Intel’s Xeon 7400-series processor made a solid impact in 2008, with multiple top scores in benchmark surveys and powerful implementations. What does it mean for virtualization performance, especially as the enterprise moves toward virtualizing its most critical applications with a new generation of virtualization technology?

In this video podcast, IBM’s ...

PCIe 3.0 will double the bandwidth of the previous generation of this I/O interconnect and will improve power management of platforms - from notebooks to new generation servers.

At VMWorld 2008, “Virtualization 2.0″ was the talk of the show. Intel’s Andy Fields met up with Dave Martin from VMware to discuss the collaboration between the two companies, and to explain the impacts of the newsmaking Dunnington release on enabling virtualization.

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Time is money. BI Accelerator speeds database query response times by 10x to 100x. Here, Scott Allen, of the SAP Alliance Team at Intel, talks with Sun Microsystem’s Gilly Clough. Clough is a principal SAP architect, and they discuss the advantages that Intel blades bring to Sun’s offerings around ...

The Core i7 microprocessor (built on Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture) represents a major advance in computing to enable chips to handle more data. In this video podcast, Ronak Singhal, a lead architect on Nehalem, says the chip design is an overhaul–the internal core has been changed significantly for added performance, as ...

Intel enables the right hardware and software development for dedicated solutions in the growing consumer market segments for ubiquitous Internet in the digital home.

At Intel’s Jones Farm Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, the new Core i7 chip is going through the rigors of testing. Stephen Gunther is Power Management Architect at Intel who shows how the new Turbo Mode feature revolutionizes multi-core processor performance, giving the best of both worlds – ...

Business are modernizing their SAP landscapes, preparing for ERP6.0 migration. Intel’s Enis Skillern speaks with James G. White, SAP modernization director for HP, about the technologies from the two companies that help enterprises keep costs low while allowing for maximum flexibility and scalability.

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Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization usage by allowing IT managers to deliver high availability solutions with the agility to address disaster recovery and real time workload balancing.

Intel, virtualization, chip chat, disaster recovery, workload balancing

Intel and HP recently announced the world’s best four-socket TPC-C benchmark result — a showing of 634,000 transactions per minute. HP’s Aaron Spurlock joins Noe Garcia from Intel to discuss the specifics of how the HP Proliant DL580 G5 server with Intel Xeon 7400-series processors stacks up against world-class competition.

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This past Fall, Intel announced that the Xeon 7400-series processors posted record performance results, marking the first time that the industry has seen 1.2 million database transactions per minute on an 8-socket IBM server. It was announced by Intel Executive Vice President Pat Gelsinger at IDF 2008, and it ...

Intel’s Xeon 7400-series processors posted record performance results, in time for this announcement from Intel Executive Vice President Pat Gelsinger at IDF 2008, in San Francisco. This podcast includes the IDF announcement of those Xeon performance results, which marked the first time the industry has seen 1.2 million database transactions ...

Microsoft’s hypervisor-based server, “Hyper-V,” is part of the company’s offerings — along with presentation virtualization and application virtualization — aimed at helping companies to take full advantage of virtualization and quad-core technology. The server virtualization product, in conjunction with Intel’s VT hardware-assisted virtualization technology, provides simplified resource management to increase ...

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 discusses some of the innovations brought by 45nm, as well ...

New technologies are helping the enterprise to save time, money and energy, while eliminating downtime. When virtualization meets the data center, the savings can be profound. Intel’s and VMware’s “Flex Migration” allows VMware’s VMotion to take advantage of all the hardware in the data center - from older generations to ...

It didn’t take long for wireless computing and the mobility it affords to become an accepted part of the landscape of public spaces, offices and homes. But there was still a catch: you couldn’t stay connected outside of the hotspots offered at cafes, airports and hotel lobbies. WiMAX changes all ...

It’s been awhile since we first began hearing about WiMAX, and it may have sounded impossible at first. Not to Frank Gruber. He says it was inevitable, that it works, and it’s cool.

Beginning this week, you can think of Baltimore as one big hotspot. The computing potential ...

It may seem obvious that planning pays. But for those CIOs and their staffs, managing an IT infrastructure often occurs in an environment where problems are moving targets. Many organizations have little time to plan ahead. But they must. “You’re not going to get there unless you have a ...

Providing point-to-point high-speed links to distributed shared memory, Intel QuickPath technology unleashes Nehalem’s parallel processing performance.

So you’ve gone wireless. Now think about where you can go, and what you can do, now that you’re not tethered to the wall. We ventured out to hot spots in San Francisco, to check out mobility in action, and how its changing the way we, work, live, and play! ...

In this video we hear from Sudip Chahal, principal engineer with the Intel IT Enterprise Architecture Group, talking about a new white paper from IT@Intel, “Evaluating Two- and Four-Socket Server Virtualization Platforms.” Chahal talks about the proof of concept testing and total cost of ownership analysis conducted in order ...

Driving technology innovation on a reliable and predictable timeline, Intel developed a model designed to deliver ongoing innovation. Referred to as our tick-tock model, Intel has successfully alternated and delivered the next generation of silicon technology as well as new processor microarchitecture year after year.

Intel CIO Diane Bryant shares ...

This is the last in a series of three videos from IT@Intel, each featuring Omer Ben-Shalom, Principal Engineer with the Intel’s Information Technology Group. In these videos Omer demonstrates how Intel vPro technology System Defense filtering can be integrated with Security Event Management systems to improve corporate response capabilities to ...

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, “Brain Bowl” was an opening night celebration where local and international media got to meet Intel execs and compete in the game of hi-tech trivia hosted by KPIX-TV San Francisco anchor John Kessler.

In this video podcast, you’ll get a taste ...