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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

Where is Unified Communications Going?

Michael Johnson — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:55:05 +0000

As a concept, “unified communications” has been around for awhile. It can mean anything from bringing all business communications into a single, seamless user experience to bringing global collaboration and conferencing technologies onto the same basic platform as traditional voice and text communications systems. It’s one of the most exciting ways in which technology is reshaping the corporate environment, and the implications for the enterprise are significant, ranging from greener, more sustainable business practices to drastically reduced friction, latency and overload of existing communications systems.

In this podcast, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Systems Marketing, Siemens Enterprise Communications Mark Straton predicts that the UC feature set will become the new baseline standard. Straton says that unified communications, as we currently know it, will will merge with voice, video, and mobility solutions to create comprehensive but modular UC solutions, with the lines between business applications like email, CRM, ERP, communications platforms, and communications devices blurring or disappearing completely.

Tags: unified communications, global collaboration, conferencing, sustainable business, mobility, Siemens, Mark Straton, CRM, ERP

Smarter Tools Turn Information Into Intelligence

editor — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:00:38 +0000

Information intelligence is a core component of next-generation content management. In this EMC technology innovation podcast, information intelligence expert Lou Jordano discusses how combining advanced search, classification, content analytics, and visualization capabilities with a content management platform transforms data into valuable intelligence. The result: knowledge workers quickly find the information they need to make informed decisions.

Tags: content analytics, Content Management, Documentum, EMC, knowledge workers, Lou Jordano, information intelligence

University of Pittsburgh Helps Keep Campus Safe with Verizon Notification Services

Michael Johnson — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:56:06 +0000

Facing the daunting challenge of keeping 31,000 students and 12,000 faculty and staff informed during events that potentially threaten campus safety, the University of Pittsburgh turned to Verizon Business to deploy an automated notification service. Jinx Walton, director of computing services and systems development for the University of Pittsburgh, discusses her organization’s evaluation of several notification platforms and highlights the strengths of Verizon Notification Services, a fully automated and centralized alert notification service that delivers customized, time-sensitive communications through a variety of means, including wireline and wireless phones, faxes, text messaging and email.

Tags: Jinx Walton, Managed Services, Verizon Business, Verizon Notification Services

Verizon Business Helps Companies Speed Applications to Users Around the Globe

Michael Johnson — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:53:40 +0000

Verizon Business is expanding its Managed WAN Optimization Services portfolio to help improve the performance of widely used business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and collaboration tools to users around the globe. Verizon Managed WAN Optimization Services, now available on Cisco and Juniper Networks platforms, provide relief to organizations who require headquarter-like performance at outlying offices, whether they are in Boston or Beijing. Michelle Roos, managed services product marketing manager for Verizon Business, discusses common application performance challenges among large organizations and explains how Verizon Business can help enterprises fine-tune their IP networks to improve application performance and enhance bandwidth usage.

Tags: Cisco, Juniper Networks, Managed Services, Michelle Roos, Verizon Business, WAN Optimization

Verizon Business Transforms State Government Networks

Michael Johnson — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:00:18 +0000

The 2008 Digital States Survey, conducted by the Center for Digital Government and sponsored by Verizon Business, highlights how state governments across the United States use technology to serve constituents and streamline operations. Based on responses from state officials, the comprehensive study examines best practices used by state governments to leverage investments in technology to power the transformation to digital government. As more and more states move to IP, Alex Coleman, group president for government and education markets with Verizon Business, discusses factors driving the evolution of state information technology.

Tags: Verizon Business, Digital States Survey, Center for Digital Government, Alex Coleman, state information technology

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

San Francisco IDF 2008: Visual Computing Driving Innovation

Jason Lopez — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:35:30 +0000

At the 2008 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco the future was clear: visual computing. From games to television, from large systems to handhelds, the demand on hardware and software platforms will be to run large amounts of data more efficiently with less power. Some of the breakthroughs to bring video and audio more easily and seamlessly to users include the scalable Nehalem chip architecture, the Media Processor CE 3100, and the architecture codenamed Larrabee.

