In this video, learn how a cloud operations expert thinks about power efficiency, software-defined infrastructure and how to get more with less from data center innovation. Find more enterprise cloud news, features stories and profiles at The Forecast. Transcript: Ken [See the full post…]

As Intel’s business grows, increased demands on the data center have required greater innovation and new strategies and technologies that support not just lowering costs and improving efficiency, but also meeting environmental responsibility goals. Today’s environmental and climate-change challenges make [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is using Intel Silicon Photonics to affordably increase network bandwidth in Intel’s data centers. Intel’s demand for network bandwidth grows 30 to 40 percent a year. As a result, a key component of Intel IT’s [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Stuttgart can process huge amounts of data in a short time for a wide range of clients thanks to the latest Intel Xeon processors.

IT Best Practices: For years, Intel IT has been evolving toward software-defined infrastructure (SDI), beginning with software-defined compute (SDC), to move from a proprietary fixed-function RISC Unix compute environment to an agile Intel architecture and Linux compute environment. To fulfill [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed best practices for increasing data center efficiency by retrofitting data center infrastructure. Our goal is to optimize capacity and the return on invested capital and decrease operating costs. We also focus on minimizing [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is proactively gathering data about Ultrabook devices and how they fit into the enterprise, in anticipation of a wave of new devices and form factors, and the associated expectations from employees who want to buy [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Roger Foreman from Dell discusses the importance of power management technologies such as Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager and Data Center Manager, and integration on the latest generation of Dell [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Jon Koomey from Stanford discusses his new book Cold Cash, Cool Climate, which covers how to profit from tackling climate change and how industry can drive consumers. For the IT [See the full post…]

As computing power increases and we all rely increasingly on cloud computing and storage, the environmental demands of information technology are growing significantly. Earth Day 2011 marks a moment when, by some estimates, the carbon footprint of data centers exceeds [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Director of Data Center Power Initiatives Winston Saunders explains how we can improve efficiency in the data center, and how to avoid some pitfalls. Winston Saunders on The Server Room [See the full post…]

Today, Intel IT manages about 18 petabytes (PB) of primary and backup storage in our design computing, manufacturing, office, and enterprise environments. We choose storage and backup and recovery solutions based on the application use models for these respective areas. [See the full post…]

Network standardization and WAN optimization are key focus areas in our efforts to improve our data center efficiency. Through standardization of our network service offerings, standards and reference designs, and access layer infrastructure, we can now serve a larger community [See the full post…]

Accelerating server refresh, virtualizing our server resources, and utilizing data center virtualization have significantly reduced Intel IT’s overall energy consumption levels and compute costs. These efforts alone have driven us to realize 35% of our data center efficiency goal of [See the full post…]

Intel IT is increasing data center facility efficiency by integrating innovative designs and approaches to reduce power consumption, using modular designs with the latest technologies, and building higher density data centers rather than spreading out server load. Hear from Don [See the full post…]

In this audio podcast, Allyson Klein interviews Boyd Davis, general manager of Intel’s data center group marketing, takes us through innovations and challenges in the smallest data centers to the world’s largest Internet data centers. Data Center Efficiency Intel Chip [See the full post…]

Paul Smith, who works on server instrumentation, stops by to talk about power capping – using Intel technologies to limit the amount of power consumed by a node/rack in a data center. More info: Data Center Efficiency Intel Chip Chat [See the full post…]

In this audio podcast with Allyson Klein, Mike Patterson returns to the studio to discuss the recently-announced Automated Cooling Environment (ACE) Technology – using instrumentation to precisely cool the data center. For more information see: Data Center Efficiency The Server [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat podcast with Allyson Klein, Dylan Larson, director of technology initiatives for the server group, discusses virtualization 2.0; development of the enterprise cloud; Intel investments in virtualization performance, networked I/O and workload analysis; and instrumentation and [See the full post…]

Intel’s introduction of 45nm technology last year brought with it new levels of innovation and data center efficiency. With a trend toward bigger servers using virtualization, however, comes a need for increased performance headroom. In this podcast, Intel’s Chris Peters [See the full post…]