IT Best Practices: We use three key metrics to measure data center transformation success: meet growing customer demand (service-level agreements and quality of service) within constrained spending targets (cost-competitiveness) while optimally increasing the utilization of infrastructure assets (operational efficiency). Building on previous investments and techniques, our refined data center strategy has created new business value in [...]

IT Best Practices: Episode 69 – In previous podcasts we’ve examined Intel’s overhaul of its data center strategy, and how Intel IT looks to run its data center service like a factory. One key aspect of that strategy is the data center server refresh program. Shesha Krishnapura is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel IT. [...]

IT Best Practices: Episode 65 – Intel is a couple of years into an overhaul of its data center strategy. We’ve talked about that overhaul previously in this podcast series, but it’s a good time to catch up on the process with a key player in the design and implementation of that strategy. Shesha Krishnapura [...]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Gap Inc. migrates from a RISC environment to industry-standard servers with Intel Xeon processors, reducing operating costs and accelerating application deployment.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Hidden Path Entertainment produces better games faster than before while conserving data center space with the Intel Xeon processor E5 family.

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

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Lynn Comp, Director of Datacenter Solutions and Technologies Initiatives at Intel, stops by the IDF livecast to take a a deeper look at some of the technologies involved in re-architecting the data center. She talks about the drive for automation and the orchestration of services, [...]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Paul Ju, Senior Vice President of Mega Data Center for WiWynn, wraps up our livecast archive. He discusses two new products, the SV110 blade server and the SV7110 Open Compute Project compliant storage server. WiWynn is focused on reducing customer TCO and power consumption. For [...]

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 solve business problems, discover operational efficiencies, and improve business results worldwide. Our tests show that [...]

IT Best Practices: To meet Intel’s business computing needs more effectively and ensure continuity of service, Intel IT has developed a predictive data center capacity planning process. Our approach helps us to accurately forecast demand on our data center facilities and proactively identify capacity shortfalls years in advance. We use the predictive planning approach during [...]