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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Protecting data is one of Intel IT’s most important duties to the enterprise. And the practice of protecting data includes not only data that is actively being used, but also data that needs to be erased [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s enterprise private cloud has seen reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) annually and maintains a goal of absorbing private cloud growth while reducing absolute spending. To achieve this aggressive goal, continuous improvements in infrastructure [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Data mining using machine learning enables businesses and organizations to discover fresh insights previously hidden within their data. Whether exploring oil reserves, improving the safety of automobiles, or mapping genomes, machine-learning algorithms are at the heart [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 100 – Technology has evolved in amazing ways, and Intel’s factories have been at the forefront of that evolution. This means those factories have grown in complexity. This also means an equivalent growth in the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over the past few years, the variety of client devices in use at Intel has grown significantly. While we still find that a 2- to 4-year refresh cycle offers the best total cost of ownership, some [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In order to increase user productivity and reduce IT costs, Intel IT plans to make getting a new laptop or switching from one device to another as easy as getting a new smartphone. Historically, our users [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our effort to strategically transform data centers and accelerate application delivery, Intel IT used design best practices to create a cloud application platform. This platform—more specifically, platform as a service (PaaS)—makes it easy [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Energy costs are the fastest-rising expense for today’s data centers. Naturally, power consumption is a top concern for managers of data center, enterprise, and cloud environments. Moreover, there are multiple proprietary power measurement and control protocols [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 99 – As clients have come to rely more and more on the private cloud in the enterprise, Intel IT has worked to simplify capacity management for its private cloud. The result has been an [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel employees have come to expect a certain level of convenience from their devices, and Intel IT must meet this expectation without compromising security and manageability. After evaluating a variety of mobile computing devices, Intel IT [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 98 – The data center at Intel is the backbone of the company, critical to every aspect of business. To better meet Intel’s business requirements while providing internal customers with optimal capabilities and innovative business [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To drive down cost and increase host utilization in Intel’s Office and Enterprise private cloud, Intel IT has simplified private cloud capacity management by transitioning from allocation-based capacity management to performance-based capacity management. Focusing on host [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 97 – Big data and advanced analytics have become increasingly important to Intel. More and more people and business groups rely on Intel’s big data capabilities to maximize productivity. A recent step in the evolution [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT values open-source-based, big data processing using Apache Hadoop software. Last year we migrated from the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software to the Cloudier Enterprise software.

Based on our original experience with Apache Hadoop [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 96 – We’ve all been there – waiting in a conference room as a presenter fumbles with cables, trying to get a laptop connected to a monitor or projector. Or someone is trying to join [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s smart factories use highly specialized Internet of Things (IoT) data specifications that make it possible to bring new factories online quickly and reliably by replicating identical processes from one facility to another. Imagine being able [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In the rapidly changing business and technology environment, manufacturers are striving to stay competitive, now and into the future, by increasing productivity and lowering costs.

Like many companies, Intel has evolved over the decades to provide [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The 2015-2016 Intel IT Annual Performance Report highlights technology trends driving rapid innovation across our enterprise.

This edition showcases how Intel IT capitalizes on new technology to create business value and become a catalyst for organizational [See the full post…]