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Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family Resources

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family for Data Center Infrastructure

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family for Datacenter Infrastructure

Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family deliver the best combination of performance.

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Real-World Guide

Data Center Infrastructure

This guide explains how the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family helps IT managers build their next-generation data center infrastructure to support innovative services such as virtualization and cloud computing.

Build your data center infrastructure on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family >

Vendor Spotlights

Cloud Solutions

Learn about cloud infrastructure solutions from leading vendors with offerings built on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family.

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Making the Business Case for the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family

Cloud Computing Advantages

This presentation highlights cloud computing advantages of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family and helps you make the business case for investing. Includes access to an ROI calculator.

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Intel IT: Increasing EDA Throughput

High Performance Servers

Based on our performance assessment and our refresh cycle, we plan to deploy servers based on the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 series this year, completing our replacement of older servers.

Find out how Intel IT enhanced electronic design automation >

Customer References Using Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family

Case Studies: Cloud

Learn how the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family can help make your IT business more efficient, productive and secure. Real life business success stories from some of the world’s leading companies can help you make your own IT decisions.

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Data Center Design Go-To Resources

Gartner and Intel Webcast

Converged Cloud Infrastructure
Andrew Butler from Gartner Research and Boyd Davis at Intel discuss converged infrastructure, simplification for the cloud, and whether hardware still matters in a cloud-obsessed world.

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Planning Guide

Cloud Design Planning Guide
A practical guide to help IT managers with data center design and support the future of cloud computing includes 10 Gigabit Ethernet for unified networking, cloud security issues, server pools, cloud storage, and for the next-generation data center.

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Cloud Peer Stories

Cloud Computing Examples
Learn from cloud computing examples featuring Intel-based cloud infrastructure. IT managers talk about how they drive business value in their organization with new cloud-based solutions.

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Cloud Peer Research

Data Center Research
Results of a survey of 200 IT managers that can provide insights into how to prepare your cloud computing data center environment to overcome networking and cloud storage challenges.

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Intel IT: Building a Private Cloud

Building a Private Cloud
Intel IT has identified best practices in several areas that have helped us maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, introducing solutions quickly into our environment, and pursue our business goals.

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Storage Vendor Round Table

Storage Vendor Solutions
Storage vendor solutions round table provides answers about six cloud storage technology offerings from four different vendors.

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IT Manager: Duels

IT Manager: Duels

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              1. Source: Performance comparison using geometric mean of SPECint*_rate_base2006, SPECfp*_rate_base2006, STREAM*_MP Triad, and Linpack* benchmark results. Baseline geometric mean score of 166.75 on prior generation 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor X5690 platform based on best published SPECrate* scores to www.spec.org and best Intel internal measurements on STREAM*_MP Triad and Linpack as of 5 December 2011. New geometric mean score of 306.74 based on Intel internal measured estimates using an Intel® Rose City platform with two Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2690, Turbo and EIST Enabled, with Hyper-Threading, 128 GB RAM, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 6.1 beta for x86_6, Intel® Compiler 12.1, THP disabled for SPECfp_rate_base2006 and enabled for SPECint*_rate_base2006

              2. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel® microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark* and MobileMark*, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations, and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products.

              3. Performance comparison using SPECfp*_rate_base2006 benchmark result at the same TDP. Baseline score of 271 on prior generation 2S Intel® Xeon® processor X5690 based on best publication to www.spec.org using Intel® Compiler 12.1 as of 17 January 2012. For details, please see: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2012q1/cpu2006-20111219-19195.html. New score of 466 based on Intel internal measured estimates using an Intel® Canoe Pass platform with two Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2680, Turbo Enabled, EIST Enabled, Hyper-Threading Enabled, 64 GB RAM, Intel® Compiler 12.1, THP disabled, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 6.1.

              4. Intel measurements of average time for an I/O device read to local system memory under idle conditions. Improvement compares Xeon processor E5-2600 product family (230 ns) vs. Xeon processor 5500 series (340 ns). Baseline Configuration: Green City system with two Intel® Xeon processor E5520 (2.26GHz, 4C), 12GB memory @ 1333, C-States Disabled, Turbo Disabled, SMT Disabled, Rubicon* PCIe* 2.0 x8. New Configuration: Meridian system with two Intel® Xeon processor E5-2665 (C0 stepping, 2.4GHz, 8C), 32GB memory @1600 MHz, C-States Enabled, Turbo Enabled. The measurements were taken with a LeCroy* PCIe* protocol analyzer using Intel internal Rubicon (PCIe* 2.0) and Florin (PCIe* 3.0) test cards running under Windows* 2008 R2 w/SP1.

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