Tags: 2008 Intel Developer Forum, visual computing, games, CE 3100, IDF, Intel, Larrabee, Nehalem

Intel Announces Centrino 2

Paul Lancour — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:59:01 +0000

Intel this week announced the release of its newest mobile technology, Centrino 2. Centrino 2 features an enhanced CPU utilizing Intel’s 45 nanometer technology, new graphics and chipset, and more powerful wireless connectivity. This latest version of the Centrino platform will lead the way as consumers continue to demand more hi-def video, longer battery life, and greater mobility, and as businesses look to securely manage a workforce on the go. In this video we hear from Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager of the Mobile Platforms Group, and from Erik Reid, director of marketing with the Mobile Platforms Group, both speaking at the launch event in San Francisco.

Tags: Intel, Centrino 2, 45 nanometer, mobility, Mooly Eden, Erik Reid

Intel Centrino2: C.T. Phone Home!

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:01:00 +0000

Intel’s new, next-generation Centrino platform, Centrino2 and Centrino2 with vPro, is coming soon to a laptop near you. In this video from the vPro Expert Center, Josh Hilliker, vPro Expert Center’s Community Manager, along with Brian Tucker, Mobile Platforms Marketing Manager, and Senior Systems Engineer Todd Christ, give an sneak peek into Centrino2’s remarkable remote management capabilities, using a combination of Client-Initiated Remote Access (CIRA), and the recently-updated Active Management Technology (AMT) 4.0. Centrino2 with vPro can “phone home” for updates, assistance, or crisis management — even when it’s outside the corporate network, and IT Managers can access it for updates, software patches, troubleshooting, and hardware repair — even when it’s in “sleep” mode.

Tags: AMT, Brian Tucker, centrino, Centrino2, Centrino2 with vPro, CIRA, Intel, Josh Hilliker, Todd Christ, vpro

The ColdSpark/BearingPoint Solutions to Success

Paul Lancour — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:20:18 +0000

Join BearingPoint Managing Director Terence Oi, and ColdSpark Founder and CTO Scott Brown in this podcast as they explore ColdSpark’s solution suite and how it has helped build a solid relationship between both organizations. BearingPoint and ColdSpark have joined together to provide offerings designed to help clients generate revenue, increase cost-effectiveness, manage regulatory compliance, integrate information and transition to “next-generation” technology.

ColdSpark helps the world’s most demanding companies harness the power of email to create business value, while ensuring security, compliance, performance and management for email networks and systems. As the leading provider of enterprise solutions and platforms for email processes and delivery, ColdSpark helps BearingPoint assist its clients with saving money, making money and addressing security concerns, amongst others. By utilizing a holistic approach, ColdSpark offers great scalability and flexibility around the client’s current infrastructure.

The relationship between BearingPoint and ColdSpark provides clients with solutions that drive revenue, strengthen relationships with customers and ensure compliance issues are addressed, improving security and optimizing performance while growing revenue and cutting costs significantly.

Tags: BearingPoint, Terence Oi, ColdSpark, Scott Brown

Intel vPro Experts Say Activate Now

Catherine Girardeau — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:02:51 +0000

“We’ve got the right tools, the right place, the right time: now is the time to activate,” said Intel vPro Expert Center Community Manager Josh Hilliker. What’s he talking about? Intel’s vPro technology, and the tools available to help end-users self-activate their vPro systems, taking them, as Hilliker says, “from zero to 60.” In this podcast, Hilliker is joined by Tim Duncan, “The Tool Guy.” He’s an Intel marketing engineer who leads a team developing tools to make Intel vPro technology-based platforms easier to use. Also in the podcast, Michele Gartner, who manages Intel’s online Activation zone. Tim talks tools, and Michele lets people know where to go to find everything they need to get their vPro-based systems up and activated.

