IT Best Practices: Intel IT conducted a technology evaluation of Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager and Intel Data Center Manager (Intel DCM). Our goals were to assess the potential of these Intel power management technologies to increase data center energy [See the full post…]

IT Information Security: “We cannot solve security problems with technology.” That is one of the observations of Intel IT’s Alan Ross, a Senior Principal Engineer who has developed deep insights into the data security landscape over the past decade. IT [See the full post…]

Green IT: Intel IT is engaged in developing a broad, ongoing IT sustainability strategy to help Intel consume fewer resources and emit less waste. In analyzing the business case for IT sustainability, we identified the bottom-line benefits and defined the [See the full post…]

IT Client Technology: After investigating various options, Intel IT has selected mobile business PCs as our standard computing platform. Mobile business PCs are by nature highly portable, and their robust feature set provides an IT employee productivity advantage to Intel [See the full post…]

IT Innovation: David Stone, an Intel IT researcher in the Strategy Architecture and Innovation Group, says the idea of context awareness in the enterprise is amazing, but the road to getting there is not only about technology — it’s also [See the full post…]

IT Information Security: As our CIO Diane Bryant says “Intel’s success is based on our intellectual property”. To help protect this valuable resource and employees’ personal information, in 2009 Intel IT began deploying full disk encryption on all corporate-owned laptops [See the full post…]

IT Continuity: To meet the unique needs of Intel’s most complex ever corporate divestiture, Intel IT developed new processes and tools that solved substantial challenges in the areas of intellectual property protection, legal, compliance, asset transfer, and manufacturing carve-out. For [See the full post…]

IT Innovation: Intel IT is investigating virtualization because it has the potential to transform client computing, reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) and increasing IT control while giving users more flexibility. However, because client virtualization embraces multiple rapidly evolving technologies, [See the full post…]

IT Competitive Advantage: OS streaming can deliver considerable manageability benefits to Intel IT training rooms with multi-user PCs. To evaluate performance and utilization in a production environment, we conducted proof of concept (PoC) testing in two rooms located in different [See the full post…]

IT Cloud Computing: As more services are delivered via cloud computing, which combination of client platforms and service delivery methods best meets our needs? Intel IT has found that, whether services are kept in-house or outsourced to the cloud, rich [See the full post…]

IT Innovation: A great idea can emerge anywhere. But it takes a team of people to bring that idea into reality. It happens when IT can find that one idea from any of the company’s employees on the planet and [See the full post…]

IT Client Technology: Intel IT is investigating a model where users can access their applications and information from any device, anywhere, anytime. To create this device-independent mobility, Intel IT is considering implementing dynamic virtual client technology, which uses containerized software [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: This Intel IT white paper documents how using the most up-to-date hardware and software affects server and network utilization as well as the performance of streamed and virtual hosted desktop compute models. Also find the original investigation, [See the full post…]

New Webcast Series on Intel IT Data Center Solutions Discover Intel IT’s latest data center innovations and technologies that are increasing energy efficiency, reducing their carbon footprint and driving IT business value. Through a new data center webcast series, Intel [See the full post…]

IT Employee Productivity: Working in close partnership with business stakeholders, Intel IT created several innovative online solutions that are helping to facilitate business growth and forge closer links with customers, business partners, and employees while increasing productivity and IT efficiency. [See the full post…]

Look inside one of Israel’s older data centers with state-of-the-art computing and monitoring technology. Experience Intel IT’s complete data center strategy at Intel.com.

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Tour the Intel data center that was once a wafer fabrication facility (fab) with a 3-story design and several distinct data centers within it. Experience Intel IT’s complete data center strategy at Intel.com.

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Earth Day – April 22: Here’s Intel IT‘s sustainability practice in a tour that zings from laptops to servers. At the heart of Intel IT’s strategy is the company’s own technology: the latest microprocessors that equip IT organizations to set [See the full post…]

Today, Intel IT manages about 18 petabytes (PB) of primary and backup storage in our design computing, manufacturing, office, and enterprise environments. We choose storage and backup and recovery solutions based on the application use models for these respective areas. [See the full post…]

Network standardization and WAN optimization are key focus areas in our efforts to improve our data center efficiency. Through standardization of our network service offerings, standards and reference designs, and access layer infrastructure, we can now serve a larger community [See the full post…]

The people of Intel IT are deploying next generation data centers that deliver increased compute power but use much less energy. It starts at the microprocessor level. The latest Xeon chips, which are at the heart of Intel’s newest servers, [See the full post…]

Accelerating server refresh, virtualizing our server resources, and utilizing data center virtualization have significantly reduced Intel IT’s overall energy consumption levels and compute costs. These efforts alone have driven us to realize 35% of our data center efficiency goal of [See the full post…]

Intel IT is increasing data center facility efficiency by integrating innovative designs and approaches to reduce power consumption, using modular designs with the latest technologies, and building higher density data centers rather than spreading out server load. Hear from Don [See the full post…]