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OASIS Advances Automated Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing with STIX, TAXII, CybOX

Editor’s note: We saw the press release below from OASIS and wanted to share it with you since it covers some of the most important information sharing standards in the community today, STIX, TAXII and Cybox. These standards are now being advanced through the open standards process of OASIS.
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OASIS Advances Automated Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing with STIX, TAXII, CybOX

Organizations from Around the World Collaborate on International Standards to Prevent and Defend Against Cyber Attack

(PRWEB) JULY 16, 2015
Three foundational cyber security specifications, STIX, TAXII, and CybOX, are now being advanced through the international open standards process at OASIS. In a transition headed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a record number of organizations from around the world have come together in the new OASIS Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Technical Committee to develop and promote adoption of standards that enable cyber threat intelligence to be analyzed and shared among trusted partners and communities. The work will support automated information analysis and sharing for cyber security situational awareness, real-time network defense, and sophisticated threat characterization and response.
CTI Technical Committee members include representatives of Boeing, Check Point, Cisco, Dell, EMC, eSentire, Fortinet, Fujitsu, IBM, iboss, iSIGHT Partners, NEC, New Context, Palo Alto Networks, Resilient, Securonix, Soltra, TELUS, ThreatQuotient, ThreatStream, TruSTAR, US DHS Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, US NIST, ViaSat, and others.

“Security professionals are overwhelmed and simply don’t have time for analyzing data in disparate formats. STIX, TAXII, and CybOX streamline the process, putting the focus of cyber intelligence where it belongs—on prevention, detection, and remediation,” said Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Using data converted to these standard formats can help security practitioners rapidly identify and access current threats, and determine how they act, who is responsible and what course of action is needed. Threat intelligence standards are also a key building block for fulfilling the vision of ubiquitous threat intelligence sharing.”

STIX, TAXII, and CybOX can work in concert or be implemented separately. STIX (Structured Threat Information Expression) is a language for describing cyber threat information so that it can be analyzed and/or exchanged. STIX makes it possible to explicitly characterize a cyber adversary’s motivations, capabilities, and activities, and in doing so, determine how to best defend against them. TAXII (Trusted Automated Exchange of Indicator Information) defines services and message exchanges that enable organizations to share the information they choose with the partners they choose. CybOX (Cyber Observable Expression) is a language for specifying, capturing, and communicating events or stateful properties that are observable in system and network operations. Together, STIX, TAXII, and CybOX are instrumental in supporting a wide variety of applications including security event management, malware characterization, intrusion detection, incident response, and digital forensics.
“STIX, TAXII, and CybOX have reached a level of maturity where they will benefit from a more formal collaboration guided by a globally recognized standards development process that ensures transparency, international participation, stability, reciprocity, and perpetual ease of access,” said Richard Struse of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, who chairs the OASIS CTI Technical Committee. “OASIS provides all of this, and is an ANSI-accredited developer of American National Standards as well as an authorized PAS Submitter to ISO. Having these certifications available to STIX, TAXII, and CybOX means they will be implementable by the broadest possible stakeholder community.”
OASIS CTI Technical Committee members have formed three Subcommittees to address the specifications individually. The CTI STIX Subcommittee is chaired by Aharon Chernin of Soltra and Sean Barnum of MITRE. The CTI TAXII Subcommittee is chaired by Bret Jordan of Blue Coat and Mark Davidson of MITRE. The CTI CybOX Subcommittee is chaired by Trey Darley of Soltra and Ivan Kirillov of MITRE
New members are encouraged to join the OASIS CTI Technical Committee and its Subcommittees at any time. Archives are accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS invites public review and comment on the work.
Support for CT

Check Point
“Check Point believes that open standards and community sharing are vital components of a successful and effective fight against cybercrime. Our goal is to make Threat Intelligence, from a variety of sources, timely and actionable. We have been working with the STIX/TAXII community for the past three years and are adopting STIX/TAXII in our architectures. We look forward to working with the community to expand the standards to allow for significant sharing between governments, security organizations and vendors, and customers.”
–Dorit Dor, VP, products, Check Point Software Technologies

eSentire
“Real-time threat intelligence consumption will become more of a reality as these specifications are widely implemented by vendors in all parts of the security ecosystem. Our security intelligence analysts have been affiliated with and advocates of STIX, TAXII and CybOx for quite some time. The introduction of OASIS as an international standards checkpoint will undoubtedly improve threat intelligence sharing amongst partners by facilitating the exchange of computer-readable threat information.”
–David Maxwell, Director of Threat Intelligence, eSentire

