Data network bandwidth requirements are currently shifting from 1Gb to 10Gb. But 100Gb is not far away – optical networking becomes essentially mandatory to carry large amounts of data. Researchers are investigating not only materials and equipment, but also novel [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: IT cloud computing is a significant trend with the potential to increase IT business agility and lower costs. Today, however, security risks, immature technology, and other concerns prevent widespread enterprise adoption of external clouds. Intel IT is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our cloud computing strategy, Intel IT has been opportunistically taking advantage of external offerings of software as a service (SaaS) applications. To prepare for broader SaaS adoption, we designed a SaaS architecture that will [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To enable device-independent mobility (DIM) at Intel, Intel IT is considering implementing dynamic virtual client (DVC) technology, which uses containerized software appliances to abstract the OS; applications; corporate and personal data and workspaces; and user-specific settings. In [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing an enterprise-wide social computing platform that combines professional networking tools with social media such as wikis and blogs, and integrates with existing enterprise software. Our goal is to transform collaboration across Intel, addressing [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: Intel IT has developed a threat agent risk assessment (TARA) methodology that distills the immense number of possible information security attacks into a digest of only those exposures most likely to occur. This methodology identifies threat agents [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To minimize the threat posed by malicious software, or malware, making its way into the enterprise, Intel IT has established a process that actively seeks to identify and take action against the malware before it reaches Intel’s [See the full post…]

IT Efficiency: Intel IT shares the results of testing of the new Intel Xeon 7500 processor on Intel silicon design workloads. Testing showed that the Intel Xeon 7500 increased throughput up to 2.68X compared to the Intel Xeon 7400, and [See the full post…]

IT Business Agility: Many large organizations have a centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment based on proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems. In contrast, Intel IT has successfully implemented a decentralized ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and supports [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: 5 years ago, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of our overall data center strategy. We are currently accelerating virtualization adoption for general purpose applications, with a goal [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer and an Intel Senior Fellow, talks about the future of contextual-based computing – making your phone, TV, etc. into a truly amazing device. Justin Rattner [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Brian Johnson from the LAN Access Division discusses the move to virtualizing servers and supporting technology, including Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity and SR-IOV. Intel Ethernet Intel Chip Chat Home [See the full post…]

IT Innovation: Intel IT developed a new management and support structure for wireless LANs (WLANs). We consolidated first-level support and centralized the WLAN engineer workgroup as well as device management. We manage the WLAN as an integrated service that enables [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Bob Zuber from IBM previews what the company will be demonstrating at VMworld – an Intel Xeon processor based system featuring MAX 5* memory scaling technology. IBM Systems Intel Chip [See the full post…]

IT Client Technology: Intel IT’s security team continually analyzes our computing model to determine how it needs to evolve in response to an ever-changing threat landscape. Recent cyber-attacks on a number of high-profile targets provided added impetus to re-evaluate the [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: executive vice president David Perlmutter celebrates Chip Chat’s 100th episode with thoughts on everything from new Intel microarchitectures to technology and social interaction. David Perlmutter Bio Intel Chip Chat Home [See the full post…]

Green IT: To support Intel’s first planned certified green building, Intel IT has designed a system that saves energy by recovering data center heat and using it to heat the rest of the building. For more on Green IT visit [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Kathleen Fiehrer gives an update on Climate Savers Computing Initiative projects, including addressing power supply efficiency targets and adoption of PC power management settings. Climate Savers Computing Initiative Website Intel [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Kevin Bross from Intel’s Embedded Computing Group discusses Intel Energy Checker, which provides software developers the ability to easily instrument applications to measure useful work. Intel Energy Checker Intel Chip [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In this Intel IT Whitepaper – Server sizing and selection is a critical element of Intel IT’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) infrastructure strategy, which makes use of both two-socket and four-socket servers. Under-sizing servers may result in [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Peter Biddle from Intel’s software group discusses the Intel Atom developer program and the Intel AppUp, a store for Atom processor-based applications. Intel Atom Developer Program Intel AppUp

IT Best Practices: Over time, Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and business value of IT. Our new data center strategies shift the emphasis [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein from SIGGRAPH, Allyson chats with Mark Noland from Autodesk and Thomas Teger from Luxion about what their companies demonstrated at the show. Autodesk Home Page KeyShot* Home Page

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Shannon Cepeda, from Intel’s software group, chats about software products for developers, which includes Intel Parallel Studio, a suite of tools for enabling parallelism. Sign up for Intel Software Techdays [See the full post…]

IT Cloud Computing: An Intel cross-organizational group developed a common cloud computing taxonomy designed to meet Intel’s comprehensive requirements by classifying the entire breadth of existing cloud technologies. Based on this classification, diagramed in Figure 1 in this IT whitepaper, [See the full post…]