After our successful, proof-of-concept (POC) testing of our on-premise platform, where we found that the Granulate software reduced 25% of memory and 44% of CPU utilization, while offering potential cost savings, we began testing in the cloud Databricks data lake. [See the full post…]

To better meet Intel’s business requirements while providing internal customers with optimal data center infrastructure capabilities and innovative business services, Intel IT has overhauled its data center strategy. Its data center transformation strategy is to run Intel data center services [See the full post…]

In 2016, the European Commission approved the most significant change in the EU Data Protection Directive since its inception in 1995. The new General Data Protection Regulation law, also known as GDPR, became enforceable in May of 2018. It is [See the full post…]

Intel Corporation embraced Digital Twins to transform their microprocessor fabs. Now Intel engineers have packaged this technology and made it available to manufacturers around the world. Intel Automated Factory Solutions is a suite of products that embody the experience Intel [See the full post…]

The Intel Information Security proof of concept demonstrated the CrowdStrike Falcon platform can quickly identify, contain, and remediate threats. CrowdStrike and Intel co-engineered a new, advanced memory scanning capability based on Intel TDT delivering an additional layer of defense.

Improving Thunderbolt intelligence: Data collection and event monitoring provide Intel IT with actionable insights for an improved experience for users. Thunderbolt technology has established itself as the fastest, simplest, most reliable USB-C connection available—the premier connectivity solution IT can offer [See the full post…]

What is a system of innovation? Innovation is at the heart of what drives Intel’s products and cultural values. Intel IT is dedicated to helping Intel thrive, and we must be as innovative as possible in our own roles. Recognizing [See the full post…]

Learn how Intel IT uses reliability engineering to cut manufacturing systems unscheduled downtime. Driven by the rising importance of keeping manufacturing sites operating at full capacity 24/7, Intel Manufacturing IT (MIT) has set a goal of achieving “four nines” (99.99%) [See the full post…]

Learn more about Intel IT’s approach to data center facilities risk management. Intel IT Intel’s 54 data center modules located around the globe power Intel’s design, office, manufacturing and enterprise business domains—they are the heartbeat of Intel’s continued innovation. Intel [See the full post…]

Other than electricity itself, no technology has changed the world as much as semiconductors. As the essential components of the continuing computer evolution, they are responsible for dramatic changes in virtually every area of modern life. As semiconductors have evolved [See the full post…]

An enterprise-wide Windows 11 upgrade enables Intel IT to gain the performance benefits of Windows 11 on newer Intel Core processor-based PCs.

IT Best Practices: Improving big data platform efficiency is an ongoing effort for Intel IT. In initial testing, Granulate reduced both memory and CPU utilization in our production environment in our production environment via a light-weight agent, with no code [See the full post…]

As Intel manufactures hundreds of millions of complex products every year, Intel IT collects and stores terabytes of manufacturing data to support continual engineering data analysis. As the volume, velocity and complexity of the data increases, it is imperative that [See the full post…]

Intel IT runs Intel data center services like a factory, affecting change in a disciplined manner and applying breakthrough technologies, solutions, and processes. This enables us to optimally meet Intel’s business requirements while providing our internal customers with effective data [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Empowering clients with the tools for self-service from the initial acquisition of hardware, through the lifecycle of their devices, and full circle through device refresh helps IT maintain budgets and forecast future client device needs. Leveraging telemetry [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT planned the deployment of the Vistex rebate management solution, based on the SAP platform, over three releases. The solution was part of a portfolio of modernization initiatives through which Intel sought to standardize its contract [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: How Intel Automated Factory Solutions delivers tremendous benefits to semiconductor manufacturing environments: The idea of creating replicas of real-world objects is not new. Architects, for instance, have long built models of the buildings they propose to create, [See the full post…]

As Intel’s business grows, increased demands on the data center have required greater innovation and new strategies and technologies that support not just lowering costs and improving efficiency, but also meeting environmental responsibility goals. Today’s environmental and climate-change challenges make [See the full post…]

Over the last several years, sustainability has emerged as a major corporate priority—shaping everything from R&D programs to manufacturing and distribution processes. Enterprise IT organizations are clearly positioned to play a pivotal role in hitting their companies’ sustainability goals. A [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT delivers improved automation, reliability, scalability, security and resource efficiency to Intel’s factory floor by deploying Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) technology. Over the last few years, Intel IT has transformed Intel’s factory data centers using [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In this fourth episode of Intel’s Path to Cloud series, Phil Vokins, Cloud Services Director with Intel Americas is joined by Intel IT Principal Engineers Sachin Ashtikar and Jose Alonso Cambronero Ramirez along with Joe Carvalho Principal [See the full post…]

Intel embraces Containers as a Service for its enterprise cloud environment to add flexibility, drive new capabilities, accelerate development and increase efficiency. The rapid expansion of cloud-native environments presents mounting challenges for today’s large digital enterprises, especially in the development, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s artificial intelligence (AI) group works across Intel to transform critical work, optimize processes, eliminate scalability bottlenecks and generate significant business value (more than USD 1.5B return on investment in 2021). Our efforts unlock the power [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: An accelerated analytics breakthrough helps quickly identify underutilized factory equipment and deliver data that drives improvements and increases equipment productivity. For Intel’s complex factory environments, quickly identifying tools that are operating below their optimal capacity and finding [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As Intel’s business grows, demand for data center network capacity has increased by more than 25% annually. Additionally, business pressures require new capacity to be brought into production within 24 hours. As far back as 2014, we [See the full post…]