Fortinet
“Information sharing is crucial to building a more secure infrastructure across the global ecosystem. Creating a common language, a methodology for how that language is communicated, rating systems, and other standards are going to be required for efficiency and clarity to combat the speed of new threat creation. STIX and TAXII in particular are important initiatives towards next generation threat intelligence. Using the same terms, data streams, and threat modeling methods will help researchers, vendors, and law enforcement alike share information back and forth to stay abreast or even ahead of threat actor groups. We are pleased to contribute to this and more through OASIS.”
–Derek Manky, Global Security Strategist, Fortinet

IBM
“IBM has long supported industry standards to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. Cybersecurity is one of the greatest challenges our modern society faces and requires a coordinated approach to succeed. Under OASIS leadership, we see an opportunity to better organize the good guys to fight cybercriminals by sharing cyber threat intelligence data in an automated and efficient data standard.”
–Peter Allor, Senior Security Strategist, IBM

iboss
“We have long been committed to any advances that can better enable the sharing of threat intelligence among security professionals. Until now, organizations have been hampered by a lack of common standards and the tendency for security information to be siloed. We strongly support this important endeavor and look forward to contributing to the standardization being led by OASIS.”
–Paul Martini, Co-founder and CEO, iboss Cybersecurity

iSIGHT Partners
“iSIGHT Partners, creator of the commercial cyber threat intelligence category, understands how security organizations can gain the advantage over adversaries by using threat intelligence across their security and risk management program. As an early contributor and enabler of STIX, we welcome the opportunity to join with OASIS to further develop CTI standards and accelerate the adoption of context rich threat intelligence.”
–Robert Huber, VP Community, iSIGHT Partners

NEC
“NEC is very pleased to be part of the CTI Technical Committee and continues to drive CTI adoption with industry partnerships to benefit customers. NEC believes that threat intelligence standards are crucial for proactively countering the cyber threat. We are excited about the formation of CTI TC and support its efforts through its contributing to and promotion of this global standard.”
–Kozo Matsuo, General Manager, Cyber Security Strategy Division, NEC Corporation

New Context
“Development of an industry-wide standards framework for cyber threat intelligence is crucial for the information security industry to be able to define and share threats. New Context is a proud sponsor of OASIS and believes strongly in open and transparent standards frameworks development. We look forward to collaborating on the next standards for STIX, CybOX and TAXII.”
–Daniel Riedel, CEO, New Context

Resilient
“As a Sponsor of the OASIS CTI Technical Committee, we are delighted to be at the forefront of advancing critically important standards like STIX, TAXII and CybOX. By creating protocols that address how to best model, analyze, and share cyber threat intelligence, we can provide greater support to overwhelmed security professionals.”
–John Bruce, CEO and co-founder, Resilient Systems

Soltra
“Soltra is proud to be a member of the OASIS CTI Technical Committee. Our threat information sharing solution, Soltra Edge, was built leveraging STIX, TAXII, and Cybox – key standards within the industry. We look forward to contributing to CTI as we continue to establish and maintain open standards, while improving cyber security capabilities and reducing workload.”
–Aharon Chernin, CTO, Soltra, a DTCC and FS-ISAC Company

TruSTAR
“We are proud to support the work OASIS is doing to advance their cybersecurity specifications and promote information sharing, a critical factor in today’s security posture. By sharing details about malicious incidents quickly, not only between the public and private sectors, but across industry lines within the private sector as well, we can work together to better defend ourselves and stay ahead of the hackers.”
— Paul Kurtz, founder and CEO, TruSTAR Technology

ViaSat
“Focusing on standardizing threat intelligence technologies to keep sensitive government and corporate information secure is paramount to the mission of OASIS and its members. At ViaSat, we take a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity, from identifying potential cyber and physical security vulnerabilities to designing and implementing a plan that leverages big data analytics, intuitive visualization and intelligent automation to keep pace with evolving threats no matter where data resides on the network or how it is accessed.”
–Jerry Goodwin, VP, Secure Network Systems, ViaSat

About OASIS:
OASIS is a non-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. OASIS promotes industry consensus and produces worldwide standards for security, privacy, cloud computing, IoT, content technologies, digital experiences, and other areas. OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free choice of technology. OASIS members broadly represent the marketplace of public and private sector technology leaders, users, and influencers. The consortium has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 65+ countries.

