posted by Ilene Aginsky
on May 12, 2008
at IT@Intel Blog
Come join us! The success of a security program is measured by an event that doesn't happen, so how do you know if you were successful? Matt Rosenquist, Intel’s Information Security Strategist will do a three-part series on Blog Talk Radio discussing the difficulties of measuring a security program.Segment 1: May 20th at 10:30 AM (Pacific): The Problem of Measuring...
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posted by Matthew Rosenquist
on May 08, 2008
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Recently, security expert Bruce Schneier expounded security ROI figures were meaningless! Is it true? Well, yes and no. The brutal truth.Well respected information security expert Bruce Schneier recently provided a stark opinion regarding the value of ROI's.http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62037905,00.htm In brief, Bruce stated security because numbers can be manipulated to justify anything.He explained that the amount spent on a product can change...
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posted by Tom Mant
on May 02, 2008
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Wouldn't it be great if we could buy an application and not have to worry about whether it was designed to run on Windows XP, Windows Vista, MAC OS X or some flavor of linux? How about when you buy a personal computer you don't have to make a decison on whether it should come with Windows XP, Windows Vista,...
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posted by Tim Casey
on May 01, 2008
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In the summer of 2002 I received a phone call from one of Intel’s senior information security experts, Brian Willis. Brian had just returned from an event in Washington D.C. that he was very excited about. Gartner and the U.S. Naval War College had hosted a three-day seminar-style war game called “Digital Pearl Harbor.” The purpose of the war game...
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posted by Ilene Aginsky
on April 28, 2008
at IT@Intel Data Center Blog
I'd like to introduce myself--my name is Ilene Aginsky and I'm the new site community manager for the IT@Intel zone on Open Port, Intel's online IT community site. I started out in IT about two years ago and got very interested in the green aspect of IT. We have had quite a few discussions out here in the community on...
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posted by Bill Sunderland
on April 24, 2008
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As this is my first blog on this forum, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Bill Sunderland and I have been working at Intel for 12 years primarily working on Server Hardware Engineering and the last three years of which I have focused my efforts on Program Managing the Virtualization Engineering release for Intel IT. I have recently...
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posted by Catherine Spence
on April 23, 2008
at IT@Intel Client Blog
Information Week recently released an excellent Special Report on Software as a Service (SaaS). A poll of 374 business technology professionals showed that 50% of organizations are considering or running one or more enterprise applications over the Internet as a service. I actually participated in the survey and you can probably guess which quote is mine in the “Our Readers...
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posted by Sudip Chahal
on April 22, 2008
at IT@Intel Data Center Blog
The relative positioning of 2 and 4-socket servers for server virtualization has been an open question for a long time - a question that has stumped the most astute of IT professionals time and again. In fact it might not be an exaggeration to say that this open question is almost in the same class as the famous Riemann's hypothesis...
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posted by Travis Broughton
on April 22, 2008
at IT@Intel Data Center Blog
My daughter recently brought home from school a photocopy of the lyrics of Jack Johnson’s “The 3 R’s” (from the Curious George soundtrack), which encourage us to “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”. This struck me as relevant in some of the recent discussions I have been having about Greenwashing in the Data Center.A fair amount of our data center strategy deals with...
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posted by Laurie Buczek
on April 11, 2008
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Doug Garday continues his podcast series with part II, which continues the discussion around a heat recovery system to reduce the total cost of ownership. In this podcast, Doug plugs in numbers that show potential energy cost savings.Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at http://www.podtech.net/home/5079/roi-of-data-center-heat-recoveryTo listen to Part I go to What if you invested...
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posted by Brian W. McCann
on April 04, 2008
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Hello community, Since this is my first blog on this site so I thought it would be nice to introduce myself. My name is Brian McCann and I'm an Automation Engineer at Intel that focuses on platforms support. In short this means I'm in the trenches everyday supporting Intel's manufacturing environment. This blog is going to be focused on sharing...
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posted by Doug Garday
on April 01, 2008
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If you invested one dollar and it returned 10 dollars, you'd think that was an excellent return wouldn't you? So what if you could get this same 10X return on energy? An industrial heat pump system called Heat Recovery where an additional 100 kW of power used returns 1 megawatt of heat energy.This return or ratio of energy in vs...
