Data centers today are under pressure from rising compute requirements, demand for storage capacity and energy costs. In this video podcast from IT@Intel, Alan Ross, principal engineer and enterprise architect with Intel IT, shares experiences, technology assessments and best practices around data center efficiency, virtualization and consolidation.

Transforming the data ...

“We want to be on a billion phones,” says Ojas Rege, VP of Yahoo’s global mobile products. So, imagine the challenge that Ojas and his team have in order to achieve that goal. You need to have an entrpreneurial bent of mind to do make the internet fit your phone ...

Gordon Moore’s Law will remain in effect for the foreseeable future. Intel Corporation’s new 45nm Penryn microprocessor relies on a new recipe that combines the element Hafnium and metal gate technology to increase performance and significantly reduce eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks.

At their recent launch in New York City, HP Total Care took the spotlight, announcing a program designed to ease IT challenges for the full lifecycle of an HP purchase. HP Total Care’s aim is to provide before, during and after- purchase support, making it easier for companies ...

Cisco, the networking giant is bullish about doing business in India and that was the central message delivered by John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco in India. So far Cisco has invested $1.1 billion in India.

Security risk assessments, security risk modeling, and protecting against security threats by maintaining a threat agent library — these and other programs form the basis for understanding threats to network security for Intel. In this video podcast, TIm Casey, senior strategic analyst for information security at Intel, discusses the strategy ...

Do you work in noisy conditions? Want to make VoIP systems like Skype work better? Get Noise Free. Here Bill Ribble, VP of marketing at Noise Free, talks to me about how it works.

Helping people engage with ideas and information is how Shantanu Narayen, President and COO of Adobe describes what his company does best. Adobe recently completed 25 years and is expected to about $3 billion in revenue this year.

I caught up with Shantanu, who was on a ...

Broadband, connectivity, Wi-Fi, accessibility and education efforts are all priorities for the ongoing efforts in developing nations and regions around the globe. Intel, along with the United Nations and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), among others, is participating this month in the Connect Africa Summit, which aims to bring together human, ...

The Comedy stylings of Andrew Keen and Steve Gillmor, still bantar on who is more in love with Hillary Clinton. I think Andrew Keen wins hands down!

Facebook, 1000 Billion? Are these guys serious?

Jack O’Neil, product marketing manager for LSI’s Network and Storage Product Group, discusses the newly announced Advanced Communication Processor and how it will support the growing demand to deliver and bill for real time services and, at the same time, save wireless carriers up to 80 percent in leasing ...

Arizona-based Microchip Technology is an important player in the microcontroller and analog semiconductor space. The company registered $1.039 billion in net sales for fiscal year 2007.

Yesterday, I spoke with Steve Sanghi, the CEO and the chairman of the board of directors of Microchip Technologies, in Bangalore, to find ...

Jay Sears, senior vice president for Context Web and ADSDAQ talks with John Ince about how advertising exchanges have suddenly emerged as premium Web properties with Google acquiring Doubleclick for $3.1 billion, Yahoo! acquiring Right Media for $800 million and Microsoft acquiring aQuantive for $6+ billion. Sears believes that this ...

Women used to be an afterthought in the video game world. Today, more women are involved in the billion-dollar industry as programmers, designers and of course, gamers. According to the Entertainment Software Association, thirty-eight percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of ...

Broadband Service Providers (including WiMax Providers, Cable Operators, ISP’s, Telco’s, Managed Service Providers, Satellite Broadband Operators, etc.) are feeling pressure from customer churn because competitors offer bundled packages that include voice (VoIP) services. Alianza enables these same service providers to deliver commercial, private label VoIP products to business and ...

This year’s Fall IDF in San Francisco provided the perfect opportunity for Intel folks from all over the world to meetup in one room, socialize, and relax with some of the people who cover their efforts, from traditional press to bloggers. The attendees at this year’s “blogging event” included CEO ...

Water. We use a lot of it in California, and especially in Central Valley, one of the largest agricultural areas in the world. This area is inhabited by many wonderful folks, including Bill and George Longfellow, the dairy farmers we are visiting today, as well as thousands and thousands of ...

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Water. We use a lot of it in California, and especially in Central Valley, one of the largest agricultural areas in the world. This area is inhabited by many wonderful folks, including Bill and George Longfellow, the dairy farmers we are visiting today, as well as thousands and thousands of ...

In another world’s first, Intel has produced a fully functional 32nm SRAM logic chip packing more than 1.9 billion second generation high-k metal gate transistors.

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US data centers consumed 61 billion kW hours of electricity in 2006 - learn how Intel and the industry are applying technology and research to mitigate energy consumption.

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Keynotes from two Intel executives — David (Dadi) Perlmutter and Anand Chandrasekher — kicked off Day 2 at Intel’s Fall IDF in San Francisco. First up, Dadi Perlmutter, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Mobility Group. He covered the latest trends in mobile computing, touching on ...

Investors such as Jay MacDonald and Bill Detwiler are bullish on web-based advertising. MacDonald says advertisers have always wanted to know exactly who listened to their ads on radio or saw them in magazines. You cannot click on a newspaper ad. But with features like interactivity and social media that ...

Think of Central Valley, California — an incredibly large agricultural area in the middle of a state, which is vital to the Calif. economy, but not exactly known for its regular and heavy rainfall. Our crops and our cattle require enormous volumes of water to be transported to this area ...

Our final story from Hybridfest, in Madison, Wisc., features event organizer Bill Robbins.