IT Best Practices: Intel IT set a goal of defining and implementing a single user experience framework as a standard for all enterprise solutions. We developed a holistic understanding of the enterprise experience and then provided a model for other [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel uses social community forums to engage publicly with customers, developers, and industry experts. It is an important part of fostering discussions, ideas, and knowledge sharing that often lead to industry-wide solutions. In spring 2015 Intel experienced [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Imagine a computing environment where PCs fix themselves, even before employees know there’s a problem. Or where employees are proactively notified of issues, including self-service answers without having to know a lot of technical lingo or infrastructure [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Real-time data supports a supply chain that can instantly respond to change. We’ll be able to build on what we learn with the supply chain implementation, applying real-time data in innovative ways in many other areas of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has used design best practices to create high-density energy-efficient data centers: a 1,100 W/square-foot cooling density and a 1,300 W/square-foot electrical density (10 times the industry average).

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is responsible for fueling Intel’s business transformation with information technology, which includes providing employees with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate. While email is pervasive in most businesses today, it can siphon time, productivity, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of managing the more than 100,000 PCs in use at Intel, Intel IT spends a significant amount of time and effort managing operating system deployment. Historically, new OS versions have been released every few years. [See the full post…]

Intel Chip Chat – Network Insights audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Ali Kafel, VP Business Development for Service Provider Cloud & NFV Solutions at Stratus, explains how Stratus is moving fault management from applications to software infrastructure at SDN & [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is transforming our in-house testing environment to deliver better feedback more quickly to Intel’s product development groups. Intel employees use Intel’s products to do their jobs every day. Intel IT deploys and monitors the performance [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is building an analytics platform that integrates and connects business intelligence (BI) data using a data lake model to reduce insight latency from months to days. Eventually, we aim to reduce data insight latency to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: One of the most serious security challenges facing enterprises today is that of insider threat. However, many enterprises do not fully understand the scope of the problem and until recently, there has been a lack of tools [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is developing a beyond-the-edge security strategy that will enhance security in our environment. This new strategy addresses several drawbacks with today’s approach to security.

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Jim Blakley, Visual Cloud Computing General Manager at Intel chats about how Intel is driving innovation in visual cloud computing. He talks about the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) and announces [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco Das Kamhout, Principal Engineer and SDI Architect at Intel discusses the Intel Cloud for All Initiative and how [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Curt Aubley, VP and CTO of Intel’s Data Center Group stops by to talk about some of the top [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: John Healy, General Manager of the Software Defined Networking Division within Intel’s Network Platforms Group stops by to chat about the current network transformation that is occurring and how open [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat Under the Hood video podcast: The coming software defined infrastructure (SDI) revolution will require a flexible data center that bursts in and out of capacity more efficiently than current architectures. The Intel Solid-State Drive Data [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: If you use carrier-grade as your design-point you realise there are a lot of enterprise segments you can tackle as well, such as financial services, Sandra Rivera explains to Martyn Warwick. She talks about how she’s glad that [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: With 23 NFV proofs of concept and a growing partner ecosystem, HP is demonstrating to communications service providers the value and viability of NFV solutions. Having access to the open source and open software community is also benefiting [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: The new foundation being established for dynamic service chaining builds on the technologies that underlie SDN and NFV. The blueprint offered by the Intel Open Network Platform Server reference architecture provides a commercially viable way—based on SDN—to create [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: This paper outlines an approach for Service Assurance in an SDN/NFV world that enables more open and deterministic service deployment and resource usage.

Software Defined Infrastructure: The journey of cloud architecture evolvement combined with cost saving consideration and how we do the trade-off based on limited resources to finally achieve an Enterprise level high availability OpenStack production with low cost.

Software Defined Infrastructure: This paper presents the market drivers behind the need for an accelerated video cloud and discusses the implications of technologies such as OpenStack* and other open source platforms in the context of a move towards SDN/NFV network [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: You are a cloud user who wants bare metal for performance forging the security benefits of virtualization. All the OpenStack services, such as, Nova, Keystone, and Glance, all run on bare metal.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Telemetry and full-stack instrumentation, combined with analytics and actuation and the orchestration system itself enables service providers and application developers to easily access advancements and specialisations in the platform and middleware, ultimately benefiting the consumer with better [See the full post…]