Intel IT Business Review: “Whether it’s exploratory or targeted-, Intel IT has a process for identifying, prioritizing, and pursuing the opportunities that hold promise. It all boils down to use cases and business value, continually seeking new answers to an [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 54 – We’re at the outset of a new development in the enterprise, driven in part by the widespread use of mobile devices. Context-aware computing has the promise to enhance employee productivity and offer value to [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: BASF Plant Science refreshes R&D computing resources with Intel Xeon processor E5 and E7 product families, resulting in a faster and more flexible infrastructure.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Oklahoma Innovation Institute builds an HPC cluster with Intel Xeon processors E5 family to foster economic development in Tulsa.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing our technology roadmap for using hybrid cloud services. While cloud computing presents opportunities to reduce costs, increase data availability, and generate new sources of revenue, it also poses electronic discovery (eDiscovery) challenges. Cross-platform [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Faculty at the City of Liverpool College use Intel Atom processor-powered Windows 8 Pro tablets to teach more efficiently and engagingly.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: To handle complex scientific projects, Universidad de Cantabria implements a supercomputing solution based on Intel Xeon processors E5 family.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: GS Home Shopping reduces costs and increases performance by replacing its UNIX-based IT environment with Intel Xeon processor-based servers.

IT Best Practices: With a goal to improve our email application server performance and lower costs to meet ongoing email demand, Intel IT conducted a proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluating the benefits of Intel Solid-State Drive (Intel SSD) technology. Compared to our [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Designing Intel microprocessors is extremely compute intensive. Tapeout is a final step in silicon design and its computation demand is growing exponentially for each generation of silicon process technology. Intel IT adopted high-performance computing (HPC) to address [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has adopted a user-centered approach to delivering IT services that enable optimization of IT solutions, improve employee productivity, and increase business velocity. The user-centered approach involves proactively engaging and partnering with Intel employees and business [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is accelerating the deployment of touch-enabled business Ultrabook devices with Microsoft Windows 8 ahead of the schedule we created in January 2013. This decision was based on several factors: employee demand for touch capabilities is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Moving from Microsoft Windows 7 to Windows 8 meets Intel’s long-term client computing needs, gives employees more powerful systems, and prepares them to use Intel’s growing number of touch-enabled applications. By end of June 2013, Windows 8 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has standardized on Intel Xeon processors with a core frequency of 2.6 gigahertz (GHz) for two-socket servers to offer maximum IT value for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. Our analysis demonstrates that higher-end processors [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: At Florida State University, new servers based on Intel Xeon processors E5 family deliver up to four times faster application performance for high-performance computing workloads without requiring recoding.

IT Best Practices: As part of our focus on a user-centered model of delivering IT services, in 2012 Intel IT optimized its PC delivery process, resulting in improved Intel employee productivity, a better employee experience, and reduced operational costs. We [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Oracle’s Jason Schaffer — Senior Director, Systems Development, Mikael Vidstedt — JVM Architect, Java Platform, and Ashok Joshi — Senior Director, Development: Oracle No SQL Database, give their perspectives on Intel and Oracle engineered systems for Big Data [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To increase business productivity, Intel IT conducted multiple proof of concepts (PoCs) to identify business, safety, and ergonomic requirements for the use of mobile devices, including tablets, in our manufacturing environments. Using these mobile devices, as well [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Intel IT is using a variety of techniques to accommodate growing demand for storage capabilities, without increasing costs. In 2011 Intel faced a 53-percent increase in storage capacity from 2010, and the continued build out of our private [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Intel IT is transitioning to an enterprise private cloud that will support our office and enterprise computing applications. This cloud is based on virtualized infrastructure accessing shared pools of storage through storage area networks (SANs).

Intelligent Storage: Data growth is not only driving up storage costs, but also transforming performance and efficiency requirements for storage systems. IDC estimated that in 2011, the amount of information created and replicated would surpass 1.8 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes) [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 51 – Edward Goldman is Chief Technology Officer at Intel IT. He has another job title as well–General Manager of Strategy, Architecture, & Innovation, or the SAI group. It exists to blaze the trail for IT. [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Spanish bank Bankinter increases responsiveness when Gneis switched mission-critical applications to Intel Xeon processor-based servers.

Intelligent Storage: This paper examines the size and status of the worldwide market for high-performance computing (HPC) storage systems, along with evolutionary trends affecting this market. The paper also looks at Intel and Xyratex as examples of vendors at the [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: RAID running at the speed of Intel Xeon processors How things have changed! 10 years ago we told you that software RAID (redundant array of independent disks) was underpow- ered and incapable of providing the perfor- mance required [See the full post…]