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Data center and Telco managers are approaching a crisis point in a number of dimensions: storage demands are expected to reach 44 zettabytes by 2020; with the Internet of Things (IoT), connected devices communicating over networks will rise exponentially to 50 billion by 2020; today, business users want fast, economical IT services delivered in hours, not days or weeks. These challenges are driving a fundamental shift in data center and Telco architecture and operations from hardware-bound solutions to a flexible Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI). Intel is part of enabling this data center and network transformation. While Intel is well known for its processors, Intel engineers across the company contribute actively to open source projects, which are driving this transformation, to help advance these new software technologies for SDI. To help enable fast market adoption of new software and Intel hardware into SDI, Intel delivers reference architectures on which companies can develop next-generation solutions for their infrastructures. Besides hardware and software contributions, Intel’s deep investments in building strong ecosystems help support IT and Telco organizations to engage, prove, and rapidly adopt SDI solutions.
The Network Transformation Video Podcast Series, hosted by Intel’s Jim St. Leger, tackles some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in transforming the network. This episode covers network security. Addressing the evolving nature of network security and facilitating a smooth transition to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) can be challenging. Fortunately, advances in technology make […]
The Network Transformation Video Podcast Series, The Network Transformation Video Podcast Series, hosted by Intel’s Jim St. Leger, tackles some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in transforming the network. This episode provides an introduction to and highlights the benefits of Container technology. Containers reduce the complexity and ease the creation and deployment of […]
The Network Transformation Video Podcast Series, hosted by Intel’s Jim St. Leger, tackles some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in transforming the network. This episode covers the role 5G will play in our everyday lives, why it’s important and how Communications Service Providers can evolve their wireless business models by streamlining the delivery […]
The Network Transformation Video Podcast Series, hosted by Intel’s Jim St. Leger, tackles some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in transforming the network. This episode covers high-efficiency packet processing, which reduces the strain of managing data flow on your network and facilitates the streamlined transfer of information. Advances in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) […]
The Network Transformation Video Podcast Series, hosted by Intel’s Jim St. Leger, tackles some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in transforming the network. This episode covers how open source solutions are changing the networking landscape. Open source has long played a key role in the ongoing evolution of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and […]
The Network Transformation Video Podcast Series, hosted by Intel’s Jim St. Leger, tackles some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in transforming the network. Watch this episode to learn more about the potential of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) use cases, including: Virtualized Enterprise CPE (vE-CPE), Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC), Gi-LAN and IP Multimedia […]
The Network Transformation Video Podcast Series, hosted by Intel’s Jim St. Leger, tackles some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in transforming the network. This episode covers Telco Cloud, which takes advantage of the unique distributed nature of telco data centers and networks, allowing ecosystem players to capitalize on improvements in performance, reliability, security, […]
The Network Transformation Video Podcast Series, hosted by Intel’s Jim St. Leger, tackles some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in transforming the network. This episode covers the case for business transformation for Communications Service Providers (Comms SPs), describing how advances in virtualization and cloud technologies are shifting the landscape. Software Defined Networking (SDN) […]
Intelligent Networking: Lucera uses cloud-based, high-performance SDN based on Intel architecture to deliver mission-critical financial services
Intelligent Networking: Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization Changes Everything.
Intelligent Networking: Intel ONP for Servers is designed to make it easier to test and deploy SDN and NFV solutions.
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 […]
Intelligent Networking: White paper introduces Network Functions Virtualization and some of the activities related to OpenStack that are helping to enable deployment of high-performance workloads on industry-standard, high volume servers for use in telecommunications environments. This is an update of a previous version of this paper that focused on the Juno release. Content updates reflect […]
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.
Intelligent Networking: This document details the first steps in the strategic partnership between Intel Corporation and Cisco Systems Inc. to make Network Function Virtualization (NFV) part of a flexible, open and successful transformation in service creation for their Service Provider customers.
Intelligent Networking: The new foundation being established for dynamic service chaining builds on the technologies that underlie SDN and NFV. The blueprint offered by the Intel Open Network Platform Server reference architecture provides a commercially viable way—based on SDN—to create catalogs of network resources and associated policies abstracted from the hardware. Dynamic service chaining extends […]
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.
Intelligent Networking: Virtual video transcoding for OTT and live/linear video content: Delivering maximum streams/density per RU for mobile video consumption as well as speech transcoding for cloud-based media processing for C-RAN and vRAN network functions, shown on Artesyn GPU-accelerated SharpStreamer edge platforms with Vantrix software.
