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VMworld 2008: Intel Keynote - Collaboration for Leading Virtualization Deployments

editor — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:00:49 +0000

Intel’s Doug Fisher and VMware CTO Steve Herrod met at VMworld 2008 to discuss the collaboration between Intel and VMware that will continue deliver leading virtualization deployments.

Fisher is vice president, software and solutions group and general manager of SSG’s Systems Software Division.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Steve Herrod, Intel, Doug Fisher, VMworld2008, VMware, Intel, Xeon 7400, virtualization, Dunnington, microprocessor, datacenter

VMWorld08: XEON 7400 Series: Leading Performance with IBM

editor — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:00:41 +0000

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 Robert Zuber speaks with Beth Carlton from VMware on the reliability that comes with the IBM’s 3850 and 3950 support for Intel’s 7400-series Dunnington processor.

Tags: Robert Zuber, Beth Carlton, Xeon 7400, VMWorld08, VMware, Intel, Xeon, virtualization, Dunnington, vmotion, Clearbay

PCI Express 3.0* Intel Chip Chat - Episode 36

editor — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:01:35 +0000

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.

Tags: PCIe, PCIe 3.0, PCI Express, Intel, Intel Chip Chat

Intel and VMware: Virtualization 2.0

editor — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:00:38 +0000

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.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Andy Fields, Dave Martin, VMWorld08, VMware, Intel, Xeon, virtualization, Dunnington, vmotion, Clearbay

Intel and Sun: Business Intelligence Accelerator

editor — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:30:55 +0000

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 Business Intelligence Accelerator and Solaris on Intel.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: SAP TechEd08, Solaris, Scott Allen, Gilly Clough, Sun Microsystems, SAP, BIA, business intelligence accelerator, BI Accelerator, Intel, Itanium, Xeon, virtualization, IDF 2008, Dunnington, Penryn, 45nm, HP

Intel’s Core i7

Jason Lopez — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:30:07 +0000

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 well as for better energy efficiency.

“We’ve put in features such as Turbo Boost Technology, our integrated power gate, an integrated memory controller, and Hyper-Threading,” he says. The effort took about five years and required thousands of engineers.

“Building this microprocessor brings a lot of people together, like architects, micro architects, the design teams,” commented Rani Borkar, vice president of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. “As you get into the development phases, working with the process technology, it’s a mind-boggling effort that requires a lot of teamwork across the board.”

This video takes you into Intel’s labs to meet some of the researchers behind the Core i7.

Tags: Core i7, microprocessor, Intel, Nehalem, microarchitecture, Ronak Singhal, chip design, Turbo Boost Technology, Hyper-Threading, Rani Borkar, energy efficiency, Energy Smart, Francois Piednoel, Regina Wu, gaming

Ubiquitous Internet in the Digital Home - Intel Chip Chat – Episode 35

editor — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:56:47 +0000

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

Tags: Intel, ubiquitous Internet, Digital Home, Chip Chat

Radical Rethinking in Chip Design: Intel’s Core i7 Ready to Launch

Jason Lopez — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:30:12 +0000

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 – high performance and optimal energy efficiency.

Tags: chip design, Core i7, energy efficiency, Energy Smart, Intel, Nehalem, processor, Turbo Mode, Stephen Gunther, Hillsboro, Power Management

Intel and HP: Rethinking Virtualization

editor — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:00:52 +0000

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.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: SAP TechEd08, Enis Skillern, James G. White, Intel, HP, TechEd, Itanium, Xeon, virtualization, IDF 2008, Dunnington, Penryn, 45nm, HP

Virtualization 2.0 - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 34

editor — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:49:20 +0000

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

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

Intel & HP Announce World’s Best 4-Socket TPC-C Result

editor — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:00:20 +0000

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.

