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Technology Companies Leading Cloud Services Adoption, Report Finds

July 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Cost-conscious businesses with a small IT department are more likely to migrate to cloud computing than their larger contemporaries, while SMBs in emerging markets like Latin America lead the pack overall, according to a Spiceworks survey. – During the first half of 2010, 14 percent of small to midsize businesses
reported using cloud computing services and another 10 percent reported plans
to deploy cloud-based services, according to a new study conducted by social IT
management application provider Spiceworks.
The findings were un…

Intel Milestone Confirms Light Beams Can Replace Electronic Signals for Future Computers

July 27th, 2010 | No Comments

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 27, 2010 – Intel Corporation today announced an important advance in the quest to use light beams to replace the use of electrons to carry data in and around computers.

Chip Shot: Intel’s Genevieve Bell: Top 25 Women in Tech

July 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Intel Fellow Genevieve Bell has been named one of AlwaysOn‘s “Top 25 Women in Tech to Watch” for her overall innovation and ability to identify new market opportunities. This accolade will be celebrated on Wednesday at Stanford University’s “Summit at Stanford.” Also recently named one of Fast Company‘s “Top 100 Most Creative People in Business,” Bell has been one of the leading user-centered design advocates at Intel for more than a decade. She was recently appointed to lead the new Interaction and Experience Research group, which is focused on defining new user experiences and computing platforms that ultimately will help re-imagine how we will experience computing.

Chip Shot: Got A Bright Idea?

July 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Intel is always searching for innovative uses of Intel vPro Technology. If you have one, enter a video for a chance to win $4,000 toward a trip to the 2010 Intel Developer Forum, Sep. 13-15, in San Francisco.

Chip Shot: Got A Bright Idea?

July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

How to Ensure Business Continuity with Cloud Computing

July 20th, 2010 | No Comments

These days, businesses of all sizes are looking to cloud computing as a means to more efficiently deliver IT services to users. Cloud-based solutions offer a cost-effective way to maintain high availability and reliability for user applications, especially if they support mobile workers, telecommuters or field-based teams. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Chris Pyle explains the important disaster recovery and business continuity benefits that cloud computing can deliver to your business. – One
of the key benefits of the cloud model, and one that is often
overlooked, is how cloud computing can help to ensure business
continuity and speed disaster recovery. In today’s quot;new normal quot;
economy, companies of all sizes have to look for affordable ways to
deliver quality IT servi…

How to Leverage Cloud Computing While Preserving Workflows Between Applications

July 20th, 2010 | No Comments

The proliferation of affordable, scalable cloud environments such as Amazon EC2 and Microsoft’s Windows Azure leads innovative IT decision makers to seek ways to leverage these technologies, but the decision to incorporate cloud-based computing can present several roadblocks. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Bill Humphrey explains how to keep existing workflows between mission-critical applications preserved during and after the addition of cloud-based computing. – In today’s technological age, cloud computing is increasingly ubiquitous. Savvy IT and business decision makers who seek to leverage these technologies should evaluate the platform, mitigate risks and look for a single point for data integration, data governance and cost-effectiveness. This has to b…

Microsoft’s Support of Rich Clients for Cloud Computing Makes Sense

July 15th, 2010 | No Comments

News Analysis: As nice as the cloud is for flexible computing, it requires absolute constancy, and whens the last time anything was that absolute? Thats why Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer could predict with confidence that the future of cloud computing will include rich PC clients. –

WASHINGTON Â– When Steve Ballmer said at the World Wide
Partner Conference here on July 14 that he believes that the future of cloud
computing includes rich clients, he may have been echoing the concerns of
technology executives in industries where access to computing resources i…

Amazon Web Services Delivers High Performance Computing Solution

July 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Amazon Web Services has announced Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2, a new instance type designed for high-performance computing (HPC) applications and other demanding network-bound applications. – Amazon Web Services has announced Cluster Compute
Instances for Amazon EC2, a new instance type designed for
high-performance computing (HPC) applications and other demanding
network-bound applications.
In a July 13 press release on the new offering,
Amazon said customers with complex computati…

Chip Shot: Early MeeGo Handset Code Proves Impressive

July 8th, 2010 | No Comments

The community is buzzing today around a JavaScript test showing the upcoming MeeGo Handset user experience gut-checking competitive OS solutions. The benchmarks used the latest Firefox browser on all-Intel solution, including the prototype “Moorestown” Aava smart phone and code for the upcoming MeeGo Handset release. The Aava smart phone ran the test in 4,215ms, or about 2 seconds, while competing smart phone solutions took up to 10 seconds. Although the phone and OS are not yet available, developers can check out the MeeGo website for updates as the project move towards the MeeGo v1.1 final release, scheduled for this October.

