Intelligent Networking: HP’s OpenNFV is going well, Werner Schaefer tells Martyn Warwick. The effort is spread across HP’s global labs, including those at Grenoble, Houston, Fort Collins, Tel Aviv and Seoul. The initiative now has nine partners including BT, Brocade, [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: DPDK is a software library that lets you do packet acceleration on general-purpose, x86 Intel processors. DPDK means you can bring big packet workloads onto a general-purpose processor and then use the additional cores on the chip [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: IDF 2014: Maxta software defined storage solutions. New architectures: Grantly launch, Intel Xeon processor E5V3, boosting performance to support storage platforms.

Intelligent Compute: F5 Networks CTO Karl Triebes describes how the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 helps improve application performance and virtualization.

Intelligent Networking: AT&T and Telefonica share Intel’s relevance in their network transformation.

Intelligent Storage: Comprehensive Business Systems, VAR, uses Intel Xeon processor E3 v2 family-based Western Digital Sentinel S-Series servers for virtual boot, rapid recovery benefits.

Salesforce shares how they get their data moving with HP 3PAR StoreServ storage—based on Intel technology—to prevent performance bottlenecks. These new solutions increase performance and scalabilty, and reduce costs.

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.

3D Animation Software: This video will go over the new export options for Garry’s Mod ragdolls. This export is created with Fuse, Mixamo’s 3D character creator. You’ll need to have Garry’s Mod and the addon Extended Spawn Menue. This export [See the full post…]

3D Animation Software: This video will go over the new export option for Source Filmmaker characters. This exports is available for Fuse, Mixamo’s 3D character creator. You’ll need to have Source Filmmaker and this export is for Windows only.

3D Animation Software: With the release of Adobe Photoshop CC 2014, you can use Mixamo’s 3D character creator Fuse with the Mixamo’s online 3D animation software to combine 2D and 3D images into one project. This tutorial will walk you [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Wiltshire Police are improving their presence in the community using wireless laptops and tablets with Intel Core i5 processors, enabling staff to work in a completely new way.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Telkomsigma migrates to an Intel architecture-based data center to enhance the performance, availability, and security of its mission-critical workloads and cloud services.

3D Animation Software: Now you can export Mixamo Auto-rigged characters with Epic’s UE4 standard skeleton and that will automatically include root node, twist joints and IK hierarchy. This tutorial will walk you through the difference between using the download type [See the full post…]

3D Animation Software: After you’ve Auto-Rigged or mapped an existing rigged character on Mixamo you can use Mixamo’s extensive animation collection to bring your character to life. Once you’ve designed your animations you’re ready to take them into Blender!

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.

3D Animation Software: This video covers going from an unrigged character in 3ds Max, exporting as FBX or OBJ, uploading to Mixamo for auto-rigging, downloading and importing back into the software and briefly shows animation.

3D Animation Software: This video starts from an auto-rigged character and shows you how to apply the Auto-CAT script to convert your character to CAT, how to upload it back to Mixamo for animation, download the animation and transfer it [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: ScienceLogic finds a cost-effective way to boost the storage capacity for its monitoring and performance analytics system by 5x with high-performance, reliable Intel Solid-State Drives.

3D Animation Software: The Biped video starts from an auto-rigged character and shows you how to apply the Auto-Biped script, upload it to Mixamo for animation, download the animation and apply it to the Biped.

Transform IT: Host Charles Araujo sits down with Susan Cramm, former CFO and CIO. Together they discuss the importance of Powerful Yes’s and Powerful No’s and that in order to be an effective leader, you need to truly know yourself.

3D Animation Software Tutorial: This tutorial has a free Unity demo scene with characters, animations and the completed C# script for you to follow along with or customize to your needs. Download the Demo: hubs.ly/y0vX4W0 This in-depth tutorial will focus [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Citizen-M Hotels are providing guests with innovative and exciting experiences with new technology. Automated check-in, smart door unlock, and personalized control are seamlessly integrated through IReckon Software Solutions powered by an Intel Xeon processor-based server.

3D Animation Software Tutorial: Mixamo’s Maya Auto-Control Rig Script is a Python script that works with current versions of Maya to make it easier than ever to start hand-animating or customizing Mixamo animations on any Auto-Rigged character. Download for free [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: 5th generation Intel Core vPro processors help productivity soar for Atos, which is eliminating 80 percent of service dispatches, cutting system restore time by 75%, and building a wire-free workplace for customers.