IT Best Practices: Intel IT created a High Trust Zone (HTZ) architecture to virtualize high-security servers. By identifying and classifying risks, we developed controls to mitigate the risks of moving sensitive information and applications to our private cloud.  

IT Best Practices: Intel’s large and complex wide area network (WAN) interconnects 200 sites around the globe. We experience an approximate annual WAN capacity growth of 10% per year. To best support this growth, Intel IT has developed a highly [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To help contain rising healthcare costs, Intel IT launched a unified, global Intel IT safety and ergonomics program. The safety program combines safety awareness activities with software solutions aimed at preventing and reducing the number and severity [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT finance created a new information security investment model which allows IT management, financial experts and security professionals to analyze and prioritize investments, based on risk mitigation against a variety of security threats. A key strength [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To support an efficient and responsive supply chain, Intel IT works closely with many teams throughout Intel to formulate a strategy that integrates IT solutions across all levels. While manufacturing technology and operations are at the center [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Discover how IT reinvention and cloud computing can improve your agility and help control costs from Intel IT and Dell experts. For more Intel IT best practices on cloud computing, go to www.intel.com/IT.

IT Best Practices: Explore Intel IT’s strategies and actions that created business value for Intel in 2011, as well as their key focus areas for 2012, in the 11th edition of the Intel IT Performance Report. Key topics include IT [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 16 – The role and scope in the enterprise has changed dramatically in the past few years. So much so, in fact, that designing and managing that storage infrastructure has required new ways of thinking. In [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 15 – Information Technology has changed dramatically in just a few years, and the security threat has changed along with it. The opportunities for bad actors to infiltrate an organization have grown, and the nature of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As we begin the final phases of development for our enterprise private cloud, we have identified IT best practices in several areas that have helped us maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, introduce solutions quickly into [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 14 – The IT organization faces tremendous challenges in developing and maintaining the data center for today’s enterprise. Demand for processing and storage is ramping, while the need to cut costs is actually causing the size [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To enable rapid adoption of new technologies and usage models—and provide protection in an evolving threat landscape—Intel IT has embarked on a radical five-year redesign of Intel’s information security architecture.

IT Best Practices: Episode 13 – The social media revolution over the past several years has been truly transformative. It’s a source of entertainment for millions, and it’s been a driving force in revolutions around the world. It’s changed the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The purpose of this paper is to describe how Intel IT neutralized security risks that have allowed us to enable virtualization for the DMZ and SIZ thereby allowing Intel IT to expand the benefits of virtualization. Over [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As the holiday season approaches, we all turn to our computers to help get things done. But be aware that criminals are also looking for ways to get things done, and that may include scamming you. In [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The purpose of this paper is to describe how Intel IT neutralized security risks that have allowed us to enable virtualization for the DMZ and SIZ thereby allowing Intel IT to expand the benefits of virtualization. Over [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 12 – The enterprise workplace has evolved tremendously in a short period of time. Intel IT has led the way in adopting and implementing new technologies and new strategies to create an environment conducive to collaboration. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 11 – Mobility in the enterprise used to mean a laptop. Now it’s much more. Employees are bringing their own mobile devices, and with them their expectations about how they want to work. More and more, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT conducted a pilot to explore the potential of PCs with Intel vPro processor technology, with ISV management software, to address management and performance challenges across Intel’s geographically dispersed training rooms. We remotely performed rebuilds, installs, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 10 – It’s hard to believe that the first touch-screen smart phone was released only four years ago. That widespread tablet computer use really took off only a year ago. In that short time these mobile [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT developed a cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy for one of our data centers in Israel that has a potential business value of more than USD 3 million. During its first disaster recovery drill, the new [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT, together with Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, End User Platform Integration, and Intel’s Software and Services Group, conducted proof-of-concept testing and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to assess the virtualization capabilities of Intel Xeon processor [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our online support strategy, Intel IT developed a self-service PC Health Check utility to deliver better customer support, improve response time, and increase employee satisfaction—while reducing operating costs. PC Health Check empowers employees to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 9 – The IT organization needs to be an agile service provider. Intel IT is undertaking a multi-year transition to cloud computing, focusing primarily on the private cloud, to increase this agility. More and more devices [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Face it: smartphones are your portable lifeline to the world. With everything that these handheld marvels allow you to do—check your e-mail, surf the Internet, send text messages, balance your bank account, play games and even call [See the full post…]