Intel (News - Alert) Corporation has officially introduced its new Xeon processor E7 v2 family designed to serve the mission critical computing needs of a variety of industries, including retail, healthcare, banking and transportation.
The processors are designed to turn data into actionable, real-time insights, processing and analyzing large, diverse amounts of data to unlock otherwise inaccessible information. It features triple the memory capacity of the previous generation processor family, enabling rapid and thorough analysis of large datasets.
The analytical insights derived by the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family aim to help businesses make more informed decisions affecting top-line and bottom-line results. The company notes that the processors offer 80 percent more performance with up to 80 percent lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than alternative RISC architectures.
“Organizations that leverage data to accelerate business insights will have a tremendous edge in this economy,” said Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, in a statement. “The advanced performance, memory capacity and reliability of the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family enable IT organizations to deliver real-time analysis of large data sets to spot and capitalize on trends, create new services and deliver business efficiency.”
Indeed, the information obtainable from big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) can go a long way toward helping organizations create revenue-generating services. Intel's IT organization itself expects to achieve cost savings and increased bottom-line revenue of nearly half a billion dollars through the use of analytics solutions by 2016.
Using in-memory analytics, the processors can analyze an entire data set, like an organization’s entire customer database, in system memory rather than traditional disk drives, meeting the increasingly complex analytics requirements of mid- to large-sized companies.
Finally, in order to keep data bottlenecks in check, the Intel Xeon Processor (News - Alert) E7 v2 family features Intel Integrated I/O, Intel Data Direct I/O and support for PCIe 3.0. This provides four times the I/O bandwidth and offers extra capacity for storage and networking connections.
Edited by Blaise McNamee