New IARPA Program Aims To Discover Tech Trends

The Intelligence Community’s Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) office of “incisive analysis” has been evaluating plans, projects and proposals submitted in response to a broad solicitation of inputs on a very interesting construct. They have embarked on a new, smarter way of gleaning technology trends. We first learned publicly of this activity in 2010 when they posted a synopsis which accurately captured the fact that projecting technology trends requires lots of brainpower and work by subject matter experts. CTOvision.com seeks to articulate information of use on mega trends and we have to agree this is by no means an automated activity.  New approaches must be explored.

IARPA has just announced how they will be tackling this pursuit.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ODNI News Release No. 28-11
September 27, 2011
IARPA LAUNCHES NEW PROGRAM TO ENABLE THE RAPID DISCOVERY OF EMERGING TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), announced today that it has embarked on a multi-year research effort to produce a new capability to accelerate the process of identifying and prioritizing emerging technologies across the globe. The Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition (FUSE) Program seeks to develop automated methods that aid in the systematic, continuous, and comprehensive assessment of technical emergence using publicly available information found in published scientific, technical and patent literature.“Identifying what the technical trends and connections are, before the capability is fully developed, is critical to our mission of maintaining an intelligence advantage,” said Dewey Murdick, FUSE program manager at IARPA.

Today, the identification and assessment of emerging technical capabilities is a manual, time-consuming, domain-specific, and expert-intensive process. Analysts are in need of a reliable, automated, evidence-based capability that allows them to rapidly identify specific technical areas for in-depth review. IARPA plans to create a capability that can nominate both known and novel technical areas based on quantified indications and evidence of technical emergence.

“The globalization of science and technology means that capabilities can emerge from diverse technical areas anywhere in the world,” added Murdick. “We want to provide an evidence-based technical capability that enhances our competitiveness in a rapidly changing digital and technical age. In FUSE we are partnering with the scientific community to develop validated indicators and theories of technical emergence detection.” The FUSE Program is designed to provide the analytic workforce with a cutting edge capability to sustain technical vigilance across multiple disciplines and languages. Through a competitive Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) process, IARPA has awarded research contracts in support of FUSE to teams led by BAE Systems, Columbia University, Raytheon BBN Technologies Corporation, and SRI International.

IARPA invests in high-risk, high-payoff programs that have the potential to provide our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over our future adversaries. For media inquiries, please contact dni-iarpapublicaffairs@ugov.gov.

We offer our congratulations to BAE Systems, Columbia University, Raytheon BBN Technologies Corporation and SRI International. We know many leaders in those four great organizations and are proud to say some of the greatest thinkers in the world are associated with those firms. We all look forward to progress. We can also make a few guesses here about what they are up to.  I imagine every one has concluded they cannot automate this approach with old legacy technologies. Each is very likely working on ways to apply the right stack of new “Big Data” approaches like Apache Hadoop and the many capabilities that surround that core framework.  If these firms have not already called on the experts at Cloudera I expect them to be doing that right now. By leveraging an integrated stack of ready to go capabilities in the Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) they will be able to field capabilities rapidly.  In fact, if they really want to move fast they will buy optimized hardware and services from Dell, for reasons we point out here in our post on: The Quickest Way To Deploy A Well Engineered Apache Hadoop Solution To A Production Environment.

Looking for more on what will be accomplished? Here is info from the first synopsis:

SYNOPSIS

Technical emergence refers to the process whereby innovative ideas, capabilities, applications, and even entirely new fields of study arise, are tested, mature, and, if conditions are favorable, make a significant impact. Those able to “scan the horizon” for the early signs of technical emergence, and take advantage of the resulting capabilities and applications, can gain a significant competitive edge.

