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It may be late, but Intel has launched a new Itanium processor that is expected to double the performance of its predecessor. After two delays, Intel on Monday launched the Itanium 9300 series, a quad-core processor code-named Tukwila.

The chip, a 64-bit processor designed for enterprise servers and high-performance computing systems, was slated to be released in early 2009, but Intel delayed the release, saying only that it was undergoing application scalability enhancements. A second delay was announced in May.

While companies are tightening their software budgets, consumers are also expected to delay buying the latest technology devices.

Businesses plan less software spending in the next 90 days, according to a survey last month by ChangeWave, a research company. The survey found that the nation's recession is affecting software purchases across all categories.

Challenges in BI upgrade
Sudhindra Patil
Business Card
Company: Intelligroup Asia Pvt Ltd.
Posted on Oct. 31, 2008 08:45 AM in Business Intelligence (BI)

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Scope & objectives

To minimize the risks involved in the Upgrade and to improve the performance of the Upgrade and reduce the Downtime.

Business Benefits:

Standardization of existing processes using new functionalities thereby reducing custom developments.

If quad-core CPUs are good, six cores must be better -- especially for servers. On Tuesday, Intel announced a six-core Xeon 7400 CPU, positioning it as the premier virtualization and transaction-processing platform.

On hand with testimonial support were the industry's largest hardware and software vendors, including IBM, Dell and Microsoft.

Xeon Virtualization

Microsoft announced Wednesday that the 2008 version of SQL Server, its data-management and business-intelligence platform, has been released to manufacturing.

The company said new capabilities have been added, such as support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale data warehousing, geospatial data, and advanced reporting and analysis. Microsoft is also touting its support for aggregation, summarization, search engines, dashboards, transactions across distributed data sources, and long-running transactions.

Applications in Development

Business intelligence is a method of using software programs to analyze huge amounts of electronic data collected by a federal agency or private company. It is increasingly being used to dig through seemingly unrelated data to find relationships that explain events and predict future ones. Executives can then use that information to plan the agency's strategy to meet its mission.

If mashups sound like the kind of Web 2.0 application best used for checking traffic jams on Google Maps, think again: Mashups within the enterprise environment are becoming common for functions such as integrating social-networking information into CRM tools. And as they get easier to make, they'll continue to grow in popularity and usefulness.