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 [See the full post…]

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 to [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 supported [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 began [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 and [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 software, [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 to [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 competitive [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 transformation. [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 other [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 experienced [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 infrastructure [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: Lucera uses cloud-based, high-performance SDN based on Intel architecture to deliver mission-critical financial services

IT Best Practices: Real-time data supports a supply chain that can instantly respond to change. We’ll be able to build on what we learn with the supply chain implementation, applying real-time data in innovative ways in many other areas of [See the full post…]

Intelligent Compute: Inundated by a large and increasing variety of proprietary hardware appliances, many network operators are encouraging the development of interoperable solutions based on high- volume, industry-standard servers. Fundamental to this transition is the use of virtualization technology to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented several IoT sensor technology solutions. As a result, the collected sensor data helps employees more effectively perform many tasks. Our set of best practices can guide the planning, design, and integration of this technology.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Network functions virtualization (NFV) is paving the way for more open, exible, and economical networking and communications equipment based on general-purpose computing platforms instead of traditional proprietary, purpose-built products. However, this transition hinges on increasing performance and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has used design best practices to create high-density energy-efficient data centers: a 1,100 W/square-foot cooling density and a 1,300 W/square-foot electrical density (10 times the industry average).

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is responsible for fueling Intel’s business transformation with information technology, which includes providing employees with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate. While email is pervasive in most businesses today, it can siphon time, productivity, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Our HPC environment, currently based on the Intel Xeon processor E7-4800 and 8800 v2 & v3 product families, has supported a 90.21x increase in compute demand with a 64.4x increase in stability. Tape-out time was reduced from [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: White paper introduces Network Functions Virtualization and some of the activities related to OpenStack that are helping to enable deployment of high-performance workloads on industry-standard, high volume servers for use in telecommunications environments. This is an update of [See the full post…]