Learn how Intel's IT division actively managed its client PC fleet as a strategic asset, and consistently decreased total TCO by 67% from 1996 to 2007. No registration required.
Learn how Intel's own IT division avoided paying for unused memory and associated power and cooling, by determining optimal memory sizing for their virtualized server network. Includes a step by step plan for determining virtualization host memory size. No registration required.
Join host John Pickett, Editorial Director of IT World Canada as he draws out his guests on the benefits they've derived from server virtualization, virtualized developments, virtual test environments, and more. Guests include Tridel Corp,'s CIO, Ted Maulucci and IT operations manager, Brad Barlow, and Lavalife Corp,'s CIO, Loren Hicks.
When the university ran out of data centre space and cooling capacity, it replaced its infrastructure with virtual servers on blades. Find out how much power the school saves -- and why perhaps one in three enterprise servers isn't in use at all...
Dave DeWalt stops in Toronto to chat about escalating attacks, working with governments and the trouble with smart phones. Plus: Who’s responsible for defending America’s cyberspace?...
Forrester Research recommends virtualization for companies with Windows XP or 2000 software that won’t run on Vista. Find out about the hidden costs of virtualization, and why it’s not ideal for telecommuters...
Montego aims to secure traffic between virtual machines
(27 Mar 2008)
HyperSwitch lets customers enforce policies for data transmission within the virtual network, so they can defend against viruses or control what types of content can be passed among users and virtual machines...
The technology can bring benefits, but choose the applications you pair up on a physical server’s virtualized environment carefully. And don't virtualize everything in sight...
At Intel IT, we’ve changed our IT investment decision making process to a customer-focused, data-driven model that demonstrates IT’s impact to the bottom line. Our IT business value (ITBV) program provides a framework for measuring and evaluating IT products, services, and support in terms that reflect business benefits.
In Intel IT tests, a four-socket server based on the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series demonstrated scalable, predictable performance
with up to 32 consolidated server workloads in virtual machines (VMs).
Intel IT tested servers based on select Intel multi-core processors to analyze the potential role of each in our data center server
virtualization strategy. Each server provided significant potential benefits in performance, power consumption per workload, and operating costs over older
servers running non-virtualized workloads.
