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Increasing Design Throughput with Workstations Based on Intel Xeon Processor 5600 Series

November 22nd, 2010 |
Increasing Design Throughput with Workstations Based on Intel Xeon Processor 5600 Series

IT Best Practices: This Intel IT brief highlights the performance of workstations based on Intel Xeon processor 5600 series, demonstrating significant IT business value and IT efficiency. In Intel IT tests simulating the daily workflow of a silicon design engineer, [See the full post…]

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Accelerating the Deployment of Intel Solid-State Drives throughout the Enterprise

November 19th, 2010 |
Accelerating the Deployment of Intel Solid-State Drives throughout the Enterprise

IT Business Value: Intel IT is aggressively deploying SSDs in order to enhance employee productivity and mobility while reducing IT total cost of ownership. We now require all newly purchased laptops and retrofitted PCs to be equipped with an Intel [See the full post…]

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High-Performance Computing for Silicon Design

November 11th, 2010 |
High-Performance Computing for Silicon Design

IT Best Practices: Designing Intel microprocessors is extremely compute intensive. Tapeout is a final step in silicon design and its computation demand is growing exponentially for each generation of silicon process technology. Intel IT adopted high-performance computing (HPC) to address [See the full post…]

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Resetting Passwords on Encrypted Hard Drives Using Intel Active Management Technology

November 9th, 2010 |
Resetting Passwords on Encrypted Hard Drives Using Intel Active Management Technology

IT Best Practices: Matt Bodin of Intel IT demonstrates in a proof-of-concept how Intel Active Management Technology can be used to reset passwords on encrypted hard drives, saving service deck technicians significant time. See also: IT Center Open Port

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IT Best Practices: Improving Client Stability with Proactive Problem Management

November 4th, 2010 |
IT Best Practices: Improving Client Stability with Proactive Problem Management

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented a proactive problem management process based on analysis of objective, largely system-generated data from client PCs across our worldwide environment. Using this approach, we have increased client stability by reducing the number of blue [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: PCs as Strategic Assets

November 2nd, 2010 |
IT Best Practices: PCs as Strategic Assets

IT Best Practices: By actively managing Intel’s PC fleet as a strategic asset, Intel IT has consistently decreased total cost of ownership (TCO) for PCs, achieving a 67 percent reduction since 1995. Because PC acquisition costs typically account for only [See the full post…]

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Developing an Enterprise IT Cloud Computing Strategy

October 29th, 2010 |
Developing an Enterprise IT Cloud Computing Strategy

IT Best Practices: IT cloud computing is a significant trend with the potential to increase IT business agility and lower costs. Today, however, security risks, immature technology, and other concerns prevent widespread enterprise adoption of external clouds. Intel IT is [See the full post…]

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Architecting Software as a Service for the Enterprise

October 22nd, 2010 |
Architecting Software as a Service for the Enterprise

IT Best Practices: As part of our cloud computing strategy, Intel IT has been opportunistically taking advantage of external offerings of software as a service (SaaS) applications. To prepare for broader SaaS adoption, we designed a SaaS architecture that will [See the full post…]

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Enabling Device-Independent Mobility with Dynamic Virtual Clients

October 19th, 2010 |
Enabling Device-Independent Mobility with Dynamic Virtual Clients

IT Best Practices: To enable device-independent mobility (DIM) at Intel, Intel IT is considering implementing dynamic virtual client (DVC) technology, which uses containerized software appliances to abstract the OS; applications; corporate and personal data and workspaces; and user-specific settings. In [See the full post…]

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Developing an Enterprise Social Computing Strategy

October 14th, 2010 |
Developing an Enterprise Social Computing Strategy

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing an enterprise-wide social computing platform that combines professional networking tools with social media such as wikis and blogs, and integrates with existing enterprise software. Our goal is to transform collaboration across Intel, addressing [See the full post…]

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Prioritizing Information Security Risks with Threat Agent Risk Assessment

October 12th, 2010 |
Prioritizing Information Security Risks with Threat Agent Risk Assessment

IT Business Value: Intel IT has developed a threat agent risk assessment (TARA) methodology that distills the immense number of possible information security attacks into a digest of only those exposures most likely to occur. This methodology identifies threat agents [See the full post…]

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Getting Ahead of Malware

Getting Ahead of Malware

IT Best Practices: To minimize the threat posed by malicious software, or malware, making its way into the enterprise, Intel IT has established a process that actively seeks to identify and take action against the malware before it reaches Intel’s [See the full post…]

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Faster Silicon Design with Intel Xeon Processor 7500 Series

September 30th, 2010 |
Faster Silicon Design with Intel Xeon Processor 7500 Series