Tags: Intel, vPro, Josh Hilliker, self-activate, Tim Duncan, Michele Gartner

Winning the battle for new end-user revenue by creating a killer Service Delivery Environment with Alcatel-Lucent

Michael Johnson — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:01:31 +0000

IP has enabled the IT, Telephony, Web, and Broadcast domains to battle for the subscriber’s wallet. Successful players in this radical market environment must have a Service Delivery Environment (SDE) built on a vision and framework which will enable them to quickly take advantage of the new trends, new service requirement opportunities and find ways to generate new revenue. Patricia Lopes, Vice President of Services Transformation at Alcatel-Lucent talks about the SDE, what it means to the market and how it accelerates service innovation and end user QoE, with the delivery of profitable, user-centric blended services.

In this podcast, Patricia Lopes addresses the following:

1) What market dynamics are driving Service Providers to transform the way they bring new services to market?

2) IP technology has been a major enabler of the market dynamics and it has allowed non-traditional competitors to capture voice and data revenues. How do Service Providers need to respond to this changing market and competitive landscape?

3) How does a Service Provider provide new value to end-users?

4) What is the difference between service delivery environment, service delivery platforms and service delivery framework?

5) What are the four pillars of the Service Delivery Environment and what makes each unique?

6) How can a Service Provider get started in implementing an SDE?

Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, IP, IT, SDE, Service Delivery Environment, Patricia Lopes, QoE, Service Delivery Platform, Platforms

What’s New: Logotec Bringing Mobility to CRM

Cydni Tetro — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:12:31 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is a three-tier application that can help organizations manage front office processes, such as sales, marketing, and customer service, and serve as a development platform for business applications in different industry verticals. The platform aspects let you focus on your core needs by providing you rapid development toolkit, well documented SDK, outlook integration including offline access, mobile support, scalability including multi-tenancy, globalization support including multi-language & multi-currency, and power of choice when it comes to choosing deployment options. Sanjay Jain, ISV Architect Evangelist, speaks with Michal Klaja, CTO and Mark Frederiksen, BDM at Logotec Engineering to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform to provide a Software + Service based Mobile solution to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 users.

Tags: Business Application Platform, Logotec Engineering, Mark Frederiksen, Michal Klaja, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, Mobile@Connector, S+S, Sanjay Jain, USISV

What’s New: Cincom Implementing Dynamics CRM

Cydni Tetro — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:33:27 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is a three-tier application that can help organizations manage front office processes, such as sales, marketing, and customer service, and serve as a development platform for business applications in different industry verticals. The platform aspects let you focus on your core needs by providing you rapid development toolkit, well documented SDK, outlook integration including offline access, mobile support, scalability including multi-tenancy, globalization support including multi-language & multi-currency, and power of choice when it comes to choosing deployment options. Sanjay Jain, ISV Architect Evangelist with Microsoft , speaks with Dan Nicholas, Sr. Director Product Research & Planning and Gregor Newland, Manager of Business Development & Alliances of Cincom Systems, to discuss their experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform to assist their complex manufacturing customers.

Tags: Application Platform, Cincom, Dan Nicholas, Gregor Newland, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, S+S, Sales and Product Configurator., Sanjay Jain, USISV

Exploiting end-user trends to create value with sticky services - The “Me” network for the “We” experience

Michael Johnson — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:15:03 +0000

The communications industry is experiencing the explosion of the “Me-We” phenomenon! Customers want “Me” services that are personalized, easy to use and focused on their needs. At the same time they want what we call the “We” experience, access to their friends and their social communities, such as MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. So how can Service providers address these new market dynamics and user trends, grow their revenue, create value, and retain customer stickiness? John Giere, Chief Marketing Officer, Alcatel-Lucent explains how the Service Delivery Environment (SDE) is the answer for creating the “Me” network for the “We” experience.

Listen to John Giere address:
* Key findings on user-trends from current market studies and analysis.
* Enterprise applicability of the “Me” network for the “We” experience.
* Opportunities and challenges to creating a “Me/We” network.
* Benefits of embracing an SDE for the “Me/We” experience.

