IT Best Practices: Intel IT has adopted a user-centered approach to delivering IT services that enable optimization of IT solutions, improve employee productivity, and increase business velocity. The user-centered approach involves proactively engaging and partnering with Intel employees and business [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Recognizing the power of social computing as an important tool for supporting the increasing velocity of Intel’s businesses, Intel IT is developing a strategy to boost usage of social computing as part of a unified collaboration experience [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is accelerating the deployment of touch-enabled business Ultrabook devices with Microsoft Windows 8 ahead of the schedule we created in January 2013. This decision was based on several factors: employee demand for touch capabilities is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Moving from Microsoft Windows 7 to Windows 8 meets Intel’s long-term client computing needs, gives employees more powerful systems, and prepares them to use Intel’s growing number of touch-enabled applications. By end of June 2013, Windows 8 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has standardized on Intel Xeon processors with a core frequency of 2.6 gigahertz (GHz) for two-socket servers to offer maximum IT value for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. Our analysis demonstrates that higher-end processors [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our focus on a user-centered model of delivering IT services, in 2012 Intel IT optimized its PC delivery process, resulting in improved Intel employee productivity, a better employee experience, and reduced operational costs. We [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The Intel vPro platform enhances remote management, user productivity, and client security for Meredith Corporation.

Intelligent Storage: Oracle’s Jason Schaffer — Senior Director, Systems Development, Mikael Vidstedt — JVM Architect, Java Platform, and Ashok Joshi — Senior Director, Development: Oracle No SQL Database, give their perspectives on Intel and Oracle engineered systems for Big Data [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To increase business productivity, Intel IT conducted multiple proof of concepts (PoCs) to identify business, safety, and ergonomic requirements for the use of mobile devices, including tablets, in our manufacturing environments. Using these mobile devices, as well [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: 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).

Intelligent Storage: Data growth is not only driving up storage costs, but also transforming performance and efficiency requirements for storage systems. IDC estimated that in 2011, the amount of information created and replicated would surpass 1.8 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes) [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 51 – Edward Goldman is Chief Technology Officer at Intel IT. He has another job title as well–General Manager of Strategy, Architecture, & Innovation, or the SAI group. It exists to blaze the trail for IT. [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: This paper examines the size and status of the worldwide market for high-performance computing (HPC) storage systems, along with evolutionary trends affecting this market. The paper also looks at Intel and Xyratex as examples of vendors at the [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: RAID running at the speed of Intel Xeon processors How things have changed! 10 years ago we told you that software RAID (redundant array of independent disks) was underpow- ered and incapable of providing the perfor- mance required [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Hitachi branded components include Intel Xeon processor based Hitachi CB500 blade chassis and a choice of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM), or Hitachi Unified Storage150 (HUS 150). Intel has rearchitected the Xeon [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: You would have to live under a pretty large rock to be completely unaware of the “Intel Inside” marketing and branding campaign. But the breadth of Intel’s intent and capability to be “inside” might come as something of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our focus on a user-centered model of delivering IT services, in 2012 Intel IT optimized its PC delivery process, resulting in improved Intel employee productivity, a better employee experience, and reduced operational costs. We [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 50 – The RSA Conference in San Francisco earlier this year. It was an opportunity to check in with a few attendees, and to take the pulse of the security industry. In this podcast we hear [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Rite Aid deployed two Hitachi Data Systems HUS 130 storage arrays to provide a highly automated and flexible technology solution. Powered by Intel Xeon processor LC3528, these devices provide a reliable foundation for data archiving and disaster recovery [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: To create patient-oriented “digital hospitals,” China seeks to implement a unified national hospital information system (HIS) platform, applying advanced network and digital technologies to hospitals and relevant medical fields.

Intelligent Storage: NetApp scale-out storage solutions built with Intel Xeon processors enable companies to successfully handle the massive data growth and infrastructure complexities required for today’s demanding workloads. By optimizing data management at this tremendous scale, organizations can easily adapt [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 49 – Earlier this year, Intel conducted its second Cloud Aware Code-a-Thon. It’s an inventive way to get developers to think in new ways. In this podcast we talk to Cathy Spence, an Enterprise Architect in [See the full post…]

Let’s Talk IT: When an organization issues a laptop to an employee it usually marks the beginning of a relationship between the employee and the company’s IT folks. In a large company that could means tens of thousands of clients. [See the full post…]

Let’s Talk IT: In this episode host Michele Gartner chats with Richard Foote about vPro, and she gets a demo from Minh Pham who does a remote search and destroy of a virus on a client PC.

IT Best Practices: Episode 47 – Intel has implemented a new granular trust model to improve security throughout the enterprise. It’s designed to support key initiatives like IT consumerization and cloud computing. At the same time Intel wants to keep [See the full post…]