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To offer a range of energy-efficient and affordable solutions for server and workstation customers, Intel introduced twenty-eight processors across three product families: Intel Xeon processors E5-4600 product family designed to bring efficient performance into a four-socket server configuration for customers seeking additional performance, density and flexibility; Intel Xeon processors E5-2400 product family to make the performance and reliability of two-socket servers more affordable for small and medium sized businesses; Intel Xeon processors E3-1200 v2 product family, first server processors based on 22nm Tri-Gate transistors, to deliver improved performance per watt, data security for small businesses or high-density environments and professional-grade graphics for entry workstation customers.

Today Dell announced its latest Dell PowerEdge C5220 - the world’s first microserver to be based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v2 product family featuring the industry leading 22nm technology with 3D Tri-Gate transistors. The upcoming Intel Xeon family of single socket server processors will include lowest voltage Intel Xeon ever - 17 Watt as well as 45 Watt TDPs. Dell's micro servers with new processors are designed to deliver up to 95% more performance within the same rack and 50% more density compared to the previous generation of micro servers.

Although cloud computing adoption is on the rise among enterprises, security still remains a major concern among IT decision makers. To address this challenge, Intel and McAfee provided insight into the security issues facing IT, and discussed how they are helping businesses build new lines of defense through joint innovation and currently available solutions. Based on the findings of a recent Intel-sponsered survey among IT professionals, both companies also outlined the areas that will have to be addressed in the future to make cloud computing safer and more secure. Jason Waxman, Intel GM of Cloud Infrastructure Group shares his thoughts in this blog on how Intel's and McAfee's joint efforts may accelerate Cloud adoption. More details about Intel's and McAfee's current technolgies and future plans can be also found here.

Every time we use smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, laptops it is the Cloud -- those big data centers -- that fuel them all with exciting content. We experience "the Cloud" when we watch YouTube, Facebook, play Farmville, search Google, send tweets and emails, or talk with friends over Skype. Today there are 1.5 billion people connected to Internet and by 2015 we project to have another 1 billion "netizens" and overall number of connected devices to break 15 billion. Such growth puts even more pressure on companies like Intel, whose technology powers 9 out of 10 servers in the Cloud, to deliver better, faster and more secure technology. Jason Waxman, General Manager of Intel Cloud Infrastructure shares his personal thoughts in his blog about the future of the Cloud and how it influences all aspects of our lives.

1.5% of the world’s energy power is consumed by data centers across the globe, costing their owners $27 billion annually. Up to 50% of those electricity costs are generated by cooling and uninterruptable power supplies (UPS). By simply increasing the data center ambient temperature by 5 degrees Celsius, one can save 20% of the spending, translating to more than $2 billion savings worldwide if all data centers did this. Read more about Intel’s current and future data center technologies that enable IT managers to save up to 40% of data center annual operating costs.

Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and University of Texas announced that they will deploy a 10 petaflop (or 10,000 trillion operations per second) supercomputer called “Stampede”.  Scheduled to power on in early 2013, 20 percent of the supercomputer’s performance will be delivered by future Intel® Xeon® E5 processors and 80 percent, which is equivalent to 8 petaflops, will be provided by Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture co-processors codenamed “Knights Corner”.

 

Read Intel director Joe Curley’s blog here and see why Intel is excited about the first announcement of a supercomputer that will include thousands of Intel MIC devices.

Today the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) announced a best practices competition called “Conquering the Cloud Challenge” to find the most innovative cloud-related practices by corporations and institutions. The grand prize, $10,000, will be awarded to the entry selected by a panel of expert judges: Jan Drake, Disney Corporation; Ben Kepes, industry analyst; Frank Gens, IDC; Jeff Perdue, Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley; and Ravi Subramaniam, Intel. There are also four category prizes and crowd favorite prizes available.

During the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University, Intel Corporation announced new architecture features of its upcoming Itanium processor, codenamed "Poulson." The new features: Intel Instruction Replay Technology, Intel Hyper-Threading Technology improvements and Itanium New Instructions are aimed to take full advantage of the next generation, 12-wide issue architecture. "Poulson", with eight cores and 3.1 billion transistors, will be the most sophisticated Intel processor to date, and is on track for launch in 2012. It is followed by a future "Kittson" processor, currently under development. Learn more here in a blog post by Pauline Nist, General Manager of Intel's Mission Critical Segment at Intel.

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