Troubleshooting the Altiris Manageability Toolkit for vPro Technology – Part...
In part 3 we covered troubleshooting common Provisioning Console issues. In part 4 we now focus on those components operating in the background during provisioning. With a functioning install and...
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 ArticleThere’s an App for that!
The Appification of IT The App. Another word we can thank Steve Jobs for bringing into our lexicon, along with i-anything. Before the launch of the iPhone in 2007 about the only time you would hear the...
View ArticleBring Your Own Device in EMEA – Part 2 – Finding the Balance
In my second blog focusing on Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in EMEA I’ll be taking a look at the positives and negatives of introducing a BYOD culture into a healthcare organisation. All too often we...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Take a Journey to the Cloud!
“Hello, my name is Jeff Ton and it has been one thousand, two hundred and seventy two days since I last opened Outlook.” February 6, 2012, an historic date in Indianapolis, Indiana. Yeah, there was...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: A Tale of Two Recoveries
Monday, January 6, 2014: Not since the blizzard of ‘78 had a day started in this way. After receiving close to 18” of snow on Sunday, temperatures plunged to windchills of 40 and 50 below. My phone...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Steve Snyder, CIO of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority in...
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 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 ArticleHow did we fare on Enterprise 2.0 in 2011..
Chris wrote about the evolution of social computing at Intel in last few years, I would like to add to his post and share how we fared on Enterprise 2.0 in 2011. In 2011, we saw a jump of 64% in using...
View ArticleThe CMO, the CIO’s New BFF
Tu dis dix et je dis dix Tu es prompt et je suis prompt Dix, dih, prompt, promp, Ignorons ces différences A tí te gusta la papa y a mí me gusta la patata A tí te gusta el tomate y a mí me gusta el...
View ArticleTurning a Geek into a Butterfly…a Social Butterfly, That Is!
Social Media is part of the Third Platform* (Cloud, Mobile and Big Data being the other parts). Like the other confluences of change rushing toward the CIO, Social Media has the potential to disrupt...
View ArticleIntel® 5th Gen 2 in 1s: Productivity, Unplugged
With the advent of ubiquitous high-speed connectivity and the ability to collaborate from nearly everywhere, small businesses are increasingly looking for ways to empower their employees with new...
View ArticleParty Like It’s 2016 and Amplify Your Value!
Party like it’s 2016!! OK, sitting here on April 1st, 2015 that doesn't sound very prophetic, perhaps a tad premature, but certainly not prophetic. But, think about celebrating New Year’s Eve 2015,...
View ArticleTHAT Project is a REAL Cluster! Amplify Your Value: Avoid CF Projects!
SNAFU, FUBAR, CF...if you have been in IT longer than five minutes you have been involved in a project that has been described as a real cluster. (If you are confused, look it up in the Urban...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Reap the Rewards!
Amplify Your Value and you can Reap the Rewards...that’s kind of the theme of this entire series...how you can amplify the value of your IT department and how your company can reap the rewards. But...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Black Belt CIO
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! All Paul Chapman knew was that he wanted to work in an office. As child...
View ArticleGame Over! Gamification and the CIO
Congratulations to the winner of the CIO Superhero Game! The first to complete the challenge and become “Super CIO” was Brad Ton of Reindeer Auto Relocation. He was presented with an AWESOME Trophy to...
View ArticleSupport for OpenStack Kilo and Latest Open vSwitch Boost VM Performance in...
By Dana Nehama, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Network Platforms Group (NPG), Intel I’m very pleased to announce the availability of a new release of the Intel® Open Network Platform – our integrated,...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Reasons to Buy a 2 in 1
It’s time your devices kept up with your life. You no longer have to buy three or four different devices to use at various points throughout your day. More and more business owners are discovering that...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: From Mining Gold to Developing People
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! For Tracy Kemp, CIO of Allegion, the Path to CIO started in the Big Sky...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Series Finale
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! So, how did we all end up there? Over the past year, I have asked a...
View ArticleDanish school sees learning blossom with 2-in-1s
We love seeing success stories like this. Nordfyns Kommune is a municipality in southern Denmark. At one of its schools – Sletten Skole – it has recently given students Dell Venue 11 Pro tablets,...
View ArticleWhat is the significance of 11.4 cents??
Did you know that using an electricity rate of 11.4 cents per kWh provides a simple method of calculating annual electricity cost of any device? 1 watt of power consumption, with an electricity rate of...
View ArticleIT’s Year in Review
New Year’s Day 2015 As I sat watching the Rose Bowl (not that I am a big follower of college football, I’m more of a pro football/college basketball kind of fan), but it is an annual tradition to watch...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: It All Started with (an) Operation!
