Benefit:Going mobile has improved the end-user experience, while remote power management has enabled the Employment Service to significantly reduce energy costs and carbon emissions
ROI:The Swedish Public Employment Service has replaced 14,500 desktop systems with 12,300 laptops powered by the Intel® Core™ i5 vPro™ processor
Benefit:It turned to Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series for extra processing muscle and slashed the time it takes to create a two-to-three minute video from 56 hours to approximately 27 hours.
ROI:Used for seminars and other internal events and the Internet, these videos could take three to four days to produce for a one two-to-three-minute video.
Benefit:Provides much more detailed results so that clients are better informed about the consequences and safety issues that a crash may have for their model of car.
Product: Intel®Xeon®processor 5500
and 7400 series
Benefit:The new server architecture meets ATE Bank's environmental roadmap by providing a power efficient platform for the new data centre.
ROI:An anticipated consolidation ratio of 7:1 means the bank's new server
fleet will be smaller and easier to manage while delivering better performance and scalability.
Benefit:Using Intel’s vConsolidate benchmark and a VMware ESXi* server, Atos Origin compared the
performance of the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series to the previous-generation Intel® Xeon®
processor 5500 series. It found, on average, a 30 per cent performance increase when running
both Web and database workloads, and a 20 per cent increase for email.
ROI:To help maximize use of data center
space, and to reduce power consumption and associated costs, Atos Origin virtualizes as much
of its customers' IT workloads as possible by default.
Product:Intel®Core™2 processors with vPro™technology
Benefit:Atos Origin plans to add desktop virtualization as a new delivery method
for its Adaptive Workplace offering, designed to help its
ROI:Being involved at the beta testing stage will enable Atos Origin to
bring this offering to the marketplace much more quickly, giving it a significant competitive
advantage
Product:Intel Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology
Benefit:Autocont can guarantee to recover a machine within
four hours using remote management
ROI:Using Intel vPro cuts the average time spent solving hardware and software problems by 34 percent, and cuts the number of site visits by 56 percent.
Product:Intel ® Core i5 and i7 processors with vPro ™ technology
Benefit:AutoCont improves customer satisfaction, strengthens its competitive position, and ultimately boosts revenue
ROI:SMBs benefit from reduced IT costs, minimal downtime, greater security and are able to concentrate on their core business without worrying about their IT infrastructure
Benefit:Bank Sarasin was able to meet its immediate objectives of underpinning the bank zweiplus launch with a reliable, high-performing and scalable system. It has also helped drive the new operation to quick profitability due to low software and hardware costs.
ROI:Five months after launch the customer base grew from approximately 240,000 to 300,000, exceeding bank zweiplus growth targets.
Benefit:Increased speed of research means BASF IT Services can bring new products to the marketplace
faster, giving the company a strong competitive advantage.
ROI:Testing reveals 60 percent performance improvement in a key application, reducing time-toresults
from days to hours.
Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology
Benefit:As well as the ROI and productivity gains experienced by BBVA there was also an upswing in customer service. Though difficult to measure, the company noted a definite improvement as more employees were available to help customers, rather than being tied down by back-office requirements arising from failed upgrade deliveries.
ROI:BBVA estimated a 348 per cent ROI within five years, a breakeven within one year and 5 years of productivity gains, amounting to a conservatively calculated net present value of USD 620,000 (EUR 479,000).
Benefit:The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-powered platform provided five times faster performance than the university's in-house platform.
ROI:Equational problems that took approximately a week to solve on the university's in-house platform were typically solved overnight on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series platform.
Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 and 7500 series
Benefit:By migrating from its existing RISC architecture to one based on Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 and 7500 series, it expects to see a 20 per cent reduction in energy used. Its consolidation ratio has also improved with enhanced virtualisation and its applications run faster, driving better business efficiency.
ROI:It wanted to boost its virtualisation capabilities and application efficiency to reduce and simplify its IT management costs. At the same time it needed to support corporate goals around the reduction of carbon emissions.
