Intel: Intelligent Compute

Intelligent Compute: Inundated by a large and increasing variety of proprietary hardware appliances, many network operators are encouraging the development of interoperable solutions based on high- volume, industry-standard servers. Fundamental to this transition is the use of virtualization technology to consolidate software-based network functions and services, also referred to as network functions virtualization (NFV). Not […]

Software Defined Infrastructure: Network functions virtualization (NFV) is paving the way for more open, exible, and economical networking and communications equipment based on general-purpose computing platforms instead of traditional proprietary, purpose-built products. However, this transition hinges on increasing performance and minimizing the latencies associated with virtualization on general- purpose platforms, particularly for interrupt-intensive, packet processing […]

Software Defined Infrastructure: This paper reviews the content inspection performance data and demonstrates Hyperscan’s ability to deliver scalable pattern matching throughput performance when running on entry-level Intel Atom to high-end Intel Xeon processors.

Intelligent Compute: Platform Brief: Provides a software overview, features, and benefits of the Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v4 series, which is designed to deliver large numbers of video transcoding channels per watt for demanding media processing applications.

Intelligent Compute: Intel executives discuss how they are leading in 5G with small cells and MEC technologies

Software Defined Infrastructure: This paper examines the pattern matching performance Hyperscan delivers in virtualized environments when combined with Suricata, a fast-growing, open-source Intrusion Prevention and Detection (IPS/IDS) security application supported by OISF.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel is enabling NFV to deliver on its flexible and efficient infrastructure promise. This demo showcases multiple Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) packet processing virtual machines (VMs) running on industry standard high volume servers.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Sandra Rivera, VP, Intel Data Center Group, at Light Reading‘s 2015 Big Telecom Event, talks about accelerating transformation in the network with Intel Open Network Platform (Intel ONP) and the growing Intel Network Builders ecosystem.

Software Defined Infrastructure: The journey of cloud architecture evolvement combined with cost saving consideration and how we do the trade-off based on limited resources to finally achieve an Enterprise level high availability OpenStack production with low cost.

Software Defined Infrastructure: This paper presents the market drivers behind the need for an accelerated video cloud and discusses the implications of technologies such as OpenStack* and other open source platforms in the context of a move towards SDN/NFV network architectures. Real life example applications then give context to the performance and financial benefits outlined […]

Software Defined Infrastructure: You are a cloud user who wants bare metal for performance forging the security benefits of virtualization. All the OpenStack services, such as, Nova, Keystone, and Glance, all run on bare metal.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Telemetry and full-stack instrumentation, combined with analytics and actuation and the orchestration system itself enables service providers and application developers to easily access advancements and specialisations in the platform and middleware, ultimately benefiting the consumer with better service at lower cost.

Software Defined Infrastructure: OpenStack is an open source project to enable enterprise and service provider building their own IaaS infrastructure, and it is fundamentally changing the landscape of enterprise IT.

Intelligent Compute: Learn about Intel’s vision for storage in the data center, how frameworks like SW defined storage will simplify the storage infrastructure, improve efficiency, and enable rapid deployment of new services.

Intelligent Compute: Magyar Telekom is the first company to offer its customers Intel processor-based digital signage solutions provided by T-Systems Hungary at its points of sale.

Intelligent Compute: Intel’s concept of software-defined infrastructure (SDI) extends the definition of the software-defined data center (SDDC). SDI is a re-evaluation of system architecture driven by the requirements of business flow, workloads, and specific applications.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel ONP for Servers is designed to make it easier to test and deploy SDN and NFV solutions.

Software Defined Infrastructure: See how the Intel Ethernet Flow Director works with the Intel Ethernet Controller XL710 product family and other Intel products to correctly direct Ethernet packets to the right processor core for faster results.

Software Defined Infrastructure: The Intel Ethernet Controller XL710 supports data center modernization from 10 to 40 Gigabit Ethernet for a flexible, agile, and efficient platform for the rapid deployment of services for the enterprise, cloud, and telecommunications.

