IT Best Practices: As technology evolves, Intel’s worldwide factories have experienced growing complexity in products and processes. We use data analysis and sensors to improve product quality, reduce capital costs, and speed time to market. Often a single tool is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 106 – We have talked quite a bit in this podcast series about the rapidly changing threat landscape, and the corresponding changes to the IT organization’s approach to security. The evolution of cyber threats means IT [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Sensor data and analytics, powered by a robust Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution can help manufacturers gain actionable insights into the behavior and performance of their tools in real time. With earlier and more accurate information, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s silicon design engineers need significant increases in computing capacity—both on their workstations and on data center servers—to deliver each new generation of silicon chips. To meet those requirements, Intel IT conducts ongoing throughput performance tests, using [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To increase business velocity and cost efficiency, Intel IT designed and deployed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) capabilities on Intel’s enterprise infrastructure. The solution is unique in many ways. For example, we were the first IT department to incorporate the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Anyone who has worked in a large company knows what it is like to wait a half-day for a new computer from the IT department while the IT technician reloads all the applications and settings onto that [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Maximize the business value of the cloud. That simple statement underlies a three-year initiative to transform Intel IT’s cloud strategy: • Modernize our application stack by abstracting it from the infrastructure. • Focus on business and application [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Managing PC health in any organization takes sustained focus and a well-defined process. At Intel, we have experienced fatal errors, such as the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), due to driver and other hardware issues. In 2009, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Advances in modern client computing have brought broader features and capabilities to enterprises, helping them develop new markets, innovate new products, and improve communication. But these advancements have also brought new challenges. Solution providers are releasing updates [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s disaggregated server architecture allows independent refresh of the CPU/DRAM and NIC/Drives modules, without replacing other server components such as fans or power supplies. Annual estimated CAPEX savings is at least 44%.

IT Best Practices: Business focus is changing from data management to intelligent action. Artificial intelligence (AI) can add significant power and effectiveness to human processes by recognizing patterns across massive amounts of historical data. The Intel Inside Program (IIP), a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s factories rely on thousands of PCs for manufacturing automation; keeping these PCs up and running can prevent expensive downtime. To manage these systems, Intel IT is using the Intel vPro platform’s hardware-based feature, Intel Active Management [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In today’s fast-paced business world, making rapid, data-driven decisions is crucial to maintaining a competitive edge. These decisions are especially important for Intel’s supply chain, which spans order taking, resource procurement, manufacturing, testing, and final delivery of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: IT departments everywhere face what appears to be conflicting business needs: the need to take advantage of the agility and technology provided by the public cloud and the need to keep proprietary information secure. Recently, Intel IT [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 104 – Intel IT has recently released its 2016-2017 IT Annual Performance Report, or APR. Here at Inside IT that means our annual check-in with the Intel Chief Information Officer. This year we welcome new CIO [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As Intel IT releases their 2016-2017 IT Annual Performance Report, Paula Tolliver discusses what drove her to join Intel, the future she sees for Information Technology and her plans to accelerate the pace of business through IT [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The Intel Unite solution is modernizing Intel’s collaboration spaces, transforming them into smart, connected spaces where employees both inside and outside the room can collaborate more productively.

Intel IT Annual Performance Report: Intel IT plays a pivotal role in providing the solutions and services that are accelerating Intel’s digital transformation. In this report, Intel IT describes transforming how Intel’s businesses run and grow, advancing Intel’s products and services in the market, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 103 – With an increased use of the cloud in the enterprise comes an increased need for advanced security. In this podcast we hear from Shachaf Levi, Cloud Security Architect at Intel IT. Levi tells us [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 102 – We’ve discussed Intel’s role at the forefront of the transformation of the data center in previous episodes of this podcast. Intel Rack Scale Design is a flexible computing, storage, and network backbone that will [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 101 – One clear sign of the technological change we’ve all regularly adapted to is the number of operating systems we’ve worked with in our personal and professional lives. Historically, IT has had to evaluate and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT, in partnership with Intel s sales and marketing organizations and business units, has unified the digital experience for Intel s business-to-business (B2B) customers by eliminating unnecessary business processes and technical debt. Our efforts resulted in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Internet of Things (IoT) solution providers will see enormous opportunities for enterprise IoT solutions in the coming years. By 2020, 25 billion enterprise-owned Internet-connected things across the globe stand to generate up to USD 2 trillion in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT supports a variety of provisional and external workers and contractors who access Intel resources for collaboration and productivity. Providing Intel-deployed PCs is not always an ideal option. Some of these workers require higher levels of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: You ever join your coworkers in a conference room and have difficulty sharing material on screen? At Intel, we’re deploying an Intel Unite solution to help resolve this problem. Here’s how it works… I’ve entered a room [See the full post…]