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- Optimizing the Performance of IBM System x and BladeCenter Servers Using Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processors
- The Intel Xeon 5500 series processors are next-generation quad-core processors targeted at the two-socket server space and will be the common building block across a number of IBM platforms, including the IBM BladeCenter HS22 blade server, the 1U x3550 M2 and 2U x3650 M2 rack servers, and the IBM iDataPlex...
- Tags: IBM eServer BladeCenter, Performance, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Intel Xeon 5500 Series Processor, Series Processor, QPI, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2009-03-01
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- Intel debuts Core i7 960
- Why?LGA1366 is effectively dead.RE: Intel debuts Core i7 960I think I was happier when Intel had competition at the high end and had to price their chips accordingly.Whether or not I use AMD, I need them to compete better to keep Intel's prices down.Why would you say that?Where are you...
- Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Intel Corp., socket, chipset, LGA1366, Bloomfield, LGA1156
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers: a group test
- Intel's Xeon 5500 processor has made a big splash in the server world as the major manufacturers each have their own brands featuring the 45nm Nehalem architecture. But which one is best? ZDNet UK's Alan Stevens puts the top models to the test and chooses a winner: ...
- Tags: Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Prices, HP ProLiant DL380 G6, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Andy Smith
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Leading Turkish Financial Institution Drives Better Growth and Services With Intel Technology
- Turkiye Finans Katýlým Bank is one of the largest participation banks in Turkey. Turkiye Finans Katýlým Bank wanted to improve responsiveness of existing services and develop new ones to enhance the bank's customer offering and increase capacity and manageability of resources by replacing large and ageing server fleet. As a...
- Tags: Financial, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Turkiye Finans Katýlým Bank, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Optimizing Energy Efficiency for Managed IT
- To succeed in the competitive marketplace for managed IT services, DataPipe must deliver outstanding processing performance for its clients while controlling the costs of running its data centers. When the company's IT group designed a new data center, it standardized on the low-voltage Intel Xeon processor 5400 series to deliver...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Information Technology, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Servers, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Automated Energy Efficiency for the Intelligent Business
- Efficiency is emerging as a major tool to extend the life of existing data centers and ensure that new data centers will deliver the highest ROI. This whitepaper looks at how The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem empowers IT to maximize the business value of servers...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Roi/Tco, Storage, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2009-06-22
- Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series - An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges
- This paper looks at how, in many organizations, IT infrastructure has begun to constrain business efficiency and growth. However, IT infrastructure is actually limiting IT from investing in innovation. IDC estimates that for every dollar IT spends on hardware to support new users and applications, they spend another 50 cents...
- Tags: Information Technology, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-06-22
- AMD Istanbul: Field Upgrade Only If Your Hands are Nimble
- The newly-launched AMD Opteron 24xx and 84xx server CPUs have six processor cores. Unlike Intel's Nehalem, which requires entirely new and unproven mainboards, systems, chipsets and sockets, the "Istanbul" is based on existing, mature AMD chipsets and uses the existing 1207-pin Socket F, allowing current Quad-Core...
- Tags: Istanbul, Quad-core, Server, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Chip, Nehalem, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Virtualization With the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: A Proof of Concept
- Intel IT, together with Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, End User Platform Integration, and Intel's Software and Services Group, conducted proof-of-concept testing and Total Cost of Ownership TCO analysis to assess the virtualization capabilities of Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. A server based on Intel Xeon processor X5570 delivered up to...
- Tags: Virtualization, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Intel Xeon Processor Technology and Intel Solid-State Drives
- TV viewers have come to expect a web-like experience for TV programs - they want to watch their favourite programs on their own schedule. To meet this shift in customer expectations, Cable MSO and Telecommunications operators are rolling out Time-Shifted TV services for their subscribers using powerful video-on-demand platforms such...