Also, at Fall IDF in San Francisco, Intel also 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.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Noe Garcia, Aaron Spurlock, Intel, Xeon, virtualization, IDF 2008, Dunnington, Penryn, 45nm, TPCC, database transactions, benchmark, HP, Proliant, DL580

IBM Announces World Record TPC-C Result: What Does It Mean for IT Managers?

editor — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:00:59 +0000

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 was the topic of many spirited industry conversations, as well. In this video podcast, Intel’s Mike Moreno speaks with IBM’s Robert Zuber about what the news means for IT managers, and what IBM is doing to help reduce the size of the IT footprint in the enterprise. They also mention new benchmarks around database and virtualization.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Mike Moreno, Robert Zuber, Intel, Xeon, virtualization, IDF 2008, Dunnington, Penryn, 45nm, TPCC, database transactions, benchmark

Xeon 7400-Series World Record Results

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:00:56 +0000

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 per minute on an 8-slot IBM server.

The Intel Xeon 7400 series (Dunnington), is the “final member of the Penryn family” — a family that Gelsinger notes shares Intel’s 45nm technology.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Pat Gelsinger, Intel, Xeon, virtualization, IDF 2008, Dunnington, Penryn, 45nm, TPCC, database transactions

Microsoft Virtualization Strategy with Hyper-V

editor — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:00:09 +0000

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 IT efficiency. In this podcast, Jeff Woolsey, senior program manager at Microsoft focused on Microsoft Virtualization, and Intel Microsoft Alliance Manager Joakim Lialias discuss the specific benefits of using Hyper-V technology with Intel’s VT virtualization.

Also check out Nick Triantos’s comments on Hyper-V, including thoughts on ease of installation and the details on Windows 2008 and Hyper-V’s minimum requirements, which Jeff Woolsey mentions in the podcast.

Hyper-V is available for download from Microsoft.

For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and videos, check out www.intel.com/server.

Tags: Microsoft, hypervisor, Hyper-V, virtualization, Intel VT, Intel, Jeff Woolsey, Joakim Lialias, WindowsServer2008

45nm and Beyond, Part 2: What’s Next?

editor — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:00:34 +0000

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 as what’s next in virtualization.

Chris also spoke earlier this year about the impact that the 45nm manufacturing process is having on Intel’s Xeon processors.

Chris continues to blog and write about his work at Intel, including answers to come frequently asked questions on 45nm technology.

Tags: 45nm, data center, data center efficiency, Intel, Xeon, virtualization, Chris Peters, Server Room

Intel and VMware - World’s First Flex Migration Demo

editor — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:00:54 +0000

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 next generations.

Mendel Rosenblum is a co-founder and chief scientist at VMware, and Pat Gelsinger is executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group.

They gave the first public demonstration of “Flex Migration” at the Spring IDF, 2008.

Tags: Intel, VMware, virtualization, the server room, xeon, 45nm, Flex Migration, Mendel Rosenblum, Pat Gelsinger, VMotion

WiMAX: Wireless Goes Truly Mobile

Jason Lopez — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:51:24 +0000

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 of that as Baltimore becomes the first city in the country where a full-scale commercial wireless broadband rollout (offered by Xohm) will mean that users can actually roam wherever they want and connect to the Internet with notebook computers and Mobile Internet Devices. It opens the door for a wide range of embedded devices in things like parking meters, kiosks and anything else you can think of that would benefit from Internet connectivity. The launch features not only new WiMAX products from Xohm, but devices from handhelds to laptops that feature Intel’s new WiMAX enabled chips. You can follow WiMAX stories on blogs.intel.com/technology and scoop.intel.com. New to WiMAX? Learn more about WiMAX here and here. And see how WiMAX is being used to connect people with education, healthcare and new opportunities in developing countries.

Tags: Baltimore WiMAX, Intel, Mobile Internet Devices, WiMax, Xohm

Somewhat Frank: WiMAX Reality

Jason Lopez — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:41:22 +0000

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 for a city that’s completely wirelessly connected is huge. No matter where you are, you are connected. Simply put, it is the next generation of mobile broadband access.

