
Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 Family
The Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family delivers improved
scalability, advanced reliability and world-record
performance so you can tackle today’s toughest IT
challenges.
Intel®
Xeon® Processor-based Workstations >
Built for professionals, Intel® Xeon® processor-based workstations
deliver balanced computing solutions that help users create, test,
optimize, and visualize ideas faster than ever before. From
entry-level workstations with innovative Intel® HD Graphics P3000 to
dual processor expert workbenches hosting digital prototyping
suites, users will have the help they need to create tomorrow’s
future today.
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Intel Mission
Critical:
Meeting today's
toughest IT
challenges
The challenges
facing your
mission-critical
computing
environment can
feel like a rock
and a hard
place. The rock:
exploding data
volumes,
expanding
requirements
to serve your
customers
online,
supporting a
continuous
stream of social
interactions and
mobile
transactions,
and the need to
turn data into
actionable
business
knowledge and
wisdom. The hard
place: flat
budgets,
inflexible and
aging
infrastructure,
expensive
maintenance
contracts, and
enterprise
software
innovations that
have moved away
from low-volume
proprietary
server hardware
solutions.
As businesses
are expected to
do things faster
and differently,
Intel can help
transform your
mission-critical
computing
environment so
you are ready
for the
challenges of
today. In fact,
more enterprise
data centers are
increasingly
shifting to
Intel-based
solutions for
mission-critical
deployments.
With a proven
track record
that began and
continues with
the Intel®
Itanium®
processor,
leading
enterprise
software
providers are
now delivering
solutions that
are optimized
for Intel Xeon
processor–based
servers, such as
the Intel® Xeon®
processor 7500
series and the
new Intel® Xeon®
processor E7
family.
Concurrently,
some of the
world's most
successful
companies have
transitioned
their
mission-critical
applications and
database
deployments to
the same Intel
servers,
including
Intel's own IT
department. Not
only do Intel
Xeon
processor–based
servers deliver
the scalability,
performance,
advanced
reliability, and
data protection
IT needs for
today's most
intensive
applications and
mission-critical
needs, they do
so at a price
point that
radically
improves on
those of
traditional,
proprietary
solutions. No
other
mission-critical
solution is more
primed to help
you keep up with
today's
constantly
evolving
business
environment.
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Cloud Computing
Technology
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IT
managers are facing constraints on space, power, and costs. In the
midst of these growing demands, a new class of solutions is emerging
to transform the data center through cloud-based architectures.
Realizing the benefits of cloud computing requires a cohesive set of
open yet well-defined standards that operate across IT
infrastructures. Intel launched the Cloud 2015 Vision to help
businesses implement cloud computing solutions that are federated,
automated, and client-aware. What this means is that new approaches
to IT automation will offer the promise to swiftly respond to the
demands of users in new, cost-effective ways. And federated clouds
will allow rapid scale of computing resources, while client-aware
clouds deliver optimized applications to any end-user device.
Visit the Intel® Cloud Builders site to learn more about how Intel’s
Ecosystem Fellow Travelers are working with us to make the Intel
Cloud 2015 Vision a reality by enabling proven solutions today for
more simple, secure, and efficient data centers. There you can see
how Intel and the ecosystem are engaging in plans to develop
solutions for the future to help companies on the journey to cloud.
Then take a moment to download one of the Reference Architectures to
help you build and optimize your cloud infrastructure.
Data
Protection
Intel® AES New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI)
What is it?
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm is now widely used
across the software ecosystem to protect network traffic, personal
data, and corporate IT infrastructures. Data protection or
encrypting data—using mathematical algorithms to make data
unreadable by unauthorized entities but reproducible by authorized
entities—is frequently specified or recommended as a way to ensure
that data can be best protected.
Intel® AES-NI is a new instruction set for accelerating the
encryption of data in the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series and the
Intel® Core™ i5 processor 600 series. It is composed of seven new
instructions that accelerate encryption and decryption, improve key
generation and matrix manipulation, and aid in carry-less
multiplication. Intel AES-NI also helps alleviate the performance
challenges inherent in cryptographic processing.
Why Intel® AES-NI matters.
Encryption is a well-established method for data protection. It is
most commonly used to secure transactions across networks, such as
the Internet, where personal or financial information needs to be
kept private. It is also often used in combination with
authentication schemes to prevent undesired disclosure when data is
being stored for later use—such as on an encrypted drive or as an
encrypted file stored in a cloud-based service.
How it works.
By
implementing some complex and costly sub-steps of the AES algorithm
in hardware, Intel AES-NI strengthens and accelerates execution of
the AES application. With the addition of the seven new steps
mentioned above, encryption of data can now happen faster, with
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Data Security
Today’s
world runs on computing devices that
are connected to each other through
the global Web. Schools, hospitals,
social networks, and even national
defense systems are all driven by
these technologies. Conservative
estimates suggest that by 2015 we
will have over 10 billion devices in
active use—and the vast majority of
these will be mobile and
Web-enabled.
As our
dependency on computing devices
grows, so does our exposure to
malicious code, viruses, cyber
espionage, and malware. In June
2009, Kaspersky Lab, a well-known
security specialist, detected the 25
millionth program designed for
malicious intent. As a major
provider of computing technology to
the world, Intel Corporation takes
its role in helping to protect users
from attack very seriously. Below
are the areas Intel believes are the
cornerstones of secure computing
environments:
Security assurance.
For Intel,
creating more secure products means
building to consistent and high
design standards in everything we
make. To understand where threats
may emerge and to ensure that our
standards maintain global currency,
Intel regularly consults with global
security experts and the security
research community.
Standards and policy.
Due to
Intel’s central role in global
computing technology development, we
continue to support and contribute
to key security standards through
organizations such as the Trusted
Computing Group (TCG). In addition,
Intel influences regulation and
legislation to ensure that we
continue to deliver relevant and
compliant technologies.
Security innovation.
Intel
continues to enhance systems so they
run more securely and can handle the
growing workloads more efficiently.
A key component of this approach is
providing more robust,
vulnerability-resistant platforms.
This is increasingly important as
attackers start targeting base
components such as firmware and
controllers.
New
PCs for Your New Compute Environment
IT is changing at warp speed, and PCs must keep pace. That's why 2nd
generation Intel® Core™ processors bring smart performance and new
capabilities to secure mobility, online rich media, and business
operations optimization.
Protecting the
Corporate Infrastructure
Intel Core vPro processors offer features that help protect
corporate infrastructure from attacks and security breaches even as
users continue to mix personal and professional roles and increase
their mobility. These protective features include:
•Programmable defense filters that help to safeguard corporate
infrastructure from unauthorized access. Policies, defined at the
hardware level, monitor inbound and outbound network traffic or
threats on a mobile client. If suspicious behavior is detected, the
laptop can port-isolate or quarantine itself by cutting off its own
access to network data.
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