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• Getting Started
• • Intelligent Queueing Technologies for Virtualization Newly added & still relevant
    
  • Virtualization Primer New
  • Glossary of Virtualization Technologies
  • Virtualization Usage Models
  • Creating a Virtual Machine on VMware* Tutorial
  • Why Software Vendors Need to Care about Virtualization
  • Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d): Enhancing Intel platforms for efficient virtualization of I/O devices

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    Some helpful acronyms

    ATA	Application Targeted Accelerators
    BMC	Baseboard management Controller
    Boxboro	Platform for Nehalem EX (Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series and Tukwilla
    DCM	Data Center Manager
    EP	Efficient Performance
    EPT	Extended Page Tables
    ESI	Enterprise Southbridge Interface
    EX	Expandable Server
    FBD	Fully Buffered DIMM
    GT/s	Giga transfers per second
    HA	Home Agent in QPI based systems
    ICH	IO controller hub
    IMC	Integrated Memory Controller
    IOH	IO hub
    L1, L2	Respectively the first and second level caches
    LA	Land Grid Array(a type of chip packaginig0
    LLC	Last Level Cache (on each chip) or Longest Latency Cache
    MC	Mission Critical or Multi-core
    MC	Memory controller
    ME	Manageability engine
    NM	Node Manger
    NUMA	Non-uniform Memory Access
    OEM	Original Equipment Manufacturer
    PCI	Peripheral Component Interface (specification)
    QPI	Quick Path Interconnect (Pt to Pt links)
    RAS	Reliability, Availability, Serviceability
    RMCP	Remote Monitoring and Control Protocol
    SCTP	Stream Control Transmission Protocol
    SDDC	Single Device Data Correction
    SKU	Stock Keeping Unit (i.e., product variant)
    SMB	Scalable Memory Buffer
    SMB SMBus	System Management Bus
    SMI	Scalable Memory Interface
    SMT Threads	Simultaneous Multi-threading Threads or HW cpus on each core (2 if enabled, 1 if not)
    SSExy	xy generation of vector instructions 9sTreaming SIMD extensions)
    TDP	Thermal Design Power
    TPM	Trusted Platform Module
    TPV	Third Party Vendor
    Turbo	Technology enabling higher frequency execution for one or more cores
    TXT	Trusted Execution Technology
    Tylersburg	Platform for Nehalem EP (Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series) and Westmere EP(Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series)

• Cloud Computing
• • Catch this article from PCMAG.com storying Google vs Microsoft in the Cloud New
  • Read about UFIDA Weeco's TCO success using cloud and virtualization technolgies New
  • Design Principles for Applications in the Clouds New
  • Virtualization's Next Frontier
  • Enabling Hypervisors for the cloud
  • Experts Weigh in on the cloud
  • Changing the Economics of the Data Center
  • Security in a Virtualized Environment
  • Intel® Virtualization Technology for servers
  • Bright Opportunities in the cloud
  • Tech Experts: Billy Cox & Jun Nakajima
  • Intel® Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel® Platforms Ubuntu enterprise Cloud
  • Intel® Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel® Xeon® Processor-based Platforms ~ Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform, Service Provider Edition

• Learn about other Intel® server products and technologies
• • Intel® Xeon® processor family
  • Intel® Virtualization Technologies
  • Intel® Node Manager and Intel® Data Center Manager
  • Server Community: Interact with peers

• ISV related, Intel Press and more
• • Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions: Reducing the Computational Overhead of Encryption by 50 Percent for Web Servers using VMware vSphere* New
  • Virtualization Performance of SAP ERP* Solutions on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series with Microsoft Hyper-V New
  • Virtualization Performance of SAP ERP* on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series with VMware New
  • Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series helps Kingsoft boost performance for its MMOG gaming software New
  • Achieving Twenty Four to One Web Server Consolidation using VMware vSphere 4.0 on Intel Xeon Processor Based Servers New
  • Neusoft Telecom BSS Virtualized Application Performance on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series using VMware vSphere* 4 New
  • Achieving Twelve to One Web Server Consolidation Using VMware vSphere 4.0 on Intel Xeon Processor Based Servers New
  • Intel® Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel® Platforms New
  • Breakthrough Security Capabilities and Energy-Efficient Performance for Cloud Computing Infrastructures New
  • Applied Virtualization Technology by Campbell and Jeronimo
  • System Virtualization courtesy of Dr. Dobb's

• Other Articles
• • Virtualized SAP Solution using Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC® CLARiiON® Storage read about the results Cisco got using UPC and Intel Architecture in a virtualized environment
  • Fresh from Beijing: Virtualization 2.0 to Enterprise Cloud. New
  • Siemens Virtualized Solution for Soarian Clinicals on Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 with VMware vSphere 4. New
  • Autonomic Virtual Networks and Applications in Cloud and Collaborative Computing Environments, a Power Point presentation by Renato Figueiredo, Associate Professor, Center for Autonomic Computing, ACIS Lab, University of Florida. Part I, Part II, Part III. New
  • Performance Impacts with Optimized Virtual Environments on Intel® Virtualization Technology-based Platforms
  • Measuring Performance of Applications on Virtualized Systems Under Test (SUTs)
  • Optimizing Virtual Environments on Intel® Virtualization Technology-enabled Platforms
  • Virtualization
  • Server Virtualization
  • Development of Software for Virtual Machines
  • Virtualization Models for the Software Development Lifecycle
  • Virtualization Performance Metrics
  • Intel® Virtualization Technology: Best Practices for Software Vendors