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...
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