Intelligent Networking: If you use carrier-grade as your design-point you realise there are a lot of enterprise segments you can tackle as well, such as financial services, Sandra Rivera explains to Martyn Warwick. She talks about how she’s glad that infrastructure is getting its turn in the limelight this year at MWC; how important IoT […]
Intelligent Networking: With 23 NFV proofs of concept and a growing partner ecosystem, HP is demonstrating to communications service providers the value and viability of NFV solutions. Having access to the open source and open software community is also benefiting providers and network operators, as work continues on defining the necessary NFV frameworks and standards.
Intelligent Networking: The new foundation being established for dynamic service chaining builds on the technologies that underlie SDN and NFV. The blueprint offered by the Intel Open Network Platform Server reference architecture provides a commercially viable way—based on SDN—to create catalogs of network resources and associated policies abstracted from the hardware. Dynamic service chaining extends […]
Intelligent Networking: NFV is a clear trend and will profoundly change the telecom industry, Leo Ma tells Martyn Warwick. The hardware is being de-coupled from software and Huawei is ready to embrace this new principle with Fusion Engine, but telecom performance requirements must be considered. The first requirement in this new world is to be […]
Intelligent Networking: ETSI is playing a fundamental role in the development of NFV standards, ensuring interoperability between device vendors and collaboration with other industry groups. As work progresses during the ninth NFV meeting in Prague, TelecomTV asks the ETSI Director General about the accomplishments to date and his expectations for the adoption of the the […]
Intelligent Networking: Ericsson has partnered with Intel to add software and hardware to enable highly governed, secure and hyperscale cloud, as part of a transition to software defined networking.
Intelligent Networking: This paper outlines an approach for Service Assurance in an SDN/NFV world that enables more open and deterministic service deployment and resource usage.
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.
Intelligent Storage: Swift Project Erasure Codes–container model for grouping objects within code.
Intelligent Networking: SDN is designed to reduce costs and streamline processes to make networks more flexible, efficient, and easily managed.
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 Networking: Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) architecture addresses the compute, network, storage, security, energy, and manageability aspects of the infrastructure.
Intelligent Storage: Intel and VMware are working together to provide foundational technologies for intelligent, software-defined storage solutions. These solutions utilize Intel Xeon processors, 10 Gigabit Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapters, Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) Data Center Family and VMware Virtual SAN. Together they provide a scalable, efficient and flexible infrastructure.
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 Networking: Solve the problem of increased network demands and the growing need to support virtualization with 10GbE Intel Ethernet.
Intelligent Networking: Cush Ragerone, open source cloud enigineer. Delivering solutions to the marketplace through open source helps engage with developers and test apps.
In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Rushi Bargava, Hybrid Cloud Program, IT Intel. Hosting platform for everyday apps employees use at Intel—hybrid cloud programs.
Intelligent Networking: The world is moving to 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Explore the four technology trends and three data center changes that are driving the transition and helping 10 GbE go mainstream.
Intelligent Networking: Intel transforms network services with software-defined platforms that enable fast service deployment and more revenue opportunity.
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 Networking: The demand for low-latency network throughput for big data applications has spread to clouds and data centers. iWARP performance has improved, and ease of deployment—a significant concern for enterprise applications—has been dramatically simplified. The result is that iWARP is emerging as a mainstream network technology that can have a dramatic impact on the […]
Intelligent Networking: Steve Price, GM Communication Infrastructure Division, Intel, gave a keynote speech at 4G World about data growth and the evolution of devices.
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.
Intelligent Networking: Hear what key resellers have to say about how Intel 10GbE Ethernet expands performance, provides high availability at a lower cost.
Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel architecture enables the next generation network with a standardized platform that increases flexibility, scalability, and performance.
Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel General Manager Bev Crair and EMC VP Boaz Palgi discuss how Intel and EMC ViPR cloud storage solutions help manage and extract value from data through software-defined data center networks and storage.
Intelligent Storage: Irshad Raihan explains how HP solutions for big data, built on the Intel Xeon processor family, deliver value quickly and cost-effectively to companies analyzing both structured and unstructured storage data.