IT Efficiency: Intel IT shares the results of testing of the new Intel Xeon 7500 processor on Intel silicon design workloads. Testing showed that the Intel Xeon 7500 increased throughput up to 2.68X compared to the Intel Xeon 7400, and [See the full post…]

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An ERP Platform Strategy Based on Industry-Standard Server

September 29th, 2010 |
An ERP Platform Strategy Based on Industry-Standard Server

IT Business Agility: Many large organizations have a centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment based on proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems. In contrast, Intel IT has successfully implemented a decentralized ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and supports [See the full post…]

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How Intel IT Implemented and Expanded a Virtualized Environment

September 28th, 2010 |
How Intel IT Implemented and Expanded a Virtualized Environment

IT Best Practices: 5 years ago, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of our overall data center strategy. We are currently accelerating virtualization adoption for general purpose applications, with a goal [See the full post…]

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Managing a Global Wireless LAN

September 21st, 2010 |
Managing a Global Wireless LAN

IT Innovation: Intel IT developed a new management and support structure for wireless LANs (WLANs). We consolidated first-level support and centralized the WLAN engineer workgroup as well as device management. We manage the WLAN as an integrated service that enables [See the full post…]

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Evaluating Thin-Client IT Security in a Changing Threat Landscape

September 19th, 2010 |
Evaluating Thin-Client IT Security in a Changing Threat Landscape

IT Client Technology: Intel IT’s security team continually analyzes our computing model to determine how it needs to evolve in response to an ever-changing threat landscape. Recent cyber-attacks on a number of high-profile targets provided added impetus to re-evaluate the [See the full post…]

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IT Data Center Heat Recovery Helps Intel Create Green IT Facility

September 14th, 2010 |
IT Data Center Heat Recovery Helps Intel Create Green IT Facility

Green IT: To support Intel’s first planned certified green building, Intel IT has designed a system that saves energy by recovering data center heat and using it to heat the rest of the building. For more on Green IT visit [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Sizing Server Platforms To Meet ERP Requirements

September 3rd, 2010 |
IT Best Practices: Sizing Server Platforms To Meet ERP Requirements

IT Best Practices: In this Intel IT Whitepaper – Server sizing and selection is a critical element of Intel IT’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) infrastructure strategy, which makes use of both two-socket and four-socket servers. Under-sizing servers may result in [See the full post…]

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Intel IT Data Center Solutions: Strategies to Improve IT Efficiency

September 1st, 2010 |
Intel IT Data Center Solutions: Strategies to Improve IT Efficiency

IT Best Practices: Over time, Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and business value of IT. Our new data center strategies shift the emphasis [See the full post…]

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Intel IT Cloud Computing Taxonomy and Ecosystem Analysis

Intel IT Cloud Computing Taxonomy and Ecosystem Analysis

IT Cloud Computing: An Intel cross-organizational group developed a common cloud computing taxonomy designed to meet Intel’s comprehensive requirements by classifying the entire breadth of existing cloud technologies. Based on this classification, diagramed in Figure 1 in this IT whitepaper, [See the full post…]

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Establishing Baseline Measurements and a Roadmap for IT Sustainability

Establishing Baseline Measurements and a Roadmap for IT Sustainability

IT Competitive Advantage: To help Intel consume fewer energy-related resources and produce less waste, Intel IT is executing an IT sustainability strategy based on our Sustainability Baseline Model, a tool developed in-house that quantitatively measures and predicts the environmental impact [See the full post…]

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Remediating Applications When Migrating from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows 7

Remediating Applications When Migrating from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows 7

IT Business Efficiency: To help ensure application compatibility during Intel’s enterprise-wide migration from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows 7, Intel IT implemented a carefully controlled workflow in one common test environment. So far, out of more than 1,000 applications [See the full post…]

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An IT Cloud Computing Roadmap from Intel IT

August 17th, 2010 |
An IT Cloud Computing Roadmap from Intel IT

In this IT Cloud Computing video: Das Kamhout (LinkedIn Profile) – Technical Engineering Lead, Intel IT Enterprise Private Cloud IT Cloud Computing: Intel IT has defined a path for building and implementing a private cloud for the enterprise. This is [See the full post…]

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An Enterprise Private IT Cloud Computing Architecture and Implementation Roadmap

An Enterprise Private IT Cloud Computing Architecture and Implementation Roadmap

IT Business Agility: This IT@Intel whitepaper shares how Intel IT has defined an architecture and implementation roadmap for a private enterprise cloud designed to increase agility and IT efficiency. This shared multi-tenant environment is built on a highly efficient, automated, [See the full post…]

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