Intel IT Annual Report: 2012 mid-year update that shares progress on key strategic initiatives that delivered business value to Intel — cloud computing, IT consumerization, business intelligence, social computing and enterprise security.

IT Best Practices: Episode 33 – In a previous podcast we discussed migrating mission-critical systems to Intel architecture. We outlined the process Intel has undergone to move from a RISC-based platform in the 90s to a complete Intel architecture-based platform [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Robert Rounsavall and Jose Gonzalez from Trapezoid discuss the company’s products – Trapezoid Data Intelligence – in the areas of hardware trust and security that allow moving into [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Ray Solnik, president of US operations for Appnomic, discusses the company’s work in automating the data center and IT operations for cloud companies and enterprises to deliver a [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Diane Bryant, VP and GM of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, stops by for a wide ranging discussion on everything from how to motivate high school and college students [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 29 – IT@Intel is at the forefront of IT evolution in a number of ways. One big change in the past few years at IT@Intel is the company’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program. Since implementing the program several [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Roger Foreman, a product marketing manager from Dell, stops by to talk about managing power in the data center with Open Manage Power Center, which allows an IT [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Japan’s NTT Data dynamically controls server power consumption and reduces data center peak usage by 16 to 18 percent with help from the Intel Xeon processor E5 family.

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Das Kamhout, lead technical advisor for the ODCA, chats about the group’s Proposal Engine Assistant Tool (PEAT), which helps guide IT managers through their cloud purchasing decisions and [See the full post…]

Inertia – Interop 2012: What are some of the hot issues in IT? In this edition of Inertia, we took to the floor of Interop to talk with experts, IT pros and vendors. OpenFlow, which was an Interop Labs demo [See the full post…]

If the growing IT complexity in many enterprises helps to foster employee creativity, collaboration and productivity, then security pros want to enable and not limit the diversity of apps, platforms and hardware. That’s the message from McAfee’s Tyler Carter at [See the full post…]

Complexity is one of the issues with buzz at Interop 2012, Las Vegas. Don Clark of NEC says until now there hasn’t been a single source solution to manage complexity in the data center. NEC’s ProgrammableFlow PF6800 Controller, the first [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Helvetia optimizes European operations, reducing risk, time, and cost for integrating acquisitions and achieving regulatory compliance with help from the Intel Xeon processor E7 family.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT provides compute services to the company, which means supporting the business of making computer chips. The standards are very high and Intel IT scrutinizes everything they deploy in the data center. Early testing of the [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: John Lee from Appro and Allan Snavely from the San Diego Supercomputer Center chat about the Appro designed and Intel processor Gordon supercomputer that is designed to be used for [See the full post…]

Citrix explains the challenges that an IT manager may face when moving data, applications or integrated solutions from the data center to the cloud. Through their Intel Cloud Builders reference architecture, Citrix provides guidance for this cloud on-boarding. See also: [See the full post…]

A tour of Intel IT‘s data center in Russia. This data center hosts about a thousand servers. To improve energy efficiency of the data center, it uses external cold air to cool the data center during winter, and uses the [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Mike Patterson Principle Engineer at Intel discusses new ways to let the data center run longer, hotter. See also: Intel Chip Chat

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Nicolas Barcet, Cloud Lead with Canonical, discusses interoperability & open cloud computing in the data center. See also: Ubuntu Cloud Computing Solutions

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: James Duncan the Chief Architect from Joyent discusses the evolution of the smart data center and the best practices.

As computing power increases and we all rely increasingly on cloud computing and storage, the environmental demands of information technology are growing significantly. Earth Day 2011 marks a moment when, by some estimates, the carbon footprint of data centers exceeds [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Facebook’s Lead of Hardware Design Amir Michael & Intel’s Director of Cloud Marketing on the impressive innovation in data center efficiency resulting from 18 months of collaboration. Intel Chip Chat

The buzz around the new Intel Xeon E7 10-core microprocessor, such as here and here shows that enterprise hardware still commands attention. In this video, meet the engineer who put the chip through its paces and and ran it, as [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented a low-cost thermal storage system that maintained cooling at a high-density data center during an electrical power outage. This enabled the data center to survive the outage without costly damage to servers. The system [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…]