Xeon 5100: Intel's Comeback Chip

Everybody is talking about Intel's new Xeon chips. Analysts bloggers and pundits of all sorts are saying the new Xeon represents a strong comeback move for Intel which has been criticized of late for falling behind in the innovation race with archrival AMD.
 
The new Xeon series announced on Monday is the latest from Intel promising a significant speed boost while still offering better energy efficiency over earlier Xeon processors. At companies running thousands of Xeon servers news

Intel Wows With Dualmode WiMax

Intel Corp. next week is introducing a client chipset that supports both the fixed and mobile versions of the wireless broadband technology known as WiMax.

Arguably WiMax's biggest cheerleader the company is working to make the case for the technology with a chipset roadmap that targets devices ranging from video games to digital cameras the idea being that if the clients are there the carriers will come.

For those of you just joining us: WiMax comes in two basic flavors one

Intel Faces ILM Challenge

Despite efforts from vendors such as EMC Corp. to drive information lifecycle management (ILM) to the next level some organizations are still wrestling with the realities of the technology according to execs at the Storage World Conference this week.

The idea behind ILM of course is that users can quickly shift their data between different storage media based on its importance. But in order to move all this data around to various levels of storage it must first be classified no easy