IT Best Practices: Over the past few years, we have investigated the concept behind the big data technologies and now have much of the capabilities running in our production environment. The IT Labs continue their work to explore new and innovative solutions focused in three areas: 1. Deep Insights: This is the exploration of methodologies [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Let’s face it: big data is still very new. And that means the infrastructure platforms on which big data analytics are performed are also relatively immature. What it doesn’t mean, however, is that organizations can’t or shouldn’t pursue big data success. They simply need to be resourceful and calculated as they step [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Businesses are often guilty of operating at a pace that is measured and process driven, in reactive fashion. These businesses observe a problem or development in the marketplace and then collect data to understand and act upon it. In many cases, even though there is genuine intent to solve the problem, the [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Five people. Six months. $10 million in ROI. Those were the parameters and goals of Intel IT’s initial big data projects, which started in earnest three years ago. “We wanted to prove that big data analytics are achievable and valuable,” says Itay Yogev, Advanced Analytics Director for Intel IT. “And we wanted [See the full post…]
Business Solutions for IT Managers: China Telecom builds an Intel Xeon processor-based business platform resources pool, improving its server’s performance and computing density and enhancing reliability.
IT Best Practices: In an age when organizations such as Intel are rich in data, the true value of this data lies in the ability to collect, sort, and analyze it to derive actionable business intelligence (BI). Recognizing the need to add big data capabilities to our BI efforts, Intel IT formed a team to [See the full post…]
In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this livecast from IDF, Brian Connors, VP of System x Development for IBM, stops by to talk about the company’s products based on the launch of the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2. Xeon processors will power the new IBM NeXtScale system, a high-density, flexible [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: To deliver the extreme query responsiveness required for real-time analysis of high-volume data sets, Intel IT conducted tests to find the optimal platform for a cost-effective, high-performance in-memory business intelligence (BI) solution. Performing server-sizing and stress tests helped us find the best price/performance combination of server speed, number of processor cores, cache [See the full post…]
Business Solutions for IT Managers: 10 Gigabit Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter and Intel Solid-State Drives boost throughput capacity of TEAMSUN’s object storage solution.
Business Solutions for IT Managers: Schlumberger increases performance for its PIPESIM software by up to 10 times while streamlining the development process.
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