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! For Will Lassalle his dream of being a surgeon started with a game...a game of...
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 ArticleTo Get Where You Are Going…Amplify Your Value
To get where you are going...you have to know where you are! Sounds pretty obvious doesn’t it. To arrive at any destination, you have to leave where you are and move toward that destination. At the...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Connecting the Dots
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO,” said no child...ever! Fire fighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Engineering was the only path that made sense to Intel Security...
View ArticleTroubleshooting the Altiris Manageability Toolkit for vPro Technology – Part...
Troubleshooting issues with the Intel® AMT Provisioning process can be a daunting prospect. This series walks through the troubleshooting methods to pinpoint where problems originate and how to fix...
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 ArticleThe Path to CIO: From Paris to the Sierra Nevadas
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! CIO of Brain Balance Achievement Centers, Stephane Bourles’ Path to...
View ArticleUsing 2 in 1s for Disruptive Innovation at Front Porch
In a time of rapid change, innovation is crucial for any enterprise. But I haven’t seen many organizations approach innovation as thoughtfully and systematically as Front Porch. This California-based...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value – A Seismic Shift Forward
Did you feel it? Did you feel the shifting of the earth? Did you hear it? Did you hear the rumble so loud you could feel it in your bones? What? You missed it? What were you doing on Saturday night...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Riding the Wave to the Public Sector
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! As a child Aleta Jeffress, CIO for the City of Aurora, Colorado,...
View ArticleVirtualization 2.0 and Data Center Architectures – what can IT expect?
Virtualization 1.0 is yesterday’s news; the days of virtualization being used only as a tactical tool to drive consolidation and higher system utilization are quickly ending. For the most part,...
View ArticleYou’re the (2 in) 1 for Me!
OK, I admit it. I’m a geek. I like technology—especially new technology. In this blog I want to share my experience with 2-in-1 devices. For the last several years, I’ve been an IT Program Manager for...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Building Blocks of a CIO
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Isaac Sacolick wanted to build...bridges, buildings, trains. His love for...
View ArticleVMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Sets New Record
VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 All NVMe Flash Array with Intel® SSD P3520 Sets New Record At VMworld last year, we demonstrated the World’s First 64 node All Flash Virtual SAN with NVMe and SATA SSDs. The...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Play That Funky Music Tech Boy
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Steve Ginsberg’s Path to CIO included stops in Hollywood, the...
View ArticleServer Refresh + Energy Rebates = A MATCH! (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1 of Server Refresh + Energy Rebates = A MATCH, I chatted with my colleagues Tom and David to understand how they were able to motivate their internal customers to stay on track to a four-year...
View ArticleAre 2-in-1 Devices Right for Your Employees?
Intel has added notebook/tablet “hybrid” 2-in-1 devices to its regular PC refresh program, in addition to regular laptops. Of course, since these devices connect to the internal Intel network, they...
View ArticleIntel SSD Data Center Tool 2.2.0 has arrived…
Intel provides tools based on our lines of products and the target, which is Consumer, Professional (IT client), and Data Center. In my area, Data Center, we provide SATA and PCIe based SSD's and for...
View ArticleSCCM Agent initiated provisioning of AMT / vPro clients with firmware 2.x
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager can provision an AMT / vPro client in two different capacities: Bare metal and Agent Initiated. Bare metal provisioning begins with the AMT client sending...
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 ArticleUpgrading AMT FW from 2.5 to 2.6
If you want to upgrade your Centrino Pro laptop from AMT 2.5 to 2.6 to take advantage of Remote Configuration (RCFG, AKA "Zero Touch"), it can be done, but few gotach's you need to be aware of: First,...
View ArticleSCCM SP1 & WS-MAN Translator: How vPro firmware versions less than 3.2.1 are...
Note: This information is based off Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 RC and is subject to changes between now and RTM So as you read through the Microsoft documentation for SCCM...
View ArticlemHealth: 4 Tips for Designing Secure Applications and Electronic Health Records
by Jeff Zavaleta, MD, chief medical officer, Graphium Health, and Daniel Dura, chief technology officer, Graphium Health Discussions around security in the healthcare IT space usually center around...
View Article4 Reasons Why Clinicians Should Care About Data Stewardship
This guest blog was written by Matt Oldham, Director of Data Architecture at Graphium Health. I deal with data everyday. As a data architect, database administrator, and data integration engineer, data...
View ArticlePerformance Now, Capacity for the Future: Intel IT Tests SAP HANA* 2
For efficiency and growth, companies need data like humans need oxygen. All companies, including Intel, are being transformed by next-gen analytics and the data that fuels them. The analytics engines...
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