For more information visit:
www.alcatel-lucent.com/servicestransformation

Tags: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Service Delivery Environment, SDE, John Giere, Alcatel-Lucent, Service Delivery Platform, Platforms

Energy Consumption In The Data Center

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:00:49 +0000

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 Marketing, Product Management and Product Marketing relating to servers and server technologies.

Tags: Intel, David Jenkins, Energy Efficient Technologies, Eco-Technology, Server Platforms

What are the challenges facing the sourcing and procurement organizations today?

Rio Pesino — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:47:01 +0000

Join BearingPoint senior manager Bill Stotzer in exploring the challenges facing the sourcing and procurement organizations today. Many financial institutions have identified procurement cost savings and made an attempt at cost reduction. Some have achieved greater success than others. We see two primary factors contributing to the low success rate in cost reduction. First, due to favorable market conditions in the Financial Services sector over the past five years, minimal attention was paid to cost effective Sourcing and Procurement. Second, the financial services industry has also experienced a significant amount of merger & acquisition activity over the last 5 years. Although a fair amount of integration activities have occurred, the combination of these institutions has created another set of challenges.

Sourcing and procurement cost takeout is very easy to understand at the strategic level. One needs to identify where an organization can consolidate spend, use enterprise leverage to negotiate lower unit cost, and then direct the users to purchase from the new enterprise contract. However, in a large global institution, with a fair degree of autonomy in the business units, these tasks can be very difficult to implement. Many companies use leading practices in isolated pockets throughout the enterprise. We look at Sourcing and Procurement across 11 different attributes using an enterprise maturity model to help clients understand their position relative to leading industry practices, determine the maturity level goals of the client and develop a multi-year roadmap to achieve those goals.

For those who want to reduce cost and improved performance, there is some solid advice that we can offer. Sourcing and procurement cost takeout is very easy to understand at the strategic level, but very difficult to implement in a large global institution, with a fair degree of autonomy in the business. BearingPoint informs their clients to focus on four key areas, if they want to achieve their cost takeout goals. The four areas are to develop a case for change, align executive management around the case, create a multi-year roadmap and possibly the most important, make sure the project has a disciplined benefits realization process in place. The users and stakeholders must see the financial benefit of the transformation, because everyone will ask themselves, “Is the pain worth the gain.” Executives need to see the quantitative analysis to say “yes” - the pain is worth the gain.

Tags: BearingPoint, Bill Stotzer

Voices of Shanghai: IDF 2008

Jason Lopez — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:13:28 +0000

This year’s Spring IDF, in Shanghai, brought the global community of Intel developers to one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, to discuss one of the most rapidly-changing technologies, and the incredible impact that all of that change is bound to have. Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, referred to Intel’s efforts broadly as “architecture for life.” If it sounds ambitious, it is.

The speed of change in the software world is daunting. In his own keynote, SVP and General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group at Intel, Anand Chandrasekher, noted that everyone is trying to “unleash the Internet, unwire it, and make it go mobile.” Again, the words sound almost obvious, like common sense. They’re not.

It’s true that Intel specializes in bringing incredible advancements to technology on a tick-tock product development schedule that allows industries to grow and thrive. You can see in the matter of weeks and months that Intel’s efforts go from being rumor to being confirmed technological advances (like the recent Dunnington news) that the world is watching itself change in real time. It’s true that a lot of time at IDF in Shanghai was devoted to presentations on specific technologies, platforms and products.

We heard a lot more about Nehalem, about visual computing, about multithreaded CPUs (And just for fun, compare this detailed look at Intel’s sometimes-inscrutable codenames with a detailed look at those same codenames, from a slightly different perspective). Keynotes from Gelsinger and Chandrasekher, along with Software and Solutions Group General Manager and Intel Vice President Renee James and Intel’s Andrew Chien helped to clarify just how much more mobile our technology will allow us to be.

But always in the backdrop was Shanghai. In this video podcast, Jason Lopez connects the dots between Intel’s efforts to push technology past its limits and Shanghai’s amazing journey to pass its own.