Today, the identification and assessment of emerging technical capabilities is a time-consuming, domain-specific, and expert-intensive process. This demanding process is often carried out under severe time constraints on either too much or too little data, with limited reproducible auditing and bias controls, and with limited systematic validation against real world activities. Furthermore, the increasing globalization of science and technology raises the potential for high-impact technical capabilities to emerge in increasingly diverse technical, socio-economic, and geographic areas.

Analysts and Subject-Matter Experts (SMEs) need a reliable, evidence-based capability that allows them to dramatically accelerate the horizon-scanning process and reduce the labor involved to identify specific technical areas for in-depth review. It is essential that this automated capability can nominate both known and novel technical areas based on quantified indications of technical emergence with sufficient supporting evidence and arguments for that nomination.

In FUSE, the real-world concept of a scientific or technical area or domain of inquiry will be represented by a Related Document Group (RDG). This set of documents serves as a proxy for one or more related technical concepts, capabilities, applications, fields of study, etc., that have developed over the span of time defined by the documents’ publication dates. An RDG can represent a narrowly circumscribed topic or domain of technical activity (e.g., support vector machines applied to face recognition), or something more general (e.g., artificial intelligence or computer science) or more exotic, such as a body of multi-disciplinary scientific work sharing both methods and applications. The sizes of RDGs will range from a few tens of documents to many thousands of documents.

The FUSE Program seeks to develop automated methods that aid in the systematic, continuous, and comprehensive assessment of technical emergence using information found in the published scientific, technical, and patent literature. FUSE envisions a system that could (1) process the massive, multi-discipline, growing, noisy, and multilingual body of full-text scientific, technical, and patent literature from around the world; (2) automatically generate and prioritize RDGs, nominate those that exhibit technical emergence, and provide compelling evidence for that emergence; and (3) provide this capability for literatures in English and at least two non-English languages. The FUSE Program will also address the vital challenge of validating such a system, using real world data.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Contracting Office Address:
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
Washington, District of Columbia 20511
United States

Primary Point of Contact:
Dewey Murdick
Program Manager
dni-iarpa-baa-10-06@ugov.gov

 

 

How Does Ireland Measure Up as a Location for Starting Your European Engineering Team?

Editor’s note: This guest post by Alan McGlinchey makes a good case for why Ireland should be considered as the location for your European engineering team. Would love to see similar articles submitted for other locations, but so far it seems Alan is building a very compelling case!.-bg

 

Europe is a vast, lucrative market and having a local tech operation in place to support it makes sense. But there are also solid economic reasons for a company to expand its engineering program to Europe. Europe offers a marketplace of 550 million people and is seen by many US tech companies as the gateway to EMEA region.

Once the decision has been made to launch a European engineering office, there are many locations to choose from. The UK and Germany are developing successful hubs for tech teams but Ireland has emerged in recent years as a location that’s proving hard to beat. In fact, one company every three weeks has expanded into Ireland, with firms such as Zendesk, Pivotal and Workday building engineering teams there to support their growth back home.

Key location factors

Ireland seems to be a common choice for an overseas technical staff. In the software industry alone, Ireland employs 105,000 people, includes nine of the world’s top 10 tech firms and generates $17.8 billion in annual exports. Apple now employs 6,000 people in Ireland, Google’s Irish operation has the same number and Microsoft employs close to 2,000 workers in the emerald isle which include technical and non technical staff.

For American companies considering where to put their European engineering office, what are some of the other key factors that drive the location decision and how does Ireland measure up? Helping U.S. companies identify the optimal location for their engineering R&D team was the goal of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine, which conducted a survey of more than 200 multinational companies to identify the most important  factors influencing their decision. Here’s the questions they asked. We have answered them thinking about Ireland.

Does the country have high growth potential?

According to Ireland’s Central Statistics Office, at the end of 2016 there were 124,000 people working directly in the multinational technology sector in Ireland. This helped Ireland remain as the country with the fastest-growing economy in the EU according to the World Economic Forum.

Ireland also benefits from having the youngest population in Europe, with one third under age 25, which guarantees a steady supply of workers to fuel the economy. In addition, Ireland will be the only English-speaking country in the EU after the impact of Brexit, which is an attractive factor to American technology companies.

Are highly qualified technical personnel available?