Software Defined Infrastructure: The kit lets engineers maximize packet throughput and workload performance while minimizing development time.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel architecture enables the next generation network with a standardized platform that increases flexibility, scalability, and performance.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel IT is addressing the quick deployment challenge by establishing PaaS for the developers of custom applications in Intel’s enterprise private cloud. With OpenStack at its core, Cloud Foundry provides a higher level of abstraction through the application runtime which speeds deployment and reduces support burden. Intel IT has deployed Cloud Foundry […]

Software Defined Infrastructure: Derek Sellin, director of data center software marketing for Intel, speaks from the OpenStack Summit about how Intel collaborates with the open source community to drive OpenStack readiness and also works closely with downstream partners to ensure enterprise adoption.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Communication service providers embracing Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are endorsing OpenStack as providing the common API Service Framework required to deliver their applications and services with a lower time to market.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Infrastructure security for policy compliance. Controlling and protecting data center workloads with Intel solutions.

Intelligent Compute: Increasing packet processing performance with Intel Xeon processor 5500 series for faster time-to-market.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Replacing older servers in your datacenter with new, upgraded ones can go a long way to getting you the performance you need as your business grows. When selecting replacement hardware for your legacy systems, you can go with a basic configuration, upgrade some components as part of the new purchase, or upgrade […]

Software Defined Infrastructure: See how an SDN and NFV-based Intel Open Network Platform simplifies network complexity, speeds scalability, and reduces cost.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel ONP server reference design enables effective deployment & centralized control of virtualized appliances and network services on open standards.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel Ethernet Flow Director is a technology that successfully accelerates getting incoming packets to their consuming application.

Software Defined Infrastructure: With Intel processors, it’s possible to transition from using discrete architectures per major workload (application, control, plane, packet and single processing) to a single architecture that consolidates the workloads into a more scalable and simplified solution.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Hardware and virtual application delivery controllers (ADCs) from F5 Networks help ensure users can connect to applications from anywhere in the world, regardless of device, cloud, or enterprise architecture.

Software Defined Infrastructure: F5 Networks application delivery controllers (ADCs) are helping today’s most advanced and efficient data centers meet these demands. Based on Intel Xeon processors and Intel QuickAssist Technology, these purpose-built appliances reside at the front of the data center, intelligently managing network traffic to help ensure applications are fast, secure, and available. An […]

Software Defined Infrastructure: DPDK is a software library that lets you do packet acceleration on general-purpose, x86 Intel processors. DPDK means you can bring big packet workloads onto a general-purpose processor and then use the additional cores on the chip to work on other things.

Software Defined Infrastructure: IDF 2014: Maxta software defined storage solutions. New architectures: Grantly launch, Intel Xeon processor E5V3, boosting performance to support storage platforms.

Intelligent Compute: F5 Networks CTO Karl Triebes describes how the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 helps improve application performance and virtualization.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Server upgrades to platforms featuring Windows Server 2012, Intel Xeon processor E5-2697 v2, Intel SSD DC S3700 series, Intel Ethernet 10GbE, and more help accelerate IT modernization to maximize business efficiency and minimize operating expenses.

Software Defined Infrastructure: This infographic shows that one server product can’t solve the problems of legacy hardware. That’s why modern data centers need 10 gigabit Ethernet—with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family, Windows Server* 2012, the Intel Solid-State Drive Data Center S3700 Series, and the Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit Converged Network Adapter X520—to […]

Software Defined Infrastructure: In order to be cloud ready, virtualization solutions need to span across server, storage, and networking. For compute and I/O intensive applications and architectures that require high bandwidth and predictable latency, businesses typically discover that it is not enough to just deploy flexible, virtual server applications—the underlying I/O must also be flexible, […]

Software Defined Infrastructure: This testing was done by Principled Technologies to show Good, Better, Best results using Intel Xeon processors, Intel Ethernet, and Intel SSDs, with Microsoft Server 2012 R2.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Discover how 10GbE Intel Ethernet empowers data centers to handle the increased bandwidth requirements of highly virtualized platforms, while saving customers from the increased cost of server complexity. 10GbE also opens up the path to the cloud, and leads to even more opportunities down the road to offer infrastructure upgrades and managed […]

Software Defined Infrastructure: This infographic shows how 10GbE Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapters support data center virtualization and cloud deployments to solve the problem of increased bandwidth requirements while increasing performance and virtual machine support.