Tags: Baltimore, Intel, Somewhat Frank, Sprint, WiMax, Xohm, Frank Gruber

IT Architecture: Plan for Success

Jason Lopez — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:47:01 +0000

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 plan,” says Bob Stoddard, Intel IT Architect. He was on the team that molded Intel’s IT plan starting in late 1990s. Almost a decade later, Intel’s IT shop is seeing dividends from that plan in the form of lower TCO and improved client efficiency. “vPro is really a beachhead for us in cracking the code to get closer to an end-to-end management solution, not just for the client, but across compute network and storage,” says Prasad Rampalli, vice president of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. “vPro transcends clients all the way to the data center.” In this podcast, Intel’s Josh Hilliker, Prasad Rampalli and Bob Stoddard discuss the role of planning and why IT architecture is crucial to success.

Tags: CIO, IT infrastructure, Bob Stoddard, Intel, vPro, Prasad Rampalli, Digital Enterprise Group, Josh Hilliker, IT architecture

QuickPath Technology - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 33

editor — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:23:11 +0000

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

Tags: distributed shared memory, Intel, QuickPath, Nehalem, parallel processing, Chip Chat

Living La Vida Wireless

Michael Johnson — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:10:39 +0000

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! Get the “Inside Scoop” at Intel’s new Consumer Blog.

Tags: wireless, Inside Scoop, Intel

Evaluating Two- and Four-Socket Server Virtualization Platforms

Paul Lancour — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:00:49 +0000

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 to compare two- and four-socket servers based on Intel Xeon processors. The goal was to examine how each of four different servers would perform in a variety of virtualization scenarios.

Download “Evaluating Two- and Four-Socket Server Virtualization Platforms” (PDF) from IT@Intel.

Tags: Intel, IT@Intel, Sudip Chahal, virtualization, Dunnington, Xeon, 7400, data_center, server, tco, benchmark, performance, scalability, work_load

Intel Tick-Tock Strategy - What it Means

editor — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:13:17 +0000

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 how, during the “Tick,” Intel delivers new silicon process technology, dramatically increasing transistor density while enhancing performance and energy efficiency within a smaller, more refined version of our existing microarchitecture.

In the second year, the “Tock” delivers entirely new processor microarchitecture to optimize the value of the increased number of transistors and technology updates now available.

If you’re an investor, you can stay on top of all the ways Intel pushes the boundaries of innovation, making news in technology, manufacturing, education, culture and social responsibiliy. Learn more about the rhythm of Intel’s advancing silicon technology and what it means for your business, your investment, and you.

Tags: Intel, Tick-Tock, Chip Design, Chip Manufacturing, 45nm, Diane Bryant, Nehalem, Core i7

Isolation of Infected PCs and Remediation with Intel vPro Technology - Part 3 of 3

Paul Lancour — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:09:27 +0000

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 virus outbreaks, while at the same time reducing the resources required and improving speed to response. This third video demonstrates how a security event manager can programmatically utilize Intel vPro capabilities without human intervention through an existing AMT management system.

Tags: AMT, event_manager, filtering, IT@Intel, management, network_quarantine, omer_ben_shalom, quarantine, ron_miller, Security, system_defense, video, virus, vpro

Intel IDF Brain Bowl Matched Media and Intel Execs at Opening Night Soiree

Michael Johnson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:45:54 +0000

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 of the post-competition party, featuring appearances from David “Dadi” Perlmutter, executive VP & general manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher, senior VP & general manager of Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group, and Justin Rattner, VP, director of Intel’s Corporate Technology Group and Intel’s Chief Technology Officer.

Tags: Intel Developer Forum, Brain Bowl, Intel, John Kessler, David “Dadi” Perlmutter, Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher, Ultra Mobility Group, Justin Rattner, IDF08, IDF2008, IDFSF08