It’s Here: The Convergence of Memory and Storage
For years, people have been talking about the coming convergence of memory and storage. To this point, the discussion has been largely theoretical, because the affordable technologies that enable this...
View ArticleTransforming the Datacenter: A New Era in Storage & Memory Technologies
By David Cohen, Intel Corp With the arrival of new non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies, we are suddenly in the midst of the biggest data center transformation in the past 30 years. Data centers...
View ArticleThe Red Rock Canyon 100GbE Demo Tour Comes to IDF15
By Gary Lee, Ethernet Switch Product Manager at Intel Intel’s 100GbE multi-host controller silicon, code-named Red Rock Canyon, has been on a worldwide demo tour, with stops at four major industry...
View ArticleIntel & OHSU Announce Collaborative Cancer Cloud at Intel Developer Forum
Each year millions of people all over the world, including more than 1 million patients in the United States, learn that they have a cancer diagnosis. Instead of going through painful chemotherapy...
View ArticleRemembering Intel’s Response to Hurricane Katrina, 10 Years Later
Ten years ago, just days after hurricane Katrina battered the southern states of the US, I received and urgent call from work late at night. “…make your way to Austin TX. We are setting up a...
View ArticleNOdoop: Not Only Hadoop and What Comes after Map Reduce
From some of my previous posts on the impact of analytics and BI at Intel, the evolution of Intel IT’s use of Big Data, and the migration to Cloudera from another Hadoop distribution, you might get...
View ArticleBusiness Transformation in Mexico Is Happening Right Now
In my last blog post I looked at the Mexican appetite for large-scale business transformation and the five key considerations businesses should take into account when making the transition from...
View Article10 Mobile BI Strategy Questions: Communication
I am often amazed to discover that the lack of communication in technology projects stems not from a lack of resources but from wrong assumptions made about what’s perceived to be communication as...
View ArticleNew Intel Network Builders Fast Track Igniting Network Transformation with...
Today at IDF 2015, Sandra Rivera, Vice President and GM of Intel’s Network Platforms Group, disclosed the Intel® Network Builders Fast Track program in her joint keynote “5G: Innovation from Client to...
View ArticleDelivering the Full Value of NFV Solutions: Intel Network Builders Fast Track
Russell L. Ackoff, the pioneer in operations research, said "A system is more than the sum of its parts … It loses its essential properties when it is taken apart." That also suggests the system...
View ArticleNetwork Transformation: Innovating on the Path to 5G
Close your eyes and try to count the number of times you’ve connected with computing today. Hard to do? We have all witnessed this fundamental change: Computing has moved from a productivity tool...
View ArticleIntel’s New Innovation Engine Enables Differentiated Firmware
Historically, platform embedded firmware limits the ways system-builders can customize, innovate, and differentiate their offerings. Today, Intel is streamlining the route for implementing new...
View ArticleRetail: Transform through Cloud Capabilities
I recently was part of a webinar hosted by CDW focusing on Cloud for Retail. I had the privilege to be a part of the panel highlighting the benefits and trends for retailers. The panel was comprised...
View ArticlePushing Machine Learning to a New Level with the Intel Xeon Processor and...
By Pradeep K Dubey, Intel Fellow and Fellow of IEEE; Director, Parallel Computing Lab Traditionally, there has been a balance of intelligence between computers and humans where all forms of number...
View ArticleMobile is Vital to Healthcare Strategy
In the above clip, Bill Muth, a solution architect at CDW, explains how strategies for CIOs need to compliment an organization’s mission and usually focus on one of three areas: cost,...
View ArticleStumped by the Internet of (Too Many) Things?
Here’s an interesting disconnect: 84 percent of C-suite executives believe that the Internet of Things (IoT) will create new sources of revenue. However, only 7 percent have committed to an IoT...
View ArticleDevelopers building exciting new services use disruptive technologies
Preventing data loss in servers has been an objective since the invention of the database. A tiny software or hardware glitch that causes a power interruption can result in lost data, potentially...
View ArticleEnabling data analytics success with optimized machine learning tools
Last year I read an article in which Hadoop co-developers Mike Cafarella and Doug Cutting explained how they originally set out to build an open-source search engine. They saw it as serving a specific...
View ArticleSDI Paves the Way for Analytics Workloads
In a series of earlier posts, we took a trip down the road to software-defined infrastructure (SDI). Now that we have established an understanding of SDI and where it is today, it’s a good time to...
View ArticleData is the New Currency of the Digital Service Economy: My 5 Takeaways from...
City-wide traffic visualization. Global shipping data. Airplane traffic patterns. Worldwide Facebook* connections. A stunning video highlighting the current deluge of data as both the world’s most...
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