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Virtual Travel
Concur is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions for businesses and they chose HP ProLiant servers based on AMD Opteron™ processors to help consolidate their IT environment.
The Resource Center
I went to grade school in the 1970’s. Back then, education was going through a transformation, away from the rote memorization of the past, teachers began exploring ideas like “new math.” Even the library was going under a transformation; suddenly … Continue reading
Please type 100 times… “We will not ignore technology for our students”
What will 2011 mean for technology in education? For years, public and private schools have been steadily adopting technology in the classroom, migrating from the traditional blackboard lecture to an interactive, online learning experience. Today, AMD works with a number of OEM partners to enhance the education experience for our youth. Continue reading
[12 Days of 12 Core] Day 10: The Age Old Debate
A recent article in SearchDataCenter by Bill Kleyman dives into the differences between the AMD and Intel platforms currently on the market, and more specifically how they address key concerns of the Unix crowd – memory, virtualization and overall performance. … Continue reading
Public, Private or Hybrid Clouds? It’s in the Eye of the Beholder
This article originally appeared on VMblog.com as part of the 2011 Cloud and Virtualization Prediction Series One of the many things I love about my job here at AMD is that I get to meet and talk with a very … Continue reading
Big Data –IT’s Next Big Challenge
Here’s a question for you: How would you convert four terabytes of raw image TIFF data into 11 million finished PDFs in the space of 24 hours at a computation cost of approximately $240? Can it even be done? The … Continue reading
Simply Spectacular Virtualization – A Last Hurrah for VMmark 1.1.1
We stand on the verge of a new era in virtualization benchmarking. VMmark Beta 2.0 , VMware’s next-generation benchmarking tool, is now in the testing stage. This new version of VMmark moves to a multi-host virtualization environment that models application … Continue reading
SPECvirt_sc2010: Does this make VMmark Obsolete?
Try as we have, performance benchmarking of any system is still something of an imperfect science. There is no one “right” methodology for benchmarking – for example, should a methodology test what the system is truly capable of under “perfect” … Continue reading
AMD Best Practices Series: The Times They Are a-Changin’
Tackling the third leg of server virtualization – the network Dylan had it right in 1963 when he recorded this classic that some say captured the spirit of social and political unrest of the times. Today, the times certainly are … Continue reading
OK, Everyone in the Pool
Recently I was at an HP event where we heard about their Converged Infrastructure strategy. A question that came up from one of the HP executives is “how exactly does AMD fit into our Converged Infrastructure strategy?” Quite nicely was … Continue reading


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