Myth Busted: General Purpose CPUs Can’t Tackle Deep Neural Network Training –...
Multi-Node Caffe* Training on Intel Xeon Processor E5 Series In the second installment of the Intel® Math Kernel Library technical preview package, we present an optimized multi-node implementation...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: We will always have Paris
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO,” said no child ever. Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything but CIO. As a young girl growing up in Michigan, Ginny Davis loved animals. Growing up, she...
View ArticlevSAN Got a 2.5x Performance Increase: Thank You Intel Optane!
On March 19th Intel announced the Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X—the first flash device built on the much-anticipated 3D XPoint technology. This is exciting news for vSAN customers, since—as a result of...
View ArticleReplacing big iron with small iron (cash for clunkers 2?)
I wrote a few weeks ago about the end of the mini generation. This time I thought I would dig out some data to support my case. My personal anecdotal evidence is what I am hearing from my customers....
View ArticleConsolidating older 2-socket workloads onto Dell’s new R810 (Xeon 7500/6500)
Intel's Xeon 7500/6500 processor series brings the biggest leap in performance in Xeon's history. This level of performance enables consolidation of a ton of older servers onto significantly fewer Xeon...
View ArticleNew Reference Design: 2 stage boot = faster remote booting
In our quest to make vPro great for remote remediation, we took the concept of a small linux iso, added in a little ROS_trigger, and poof; a new reference design code named 2 stage boot. Our goal was...
View ArticleCloud Security Investment, Part 2: Whac-a-Mole Funding and Going on the...
Please note: A version of this blog appeared on InformationWeek.com in the Cloud Section as an Intel sponsored post. In the first part of this discussion, “Walking the Talk,” we concluded that the...
View ArticleTesting C-State Settings and Performance with the Oracle Database on Linux
In my previous post How to Maximise CPU Performance for the Oracle Database on Linux I looked at some of the settings related to CPU performance and in this post I will look at some tests that prove...
View ArticleIDH with Oracle Big Data Connectors (Part 2)
Ritu Kama is the Director of Product Management for Big Data at Intel. She has over 15 years of experience in building software solutions for enterprises. She led Engineering, QA and Solution Delivery...
View ArticleWhat Is a Business 2-in-1 PC?
The workplace is constantly shifting and evolving, and technology needs to be as mobile as today's worker. That's where 2-in-1 PCs can help. Curious about what a business 2-in-1 can do for your...
View ArticleApplying Intel® Optane™ SSDs to MySQL- Part 2: Caching Device
In Part 1 of this two-part blog series, I looked at using an Intel® Optane™ SSD, specifically the Intel® SSD DC P4800X , as fast storage for housing databases in MySQL. In that scenario, the entire...
View ArticleIntegrating VNC and WinPE 2.x
Integrating VNC on Windows PE 2.0 Author: Trevor Sullivan Company: OfficeMax Corporation Versions: 1.0 – April 24,...
View ArticleIntel AT 2.0 – The Next Generation of AntiTheft
With the latest release of Intel Antitheft (AT 2.0) it is now possible to brick (lock up) a PC and delete the disk encryption keys - rendering not just the PC inoperable, but locking access to the data...
View ArticleIntel Setup and Configuration Service 7.2: Designed for Linux
This post is the first in a series about configuring Intel vPro with the Linux operating system. The motivation for this series is that Intel vPro has been adopted for embedded systems such as...
View ArticleHow to Move an Oracle Database the Old Way –“Quickly” Pt 2
In the first post on this topic on server modernization, I started us off on moving an Oracle Database the Old Way "Quickly" and have gotten us to this point. Now we will set up all of the scripts for...
View Article2 in 1 Devices Cut IT Costs
As the workforce becomes more mobile, many companies are considering tablet devices for departments like Marketing and Sales in order to make completing tasks easier while on the go. Though tablets can...
View ArticleDell 2 in 1 Devices Save IT Spend In the Long Run
There’s no stopping the consumerization of IT and as the workforce becomes more mobile, staff members in departments like sales and marketing are starting to demand tablets in order to accomplish...
View ArticleDon’t Get Stuck in the Past, 2 in 1 Devices are the Computers of Today
Small businesses have to be more agile than ever, often working outside any sort of traditional office and meeting with clients, vendors, and others over the course of a single day. So, are you working...
View ArticleTransforming Front Porch Care with 2 in 1s
Skilled nursing and retirement communities are becoming fertile ground for technology innovation, as baby boomers retire and seek out nursing care. Front Porch, a nonprofit organization that supports a...
View ArticleDigital Transformation: Intel and SAP HANA 2 Help Businesses Innovate and...
I ran into a great quote in an article I read recently: “Here’s the thing; your customers don’t care about SoE’s [systems of engagement], SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. They do, however, care—sometimes...
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