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: Teamwork starts with listening. Listening leads to understanding. Understanding fosters alignment and informed activity. What sounds so simple and so fundamental isn’t always the norm. Often overwhelmed with new service requests, systems administration, infrastructure optimization, and problem [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Creating new products. Accelerating time to market. Expanding and evolving a world-wide design organization. Supporting these efforts is hard enough. Driving them forward is even harder. Some 20 years ago, the product design team at Intel consisted [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Information security has traditionally revolved around keeping the “good guys” in and the “bad guys” out. Taking a page from the medieval playbook, security professionals have tirelessly built higher virtual walls, deeper digital moats, and more capable [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Imagine a security poverty line… below this line are individuals or organizations who do not have the skills, resources or funding to protect, detect and respond to cybersecurity threats. Many organizations and individuals fall below this line. [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 Business Value: In this video, IT Labs explains our vision for what the future could look like by weaving together the data from multiple sources such as wearables, enterprise apps and other sources to make something wonderful. We see [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over the past two years, Intel IT has validated and improved its mobile application development framework, Focusing first on native development, we identified best-known methods (BKMs) that we used to refine our framework and applied these methods [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT believes that the combination of powerful Intel architecture-based tablets and Microsoft Windows 8 provides significant productivity benefits to employees, as well as improved manageability and information security capabilities. This paper describes our process and best [See the full post…]

In 2013 Intel IT set a target to reduce all reported IT incidents requiring our attention by 40 percent by the end of the year. We devised a client incident prediction Proof of Concept (PoC) using Intel Distribution for Apache [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: People are the Perimeter – In today’s mobile world, people are the new security perimeter. Organizations and companies, including their products, customers and employees, are exposed to increasing security threats – both in number and complexity. At [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In IT, the technical strategy and architecture group is responsible for driving the enterprise capabilities to support our efforts. This year, we are concentrating much of our energy towards the implementation of what we call five-star applications. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: While Intel IT has routinely received high marks for performance, I believe we can do more. I believe we can help transform the business in significant and impactful ways. This requires new thinking, new strategies, and a [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: The enterprise walls and network are no longer the only pieces of the security perimeter. People are the new perimeter. People are increasing the perimeter via a myriad of mobile devices and new channels, such as social [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is replacing our previous software-based encryption solution with McAfee Drive Encryption, an integral component of new McAfee security products such as McAfee Complete Data Protection – Advanced software. This high-performing, reliable solution provides integrated manageability, [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: Over the last five years, Intel IT has evolved its approach to BI solutions for Intel’s worldwide sales organization to enable rapid delivery of advanced self-service business intelligence (BI) and data visualization capabilities. By moving to a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over the past few years, we have investigated the concept behind the big data technologies and now have much of the capabilities running in our production environment. The IT Labs continue their work to explore new and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Let’s face it: big data is still very new. And that means the infrastructure platforms on which big data analytics are performed are also relatively immature. What it doesn’t mean, however, is that organizations can’t or shouldn’t [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Businesses are often guilty of operating at a pace that is measured and process driven, in reactive fashion. These businesses observe a problem or development in the marketplace and then collect data to understand and act upon [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Five people. Six months. $10 million in ROI. Those were the parameters and goals of Intel IT’s initial big data projects, which started in earnest three years ago. “We wanted to prove that big data analytics are [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In an age when organizations such as Intel are rich in data, the true value of this data lies in the ability to collect, sort, and analyze it to derive actionable business intelligence (BI). Recognizing the need [See the full post…]