- Tags: Drives Inc., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Time-Shifted TV, Video On Demand (VoD), Processors, Servers, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2009-06-01
- The New Generation of System X Servers: Lower datacenter costs through server refresh
- Join Intel and IBM for a deep dive into the new Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series rack servers from IBM System x. Learn more about the features and functions of this new generation of servers that can dramatically improve your floor space while providing extreme performance. We have all heard...
- Tags: Data Center, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Data Centers, Servers, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components
- Webcasts 2009-05-14
- Fujitsu cools things down with new PRIMERGY BX900 blade
- Watch out Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Fujitsu wants to eat some of your market share with a new blade server in its PRIMERGY line that consumes 30 percent less power than its previous models. The PRIMERGY BX900 blade server is built on the Intel Xeon 5500 processor...
- Tags: Blade, Fujitsu Siemens Primergy, Fujitsu Ltd., PRIMERGY BX900, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Intel intros new data center management utility software
- Intel has released a software development kit called Intel Data Center Manager that you can use to create utilities for controlling rack density, power and cooling infrastructure related to servers running on the new Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series. The kit builds on the Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager. ...
- Tags: Software, Data Center, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Tools & Techniques, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- DDR3 Configuration Recommendations for HP ProLiant G6 Servers: Best Practice Guidelines for ProLiant Servers With the Intel Xeon 5500 Processor Series
- This white paper gives rules, best practice recommendations, and performance data on DDR3 memory in certain ProLiant servers. Because of significant differences in the system architecture of Sixth Generation (G6) Intel Xeon-based ProLiant servers over prior generations of Intel Xeon-based servers, more rules and trade-offs must be evaluated in order...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Best Practice, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Why the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series Is the Ideal Foundation for Cloud Computing
- While "Cloud computing" appears to be reaching the top of the hype cycle, there are some very real, substantive reasons why companies of all sizes are closely examining the benefits of the cloud. A cloud computing model has the potential to increase the agility of IT infrastructure, lower costs of...
- Tags: Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Parallels Workstation Extreme
- Until very recently, some graphics intensive applications were not good candidates for encapsulation in a virtual machine. Even though using virtual machine technology could offer the administrators and users a number of benefits, the performance would simply not past muster with the "power users" needing those applications. ...
- Tags: Performance, NVidia Corp., Virtual Machine, Graphics, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Parallels, NIVIDIA, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Workstations, Performance Management, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Processors, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Storage, Semiconductors, Components, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Consolidating DSS Workloads on Dell PowerEdge 11G Servers Using Oracle 11g Database Replay
- Any server consolidation project must be preceded by a well-planned effort to predict the energy consumption and performance capacity of the new platform as compared to the legacy environment. This paper shows how one can use the Oracle Database Replay feature as a reliable tool to help in server consolidation...
- Tags: Processor, Dell Computer Corp., Database, Oracle Corp., Performance, Environment, Decision Support System, Dell PowerEdge, R710 Chipset, Server Consolidation, Servers, Chipsets, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Energy-efficient chips are cool, but Intel is reaching much deeper in eco-innovation
- OK, OK, we've all heard a gazillion and one things this week about why Nehalem, er the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, is like, a total breakthrough in terms of energy efficiency. Intel calls the chip its most revolutionary product in the past 15 years shades of Pentium and all...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Chip, Desktop Virtualization, Wi-Fi, Processors, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Virtualization, Semiconductors, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Intel ushers in new era of energy efficiency with data center design contest
- Want to invest in Intel's new "Nehalem" processor (aka the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series) but don't have the money quite yet? The high-tech company is running the Data Center Efficiency Challenge to encourage people to submit their best ideas for how to use new technologies to cut data center...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges
- In many organizations, IT infrastructure has begun to constrain business efficiency and growth. For the past decade, IT has rapidly added low-cost hardware to accommodate business growth. But with data centers now stretched to capacity in terms of power, cooling, and floor space, IT infrastructure is actually limiting IT from...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Strategy, Servers, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2009-03-25
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