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Chip Shot: Intel Makes it a "Snap" to See Inside the Cloud

Today at the Tectonic Summit , Intel announced that it has delivered a way for system administrators to get a much more comprehensive view of its cloud infrastructure capabilities, utilization and events in real time. Called “Snap,” this open source platform telemetry framework makes it easier to access data about the underlying infrastructure running a cloud environment.

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Chip Shot: Intel’s Diane Bryant: ‘Data is the most disruptive force in business and society today.’

The industry needs to have bigger aspirations for the Cloud as data is the most disruptive force in business and society today, according to Intel vice president and general manager Diane Bryant who will kick off Structure 2015 today. View live today at 9:00 a.m. PT or read more from Bryant and other Intel Cloud leaders on what Intel is doing to make this change possible.

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New Intel IoT Platform Makes More ‘Things’ Smart and Connected

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Second Intel® IoT Platform reference architecture for smart and connected things enables faster time to market and scaling of IoT solutions. New products for the IoT Platform include Intel® Quark™ processors, free cloud-connected operating systems and cloud suite from Wind River. Customers, including Levi Strauss & Co*, Honeywell* and Yanzi*, demonstrate smart things in everything from industrial wearables to retail to smart buildings, all powered by the Intel IoT Platform.

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Chip Shot: New Amazon EC2 X1 Instance Type Powered by Highest Performing Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v3

Today at re:Invent , Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new Amazon EC2 X1 instances , which will feature up to 2 TB of memory, a full order of magnitude larger than the current generation of AWS high-memory instances. Demonstrating the importance of obtaining the highest performance available, AWS selected the 4 socket Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v3 (Haswell) to power the new instances.

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Chip Shot: Intel Highlights New Users and New Uses for Big Data Analytics

At Strata + Hadoop World in New York City today, Intel unveiled new details on pilot programs from Penn Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Oregon Health & Science University which provide clinicians with greater insight to improve patient outcomes using its Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP). TAP is an open source project that simplifies big data analytics solutions in the cloud for developers and data scientists.

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Chip Shot: Custom Intel® Xeon® Server CPUs Power New Microsoft* Azure DV2-series Virtual Machines

Today at AzureCon , Microsoft* announced availability of DV2, the next-generation of D-series virtual machines sizes. DV2 instances are powered by customized 2.4 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5 v3 processors , and with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 they can go to 3.2 GHz, making DV2 up to 35 percent faster than the current D-series instances. DV2 and D-series instances are ideal for enterprise-grade applications that demand faster CPUs, better local disk performance or higher memories.

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Chip Shot: Intel Announced "Big Data Analytics Challenge" with OVH.com

Intel announced “Bring YOUR Big Data Challenge,” a big data analytics program with European Cloud Service Provider OVH.com . Intel and OVH will support up to three organizations to help build a solution to solve their big data problems such as operation management, market behavior prediction, and Internet of Things data analysis. Using big data technologies such as the Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP), an open source software developed by Intel, Intel and OVH.com will work with app developers and data scientists to deploy cloud native apps for big data analytics

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Intel Delivers Solutions for Improved In-Home Entertainment Content Delivery through the Cloud

Multi-Gigabit Broadband and 4K Visual Cloud Solutions Increase Speed and Quality for Content Providers AMSTERDAM, Sept. 10, 2015 – Intel Corporation unveiled a range of products designed to improve the delivery and quality of entertainment content available in-home via the cloud. Today’s on-demand, cloud-delivered media consumption model is driving people to demand faster broadband speeds and better WiFi home networking solutions

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Chip Shot: Custom Intel® Xeon® E5 v3 Server CPUs to Power New Microsoft Azure GS-series

Today, Microsoft* announced the Azure GS-series of virtual machine (VM) and premium storage types designed to run the most demanding storage and compute-intensive workloads in the cloud. Powered by a high performance, customized Intel® Xeon® E5 v3 processor , the GS-series are the largest virtual machines available in the public cloud with access to up to 32 cores and 64TB of storage per VM, performance of 80,000 IOPs and delivering 2,000 Mbps of storage throughput

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Chip Shot: Intel to Collaborate with Mirantis to Fuel Enterprise OpenStack Adoption

Mirantis today announced with Intel an investment and technology collaboration designed to accelerate enterprise OpenStack adoption. The collaboration extends Intel’s existing engagement with Mirantis and builds on Intel’s recently announced ‘Cloud for All’ initiative to bring the benefits of the cloud to more businesses by making cloud solutions easier to deploy.

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