IT Best Practices: In an age when organizations such as Intel are rich in data, the true value of this data lies in the ability to collect, sort, and analyze it to derive actionable business intelligence (BI). Recognizing the need to add big data capabilities to our BI efforts, Intel IT formed a team to [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: To deliver the extreme query responsiveness required for real-time analysis of high-volume data sets, Intel IT conducted tests to find the optimal platform for a cost-effective, high-performance in-memory business intelligence (BI) solution. Performing server-sizing and stress tests helped us find the best price/performance combination of server speed, number of processor cores, cache [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Episode 62 – In this podcast we look at Intel’s deployment of McAfee Drive Encryption at Intel. A major component of security in an enterprise is securing the data on all those computers out there. In the case of Intel, that’s a tall order – around 100,000 users are deployed all over [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: As part of an evolution in how we assess IT business value for investments, Intel IT and Intel Finance have developed a framework that is faster and more scalable than our previous processes. This new Business Value Assessment (BVA) methodology provides a balanced assessment to support budgetary decision making without requiring absolute [See the full post…]
Business Solutions for IT Managers: CERN uses the Intel Xeon processor E5 family to find the Higgs boson.
IT Best Practices: Intel IT continues to expand and strengthen our bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program offerings. As the variety of devices increases, so does our challenge to maintain security and eDiscovery while protecting employees’ privacy, their data, and the enterprise. Google Android-based devices add a level of complexity because we manage more than 20,000 devices encompassing [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Silicon chip design engineers at Intel face the challenges of integrating more features into ever-shrinking silicon chips, resulting in more complex designs. The increasing design complexity creates large design workloads that have considerable memory and compute requirements. We typically run the workloads on servers that need to be configured to meet these [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Episode 61 – In this podcast we engage in a wide-ranging discussion on business velocity, security, and privacy with Intel’s Malcolm Harkins. Harkins has a unique view from his position as the Chief Security and Privacy Officer at Intel. He shares his thoughts on securing the enterprise, ensuring privacy protections, and keeping [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Design engineers at Intel face the challenges of integrating more features into ever-shrinking silicon chips, bringing products to market faster, and keeping design engineering and manufacturing costs low. A new category of workstations has emerged, based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family. These processors act as expert workbenches, [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Security and privacy are like magnets. When they are turned in the right direction they are perfectly binding. But if one starts turning, they start to push away from each other. Listen to Malcolm Harkins, Intel Chief Security and Privacy Officer, discuss how organizations can manage the polarity of security and privacy [See the full post…]
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