Cloud Computing Strategies for the CIO
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Intel IT Server Sizing Tool
This product demo allows you to enter data about your current server environment and evaluate and determine the appropriate server sizing to meet ERP requirements.
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Dell Server Solutions - Choosing your Server
When buying a server there are many factors to consider, such as the type of applications you need to run, the amount of data you will use, and the number of users who need access. Learn more about Dell PowerEdge Servers and which server is the right choice for your business in this video.
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Dell Server Solutions - Server Hardware Configuration
All Servers are essentially the same, featuring the same basic hardware. The appearance and performance of the hardware in a particular server is what makes the difference. Learn more about Server Hardware such as Processors, Hard Drives, RAM, RAID, and Network Controller Cards in this video.
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Dell Server Solutions - PowerEdge Blade Servers
Blade servers are great for businesses that require much larger computing capacity for performance-intensive business-critical applications. Blade Servers allow your business to add significant performance in an energy efficient and easily managed form factor. Learn more about Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers in this video.
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Dell Server Solutions - PowerEdge Tower Servers
Tower Servers are ideal first servers for small businesses with the right combination of value, reliability, collaboration and data protection features to improve your business continuity and productivity. Learn more in this video which takes a look at a growing restaurant's adoption of a Dell PowerEdge Tower Server.
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Intel IT's Data Center Strategy: A Video Experience
Experience Intel IT's data center strategy that has us on track to create USD 650 million of value for Intel. Through a series of videos, gain a deeper understanding of our facilities, compute, networking, and storage approaches. Then take a video tour of our world-class data centers.
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Intel Xeon Processor-based Server Refresh Savings Estimator
Developed with key learnings from Intel IT's experience in justifying server refresh internally, this tool allows you to enter data about your existing environment and evaluate the benefits of replacing it with the latest generation of Intel-based servers.
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Intel's Vision for the Ongoing Shift to Cloud Computing
Cloud computing promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are growing exponentially. Intel’s vision for the future of this technology focuses on key principles to make the vision a reality. View this resource to learn more.
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Presentation Transcript: FAQ - How server virtualization benefits disaster recovery
Server virtualization presents some interesting implications for disaster recovery (DR), including cost reductions and increased recovery times. In this FAQ, business continuity expert Paul Kirvan discusses the various server virtualization approaches that are effective for DR and how they benefit failover and failback processes.
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Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
Access this video overview to learn about Intel's Turbo Boost Technology and its ability to monitor and boost IT performance in the enterprise.
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E-Guide: Considerations for a Data Center Hardware Refresh
In this e-guide from SearchDataCenter.com, gain expert insight into how to tell if it's time for a hardware refresh. Discover numerous options for a refresh without the high costs. And learn about the pros and cons of server hardware upgrades versus technology refreshes.
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A Radical Remodel
In this case study Emerson virtualizes on Dell servers, eliminating 3,600 servers, reducing approximately 135 data centers down to 4, and decreasing the operating cost of its Windows server environment by 15 percent per year.
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Intel IT Cloud Computing Roadmap
In this video, you'll see how Intel IT's office and enterprise private cloud not only increases efficiency and agility, but also offers high availability without additional cost.
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Implementing On-Demand Services Inside the Intel IT Private Cloud
By instituting a hosting automation framework that includes entitlement, quotas, transparent measured services, and data-driven business logic, Intel is establishing a true enterprise private cloud that provides a consumer-focused self-service portal. Download this white paper now to learn more.
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Virtualizing Mission-Critical Applications
To create the infrastructure for a private enterprise cloud, Intel IT has set a goal of virtualizing up to 75 percent of its office and enterprise computing environments. To achieve this goal, Intel IT will need to virtualize mission-critical applications, which is challenging due to rigorous performance, availability, and other requirements.
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Analyzing the Virtualization Deployment Advantages of Two- and Four-Socket Server Platforms
Intel IT and Intel's Data Center Group conducted proof of concept (PoC) testing and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to compare two- and four-socket servers based on Intel Xeon processors for a variety of virtualization scenarios. Download this white paper for a detailed look at this test and its results.
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Intel IT Data Center Solutions: Strategies to Improve Efficiency
Intel’s new data center strategies shift the emphasis away from reducing the number of physical data center facilities to, instead, focusing on approaches that leverage the full potential of their data centers worldwide, enabling a nominal cost savings of about USD 1 billion by 2014.
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Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration Enablement
Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration allows virtualization software vendors to deliver live migration solutions across different generations of Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers. This white paper explains how Intel VT FlexMigration works, including how and why some instructions are masked by the hypervisor while others are not.
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Best Practices for Eliminating Virtual Network Complexity
This paper provides network architects and decision makers with guidance for moving from GbE to 10GbE networking in their virtualized data centers.
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Optimizing Hardware for x86 Server Virtualization
Virtualization technology is on a roll, driven by adoption of x86-based servers. While the software market ecosystem around virtualization is heating up, hardware vendors are leveraging that momentum and creating platforms that are optimized for virtualization.
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An Enterprise Private Cloud Architecture and Implementation Roadmap
The private cloud is a shared multi-tenant environment built on a highly efficient, automated, and virtualized infrastructure. This paper takes a look at an architecture and implementation roadmap for a private enterprise cloud - designed by Intel - to increase agility and IT efficiency.
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Dell's Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) Demo
In this demonstration you will get an inside look at Dell's Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM), and learn Dell AIM's value add in highly virtualized environments.
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Media Tablets in the Enterprise
Tablets are emerging as viable companion devices for select iWorkers, but they also introduce complexity for IT managers who struggle to keep ahead of the pace of consumer innovation that now impacts their corporate applications, infrastructure, and services.
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Increasing Productivity with Mobile Business PCs
After investigating various options, Intel IT selected mobile PCs as the standard computing platform. Mobile business PCs, by nature, are highly portable and their robust feature set provides productivity advantage to employees, while meeting a majority of the company's diverse requirements.
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E-Guide: Is Cloud Data Backup Service Right for your Organization?
This e-guide discusses different flavors of cloud backup in the market today and details what you should consider before adopting a cloud backup offering. Download this e-guide to learn more about cloud storage and how it fits into your IT plans.