Benefit:By migrating from its existing RISC architecture to one based on Intel® Xeon® processors 5600 and 7500 series, it expects to see a 20 per cent reduction in energy used. Its consolidation ratio has also improved with enhanced virtualisation and its applications run faster, driving better business efficiency.
ROI:It wanted to boost its virtualisation capabilities and application efficiency to reduce and simplify its IT management costs. At the same time it needed to support corporate goals around the reduction of carbon emissions.
Benefit:At peak operating times the new platform enables 7,000 concurrent user sessions while providing 50 per cent spare capacity. In comparison the RISC system capacity was often low but sometimes went up to 100 per cent.
ROI:Costs for running the Intel Xeon processor 7400 series-based platform have been reduced by a factor of two, including the cost of hardware, compared to the HP RISC platform.
Benefit:This new learning environment closely supports the school’s transformation from a knowledge-based to an enquiry-based curriculum. Students are able to work at their own pace and in their own way. They are more engaged and more responsible for in their learning, and as a result are achieving high scores. Teachers are also benefitting from the solution since lesson planning is easier, while lessons can be made for fun and creative.
ROI:It recently introduced a 1:1 eLearning model based on Intel-powered classmate PCs and SMART Technologies’ classroom solutions.
Benefit: This reduced batch processing time by a quarter compared to its previous system.
ROI: In order to gain faster and more efficient database management, for greater operational efficiency, it introduced a server platform based on Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series.
Benefit:This new solution, infrastructure costs have been reduced by 25-30 percent
ROI:while performance has been increased by 1.8 times. It also estimates reduced operating costs for its 12 non-food retail application services by 40 percent
Benefit:enabling Intel Xeon processor 5500 series' Simultaneous Multi- Threading feature, efficiency of the new platform can be boosted by up to 20 per cent.
ROI:Tests showed that the new generation processor delivers a 36 per cent energy efficiency improvement over the previous generation for CERN's environment.
Benefit:With the SuperPACS solution, patients benefit from an overall improvement in the quality of care as the referring physician receives the imaging scan results and is able to initiate the patient's treatment much faster.
ROI:With the SuperPACS solution, physicians are able to significantly improve productivity and the organisation is able to efficiently manage its imaging workflow.
Benefit:HP DL* Series 380 rack-mount servers powered by the Intel®Xeon® processor 5500 series offered customers future-proofed benefits.
ROI:Compusof benchmark tests revealed that the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series was at least 30 per cent faster than the previous generation of Intel® Xeon® processors and at least 10 per cent faster than rival technology.
Product:Intel® Core™2 processors with Intel® vPro™ technology
Benefit:Computacenter is now able to make power management features more accessible than previous versions of Windows® while at the same time, giving its staff the ability to customize settings.
ROI:Intel® vPro™ technology provides a stable operating environment where users can work and collaborate more easily and effectively.
Benefit:Enhanced availability and security. Autocont can guarantee recovery of a machine within four hours and can patch Symantec* security software remotely.
ROI:The solution enables Autocont to guarantee recovery of a machine within four hours and has cut the time spent solving hardware and software issues by 34 percent.
Product:Intel®Core™2 and Intel®Centrino®
processors with vPro™technology
Benefit:software problems can now be solved remotely, helping to reduce the number of desk-side visits and improve employee productivity.
ROI:Remote power management has resulted in energy savings of 94 watts per PC per year, with Din Bil expecting to see a return on its investment in just 12 months.
Benefit:Industrious doctors gain greater efficiencies from wireless network
ROI:A pilot WLAN illustrated significant efficiency gains for doctors and requests for access were extremely high, leading to a full roll-out for all the centre's doctors
Benefit:Faster analysis and mapping of flood means alerts to civil protection operators can be raised earlier, and response to disasters are faster and more informed.
ROI:Superior performance of new platform has driven a 50 per cent** boost in efficiency of computing platform.
