IT Best Practices: Episode 80 – Advances in the SMAC stack – social, mobile, analytics, and cloud – have affected every part of the enterprise. Organizational security has been as challenged as any facet of a company. Organizations want to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 79 – The data center has evolved at an astonishing rate in recent years. Developments like widespread server virtualization, new applications with great performance requirements, and a forty percent annual growth in internet connection requirements pushed [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 78 – The SMAC stack is changing the nature of business. SMAC is Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud. Advances in these areas have allowed many operations in the enterprise to move to the cloud, and Software [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 77 – DCIM is Data Center Infrastructure Management. It’s the marriage of information technology and data center facility management. A DCIM solution looks to extend the traditional data center management function. It’s an area of great [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 76 – The technical and organizational landscape has changed dramatically in the past few years. Organizations have a wealth of new opportunities for greater employee productivity and operational efficiency. But these opportunities, combined with an increase [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 75 – In order to keep up with the velocity of business, Intel IT has partnered with the company’s Sales and Marketing team to create a social collaboration platform. It’s a powerful set of tools designed [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 74 – Traditionally, advanced analytics – the scientific process of finding insight in data – have been the domain of a few highly-trained data scientists in the organization. Intel is looking to change that. The company [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 73 – Intel IT has found that the combination of a Windows 8 operating system running on tablets based on Intel architecture yields some significant benefits. These devices are a great resource for employees, and offer [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 72 – Intel recognizes the value a big data platform can bring to Business Intelligence. Organizations like Intel are rich in data, but that value can’t be realized until there’s a way to collect, sort, and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 71 – The annual RSA security conference was held in San Francisco recently. It was a chance to get together with top officials from a couple of large enterprise security organizations and talk about security by [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 70 – Over the last decade, Intel IT has been employing virtualization technology in the data center for the office, enterprise, and service environments. Servers have been virtualized, and server and storage provisioning have become automated [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 69 – In previous podcasts we’ve examined Intel’s overhaul of its data center strategy, and how Intel IT looks to run its data center service like a factory. One key aspect of that strategy is the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 68 – The evolution of the cloud has had a profound impact on business. Cloud capabilities have opened up new opportunities, and have created new possibilities in the area of Business Intelligence. But this rapid evolution [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 66 – Technological advances in our connected world are pressing businesses to re-examine privacy policies everywhere. That’s certainly true at Intel, where Stuart Tyler is a Senior Privacy Analyst in the Intel Security and Privacy office. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 65 – Intel is a couple of years into an overhaul of its data center strategy. We’ve talked about that overhaul previously in this podcast series, but it’s a good time to catch up on the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 64 – We live in the era of big data. And big data comes with big challenges. One way business intelligence strategy is helping to turn those challenges into opportunities is data visualization. In this podcast [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 63 – The story of IT in the last few years is a story of change. The IT organization has undergone a transformation, as technology has affected the way people in the enterprise engage in their [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 62 – In this podcast we look at Intel’s deployment of McAfee Drive Encryption at Intel. A major component of security in an enterprise is securing the data on all those computers out there. In the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 61 – In this podcast we engage in a wide-ranging discussion on business velocity, security, and privacy with Intel’s Malcolm Harkins. Harkins has a unique view from his position as the Chief Security and Privacy Officer [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 60 – We’ve talked about Intel’s Bring Your Own Device program in previous podcasts. Intel enables employees to use their own smart phones, tablets, and other devices for work. Of those, about half – 20,000 in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 59 – Big data is a big focus for Intel. That means developing and deploying a variety of tools and methods to derive business value from the sea of data that surrounds us. These are datasets [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 58 – Intel is deploying a content sync and share solution for the enterprise, to synchronize user data across multiple devices. That endeavor sent Intel IT on a search for the right choice for the worldwide [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 57 – Intel is a vast, global corporation, with over 100,000 employees in 154 sites spread across 63 countries. As you can imagine, collaboration is both essential to the company’s success, and a big challenge to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 55 – Emerging technologies are creating great new opportunities in the enterprise. Context-aware computing and new interaction methods like perceptual computing promise increased productivity and greater collaboration. But they also create new challenges that need to [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…]