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Everyone wants to move their IT toward a more flexible, efficient future state. This has driven recent years’ datacenter modernization projects. Organizations are modularizing with blade servers, consolidating workloads onto virtualized environments, moving to scale-out storage, and adopting service-oriented management and delivery strategies—all part of forward-looking IT convergence and evolution. Many now look to the idea of “cl...

In order to survive in today's "instant gratification" world, even the largest organization needs to respond quickly to a challenging and capricious marketplace, while at the same time delivering value to its customers. Because of its potential for improving agility, cutting costs, and reacting rapidly to change, cloud computing is being eagerly embraced by enterprises and small businesses alike. This white paper discusses the architecture behind a re...

To realize benefits such as increased agility and efficiency, Intel IT is undertaking a major transition to an enterprise private cloud for our Office and Enterprise applications. To create the infrastructure for this cloud, they set a lofty goal of virtualizing 75 percent of their Office and Enterprise computing environment. Download Overcoming Security Challenges to Virtualize Internet-facing Applications, to get an inside look at the technical obs...

Leading cloud computing provider Savvis needed to build an infrastructure for a new cloud computing offering while expanding existing environments to support continued customer growth. By selecting new servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series, Savvis is providing customers with improved application performance for all cloud offerings while increasing server density up to 50 percent compared with previous deployments. That density ...

Would you like to begin transforming your data center into a flexible, high-density private cloud that enables far more dynamic and automated control of systems and workloads? Would you like to use public cloud services to add capacity during peak demands? No doubt, the efficiency, flexibility, and financial benefits of these strategies would benefit your business, yet you probably share the concerns of many other IT decision makers: How can the secur...

Today, business survival depends on IT innovation. Enterprise cloud computing presents CIOs with tremendous opportunities to deliver that innovation—by thinking like CEOs in order to play a strategic role in driving new revenue and reducing costs.   Provided by   ...

Seven Steps for Building Security in the Cloud from the Ground Up Why you should read this document: This guide provides practical information to help you integrate security planning into your cloud computing initiatives—from data center to endpoint devices—and: Makes suggestions and recommendations for strengthening data and platform protection in cloud implementations Provides guidance on encryption to protect data Describes the im...

This paper describes the architecture and implementation details of a small scale-out storage (SOS) cloud solution built jointly by Intel and EMC to demonstrate a private cloud storage deployment across two geographically separate data centers. We built the scale-out storage cloud solution with the AMC Atmos cloud-optimized storage solution with Dell* servers based on Intel Xeon technology.   Provided by   ...

Intel IT has defined an architecture and implementation roadmap for a private enterprise cloud designed to increase agility and IT efficiency. The private cloud is a shared multi-tenant environment built on a highly efficient, automated, and virtualized infrastructure. Other key elements of the cloud include standardized application platforms provided as a service and a self-service portal that enables business groups to request and manage capacity fo...

DuPont is one of the world’s premier science companies. Its Central Research & Development (CR&D) IT leaders wanted to provide the company’s scientists with the power and flexibility of cloud-enhanced computing for its scientific application portfolio. DuPont CR&D chose the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series as the foundation of its science-focused highperformance computing (HPC) cloud. Now the processor’s perfor...