Intelligent Storage: Intel and VMware share a vision for software-defined infrastructure, which enables a more dynamic, automated, and flexible data center that can improve utilization of assets, reduce cost of operations, and speed the time to delivery of new services [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Selectel, Russia’s largest provider of data center services, speeds up its cloud hosting with Intel Solid-State Drives.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The State of Michigan helps speed educational data analysis by up to 60 percent while achieving an eight-month return on investment with help from Intel Solid-State Drives.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Strato future-proofs HiDrive online storage service with virtualized platform based on Intel Solid-State Drive 710 and Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit Server Adapters.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Intel Solid-State Drives and Intel Xeon processors help Taobao get the high power, capacity, and reliability and low total cost of ownership (TCO) it needs for the Taobao OceanBase database.

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Amber Huffman from Intel, Sumit Puri from LSI, and Steve Sardella from EMC visit Chip Chat for an in-depth discussion of NVM Express. NVMe is a flexible, scalable host controller [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: French agricultural equipment manufacturer KUHN brings designs to life faster with Intel Solid State Drive-powered workstations.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has reached its goal of deploying virtually 100 percent of our approximately 91,000 mobile business PCs with Intel Solid-State Drives (Intel SSDs). Intel SSDs deliver benefits related to employee productivity, reliability, security, lifecycle, and total [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has conducted a successful pilot project of our hardware-based whole-disk encryption (WDE) solution to replace our current software-based WDE solution on systems with self-encrypting drives. Compared to software-based WDE, our new hardware-based WDE solution improves [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: David Tuhy, GM of the storage group, talks about where storage is headed – future proofing for the enterprise (unstructured big data), scaled-out distributed storage, SSDs for tiering and using [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In a year long study of more than 45,000 SSDs deployed in our mobile business PC fleet, we validated that Intel Solid-State Drives provide an 87 percent reduction in the annualized failure rate compared to hard disk [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Hard drive technology has been evolving at a rapid pace over the last decade – more capacity, higher speeds and smaller sizes. But in the last couple of years, a whole new approach to storage technology has [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: Intel IT is aggressively deploying SSDs in order to enhance employee productivity and mobility while reducing IT total cost of ownership. We now require all newly purchased laptops and retrofitted PCs to be equipped with an Intel [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over time, Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and business value of IT. Our new data center strategies shift the emphasis [See the full post…]

Matt Bodin of Intel IT shows us how to do some cool remote control tricks (or, as anyone in IT can attest, some powerful actions) on client laptops located anywhere in the world, such as installing SSD software and an [See the full post…]

At IDF09, Intel demonstrated a high-speed optical cable technology available next year that will connect mainstream electronic devices like laptops, HD displays, televisions, cameras, video players, iPods, docking stations and Solid State Drives (SSDs) to each other using optical fiber, [See the full post…]

Every hard disk will fail. That’s a reality few of us care to think about, although if you’ve ever tried to do work on your laptop on a plane you’ve been profoundly reminded that it doesn’t take much movement to [See the full post…]