Ireland has been investing in its educational system for years, with more than 30% of students enrolled in science, technology, engineering and math-related subjects. Happily for U.S. tech firms, potential employees are involved in many areas of cutting-edge tech areas. HPE or Hewlett Packard Enterprise has about 250 engineers in Galway with many devoted to cloud technology. Data science and machine learning are going on at the Irish operations of companies like Xilinx, Veritas, IBM and others, while intensive mobile and infrastructure work is taking place at Zendesk’s Irish center, which is approaching 60, going to 100 engineers at present. Fellow U.S. firm Workday 450 engineers is like Zendesk in that it launched its Irish operation with an engineering focus but has been expanding in supporting areas like sales, finance and more.

There are 10,800 graduates in the computer science and broad engineering categories from all colleges in the Republic of Ireland. Ireland continues to invest in education – a new masters in artificial intelligence (AI) program was recently developed by industry, academia and government. and Another key the flexible labor laws in Ireland mean no cap on the equivalent of H-1B visas with Ireland being the eight progressive for Immigration laws by the IMD World Competitiveness Index 2016. The bottom line is that there is a strong supply of talent.

Is it easy to work with universities?

Ireland is known for the level of collaboration between industry, academia, state agencies and regulatory authorities, supported by highly pro-business government policies. A world-class research environment designed to work with and for the benefit of industry is being further developed via an unprecedented investment of €8.2 billion under the Irish government’s strategy for science technology and innovation. Research centers actively get involved with industry with over 700 companies working with them and academic institutions.

What about the expertise of homegrown research staffs and how might this benefit companies?

One effort that has helped attract foreign investment in Ireland is the development of clusters of compatible industries in technology areas that involve intense collaboration with local universities and institutions. Just as thriving tech communities have sprung up in the United States around renowned universities such as Stanford and MIT, the equivalent in Ireland has provided companies with ready access to leading-edge university-based R&D and provides a solid base for future growth and development.

Does the country offer tax breaks or other government assistance benefitting international companies?

Ireland is notable for its open, transparent approach to taxation, offering a 12.5% corporate tax, an extensive tax-treaty network and, of course, the 25% R&D tax credit. The tax rate applies to all Irish corporate trading profits. This rate is the lowest in Western Europe and is 10 percentage points below the EU average according to KPMG. When factoring in the favorable tax rates and tax credits along with lower labor, housing and other costs, a common belief among U.S. tech firms operating in Ireland is that two engineers can be hired there for the price of one in the Silicon Valley, with higher multiples for some engineering specialties.

Do the cultural and business environments positively impact turnover?

Ireland’s thriving technology environment attracts both domestic and foreign tech workers, who tend to stay put in their jobs compared to other countries. The low turnover is partly driven by an attractive lifestyle in the Irish cities that have emerged as technology hubs. For example, a neighborhood in Dublin has been nicknamed Silicon Docks after Facebook, Google, Twitter and other U.S. tech companies set up glossy offices close to the River Liffey.

Dozens of other American tech stars are now located in Silicon Docks, from e-commerce giants like Amazon and Etsy to big enterprise firms such as Intel, Siemens, Dell and Microsoft, as well as the kings in areas like gaming and cloud services. Meanwhile, other hubs such as Sligo, Galway, Waterford, Cork and Limerick are seeing similar trends. These hubs have their own excel in some sectors and have talent on in areas from embedded & application, infrastructure & cloud , cyber security , machine learning & data science through to front-front end, mobile test & quality assurance

More reasons to consider Ireland

There are other advantages Ireland has taken pains to offer its foreign tech community that have helped it flourish. These include few regulatory and research restrictions and a tech environment that supports production for export as well as supporting sales to foreign customers. As has been pointed out by many experts including professor Tsedal Neely at the Harvard Business School, succeeding in today’s global economy relies on a geographically dispersed workforce because these teams “offer the best functional expertise from around the world, combined with deep, local knowledge of the most promising markets. They draw on the benefits of international diversity, bringing together people from many cultures with varied work experiences and different perspectives on strategic and organizational challenges.”

The many U.S. companies that have built engineering teams in Ireland are doing so as a key element in their strategy to compete and win on a global basis.