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posted by George Clement
on April 01, 2008
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Just finished my green belt project analyzing how effective web analytics is in identifying applications no longer required by IT (and should be archived) . the project went well I had some interesting data to show for it and it def drove a decision. I'd have to say that LSS gave me some new tools to use. The templates we...
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posted by Catherine Spence
on March 28, 2008
at IT@Intel Client Blog
According to Dictionary.com “one size fits all” is an adjective that means “acceptable or used for a wide variety of purposes or circumstances; appealing or suitable to a variety of tastes.” In IT, we have used this approach for how we deliver client systems to users. We pick a few key hardware platforms and create OS builds that meet security...
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posted by John E. Simpson
on March 19, 2008
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Up to this point I have covered Application inventory as a cost savings initiative followed by a discussion of Application inventory starts with a definition, and finally Application inventory, what do you capture?Following the natural progression of:Why inventoryBoundaries of what to captureWhat to captureHow to captureThe "How to capture" is not a simple task completed in a week or two....
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posted by Tom Mant
on March 11, 2008
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Some general thoughts and ramblings on application streaming - where it is better than web applications and where it might not be. Application streaming is an interesting technology - you can create a client rich application with sophisticated graphics and processing and yet have a high degree of security and the benefits of server side manageability. In my mind this...
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posted by Tomas Mcinerney
on March 10, 2008
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So we are on the home run of deploying the new pilot cubeenvironment, in fact I’m on site helping supporting day one move in at ourthird US site installation which has certainly been interesting. Flight overwent quickly, though at some points it was rather roller coaster (to the pointcoffee was spilt on laps)But I digress…I wanted to discuss an item...
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posted by Brently Davis
on March 10, 2008
at IT@Intel Data Center Blog
I won't go into a long dissertation, but I would like to hear what the masses are thinking about Green or Efficient efforts for the Data Center landscape. As you all know Green is taking off -- our world is becoming concerned with the legacy we'll leave for our children and their children. I admire that because it identifies how...
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posted by Heath Buckmaster
on March 07, 2008
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I've got profiles everywhere these days, and not just on the internet, but on the intranet as well. I'm sure we've all got a variety of external faces, whether on Yahoo*, MSN Spaces*, Facebook*, myspace.com*, LinkedIn*, or the myriad of other social networking sites out there.But what about on the corporate intranet? It can get just as complicated there, especially...
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posted by Alan Ross
on March 03, 2008
at IT@Intel Data Center Blog
Most data centers have a very long history with the enterprises they provide services for. Data centers grew up around the users they provide services to and are generally located within a close proximity to the user base. As LAN capabilities improved, performance of local applications became less of an issue for enterprises but new capabilities were generally landed in...
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posted by Catherine Spence
on February 28, 2008
at IT@Intel Client Blog
A recent article in Information Week discusses how Credit Suisse has been very successful implementing virtualization in the data center and how they view the desktop as the next area of opportunity. By virtualizing desktops and bringing them into the data center, Credit Suisse hopes gain the ability to quickly re-provision desktops in response to changing user needs. But at...
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posted by Catherine Spence
on February 26, 2008
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A Proof-of-Concept (POC) conducted by Intel IT evaluated OS and application streaming in call center and manufacturing environments. The four-part study included performance, usability, IT support and cost. The POC successfully identified streaming as a novel, feasible technology in the tested scenarios. The biggest benefits were related to locking down the client, improving security and eliminating service calls. Challenges were...
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posted by John E. Simpson
on February 21, 2008
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Up to this point I have covered Application inventory as a cost savings initiative followed by a discussion of Application inventory starts with a definition. In our specific implementation, we started with a base set of attributes. Some of those were very obvious while others were necessary for managing some of our base enterprise capabilities. Items that were only captured...
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posted by Catherine Spence
on February 14, 2008
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It seems counter-intuitive to think that applications streamed over the network could run faster than the same applications installed locally. If the circumstances are right, it could happen! Here is a Systems Manufacturing example. We ran a series of key tasks across a variety of configurations to collect performance metrics. Our script opened a work order in our ERP system,...
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posted by John E. Simpson
on February 13, 2008
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Every software project I have worked on always started with some form of conflict and complicated interactions. This usually resolved itself through the use of a definition regarding roles and responsibilities. That definition kept people on the same page and helped everyone to understand who was doing what.Now depending on when you happened to look at my job title over...
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