Product:Intel® Core™ 2 processor with vPro™ technology
Benefit:The remote reboot and power-up features of the Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology have enabled Fractalia to virtually eliminate on-site visits to repair faulty PCs, improving mean time to repair and decreasing IT support costs per PC by 85 percent
ROI:The combined cost savings from reducing IT support costs and minimising loss of revenue to hotels is USD 369,000 (EUR 290,405) over five years. This provides a return on investment of 524 percent over five years, and break-even after just two years
Product:Intel®Core™2 processor with
vPro™technology
Benefit: The activation of the remote management functionality within Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology has started in the Paris region which has a fleet of 2,500 machines. Activation is carried out by Lenovo Services aided by Intel.
ROI: A theoretical ROI model developed using the Intel ROI Calculator¹ shows remote management savings will lead to ROI within two years, with savings of €100,000 in the third year and four years of PC usage rather than three.
Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology
Benefit:Time savings enabled by Intel Core2 processor with vPro technology remote power up feature will have a significant impact on current maintenance and desktop management processes.
Product:Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 and 5600 series
Benefit:Working with long-time strategic partner Intel, IBM has developed the iDataPlex ds360 M3* platform based on the Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 and 5600 series, to deliver solid benefits to its customers.
ROI:Organisations of all sizes now demand enterprise-class performance and as a leader in IT innovation, IBM wanted to offer its customers a solution that would deliver this service and place it ahead of the competition.
Benefit:INRA URGI implemented 22 new HP BL460c* blade servers powered by 44 Intel Xeon processor 5600 series and plans to introduce a further 40, or more, processors by the end of the year.
ROI:To carry out more research and attract more funding from the French government and European Union, the INRA Unité de Recherche Génomique-Info (URGI) wanted to upgrade its computer cluster to make it faster.
Benefit:Virtualisation propels IRIDE ENERGIA towards greater efficiencies and lower costs
ROI:The project has today led to the consolidation of a total of two hundred virtual machines on only fifteen physical machines and cost savings of up to 70 per cent.
Benefit:Huge increase in service capacity enabled KL to provide enhanced service levels and develop new services. The cost of each transaction has also been lowered while KL has also gained greater energy-efficiencies and consolidated physical space in the data centre.
ROI:The tests revealed an optimal virtualisation ratio of three virtual servers to one with a 285 per cent performance/ capacity increase in terms of the services delivered to users.
Benefit:Intel Anti-Theft Technology allows KMVS’ lawyers to transport sensitive case and client information on their laptops when meeting with clients or attending court, safe in the knowledge that it can not be accessed by those not authorised to do so.
ROI:Czech law firm KMVS has improved the security of the data held on the laptops used by its lawyers with Intel Anti-Theft Technology.
Benefit: Intel Xeon processor 5500 series processed twice the amount of data for Paris-26-gigapixels 15x faster than the previous-generation Intel Xeon processor 5300 series did for the Harlem-13-gigapixels project.
ROI:slower hard disk drive with much faster and more power-efficient NAND flash-based I/O that suffers fewer mechanical failures.
Benefit:It has been able to reduce energy consumption by 1.3 million KWh per annum, equating to a cost saving of EUR 261,000 (USD 320,000) and a 648-tonne reduction in CO² emissions.
ROI:Reduce energy consumption by 1.3 million KWh per annum
Benefit:It implemented Intel® vPro™ processor technology for secure remote management.
ROI:It has over 10,000 desktop PCs and notebooks and wanted to improve the management of this PC fleet, galvanise its security polices relating to PC usage and augment its computer maintenance with more effective processes.
Benefit:To help customers consolidate and reduce their operational IT and other data centre related costs such as hardware, floor space and maintenance costs it has begun offering enhanced virtualisation capabilities based on servers powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series
ROI:NICE Systems provides solutions to organisations in the enterprise and security sectors. Its technology helps customers improve business performance, decrease financial risk and enhance safety and security
Benefit:Comparing today to last year, Onkosh.com is now able to grow about 300% in terms of the ability to crawl and parse new Arabic Content automaticvally discovered on the world wide web
ROI:Just by adopting the Tylersburg platform, Onkosh.com already witnessed an increase of around 20% in performance.
Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series and Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series
Benefit:Standardised desktop infrastructure improves availability and speeds development times; server virtualisation leads to a more agile IT infrastructure that better meets business needs and lowers total cost of ownership
ROI:Server virtualisation has reduced the time it takes to deliver a new server from 40 days to 10, taking into account purchasing, supply, installation, configuration, security and customisation.
Benefit:Three times performance increase over the previous generation of Intel® Xeon® processors and doubling of virtualisation ratio
ROI:SETAO estimated that it could save approximately 40 percent on energy costs due to the higher server consolidation ratio and greater CPU energy consumption management
Benefit:Newly deployed Dell Optiplex* 960 & 980 desktop PCs and Dell Latitude*
E64 series and E43 series notebooks were upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7 overnight, with minimum impact on employee productivity
ROI:Secure remote wake-up features mean IT team can turn on devices only
when needed
Product:Intel®Core™2 processor
with vPro™technology
Benefit:As a result,Security updates are able to reach 95 per cent of PCs straight away – a significant increase compared to the non-activated fleet. Being able to power-on PCs and distribute updates outside of office hours means researchers' productivity is not affected by IT administrative tasks.
ROI:Two hundred PCs powered by Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology enable the IT team to
manage fleet remotely with greater efficiency and faster update saturation
Benefit:This computer will provide a faster data processing speed that is at least three times higher than that enabled by its previous supercomputer
ROI:To advance understanding into medicine, chemistry, geophysics, biology and more recently the study of fine art and heritage objects, Soleil Synchrotron is using Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series to develop a new 64-core supercomputer.
Benefit:Intel Xeon processor 5500 series delivered low latency, which was critical for delivering real-time data services, while the Sun Fire X4170 servers consumed minimal power.
ROI:Servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series enable the company to create silos for different usages, such as servers dedicated to in-house software development, while ensuring robust flexibility for launch of future services.
Product:Intel®Core™i5 processor with vPro™technology
Benefit:Going mobile has improved the end-user experience, while remote power management has enabled the Employment Service to significantly reduce energy costs and carbon emissions.
ROI:The Swedish Public Employment Service has replaced 14,500 desktop systems with 12,300 laptops powered by the Intel® Core(tm) i5 processor with vPro(tm) technology.
Benefit:Intel's superior multi-core technology and reliability provides the perfect platform for a dense computing environment
ROI:60 per cent better performance per watt compared to the previous generation, and 38 per cent better virtualisation performance for the same amount of power
Benefit:Compliance Appliance shows a 2x performance increase running on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, compared to the previous-generation Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series. Greater energy efficiency and virtualisation capabilities also help reduce costs and footprint in the data centre
ROI:This can result in cost savings of up to USD 315,900 (EUR 248.140) over a 12-month period.
Benefit:Enhanced remote backup and support for the hardware used for billing means all patient information is stored and processed securely.
ROI:Routine administrative activities such as software updates can now be done remotely, even out-of-hours, without affecting staff productivity during the day.
Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology
Benefit:By applying remote power management, Tube Lines expects to reduce CO2 emissions by 32,371kg per year supporting corporate green initiatives and translating into direct cost savings of GBP 29,425 (EUR 32,720) per year.
Benefit:The company implemented a 648-node cluster powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series
ROI:Provide one of its major clients, Center for Computer Applications in AeroSpace Science and Engineering (C²A²S²E²) with more processing power for its HPC code
Benefit:The University of Groningen recently rolled out the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series to further improve the efficiency of both its high-performance computing (HPC) platform and its virtual desktop infrastructure.
ROI:The University regularly evaluates Intel’s latest technology to ensure
its leading research facilities deliver the best possible performance.
University of Plymouth in the UK will save 65 per cent of its desktop power bill and meet green targets by taking advantage of Intel® vPro™ technology.
