Silicon Minds: The legend goes that Don Massaro, President of Shugart Associates in the 1970s, drew the 5.25 inch dimension of the minifloppy diskette on a napkin at lunch. “That’s not quite true,” says Don Massaro. “If you go look [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s Client Build (ITCB) process enables us to efficiently manage Intel’s laptops and desktop PCs, plus over 2,000 software applications. Before developing our current process, it took us six months to release a new build. Now [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Servisair gains a robust remote management system thanks to the 2nd generation Intel Core i5 vPro processor.

Intel – The Personal Cloud: Marketing firm switches from DVDs to Thecus network-attached storage device for backup; slashes archival work time by 85 percent, improves reliability, gains terabytes of growing room. Read more in this IT Whitepaper.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 shows the steady addition of up to 0.4 GHz for Intel Xeon processor E5-2680 at Duke University.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Clemson University expects 1.5x more bandwidth and 2x faster floating point performance with the Intel Xeon processor E5 family.

Intel – The Personal Cloud: Verb Farm is a full-service editorial shop based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in information design. The agency works with companies and creative agencies of all sizes to deliver strategic content, and has endeared itself to [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Intel Xeon processor E5 family doubles the wall-time performance of workhorse ADRIC code for RENCI.

Intel – The Personal Cloud: Freelance TV host breathes easier with files automatically backed up to a Synology DS712+ network attached storage server powered by an Intel Atom processor. Ramona Bruland has made a career of discovering the best things [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: RADVISION optimizes multi-party video conferencing to run on Intel Xeon processor E5-2680.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Intel teams up with the British Council to introduce computer-based language learning in Egypt thanks to Intel-powered classmate PCs.

IT Best Practices: Episode 22 – We are awash in data today. That presents a challenge for the IT organization. But if real meaning can be extracted from all that data – structured and unstructured, human-generated and machine-generated – it [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: KMS Components, a leading UK distributor turns to 2nd Generation Intel Core vPro processor and Microsoft to drive business forward.

Intel – The Personal Cloud: Ron Croudy is a NYC-based graphic designer, electronic recording artist, and DJ, operating under the name Rontronik. His music-making buddies are scattered all over the world—New York City, Michigan, Los Angeles, London, and Germany—so sharing [See the full post…]

Genci, a French organization builds one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers using the Intel Xeon processor E5-2680.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Auto manufacturer BMW uses the Intel Xeon processor E5 family to develop its high-performance computing (HPC) resources.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Standardizing on Intel Xeon processors 5600 series helps Mindspeed Technologies consolidate, reduce costs, and support continued business expansion.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: RISC migration to Intel Xeon processors 5600 and 7500 series improves up time, performance, and savings for Cerner’s mission-critical healthcare applications.

Intel’s pace of innovation is ferocious so technicians rarely get a chance to stay experts for long before new technology changes the equipment. Intel IT is using projected Augmented Reality to reduce the training time required for a new procedure, [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Lufthansa Systems optimizes IT services with Intel Xeon processor E5 family, improving quality while maintaining costs.

Intel – The Personal Cloud: Musician and designer simplifies his life and better secures music, video, and family files by backing up to a Synology DS712+ network attached storage server powered by an Intel Atom processor. Bill Wadhams is a [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Face.com boosts its online face recognition service with the Intel Xeon processor E5 family and Intel Advanced Vector Extensions.

IT Best Practices: Episode 21 – Blue screens have been around for about as long as there have been PCs. They’re a major challenge for an organization, and they can significantly reduce productivity.. In spite of that, not enough has [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: A high-performance database developer completes tests around 80 percent faster with standardized IT based on Intel Xeon processors 5600 series. See also: Versant

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Virtalis, a leading virtual reality company delivers a high-performance solution based on Intel Xeon processor 5680, reducing lead times on customized workstations by approximately 25 percent.