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.
With organizations increasingly moving to 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks, switch makers and providers need tools to measure performance. The latest entry is Ixia's 10GbE XM Load Module, which offers up to eight powered ports...
John McHugh, who leads Hewlett-Packard's networking arm, talks with Network World Canada about the state of the market, how the industry dodges economic downturns and a 50-year trend in business that we're halfway through...
INTEROP: Virtualization and economy an opportunity, Nortel says
(01 May 2008)
The company has high hopes that its alliance with Microsoft for unified communications will make significant inroads in the effort to close the gap on market leader Cisco...
Macs in the enterprise: How do you like them Apples?
(29 Apr 2008)
The corporate world has long been under the sway of Microsoft...but for how long? ComputerWorld Canada compiles our biggest-ever reference guide to an enterprise IT alternative...
Transition Networks unveiled a new addition to its Milan portfolio of switching products at this week’s Interop Las Vegas conference. The company said the 8-port switch aims to help users run powered devices....
Up against giants like IBM and HP, Monolith Software is trying to get the attention of service providers with its network managment suite. An industry analyst says its size should keep it in contention...
The Toronto firm’s workload management software will be integrated with CA’s product line to reduce the manual efforts of enterprise IT departments. Is this the beginning of another acquisition? ...
Immortalized in the movie Major League and in a bobblehead doll, AT&T engineer and Cleveland Indians superfan John Adams tells us how managing a network and a baseball team are the same...
In an exclusive interview, Tom Hogan talks with Dan McLean about life after the Mercury Interactive acquisition, the competition with SAP and the challenge of educating enterprise customers...
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.
