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 [See the full post…]

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 [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 [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 [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Using big data technologies to analyze doctors’ notes helps Leeds Teaching Hospitals plan resources and spot under-billing.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT continues to expand and strengthen our bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program offerings. As the variety of devices increases, so does our challenge to maintain security and eDiscovery while protecting employees’ privacy, their data, and the enterprise. Google [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Frequent Chip Chatter Pauline Nist, the general manager of Enterprise Software Strategy for the Datacenter Software Division at Intel, stops by to chat with Allyson live at Oracle OpenWorld. She [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 61 – In this podcast we engage in a wide-ranging discussion on business velocity, security, and privacy with Intel’s Malcolm Harkins. Harkins has a unique view from his position as the Chief Security and Privacy Officer [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Intel and Amplidata address the storage challenges presented by the coming tsunami of unstructured data that will stress data center scalability.

IT Best Practices: Episode 60 – We’ve talked about Intel’s Bring Your Own Device program in previous podcasts. Intel enables employees to use their own smart phones, tablets, and other devices for work. Of those, about half – 20,000 in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: By deploying data virtualization solutions that combine disparate data sources into a single virtual layer, Intel IT expects to increase the agility of our business intelligence (BI). This agility will enable our business groups to more quickly [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 59 – Big data is a big focus for Intel. That means developing and deploying a variety of tools and methods to derive business value from the sea of data that surrounds us. These are datasets [See the full post…]

Transforming Storage: With huge numbers of users of a smart phone, tablet or laptop accessing the Internet and storing information there (especially pictures, music and video), the amount of data storage required to service all that activity is monumental. That [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: In a proof of concept, Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software on Intel Xeon processors shows potential to shrink a 30-day job to four days with linear scalability.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The Intel Xeon processor E3 product family enables T-Systems to bring big data to smaller businesses.

Intelligent Storage: Twelve million online visitors per day. Up to nine terabytes of data generated per event. Major League Baseball Advanced Media delivers live online streaming of every game, as well as the most complete, up-to-the-moment baseball information and interactivity [See the full post…]

Intel IT Business Review: As far as Intel IT leaders are concerned, analyzing massive quantities of data is not the endgame. It’s just the beginning. Intel IT’s Deep Insights research is exploring how to take big data to the next [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Oracle’s Jason Schaffer — Senior Director, Systems Development, Mikael Vidstedt — JVM Architect, Java Platform, and Ashok Joshi — Senior Director, Development: Oracle No SQL Database, give their perspectives on Intel and Oracle engineered systems for Big Data [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Rite Aid deployed two Hitachi Data Systems HUS 130 storage arrays to provide a highly automated and flexible technology solution. Powered by Intel Xeon processor LC3528, these devices provide a reliable foundation for data archiving and disaster recovery [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: To create patient-oriented “digital hospitals,” China seeks to implement a unified national hospital information system (HIS) platform, applying advanced network and digital technologies to hospitals and relevant medical fields.

Intelligent Storage: Atlantic Health System, a healthcare provider based in Morristown, New Jersey, had an annual growth rate of approximately 17 to 20 percent per year and was faced with the tough question of how to best manage its ever [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT compared the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software (Intel Distribution) to two other Apache Hadoop distributions using a well-defined set of evaluation criteria. The evaluation criteria included aspects of platform architecture; administration, operations, and support; [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As velocity and complexity of Intel’s business accelerates, Intel IT has identified explosive opportunities for business intelligence — especially advanced analytics — to become a significant competitive differentiator for Intel. Intel IT, working with internal business groups, [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Atlantic Health System manages data growth by taking advantage of the data deduplication capabilities of EMC solutions powered by Intel processors to reduce costs and improve data availability

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Shanghai Ideal upgrades its regional Global Eye digital video monitoring system for real-time analytics and storage, using Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software.