Intel’s Next Generation Chip Architecture

On 21 April 2009 Intel corporation held an “Intelligent Processors” event which highlighted Intel’s next generation chip architecture and the industry leading companies who are incorporating this technology into their products.   The event, pulled together by Nigel Ballard of Intel, included demos by companies like Endeca, Cisco, Cray, Dell, HP, Oracle, VMware, Microsoft and Sun.  Nineteen hardware partners showed off Xeon 5500-based server products at this event.  Clearly Nigel is a man with convening authority.  When he calls, the big guns of the IT community come.

There were two other big draws at this event.  One was the Intel CTO, Justin Rattner.  I’ll be running a separate article on my interview of Justin shortly.  For now I’ll just say it was great having the new Nehalem Microarchitecture placed in context by a CTO of his stature.  He provided a keynote that underscored not only the technology of this smart server processor, but hit on the importance of innovating in a downturn.  His message was very clear and it is one I believe.  Now is the time to transform computing.

Eric Doyle, Intel’s enterprise Marketing Manager, provided a deeper dive into the power of real offerings based on the new chip, especially the Intel Xeon 5500 (I meant to ask Eric if he can shed some light on why the codename for this project was called Nahelem, since he said he lives in Oregon I wonder if he named it?).

The following are a few notes that combine things Justin Rattner and Eric Doyle said:

The Xeon 5500 based on the Nehalem project is  really the next era for computer chips, providing the biggest jump in productivity and efficiency since the Pentium Pro.    The Nehalem is hitting the market right now (you can get one for your house if you buy a MacPro).  The server based on the Nehalem is Xeon 5500.

The design of Nahalem is based on quad core design with two executable threads per core.  The design also provides an added degree of intelligence to how things are done on the chip.  Little processors on the chip oversee and manage the big processors in the chip and that concept allows for some very significant improvements to computing.  For example, energy efficiency is far more adaptable/configurable.  When you don’t need full processing power, less power is drawn.  New virtualization capabilities are also enabled with this approach.

The result is that the Xeon 5500 provides the largest jump in computer performance in Intel’s history.  In fact, this jump is the greatest performance leap in computer history.  This jump is not just because of more transistors on the chip, it is because of a very smart design involving more cores.

This chip also provides features that will enhance trustworthy computing.  I found this especially interesting and the whole discussion left me feeling far more upbeat about the future of IT.   I have no doubt security will still be a constant battle well into the future, but with this new design the ability to run cryptographic algorithms is sped up significantly.  This design enables a 40% improvement in OpenSSL performance and a 50% improvement in RSA2048, for example.  New capabilities will soon be enabled that leverage the chip’s management capabilities to attest to true endpoint state.  This will enable enhanced defenses against rootkits.

A few other bullets on Nehalem, from the Intel website:
Intel® microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, offers the latest in processor innovation, including:

  • Dynamic scalability, managed cores, threads, cache, interfaces, and power for energy-efficient performance on-demand.
  • Design and performance scalability for servers, workstations, notebooks, and desktops with support for 2-8+ cores and up to 16+ threads with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology), and scalable cache sizes, system interconnects, and integrated memory controllers.
  • Intelligent performance on-demand with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology taking advantage of the processor’s power and thermal headroom. This enables increased performance of both multi-threaded and single-threaded workloads.
  • Increased performance on highly-threaded applications with Intel HT Technology, bringing high-performance applications into mainstream computing with 1-16+ threads optimized for new generation multi-core processor architecture.
  • Scalable shared memory features memory distributed to each processor with integrated memory controllers and Intel QuickPath Technology high-speed point-to-point interconnects to unleash the performance of future versions of next-generation Intel® multi-core processors.
  • Multi-level shared cache improves performance and efficiency by reducing latency to frequently used data.

What is the “so what” of all the above?  Upgrade your old servers now.  It will save energy, it will save space, it will reduce operating cost, it will increase security, and it will enable more advanced applications.

As for the many demos seen at this event, my favorite was the one presented by my friends at Endeca.  Endeca is one of the first companies fielding capabilities that can take maximum advantage of Nehalem.   The speed, scale and scope of the data they can parse and enable interaction with is incredible.  If you are considering an Endeca deployment, consider Xeon 5500.  Ask Endeca for the demo and you will see why.  It just makes total sense.

Soon I’ll post a few more thoughts based on my interview of Justin Rattner.  Say tuned and happy computing!

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