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IT Best Practices: Overcoming Security Challenges to Virtualize Internet-facing Applications

November 17th, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Overcoming Security Challenges to Virtualize Internet-facing Applications

IT Best Practices: The purpose of this paper is to describe how Intel IT neutralized security risks that have allowed us to enable virtualization for the DMZ and SIZ thereby allowing Intel IT to expand the benefits of virtualization. Over [See the full post…]

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Inside IT: Employee Collaboration

November 15th, 2011 |
Inside IT: Employee Collaboration

IT Best Practices: Episode 12 – The enterprise workplace has evolved tremendously in a short period of time. Intel IT has led the way in adopting and implementing new technologies and new strategies to create an environment conducive to collaboration. [See the full post…]

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Inside IT: Mobility in the Enterprise

November 1st, 2011 |
Inside IT: Mobility in the Enterprise

IT Best Practices: Episode 11 – Mobility in the enterprise used to mean a laptop. Now it’s much more. Employees are bringing their own mobile devices, and with them their expectations about how they want to work. More and more, [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Managing Training Rooms with Intel vPro Technology

October 21st, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Managing Training Rooms with Intel vPro Technology

IT Best Practices: Intel IT conducted a pilot to explore the potential of PCs with Intel vPro processor technology, with ISV management software, to address management and performance challenges across Intel’s geographically dispersed training rooms. We remotely performed rebuilds, installs, [See the full post…]

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Inside IT: Devices In The Workplace

October 18th, 2011 |
Inside IT: Devices In The Workplace

IT Best Practices: Episode 10 – It’s hard to believe that the first touch-screen smart phone was released only four years ago. That widespread tablet computer use really took off only a year ago. In that short time these mobile [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Establishing a Low Cost Disaster Recovery Site

October 15th, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Establishing a Low Cost Disaster Recovery Site

IT Best Practices: Intel IT developed a cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy for one of our data centers in Israel that has a potential business value of more than USD 3 million. During its first disaster recovery drill, the new [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Virtualization with the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: A Proof of Concept

October 12th, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Virtualization with the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: A Proof of Concept

IT Best Practices: Intel IT, together with Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, End User Platform Integration, and Intel’s Software and Services Group, conducted proof-of-concept testing and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to assess the virtualization capabilities of Intel Xeon processor [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Improve service and lower TCO – Proactive PC Support Improves Service and Lowers TCO

IT Best Practices: Improve service and lower TCO – Proactive PC Support Improves Service and Lowers TCO

IT Best Practices: As part of our online support strategy, Intel IT developed a self-service PC Health Check utility to deliver better customer support, improve response time, and increase employee satisfaction—while reducing operating costs. PC Health Check empowers employees to [See the full post…]

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Inside IT: Client in the Cloud

October 4th, 2011 |
Inside IT: Client in the Cloud

IT Best Practices: Episode 9 – The IT organization needs to be an agile service provider. Intel IT is undertaking a multi-year transition to cloud computing, focusing primarily on the private cloud, to increase this agility. More and more devices [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Simple Ways to Boost Your Smartphone’s Battery Life

September 30th, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Simple Ways to Boost Your Smartphone’s Battery Life

IT Best Practices: Face it: smartphones are your portable lifeline to the world. With everything that these handheld marvels allow you to do—check your e-mail, surf the Internet, send text messages, balance your bank account, play games and even call [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Top 12 Ways to Keep your PC Cool

September 24th, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Top 12 Ways to Keep your PC Cool

IT Best Practices: Keep your computer out of the hot zone even as temperatures climb indoors and out Hi there. This is your laptop computer speaking – well, writing to you. Please forgive the temporary disruption of service, but you [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Intel IT Executive Insight: Moving to Client-aware Cloud

September 23rd, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Intel IT Executive Insight: Moving to  Client-aware Cloud

IT Best Practices: We envision a private cloud that can determine device attributes and user preferences and deliver accordingly. Intel IT is actively working to create a client-aware cloud environment where application delivery is based on the client device and [See the full post…]

