IT Best Practices: Episode 107 – The job of securing the enterprise has changed dramatically in a short period of time. The number of cyberattacks, and the sophistication of the attackers, requires a new approach to security. No one [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 106 – We have talked quite a bit in this podcast series about the rapidly changing threat landscape, and the corresponding changes to the IT organization’s approach to security. The evolution of cyber threats means [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 105 – Intel IT has embarked on a three-year initiative to transform to a multi-cloud strategy which will enable the company to achieve its digital and business transformation goals. In this podcast we hear from [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 103 – With an increased use of the cloud in the enterprise comes an increased need for advanced security. In this podcast we hear from Shachaf Levi, Cloud Security Architect at Intel IT. Levi tells [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 102 – We’ve discussed Intel’s role at the forefront of the transformation of the data center in previous episodes of this podcast. Intel Rack Scale Design is a flexible computing, storage, and network backbone that [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 101 – One clear sign of the technological change we’ve all regularly adapted to is the number of operating systems we’ve worked with in our personal and professional lives. Historically, IT has had to evaluate [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 100 – Technology has evolved in amazing ways, and Intel’s factories have been at the forefront of that evolution. This means those factories have grown in complexity. This also means an equivalent growth in the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 99 – As clients have come to rely more and more on the private cloud in the enterprise, Intel IT has worked to simplify capacity management for its private cloud. The result has been an [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 98 – The data center at Intel is the backbone of the company, critical to every aspect of business. To better meet Intel’s business requirements while providing internal customers with optimal capabilities and innovative business [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 96 – We’ve all been there – waiting in a conference room as a presenter fumbles with cables, trying to get a laptop connected to a monitor or projector. Or someone is trying to join [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 93 – Previously in this podcast series we discussed Intel IT’s Software Defined Infrastructure strategy. SDI consists of three major components – Software Defined Computer, Software Defined Network, and the topic of this podcast, Software [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 92 – Intel has a Bring Your Own Device program for employees that has been very popular – so popular, in fact, that by the end of 2011 there were 6000 employees bringing their Android [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 91 – Our podcast series has chronicled the evolution of the compute, storage, and network resources that comprise the data center. This evolution has presented challenges and opportunities to the IT department. Software Defined Infrastructure, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 90 – It seems as if wearables have appeared almost overnight. It’s a new area for people to use technology to enhance their lives, particularly around personal health and fitness. And it’s a new area [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 89 – The enterprise has more options than ever when it comes to cloud computing. Intel corporation is four years into its transition to a private-public-hybrid cloud hosting model. Intel IT’s role in this transition [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 88 – The democratization of big data is taking place in the enterprise. The business value of advanced analytics is clear, and the technology is giving access to such analytics to a broader population of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 87 – The Internet of Things (IoT) is the concept that diverse machines, devices, and technologies interact in new ways. This expands the idea of the computer beyond servers, laptops, smart phones and tablets to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 86 – In the mid-1990s, the only client devices in use at Intel – or anywhere else for that matter – were PCs. Managing the lifecycle of those devices meant buying lower-cost, minimally equipped PCs [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 85 – The revolution in social media has created great opportunities for better communication and collaboration in the enterprise. Sara Browning’s job is to leverage those opportunities at Intel. She’s the Service Owner for Social [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 84 – The enterprise today is awash in a variety of compute devices with diverse capabilities. The days of IT delivering a one-size-fits-all, desktop-only computer to every worker are long gone. For a very large, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 83 – Cyber security in the enterprise has evolved because the threat landscape has changed so dramatically. That’s certainly true at Intel. Tony Saint, is Intel IT’s Cyber Security Operations Manager. Like all security specialists [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 82 – The use of mobile devices in the enterprise – and everywhere for that matter – has increased dramatically over the past several years. This is as true at Intel as anywhere. As the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 80 – Advances in the SMAC stack – social, mobile, analytics, and cloud – have affected every part of the enterprise. Organizational security has been as challenged as any facet of a company. Organizations want [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 79 – The data center has evolved at an astonishing rate in recent years. Developments like widespread server virtualization, new applications with great performance requirements, and a forty percent annual growth in internet connection requirements [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 77 – DCIM is Data Center Infrastructure Management. It’s the marriage of information technology and data center facility management. A DCIM solution looks to extend the traditional data center management function. It’s an area of [See the full post…]