Intel Platforms, Technologies To Drive Enterprise Advances

Intel Platforms, Technologies To Drive Enterprise Advances

The future of the enterprise will include innovative computing and communications platforms and key silicon and software technologies, according to Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s recently formed Digital Enterprise Group. This approach is designed to enable businesses to use computing platforms in new, more efficient ways while helping them to reduce costs, mitigate risks and achieve growth.

“Businesses currently face ever-greater challenges managing worldwide mobile workforces, malicious software intrusions, mind-boggling volumes of complex information and expansive networks of communications and computing devices,” said Gelsinger. “New platforms and technologies will enable real-time business anytime and anywhere and will improve the way businesses manage and protect enterprise infrastructure, make decisions and collaborate.”

Intel continues to work with key companies across the industry to enable end users to take advantage of new technologies and platforms.

Microsoft’s Jim Allchin, group vice president, Microsoft Platforms Group, joined Gelsinger on stage and discussed how the two companies collaborate to deliver new capabilities. “Microsoft and Intel together paved the way to bring 64-bit computing to the broad IT markets,” said Allchin. “With Intel® Itanium®-based systems running Windows* Server 2003 and SQL Server* 2000, Microsoft and Intel offer the leading platform for replacing expensive, proprietary RISC systems that run computing-intensive database and line of business applications. When we release Windows x64 Editions in just a few months, customers and partners will get better performance on volume 64-bit platforms without sacrificing their existing 32-bit investments.”

Gelsinger outlined how Moore’s Law continues to drive the development of powerful enterprise capabilities and help Intel integrate innovations into silicon ranging from manageability and lower power consumption to greater performance and security. These capabilities include evolving toward multi-core platforms and adding benefits to Intel silicon ranging from virtualization and faster server networking approaches to 64-bit memory addressability and support for forthcoming memory technologies.

Intel’s premier family of technologies will enable new computing benefits for business users and IT managers beyond just improvements in processor speed. Gelsinger unveiled Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology, which speeds up data-flow between server applications and the network, and discussed additional details on Intel® Active Management Technology, which allows IT managers to use management and security applications to remotely discover and repair a variety of issues.

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