full post…]

We interviewed a number of HR executives to understand the state of talent acquisition and talent management today. These discussions led to striking observations:

• Businesses are facing substantial challenges in their ability to attract and retain any talent, let alone

The relational database has been the foundation of enterprise data management for over thirty years. But the way we build and run applications today, coupled with growth in data sources and user loads, are pushing relational databases beyond their limits. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our effort to strategically transform data centers and accelerate application delivery, Intel IT used design best practices to create a cloud application platform. This platform—more specifically, platform as a service (PaaS)—makes it easy [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Energy costs are the fastest-rising expense for today’s data centers. Naturally, power consumption is a top concern for managers of data center, enterprise, and cloud environments. Moreover, there are multiple proprietary power measurement and control protocols [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel employees have come to expect a certain level of convenience from their devices, and Intel IT must meet this expectation without compromising security and manageability. After evaluating a variety of mobile computing devices, Intel IT [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To drive down cost and increase host utilization in Intel’s Office and Enterprise private cloud, Intel IT has simplified private cloud capacity management by transitioning from allocation-based capacity management to performance-based capacity management. Focusing on host [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT values open-source-based, big data processing using Apache Hadoop software. Last year we migrated from the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software to the Cloudier Enterprise software.

Based on our original experience with Apache Hadoop [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s smart factories use highly specialized Internet of Things (IoT) data specifications that make it possible to bring new factories online quickly and reliably by replicating identical processes from one facility to another. Imagine being able [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In the rapidly changing business and technology environment, manufacturers are striving to stay competitive, now and into the future, by increasing productivity and lowering costs.

Like many companies, Intel has evolved over the decades to provide [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The 2015-2016 Intel IT Annual Performance Report highlights technology trends driving rapid innovation across our enterprise.

This edition showcases how Intel IT capitalizes on new technology to create business value and become a catalyst for organizational [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT set a goal of defining and implementing a single user experience framework as a standard for all enterprise solutions. We developed a holistic understanding of the enterprise experience and then provided a model for [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel uses social community forums to engage publicly with customers, developers, and industry experts. It is an important part of fostering discussions, ideas, and knowledge sharing that often lead to industry-wide solutions. In spring 2015 Intel [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Imagine a computing environment where PCs fix themselves, even before employees know there’s a problem. Or where employees are proactively notified of issues, including self-service answers without having to know a lot of technical lingo or [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: Lucera uses cloud-based, high-performance SDN based on Intel architecture to deliver mission-critical financial services [See the full post…]