IT Best Practices: Employee collaboration across the globe plays a vital role in Intel’s ability to innovate quickly and respond to marketplace opportunities. Over the years, Intel has invested in collaboration technology to increase collaboration, build stronger teams, and [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: Intel Ethernet MOCS transceivers are a new low-cost alternative to 40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ for End-of-Row (EoR) connection distances, including switch-to-switch connections. They are also a robust and reliable alternative for 40GBASE-CR4 for Top-of-Rack (ToR) connections. [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel Ethernet Flow Director is a technology that successfully accelerates getting incoming packets to their consuming application. [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: Extending Intel Virtualization Technology beyond server virtualization to the network with hardware optimizations and offloads for the rapid prvisioning of networks in an agile data center. [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Lynn Comp, Director of the Market Development Organization for the Network Products Group at Intel, stops by to chat about the advances that have been made in network virtualization [See the full post…]

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. [See the full post…]

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 [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. [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: HP’s OpenNFV is going well, Werner Schaefer tells Martyn Warwick. The effort is spread across HP’s global labs, including those at Grenoble, Houston, Fort Collins, Tel Aviv and Seoul. The initiative now has nine partners including BT, [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 [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. [See the full post…]

Intelligent Compute: F5 Networks CTO Karl Triebes describes how the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 helps improve application performance and virtualization. [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: Infographic – See how to boost data center network bandwidth on 10GBASE-T while simplifying connectivity with existing cables. [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: Intel IT is adopting software-defined networking (SDN) to enable on-demand provisioning of networks and network services. to offer better support for internal customers. [See the full post…]

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. [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: AT&T and Telefonica share Intel’s relevance in their network transformation. [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: This video shows how network virtualization overlays work and the key benefits that IT managers experience deploying a virtual network. [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: New, intelligent features in OpenStack Swift called Storage Policies help meet today’s storage demands. [See the full post…]

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. [See the full post…]

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 [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 [See the full post…]

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 [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. [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) offers encryption/decryption and compression/decompression acceleration to developers, enterprises and cloud service providers with APIs, add-in cards or chipset for increased performance and security. [See the full post…]