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Inside IT: Disaster Preparedness for the Data Center

September 20th, 2011 |
Inside IT: Disaster Preparedness for the Data Center

IT Best Practices: Episode 8 – With the ten-year anniversary of 9-11, we’re reminded of the importance of being prepared for disaster and how that day changed the way many IT professionals view data security. With Texas fires and Hurricane [See the full post…]

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A Tour of Intel IT’s Data Center at Russia

September 15th, 2011 |
A Tour of Intel IT’s Data Center at Russia

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…]

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Inside IT: Strategic Planning

September 6th, 2011 |
Inside IT: Strategic Planning

IT Best Practices: Episode 7 -Intel IT engages in a strategic planning cycle to ensure the IT@Intel team is aligned with the company’s business groups. It’s critical to engage in a real conversation within the organization to maximize the IT [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Evolving Centralized IT Client Management

IT Best Practices: Evolving Centralized IT Client Management

IT Best Practices: Intel IT continues to proactively improve automation, consistency, and cost efficiency. Refining centralized IT services, Intel IT continues to look at ways to control software proliferation, manage hardware, enhance mobility, and reduce costs.

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IT Best Practices: Implementing Cloud Storage Metrics to Improve IT Efficiency and Capacity Management

IT Best Practices: Implementing Cloud Storage Metrics to Improve IT Efficiency and Capacity Management

IT Best Practices: 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).

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IT Best Practices: How to Protect your Handheld Device or Laptop from Water Damage

IT Best Practices: How to Protect your Handheld Device or Laptop from Water Damage

IT Best Practices: Ever spilled coffee on your laptop or cell phone and wondered what to do next? In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares several techniques that show you how to breathe new life back into your device.

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IT Best Practices: Your Last Words are Your Passwords: What Happens to Your Digital Life when You Pass Away?

IT Best Practices: Your Last Words are Your Passwords: What Happens to Your Digital Life when You Pass Away?

IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT offers some common sense advice for helping your family know what to do with your online identity and resources after you are gone.

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IT Best Practices: The PC that came in from the cold: Protect your laptop from winter weather

IT Best Practices: The PC that came in from the cold: Protect your laptop from winter weather

IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares six ways to keep your laptop safe from the elements as you make your way through winter.

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IT Best Practices: How to work more comfortably on your notebook

IT Best Practices: How to work more comfortably on your notebook

IT Best Practices: Do you work directly from your notebook for long periods of time? In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares several techniques that show you how to set up your notebook to improve your posture and reduce [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Strengthening Enterprise Security through Notebook Encryption

IT Best Practices: Strengthening Enterprise Security through Notebook Encryption

IT Best Practices: Intel chose to encrypt all corporate notebooks to keep data from being accessed if lost or stolen. Including a detailed plan for secure and cost-effective implementation, Intel IT combined a software and hardware based solution to mitigate [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Security Solutions Enabled by Intel vPro Technology

IT Best Practices: Security Solutions Enabled by Intel vPro Technology

IT Best Practices: Intel IT security specialists deployed PCs with Intel vPro technology, focusing on high-priority areas including investigations, data protection, and loss prevention and system health. Testing and validating these capabilities, Intel was able to deliver reduced manual effort [See the full post…]

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IT Business Value: Client Computing within a Virtual User Environment (VUE)

IT Business Value: Client Computing within a Virtual User Environment (VUE)

Intel IT Business Value: Intel IT is developing a Virtual User Environment (VUE), employing a managed, virtualized container that streams data and IT applications on any capable client hardware.

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Inside IT: Desktop Virtualization

July 26th, 2011 |
Inside IT: Desktop Virtualization

IT Best Practices: Episode 4 – With proper planning, development, and training, desktop virtualization gives users greater flexibility. At the same time, it offers IT more control and simplified management. It’s a great opportunity for the IT organization, but there [See the full post…]

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