IT Efficiency: Intel IT shares the results of testing of the new Intel Xeon 7500 processor on Intel silicon design workloads. Testing showed that the Intel Xeon 7500 increased throughput up to 2.68X compared to the Intel Xeon 7400, [See the full post…]

IT Business Agility: Many large organizations have a centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment based on proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems. In contrast, Intel IT has successfully implemented a decentralized ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: 5 years ago, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of our overall data center strategy. We are currently accelerating virtualization adoption for general purpose applications, with a [See the full post…]

A coming major advance in computer technology is a form of context awareness known as Socially Enabled Services or SENS, which refers to mobile devices that can anticipate user needs, such as advising the best routes to take on [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer and an Intel Senior Fellow, talks about the future of contextual-based computing – making your phone, TV, etc. into a truly amazing device.

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In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Sunil Ahluwalia from the LAN Access Division discusses Fibre Channel over Ethernet – aggregating Ethernet and storage networks to reduce TCO and infrastructure and get seamless management.

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In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Greg Wagnon, the up and coming Intel Data Center Dude, stops by to talk about his video series and preview some upcoming technologies like Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture. [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Bob Burroughs from the Data Center Group stops by to discuss moving beyond counting cores and clock frequencies and instead using performance metrics when making server purchases.

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In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Brian Johnson from the LAN Access Division discusses the move to virtualizing servers and supporting technology, including Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity and SR-IOV.

Intel Ethernet
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IT Innovation: Intel IT developed a new management and support structure for wireless LANs (WLANs). We consolidated first-level support and centralized the WLAN engineer workgroup as well as device management. We manage the WLAN as an integrated service that [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Bob Zuber from IBM previews what the company will be demonstrating at VMworld – an Intel Xeon processor based system featuring MAX 5* memory scaling technology.

IBM Systems
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We have Isaac Asimov to thank for thinking about robots as a science when he coined the term “robotics” in the 1940s. Originally, the term came from the word “robota” from Czech (possessing a similar meaning in other [See the full post…]

IT Client Technology: Intel IT’s security team continually analyzes our computing model to determine how it needs to evolve in response to an ever-changing threat landscape. Recent cyber-attacks on a number of high-profile targets provided added impetus to re-evaluate [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: executive vice president David Perlmutter celebrates Chip Chat’s 100th episode with thoughts on everything from new Intel microarchitectures to technology and social interaction.

David Perlmutter Bio
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Green IT: To support Intel’s first planned certified green building, Intel IT has designed a system that saves energy by recovering data center heat and using it to heat the rest of the building.

For more on Green IT [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Kathleen Fiehrer gives an update on Climate Savers Computing Initiative projects, including addressing power supply efficiency targets and adoption of PC power management settings.

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When Intel Labs established its Interactions and Experience Research Lab, known as IXR, this past summer, it was a sign that the making of technology has profoundly changed. It is one thing to invent a machine or a process, it [See the full post…]

Let’s take a moment away from our ongoing technological revolution to examine the landscape a bit. In this video from Intel, we see that the evolution of computing and the network has inspired people in a variety of ways, some [See the full post…]

In ancient Greece, potters would never have believed the vases they created – donning a vast array of inscriptions about daily life – would fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. They also would have not guessed how much [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Kevin Bross from Intel’s Embedded Computing Group discusses Intel Energy Checker, which provides software developers the ability to easily instrument applications to measure useful work.

Intel Energy Checker
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IT Best Practices: In this Intel IT Whitepaper – Server sizing and selection is a critical element of Intel IT’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) infrastructure strategy, which makes use of both two-socket and four-socket servers. Under-sizing servers may result [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Peter Biddle from Intel’s software group discusses the Intel Atom developer program and the Intel AppUp, a store for Atom processor-based applications.

Intel Atom Developer Program
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IT Best Practices: Over time, Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and business value of IT. Our new data center strategies shift the [See the full post…]