Green IT: To support Intel’s first planned certified green building, Intel IT has designed a system that saves energy by recovering data center heat and using it to heat the rest of the building. For more on Green IT visit [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In this Intel IT Whitepaper – Server sizing and selection is a critical element of Intel IT’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) infrastructure strategy, which makes use of both two-socket and four-socket servers. Under-sizing servers may result in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over time, Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and business value of IT. Our new data center strategies shift the emphasis [See the full post…]

IT Cloud Computing: An Intel cross-organizational group developed a common cloud computing taxonomy designed to meet Intel’s comprehensive requirements by classifying the entire breadth of existing cloud technologies. Based on this classification, diagramed in Figure 1 in this IT whitepaper, [See the full post…]

IT Competitive Advantage: To help Intel consume fewer energy-related resources and produce less waste, Intel IT is executing an IT sustainability strategy based on our Sustainability Baseline Model, a tool developed in-house that quantitatively measures and predicts the environmental impact [See the full post…]

IT Business Efficiency: To help ensure application compatibility during Intel’s enterprise-wide migration from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows 7, Intel IT implemented a carefully controlled workflow in one common test environment. So far, out of more than 1,000 applications [See the full post…]

In this IT Cloud Computing video: Das Kamhout (LinkedIn Profile) – Technical Engineering Lead, Intel IT Enterprise Private Cloud IT Cloud Computing: Intel IT has defined a path for building and implementing a private cloud for the enterprise. This is [See the full post…]

IT Business Agility: This IT@Intel whitepaper shares how Intel IT has defined an architecture and implementation roadmap for a private enterprise cloud designed to increase agility and IT efficiency. This shared multi-tenant environment is built on a highly efficient, automated, [See the full post…]

IT Information Security: As our CIO Diane Bryant says “Intel’s success is based on our intellectual property”. To help protect this valuable resource and employees’ personal information, in 2009 Intel IT began deploying full disk encryption on all corporate-owned laptops [See the full post…]

IT Continuity: To meet the unique needs of Intel’s most complex ever corporate divestiture, Intel IT developed new processes and tools that solved substantial challenges in the areas of intellectual property protection, legal, compliance, asset transfer, and manufacturing carve-out. For [See the full post…]

IT Innovation: Intel IT is investigating virtualization because it has the potential to transform client computing, reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) and increasing IT control while giving users more flexibility. However, because client virtualization embraces multiple rapidly evolving technologies, [See the full post…]

IT Competitive Advantage: OS streaming can deliver considerable manageability benefits to Intel IT training rooms with multi-user PCs. To evaluate performance and utilization in a production environment, we conducted proof of concept (PoC) testing in two rooms located in different [See the full post…]

IT Cloud Computing: As more services are delivered via cloud computing, which combination of client platforms and service delivery methods best meets our needs? Intel IT has found that, whether services are kept in-house or outsourced to the cloud, rich [See the full post…]

IT Innovation: A great idea can emerge anywhere. But it takes a team of people to bring that idea into reality. It happens when IT can find that one idea from any of the company’s employees on the planet and [See the full post…]

IT Client Technology: Intel IT is investigating a model where users can access their applications and information from any device, anywhere, anytime. To create this device-independent mobility, Intel IT is considering implementing dynamic virtual client technology, which uses containerized software [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: This Intel IT white paper documents how using the most up-to-date hardware and software affects server and network utilization as well as the performance of streamed and virtual hosted desktop compute models. Also find the original investigation, [See the full post…]

New Webcast Series on Intel IT Data Center Solutions Discover Intel IT’s latest data center innovations and technologies that are increasing energy efficiency, reducing their carbon footprint and driving IT business value. Through a new data center webcast series, Intel [See the full post…]

IT Employee Productivity: Working in close partnership with business stakeholders, Intel IT created several innovative online solutions that are helping to facilitate business growth and forge closer links with customers, business partners, and employees while increasing productivity and IT efficiency. [See the full post…]

Look inside one of Israel’s older data centers with state-of-the-art computing and monitoring technology. Experience Intel IT’s complete data center strategy at Intel.com.

Get a sneak peek inside Intel’s newest — and “greenest” — data center under construction. Experience Intel IT’s complete data center strategy at Intel.com.

Tour the Intel data center that was once a wafer fabrication facility (fab) with a 3-story design and several distinct data centers within it. Experience Intel IT’s complete data center strategy at Intel.com.

See one of Intel’s Greenfield data centers built from the ground up with the latest technologies and innovations. Experience Intel IT’s complete data center strategy at Intel.com.

Earth Day – April 22: Here’s Intel IT‘s sustainability practice in a tour that zings from laptops to servers. At the heart of Intel IT’s strategy is the company’s own technology: the latest microprocessors that equip IT organizations to set [See the full post…]

Today, Intel IT manages about 18 petabytes (PB) of primary and backup storage in our design computing, manufacturing, office, and enterprise environments. We choose storage and backup and recovery solutions based on the application use models for these respective areas. [See the full post…]

Network standardization and WAN optimization are key focus areas in our efforts to improve our data center efficiency. Through standardization of our network service offerings, standards and reference designs, and access layer infrastructure, we can now serve a larger community [See the full post…]