A New Order of All-Flash Hyper-Converged Storage: Atlantis HyperScale™ with...
The software-defined storage (SDS) appliance concept of hyper-convergence is an attractive alternative to traditional Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) for small to medium...
View ArticleHow Caesars Entertainment Cut Big Data Processing Time from 6 Hours to 45...
Happy customers are the lifeblood of the entertainment industry. But before you can make customers—and potential customers—happy, you've got to understand what they want. For Caesars Entertainment,...
View ArticleUse Data To Support Arguments, Not Arguments To Support Data
The concept of “better-informed” decisions is distinctly different than the concept of “better” decisions— the former is generally a choice, whereas the latter often results from an action....
View ArticleIntel & Cisco Make News at NFV World Congress 2015
By John Healy, General Manager SDN Division, Intel Corporation I had a chance to chat onstage with Dave Ward, Cisco’s CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect, during my keynote at this year’s NFV...
View ArticleGetting the most out of your Big Data and Analytics tools: Data Cleansing,...
At this start of this series on Big Data and analytics, I mentioned that Intel derived US$351 million in value from its analytics programs during 2014. While access to tools such as Cloudera Hadoop...
View ArticleReliable, Real-Time, Results: The Powerful Combination of SAP HANA* and...
Intel recently introduced the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 family. Last year, as part of our partnership with SAP and our ongoing commitment to improve business technology, we worked together...
View ArticleThe Role of Technology and Data to Transform Healthcare
If you haven’t noticed lately, we’re seeing an increase in demand for analytics driven by health reform. However, for many organizations, the culture needs to change in order to fully embrace...
View ArticleThe NFV Business Process Revolution
Network functions virtualization (NFV) is generally viewed as a revolutionary concept because of the positive economic impact it is having on service provider networks. NFV takes cost out of the...
View ArticleNurses Week: Telehealth Set to Increase Tenfold and Help Nurses Provide Even...
As we celebrate Nurses Week across the world, I wanted to highlight the impact of telehealth on the changing nature of nursing and healthcare more generally. But before I do that we must recognise...
View ArticleApril 2015 Intel® Chip Chat Podcast Round-up
In April, we continued to share Mobile World Congress podcasts recorded live in Barcelona, as well as the announcement from the U.S. Department of Energy that it had selected Intel to be part of its...
View ArticleObservations From HPC User Forum Norfolk, Virginia & Bio IT World, Boston, 2015
By Aruna Kumar, HPC Solutions Architect Life Science, Intel 15,000 to 20,000 variants per exome (33 Million bases) vs. 3 million single nucleotide polymorphisms per genome. HPC a clearly welcome...
View ArticleSSD Endurance. What does it mean to you?
I continuously think about the endurance aspect of our products, how SSD users understand it and use it for its positive benefits. Sadly, endurance is often underestimated and sometimes overestimated....
View ArticleMeeting of the Minds: A Discussion about Data Science
May 5th, 2015 was an exciting day for Big Data analytics. Intel hosted an event focused on data analytics, announcing the next generation of the Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 family and sharing an update...
View Article3 Reasons Analytics Matter to Physicians
As physicians, we're taught to practice evidence-based medicine where the evidence comes primarily from trade journals that document double blind, randomized control trials. Or, perhaps we turn to...
View ArticleDemonstrating Commitment to iWARP Technology with Microsoft
By David Fair, Unified Networking Marketing Manager, Intel Networking Division iWARP was on display recently in multiple contexts. If you’re not familiar with iWARP, it is an enhancement to...
View Article5 Hyperscale Lessons For Mainstream Datacenters
Management practices from the HPC world can get even bigger results in smaller-scale operations. In 2014, industry watchers have seen a major rise in hyperscale computing. Hadoop and other cluster...
View ArticleThe Path to Ethernet Standards and the Intel Ethernet, NBASE-T
The “Intel Ethernet” brand symbolizes the decades of hard work we’ve put into improving performance, features, and ease of use of our Ethernet products. What Intel Ethernet doesn’t stand for,...
View ArticleShould You Take the High Road or the Low Road to SDI?
When I started my career in IT, infrastructure provisioning involved a lot of manual labor. I installed the hardware, installed the operating systems, connected the terminals, and loaded the software...
View ArticlePharma Sales: The 90-Second Rule
I have just spent the better part of two weeks involved in the training of a new 50-strong sales team. Most of the team were experienced sales people but very inexperienced in pharmaceutical sales....
View ArticleHealth IT Critical for Underserved, Entire Ecosystem
The National Health IT (NHIT) Collaborative for the Underserved kicked off their Spring Summit with a briefing at the White House in April to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the Heckler Report....
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