Tags: IDF, Shanghai, Intel developers, Pat Gelsinger, architecture for life, Anand Chandrasekher, unleash the Internet, Dunnington, Nehalem, visual computing, multithreaded CPUs, Renee James, Andrew Chien, Jason Lopez, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

The Reboot: Martin Leung’s Performance at Video Games Live

Rio Pesino — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:35:14 +0000

Martin Leung, also known as the Video Game Pianist, gained worldwide recognition for playing video game themes on the piano. He’s best known for the 2004 video of him playing the theme to Super Mario Bros. blindfolded. In this episode of The Reboot, Leung performs a tribute to perhaps the most famous Role Playing Game, Final Fantasy, at a Video Games Live show in San Francisco.

Tags: Martin Leung, Video Game Pianist, video game, Super Mario Bros., The Reboot, Role Playing Game, Final Fantasy, Video Games Live

What’s New: Workflow discussion with Configuresoft

Cydni Tetro — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:20:13 +0000

Jared Youtsey a senior developer from Configuresoft and Warren Wilbee, a Microsoft Architect Evangelist sit down and discuss how to utilize Microsoft’s WorkFlow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation for building workflow enabled service oriented solutions. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications. WF enhances a developer’s ability to model and support business processes. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing investments.

Tags: Configuresoft, ISV, Jared Youtsey, Microsoft, US ISV, Warren Wilbee, Windows Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation

Vertafore and SmartClient Deployment

Cydni Tetro — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:24:15 +0000

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 describes how the Software + Services (S+S) company uses Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 in Windows Server 2008 to the update the data center.

Tags: Microsoft, smartclient, vertafore

Mobile Internet Devices Make a Splash at CES 2008

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:00:25 +0000

Intel continues to develop smaller and smaller microprocessors, and to fit them into elegant platforms to run just about any kind of computer, from sophisticated server arrays to a brand-new class of ultra-portable devices, known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). MIDs created some genuine buzz at CES 2008 in Las Vegas. Intel’s MID bar at the show was packed with consumers eager to get their hands on these ultra-portable devices, which Intel said combine performance, battery life and wireless connectivity to deliver the “full Internet in your pocket”. Adding everything you can do on your laptop or desktop to lifestyle features, like cameras, messaging, music and video-sharing, the seven brand-new MIDs at the Intel show will be manufactured by various Intel partners and are slated to hit the market by mid-2008. Intel MIDs are powered by the latest in Intel technology in a platform codenamed Menlow, based on a 45-nanometer microprocessor known as Silverthorn and a chipset codenamed Poulsbo. The Menlow platform will deliver state-of-the-art performance to an impressive variety of ultra-small devices, from iPhone-like touchscreen models from Aigo and Clarion, to devices resembling PDAs with slide-out keyboards, to some combination of the two, such as the Samsung, Toshiba, and Lenovo MIDs.

PodTech spoke with Warner Crocker, of GottaBeMobile.com, who posted his own report on the sixth iteration of Samsung’s Q1 Ultra Premium UMPC, (which features Intel technology), as well as Kevin C. Tofel, of jkontherun.com, which also covered Intel’s MID display in a post from the CES show floor.

Tags: Intel, microprocessors, server arrays, Mobile Internet Devices, MIDs, Menlow, 45-nanometer, Silverthorn, chipset, Poulsbo, Warner Crocker, Kevin C. Tofel

2008 Predictions and Implications for Social Media Marketing

Jennifer Jones — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:23:28 +0000

Chris Brogan, social media expert and co-founder of PodCamp has three major predictions that can affect marketers. Brogan believes some social networks will start folding, leaving just major platforms afloat, mainstream media will dive deep into online publishing, and PR and marketing firms will announce major social media initiatives. But why should marketers care? Brogan and Jones discuss the implications of his predictions.

Tags: Chris Brogan, social media, PodCamp, social networks

Tera-scale Software Research - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 26

editor — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:00:26 +0000

Enabling highly parallel applications – learn about Intel’s efforts to drive the software and hardware innovations necessary to harness the performance of future tera-scale platforms.

Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

Tags: tera-scale, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF