Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel ONP server reference design enables effective deployment & centralized control of virtualized appliances and network services on open standards.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel Ethernet Flow Director is a technology that successfully accelerates getting incoming packets to their consuming application.

Software Defined Infrastructure: With Intel processors, it’s possible to transition from using discrete architectures per major workload (application, control, plane, packet and single processing) to a single architecture that consolidates the workloads into a more scalable and simplified solution.

Software Defined Infrastructure: As strategic approaches such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) become more mainstream, combinations of both OS-level virtualization and hypervisor-based virtual machines (VMs) often provide dramatic cost, agility, and performance benefits, throughout the data [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: Hardware and virtual application delivery controllers (ADCs) from F5 Networks help ensure users can connect to applications from anywhere in the world, regardless of device, cloud, or enterprise architecture.

Software Defined Infrastructure: F5 Networks application delivery controllers (ADCs) are helping today’s most advanced and efficient data centers meet these demands. Based on Intel Xeon processors and Intel QuickAssist Technology, these purpose-built appliances reside at the front of the data [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: DPDK is a software library that lets you do packet acceleration on general-purpose, x86 Intel processors. DPDK means you can bring big packet workloads onto a general-purpose processor and then use the additional cores on the chip [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: IDF 2014: Maxta software defined storage solutions. New architectures: Grantly launch, Intel Xeon processor E5V3, boosting performance to support storage platforms.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Server upgrades to platforms featuring Windows Server 2012, Intel Xeon processor E5-2697 v2, Intel SSD DC S3700 series, Intel Ethernet 10GbE, and more help accelerate IT modernization to maximize business efficiency and minimize operating expenses.

Intelligent Storage: Comprehensive Business Systems, VAR, uses Intel Xeon processor E3 v2 family-based Western Digital Sentinel S-Series servers for virtual boot, rapid recovery benefits.

Intelligent Storage: A scalable block storage system was implemented using the Ceph open-source software for distributed storage. As a provider of cloud services, IDC Frontier Inc. became interested in highly scalable object storage as a way to increase the capacity [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: New, intelligent features in OpenStack Swift called Storage Policies help meet today’s storage demands.

Software Defined Infrastructure: This infographic shows how 10GbE Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapters and FCoE support unified networking to solve the cost and performance problems of separate storage and networking infrastructure.

Software Defined Infrastructure: The era of separate networks is coming to an end. As more and more data centers look to adopt 10GbE unified networking solutions, you can be poised to offer expert advice and speak directly to the efficiency [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: This infographic shows that one server product can’t solve the problems of legacy hardware. That’s why modern data centers need 10 gigabit Ethernet—with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family, Windows Server* 2012, the Intel Solid-State [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: This Solution Reference Architecture showcases an end-to-end solution available today to address a specific storage challenge, in this case Tier 2 Workloads, using VMware Virtual SAN

Software Defined Infrastructure: In order to be cloud ready, virtualization solutions need to span across server, storage, and networking. For compute and I/O intensive applications and architectures that require high bandwidth and predictable latency, businesses typically discover that it is [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Intel and VMware are working together to provide foundational technologies for intelligent, software-defined storage solutions.  These solutions utilize Intel Xeon processors, 10 Gigabit Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapters, Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) Data Center Family and VMware Virtual [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: This testing was done by Principled Technologies to show Good, Better, Best results using Intel Xeon processors, Intel Ethernet, and Intel SSDs, with Microsoft Server 2012 R2.

Intelligent Storage: Replacing older servers in your datacenter with new, upgraded ones can go a long way to getting you the performance you need as your business grows. When selecting replacement hardware for your legacy systems, you can go with [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure:iWarp is a standards-based technology for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Ethernet adopted by Microsoft SMB Direct.  This video explains how it works and the advantages over a RoCE solution.

Intelligent Storage: This Solution Reference Architecture showcases an end-to-end solution available today to address a specific storage challenge, in this case VM Image Hosting, using Ceph storage software on the Fujitsu CD10000 System

Intelligent Storage: This Solution Reference Architecture showcases an end-to-end solution available today to address a specific storage challenge, in this case Microsoft Exchange Workloads, using Maxta Storage SW.

Intelligent Storage: The adoption of cloud computing creates many challenges and opportunities in big data management and storage. This paper discusses a collaboration between Qihoo 360 Technology and Intel to optimize the storage infrastructure in their Internet Portal Datacenter (IPDC).

Intelligent Storage: Intel General Manager Bev Crair and EMC VP Boaz Palgi discuss how Intel and EMC ViPR cloud storage solutions help manage and extract value from data through software-defined data center networks and storage.