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 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 ...

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 ...

In this podcast, Vice President of Corporate Solutions, Jose Iglesias, discusses best practices for reducing energy costs in the data centers of large organization. Iglesias also provides some insight into ways companies can operate in environmentally responsible ways. For more information, visit Symantec’s Green IT Initiative website.

Increasing data center density elevates the importance of the right cooling technology. Listen in to learn what Intel’s Eco-Technology team recommends for efficient cooling.

Enterprise computing has come a long way from the days of centralized mainframes in the 1970’s to the fully distributed desktops and laptops we see today. With the workplace becoming more technologically diverse and increasingly mobile, desktop IT workload grows exponentially with each new user and configuration. Is there a ...

In this podcast, Intel’s David Jenkins discusses energy efficiency from silicon through the data center. David is the Marketing Manager for Energy Efficient Technologies and Eco-Technology for the Server Platforms Marketing Group of the Intel Corporation. He has been with Intel for 9 years, holding various positions in Technical ...

In this podcast, we hear about a new development in the high performance computing market from Raj Das of SGI and Greg Schulz, analyst with The StorageIO Group, weighs in on the “green gap” in the data center.

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In this podcast, reporter Michael Johnson delves into storage virtualization technology, speaking with Don Fautt, LSI director of software marketing, and Doug Jury, LSI’s director of software business sales. Catherine Girardeau tackles power efficiency in the data center, speaking with Dave Vellante and William Souder about Vellante’s Wikibon ...

Intel IT has designed a new system to reduce energy costs, recycle excess heat, and the reduce environmental impact of the data center. In Part 2 of this podcast, Intel IT Data Center Design Engineer Doug Garday plugs in some numbers that show potential energy cost savings, amount of heat ...

In this third of three podcasts on enterprise data security, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Bob Cancilla, vice president of disk systems at IBM. Cancilla explains the important role of encryption key management across the enterprise data storage security space, especially with an encrypted drive. Cancilla says that key management, ...

In this second of three podcasts on enterprise data security, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and general manager of the Engenio Storage Group at LSI Corporation. Bullinger explains the role of the storage system in the enterprise data storage security ecosystem. Bullinger says that ...

Seagate, IBM, and LSI have been working to make changes in how data is protected in enterprise Data Centers. Today Seagate announced it is making available the world’s first self-encrypting hard drive for data centers. PodTech spoke with key executives at Seagate, IBM, and LSI about this ...

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Instead of wasting all the excess heat your data center generates, wouldn’t it be more efficient to reuse it to heat offices, water, and more? With the growing number of data centers being built, now is the time to integrate energy saving and reuse methods. In part one of this ...

How should SmartClient technology integrate with web solutions? VP Development at Vertafore Chris Kinsman talks with Microsoft Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how and why SmartClient deployment of Windows Forms deliver the most value to its financial services customers in the AMS 360 product. And he ...

Intel is launching an eight-year process of data center consolidation, as Brently Davis, communications and stakeholder manager, blogs on IT@Intel. In this video podcast, he discusses the benefits — reducing costs, improving server and storage utilization], creating higher density & more energy-efficient data centers — and challenges, like ...

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.

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Join BearingPoint managing director Daryouche Behboudi in exploring disaster recovery and the importance of technology architecture. When considering the technology architecture of your company, there are many factors to look at. Besides being cost-effective, one must determine if the plan is compatible with their firm’s standards and its ...

Energy management and energy efficiency in data centers: Intel and HP are working together to save energy and money while boosting computing performance. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is one way that Intel and HP are working to create sustainable high-performance technology for the enterprise. How do the energy ...

In this podcast, Director of Storage Management, Sean Derrington provides and overview of the 2007 Symantec State of the Data Center Report. The report addresses the challenges Data Center Managers globally. For more information, visit the News & Media section at www.symantec.com.

Over the past few years Virtualization has become the new IT buzzword, cropping up in technologies from the end-user client environment all the way back through the Data Center into application, storage, and delivery networks. While Virtualization is solid technology, one definition for this word doesn’t cover all parts ...

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This SNWSpotlight features Mitch Siegel of LSI talking about the state of the company, and Tom Edsall of Cisco on the future of the data center. SNWSpotlight is brought to you by LSI.