Business Solutions for IT Managers: Value-add IT distributor COMGUARD continuously seeks to broaden the enterprise security services it offers to customers. This is essential to remain competitive within its market segment. Together with Intel, COMGUARD set up a demonstration suite [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The District School Board of Niagara helps improve understanding and boost student confidence by deploying tablets as part of a math pilot program.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Madrid Health Service migrates from RISC to Intel Xeon processor-based servers to support critical applications.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The Habit Restaurants reduces customer wait times, increases employee productivity, and supports 40 percent growth using Dell tablets with Intel Atom processors and Windows 8.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Intel Core i7 vPro processors and Intel Solid-State Drives help Grove City College deliver strong tablet performance, flexibility, and security.

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Steve Sardella, a distinguished engineer at EMC, stops by to talk about recent company developments while at the Intel Developer Forum in September. Various teams showed off the new range [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: People are the Perimeter – In today’s mobile world, people are the new security perimeter. Organizations and companies, including their products, customers and employees, are exposed to increasing security threats – both in number and complexity. At [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In IT, the technical strategy and architecture group is responsible for driving the enterprise capabilities to support our efforts. This year, we are concentrating much of our energy towards the implementation of what we call five-star applications. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: While Intel IT has routinely received high marks for performance, I believe we can do more. I believe we can help transform the business in significant and impactful ways. This requires new thinking, new strategies, and a [See the full post…]

John Mark Walker and Walter Tessman from Red Hat stop by to talk about GlusterFS, a scale-out, distributed storage platform built for cloud, virtualization and bare-metal file storage. It scales elastically up to multiple petabytes. They also discuss a reference [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Strategies and tips on capturing value from big data analytics from Scott LaCosse, director of technology operations for MetaScale LLC.

IT Best Practices: The enterprise walls and network are no longer the only pieces of the security perimeter. People are the new perimeter. People are increasing the perimeter via a myriad of mobile devices and new channels, such as social [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: SAT-Zhoushan builds a more efficient, secure, and reliable taxation system with the Intel vPro platform.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is replacing our previous software-based encryption solution with McAfee Drive Encryption, an integral component of new McAfee security products such as McAfee Complete Data Protection – Advanced software. This high-performing, reliable solution provides integrated manageability, [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Jim McHugh, Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing, Unified Computing Systems at Cisco Systems, stops by to talk about refreshing their Unified Computing System with the Intel Xeon processor [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Bill Mannel, VP of Product Marketing at SGI, chats about updating SGI’s product lines – the ICE X blade server, rackable systems and the modular InfiniteStorage platform – based on [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over the last five years, Intel IT has evolved its approach to BI solutions for Intel’s worldwide sales organization to enable rapid delivery of advanced self-service business intelligence (BI) and data visualization capabilities. By moving to a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over the past few years, we have investigated the concept behind the big data technologies and now have much of the capabilities running in our production environment. The IT Labs continue their work to explore new and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Let’s face it: big data is still very new. And that means the infrastructure platforms on which big data analytics are performed are also relatively immature. What it doesn’t mean, however, is that organizations can’t or shouldn’t [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Businesses are often guilty of operating at a pace that is measured and process driven, in reactive fashion. These businesses observe a problem or development in the marketplace and then collect data to understand and act upon [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Five people. Six months. $10 million in ROI. Those were the parameters and goals of Intel IT’s initial big data projects, which started in earnest three years ago. “We wanted to prove that big data analytics are [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: China Telecom builds an Intel Xeon processor-based business platform resources pool, improving its server’s performance and computing density and enhancing reliability.

IT Best Practices: In an age when organizations such as Intel are rich in data, the true value of this data lies in the ability to collect, sort, and analyze it to derive actionable business intelligence (BI). Recognizing the need [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this livecast from IDF, Brian Connors, VP of System x Development for IBM, stops by to talk about the company’s products based on the launch of the Intel Xeon [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To deliver the extreme query responsiveness required for real-time analysis of high-volume data sets, Intel IT conducted tests to find the optimal platform for a cost-effective, high-performance in-memory business intelligence (BI) solution. Performing server-sizing and stress tests [See the full post…]