Intel and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced the Collaborative Cancer Cloud , a precision medicine analytics platform that allows hospitals and research institutions to securely share patient genomic, imaging, and clinical data for potentially lifesaving discoveries. Intel announced that key technology components of the Collaborative Cancer Cloud (CCC) will be opened sourced. The first technology releases will be made available to the developer community in Q1’16.
Read MoreAt the Red Hat Summit , Intel and Red Hat announced extensions to the On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack program collaboration designed to accelerate the adoption of OpenStack in the enterprise. Industry leaders Cisco and Dell have also joined the program to bring solutions to the market based on the collaboration. The expanded program will focus on integrating enterprise-class features that deliver high-availability and resiliency to Open Stack workloads and services, and features that simplify ease the deployment and allow for rolling upgrade of OpenStack for zero downtime
Read MoreToday, Amazon Web Services announced it is using another customized Intel® Xeon® server processor to deliver M4 instances. M4 instances are a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) instance designed for small and mid-size databases and memory-intensive data processing tasks. The custom Intel Xeon processor E5-2676 v3 builds on the Amazon and Intel collaboration to develop and deliver optimal experiences for customers of Amazon EC2, a web service providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud
Read MoreToday at Computex 2015, Intel introduced the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v4 product family , now integrated with Intel’s most powerful data center graphics, Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics P6300.
Read MoreIntel announced today plans to develop integrated products with eASIC Corporation that combine processing performance and customizable hardware to meet the increasing demand for custom compute solutions for data centers and the “cloud.” This collaboration is part of Intel’s strategy to integrate re programmable technology with Intel® Xeon® processors to provide cloud customers with custom solutions that greatly improve performance, power and cost.
Read MoreCompanies Plan to Deliver Custom Intel® Xeon® Processors with eASIC Platforms to Speed Workloads like Security, Big Data, and Other Applications SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 12, 2015 – Intel Corporation today announced plans to develop integrated products with eASIC Corporation that combine processing performance and customizable hardware to meet the increasing demand for custom compute solutions for data centers and the “cloud.” The new parts will enable acceleration of up to two times that of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) for workloads like security and big data analytics while also speeding the time to market for custom application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) development by as much as 50 percent 1 . The tremendous growth of cloud computing has spurred greater demand for customized chips that make a particular application or workload run faster.
Read MoreAt CoreOS Fest today, Intel’s Nicholas Weaver shared how Intel is working with CoreOS to scale and accelerate adoption of its Tectonic suite – a solution for enterprises and cloud service providers transitioning to distributed, container-based software infrastructure.
Read MoreToday Intel Security announced the 5 Habits of Practically Unhackable People , a campaign designed to remind consumers about the ways to protect their digital lives. The 5 Habits presented are centered on some of the most common online activities – posting on social media, using passwords, interacting with the Cloud, using device privacy settings and online shopping. The 5 Habits microsite aims to be a comprehensive destination for consumers concerned with online safety, and will feature curated content including tips, Medium articles and humorous security education-themed videos.
Read MoreToday at the OCP US Summit, Intel and Facebook announced a collaboration to develop a new Open Compute Project (OCP)-based server design. The Facebook contributed design uses a server card based on the new Intel® Xeon® processor D product family, the first Xeon system-on-chip (SoC) and first Intel Xeon processor based on 14nm process technology. Intel also announced that it is working with Penguin Computing on the first Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor, code-named Knights Landing, powered HPC system based on an OCP rack design.
Read MoreEtisalat, the UAE’s leading telecommunications operator, signed an MoU with Intel at MWC 2015 to collaboratively set up a cloud computing platform, leveraging Intel’s technology leadership and expertise in cloud technology. As part of this agreement, Etisalat and Intel will partner to grow a cloud catalog with an innovative set of services that targets several industry verticals. The two companies will also work on establishing a demonstration environment lab for technology innovation in cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) services
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