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 Networking: Saar Gillai, HP Senior VP, says his two most often heard questions are: ‘How ready is the cloud?’ and ‘What NFV app should we do first?’ The good news, he says, is that the carrier grade scaled-out cloud is ‘just around the corner’ and there will soon be early deployments beyond the Proofs […]
Intelligent Networking: The Communications industry is at an inflection point, and Intel innovations are enabling transformation. AT&T’s John Donovan, senior executive vice president, AT&T Technology & Network Ops, explains how Intel technology is enabling the transformation of AT&T’s network.
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 […]
Intelligent Networking: Sandra Rivera, VP, Data Center Group & General Manager, Network Platforms Group at Intel, speaks from Big Telecom 2015 in Chicago about how Intel is accelerating transformation in the network. She discusses how Intel’s Open Network Platform (ONP), which received Light Reading’s Leading Lights 2015 award for most innovative NFV product strategy, and […]
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.
Intelligent Networking: Intel Ethernet MOCS transceivers are a new low-cost alternative to 40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ for End-of-Row (EoR) connection distances, including switch-to-switch connections. They are also a robust and reliable alternative for 40GBASE-CR4 for Top-of-Rack (ToR) connections.
Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel Ethernet Flow Director is a technology that successfully accelerates getting incoming packets to their consuming application.
Intelligent Networking: Extending Intel Virtualization Technology beyond server virtualization to the network with hardware optimizations and offloads for the rapid prvisioning of networks in an agile data center.
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: As strategic approaches such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) become more mainstream, combinations of both OS-level virtualization and hypervisor-based virtual machines (VMs) often provide dramatic cost, agility, and performance benefits, throughout the data center.
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 […]
Intel’s Network Builders Program was launched last year, designed to accelerate the SDN and NFV industry. The aim is to work closely with the industry ecosystem, to innovate around Intel’s technologies.
Intelligent Networking: HP’s OpenNFV is going well, Werner Schaefer tells Martyn Warwick. The effort is spread across HP’s global labs, including those at Grenoble, Houston, Fort Collins, Tel Aviv and Seoul. The initiative now has nine partners including BT, Brocade, SK Telecom and Wind River and HP has already invested heavily in both equipment and […]
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.
Intelligent Networking: Infographic – See how to boost data center network bandwidth on 10GBASE-T while simplifying connectivity with existing cables.
Intelligent Networking: Intel IT is adopting software-defined networking (SDN) to enable on-demand provisioning of networks and network services. to offer better support for internal customers.
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.
Intelligent Networking: AT&T and Telefonica share Intel’s relevance in their network transformation.
Intelligent Storage: Comprehensive Business Systems, VAR, uses Intel Xeon processor E3 v2 family-based Western Digital Sentinel S-Series servers for virtual boot, rapid recovery benefits.
Salesforce shares how they get their data moving with HP 3PAR StoreServ storage—based on Intel technology—to prevent performance bottlenecks. These new solutions increase performance and scalabilty, and reduce costs.
Intelligent Storage: A scalable block storage system was implemented using the Ceph open-source software for distributed storage. As a provider of cloud services, IDC Frontier Inc. became interested in highly scalable object storage as a way to increase the capacity and reduce the cost of the storage used by these services.
Intelligent Networking: This video shows how network virtualization overlays work and the key benefits that IT managers experience deploying a virtual network.
Intelligent Storage: New, intelligent features in OpenStack Swift called Storage Policies help meet today’s storage demands.
Software Defined Infrastructure: This infographic shows how 10GbE Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapters and FCoE support unified networking to solve the cost and performance problems of separate storage and networking infrastructure.
Software Defined Infrastructure: The era of separate networks is coming to an end. As more and more data centers look to adopt 10GbE unified networking solutions, you can be poised to offer expert advice and speak directly to the efficiency and performance gains, along with savings to the bottom line, which data centers will get […]
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 […]
Intelligent Storage: This Solution Reference Architecture showcases an end-to-end solution available today to address a specific storage challenge, in this case Tier 2 Workloads, using VMware Virtual SAN
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, […]
Intelligent Storage: Intel and VMware are working together to provide foundational technologies for intelligent, software-defined storage solutions. These solutions utilize Intel Xeon processors, 10 Gigabit Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapters, Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) Data Center Family and VMware Virtual SAN. Together they provide a scalable, efficient and flexible infrastructure.
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.
Intelligent Storage: 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 all […]
Intelligent Networking: Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) offers encryption/decryption and compression/decompression acceleration to developers, enterprises and cloud service providers with APIs, add-in cards or chipset for increased performance and security.
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.