Inside Intel`s Hottest Advanced Computing Projects

July 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Just before the July 4 holiday weekend, Intel hosted its annual Labs Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., where it provided a public preview of many of its advanced computing projects that are currently under development. Some of the technology will eventually find its way into consumer and commercial products. Some of the more futuristic projects will just take radical ideas one step farther down the path to reality. This slide show highlights some of the more interesting projects at the June 30 event. (Photos by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK) – …

IBM, EU Collaborate on Cloud Computing Project

July 7th, 2010 | No Comments

A research group forms to help businesses understand the nature, structure and business purposes of cloud systems and make it possible even for SMBs to use e-services, aka cloud-based services, to smooth out tricky IT-related business processes. – IBM announced July 7 that it is entering
into a collaborative agreement with the European Union and several academic
institutions to launch a research consortium on cloud computing.

The work group’s mission is to help businesses understand the nature, structure
and business purposes of cloud s…

Chip Shot: Study: Virtual Desktop Ownership Costs Higher Than PC

July 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft recently published the results of a six-month total cost of ownership study of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The study concludes that VDI delivers value for specialized user segments such as contractors. However for offices workers in a VDI environment, the total cost of ownership was higher by 11% per user than that of a well-managed PC environment. Additionally, many workers will find the VDI user experience unsatisfactory. Microsoft recommends that organizations assess their use cases and drivers for VDI to ensure the best computing option for their users.

CakewalkÂ®, Intel, and OurStage.com Launch the “Superstars” Songwriting Competition

July 1st, 2010 | No Comments

BOSTON, MA, July 1, 2010 — Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, Intel Corporation, and the preeminent online community-powered, new music discovery site, OurStage.com, have come together to launch another exciting competition for songwriters and music producers.

Chip Shot: MeeGo Handset Code Unveiled for Developers

June 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Today marks the next major developer milestone for the MeeGo software platform – the unveiling of the MeeGo Handset Day 1 code. This move illustrates the MeeGo project’s continued commitment to open development by offering early access to code, which allows developers, operators and device manufacturers to begin planning MeeGo applications for customers. The MeeGo Handset Day 1 user experience includes a reference handset implementation that begins to show the power of the native code, coupled with powerful frameworks for handsets and other consumer devices. The MeeGo Handset Day 1 code is based on a new MeeGo Touch user interface framework and includes a set of MeeGo-compliant APIs, available for immediate download from meego.com.

Intel Labs Aims to Reinvent How People Experience Computing

June 30th, 2010 | No Comments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 30, 2010 – At the Intel Labs’ annual Research at Intel media event today, Intel Corporation Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner announced a new research division, called Interaction and Experience Research (IXR), that is focused on defining new user experiences and new computing platforms.

Chip Shot: Hourglass Still Spinning?

June 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Do you hate to wait? Do any of these moments seem too familiar? If you’ve ever lost the chance to secure concert tickets to your favorite band’s farewell tour or have ended up crammed into the middle, back row airplane seat because your technology can’t keep up – you may be experiencing Hourglass Syndrome. Intel has made it a priority to take on the Hourglass and eliminate the wait for the affected by getting to the Core of the problem. Do you experience Hourglass Syndrome? Head over to Inside Scoop and share your Hourglass horror stories.

GigaOM Structure 2010 Puts Cloud Computing on Display

June 28th, 2010 | No Comments

The third annual GigaOM Structure gathering in San Francisco followed hard on the heels of IDC’s Cloud Leadership Forum and was spiced up by the Salesforce Chatter release the previous day. With sales figures and customer counts in hand, cloud vendors and academicians alternately wooed and blustered CIOs and each other at the first day of the cloud confab. Here are some of the more interesting topics and technologies I came across during the first day of GigaOM 2010. – …

VICE and Intel’s The Creators Project Invades New York; Extravaganza Brings World’s Leading Artists Together

June 26th, 2010 | No Comments

NEW YORK, June 26, 2010 – The Creators Project debuts today in New York with its first-ever Creators event where thousands of attendees engage in an all-day cultural extravaganza featuring some of the world’s leading artists in music, art, film, design and architecture.

Motion Computing Crafts J3500 Tablet for Health Care, Field Service Needs

June 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Motion Computing released its J3500 Tablet PC that targets health care, construction and other industries that need to support field service applications. The tablet is equipped with Corning’s scratch-resistant Gorilla glass to make the device suitable for rugged environments. – Motion Computing on June 22 rolled out its latest Tablet PC, the J3500, a unit geared toward the health care industry as well as other verticals such as construction that require rugged mobile devices for field service applications.
The rugged design of the J3500 makes it suitable for harsher env…