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 ...

Verizon Business has undertaken an extensive billing transformation project focused on providing a world-class customer experience for its large-business and government customers. By reducing the number of billing systems, enhancing self-service options and offering a single billing platform across virtually all accounts, the company has raised the bar on ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Join BearingPoint Managing Director, Brian Hart, as he explores the importance of an adequate risk and performance platform and how it can help companies deal with the credit crisis. Given the scope, depth, and length of this crisis, our clients are clearly being forced to re-examine how they conduct ...

Join BearingPoint Managing Director and Senior Vice President of Global Markets, Peter Horowitz, as he explores the recent credit crisis and its contributors. With all the turmoil in the financial services space over the past few weeks, it seems that one must look at the source of the problem to ...

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

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 ...

Senior Vice President of the Consumer Product Group, Rowan Trollope, provides an overview of the 2009 versions of Norton Internet Security and Norton AntiVirus. In addition, Trollope dicusses the emphasis on performance, security and quality in the development of the products and how users helped to drive product improvements. ...

Join BearingPoint Senior Vice President Marcel Nickler as he explores the importance of IT governance. In today’s difficult economical environment, there is a lot of pressure to deliver more services and performance with less or limited resources. There is also a clear expectation towards IT, which is that the services ...

What role can notebook computers play in the greening of IT? Mike Trainor discusses Intel Centrino 2 and the latest performance and efficiency advancements in mobile computing.

Join BearingPoint Senior Business Advisor Jaime Garza to discuss the call for better management of information to support profitability measurement and pricing in today’s U.S. interest rate environment. Changing interest rates affect all of us when it comes to our personal savings accounts and other financial services. The interest ...

The Intel Developer Forum has become a major event on the technology industry calendar with keynotes that make international headlines. But at the heart of IDF are the sessions where developers get access to the details of new products and science from the world’s biggest chipmaker. This podcast is an ...

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 ...

Verizon Business recently added the Juniper Networks J-series services routers to its suite of managed services. Verizon Business is the first U.S. service provider to offer management of this class of Juniper Networks routers, which deliver carrier-class reliability and performance to enterprises. In this podcast, Chip Freund, director, managed services ...

Join BearingPoint Senior Manager John Gill as he explores Information Management, but more specifically, the importance of BI and Performance Management. Information Management is focused on identifying the best way to get information to the proper channels. In many instances, this involves looking at three keys areas; analytics, ...

In this audio podcast, Nehalem lead architect Ronak Singhal discusses the significant performance and power improvements of Intel’s latest leap in microarchitectural design. The technology has significant implications for dynamic scalability, design and performance scalability, simultaneous multi-threading, scalable shared memory and multi-level shared caching. The ground-up design takes ...

In this podcast, The Register’s Tim Phillips speaks with Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura about developers’ adoption of multi-core technology. Krishnapura sees that, while multi-core processors have been around for awhile, now is an especially exciting time for multi-threaded software, given the uptake in industry and the increasingly urgent need ...