Challenges of IT management: Two new technologies help simplify enterprise computing, lower costs, and protect networked computing assets. "Intel is helping to lower the cost of IT management and provide new compelling capabilities for consumers and enterprises alike," says Pat Gelsinger General Manager and Senior Vice President Intel Digital Enterprise Group more>

This Preliminary External Architecture Specification is a technology overview and detailed description of the Itanium® architecture-based software interfaces that support the Intel virtualization technology codenamed Vanderpool Technology. more>

Xen* is an open source virtual machine monitor (VMM) developed at the University of Cambridge to support operating systems (OSs) that have been modified to run on top of the monitor. Intel has extended the Xen VMM to use Intel® Virtualization Technology? (VT) to support unmodified guest OSs also. This was done for IA-32 Intel® Architecture processors as well as Itanium® architecture processors. more>

A typical IT organization allocates 70 to 80 percent of its budget simply to managing existing systems and applications. One source of these costs is the large number of underutilized servers in the average datacenter. more>