IT Best Practices: Intel IT has built a visual data analysis solution that provides unique possibilities for collaboration. The Info Wall is a touch-enabled interactive video wall with a viewing area measuring 5 feet high and 15 feet wide. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has adopted the Cloudera Distribution for Apache Hadoop (CDH). The migration team that converted the Intel Distribution to CDH showcased the ease of conversion while using Cloudera’s tools to improve performance, management, and ease [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has laid the groundwork for mining big data using business intelligence and advanced analytics techniques. Traditionally, advanced analytics have been viewed as the domain of a few highly skilled data scientists. We believe that [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed a context-aware recommender system (CARS) to address big data predictive analytics challenges involving expanding data warehouses, constantly changing contextual parameters, and fast response times. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT, in collaboration with Intel Labs, is evaluating a new storage technology called Differentiated Storage Services (DSS). When combined with Intel Solid-State Drives, used as disk caches, we found that DSS can improve the performance [See the full post…]

Intel IT performance report: How IT is delivering value to Intel through innovations in social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and the Internet of Things. These innovations at Intel are improving productivity, efficiency, time to market, and profitability. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing a strategy for multiple business intelligence (BI) data warehouses to provide significantly more powerful analytics capabilities to business groups across Intel. By providing an array of BI platforms, we are helping Intel [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 93 – Previously in this podcast series we discussed Intel IT’s Software Defined Infrastructure strategy. SDI consists of three major components – Software Defined Computer, Software Defined Network, and the topic of this podcast, Software [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 92 – Intel has a Bring Your Own Device program for employees that has been very popular – so popular, in fact, that by the end of 2011 there were 6000 employees bringing their Android [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: We are in the midst of the democratization of big data. Broadening business users’ access to analytics makes it difficult for traditional business intelligence (BI) to meet user demand. At Intel, some users perform self-service BI [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 91 – Our podcast series has chronicled the evolution of the compute, storage, and network resources that comprise the data center. This evolution has presented challenges and opportunities to the IT department. Software Defined Infrastructure, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 90 – It seems as if wearables have appeared almost overnight. It’s a new area for people to use technology to enhance their lives, particularly around personal health and fitness. And it’s a new area [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s exclusive use of wireless infrastructure helps us improve employee mobility, job satisfaction, and productivity—as well as deliver LAN access in new construction faster and at lower cost. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 89 – The enterprise has more options than ever when it comes to cloud computing. Intel corporation is four years into its transition to a private-public-hybrid cloud hosting model. Intel IT’s role in this transition [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 88 – The democratization of big data is taking place in the enterprise. The business value of advanced analytics is clear, and the technology is giving access to such analytics to a broader population of [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: To accelerate the Intel IT journey to a federated, interoperable, open hybrid cloud, we act as an in-house cloud broker, providing Intel application owners with choice and flexibility through private, public, and hybrid cloud hosting options. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is integrating its collaboration tools with its business processes, providing an end-to-end experience for employees that is a natural part of their work environment. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 87 – The Internet of Things (IoT) is the concept that diverse machines, devices, and technologies interact in new ways. This expands the idea of the computer beyond servers, laptops, smart phones and tablets to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 86 – In the mid-1990s, the only client devices in use at Intel – or anywhere else for that matter – were PCs. Managing the lifecycle of those devices meant buying lower-cost, minimally equipped PCs [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 85 – The revolution in social media has created great opportunities for better communication and collaboration in the enterprise. Sara Browning’s job is to leverage those opportunities at Intel. She’s the Service Owner for Social [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Big data and the technologies that enable it hold the promise to address societal problems, but we need to get privacy right. This video describes the importance of reinterpreting traditional principles of fair information practices in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 84 – The enterprise today is awash in a variety of compute devices with diverse capabilities. The days of IT delivering a one-size-fits-all, desktop-only computer to every worker are long gone. For a very large, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s SIEM architecture is based on three layers: common logging service, correlation layer, and predictive analytics. This security BI architecture consumes almost 4 billion events per day to deliver near real-time trends and reporting.

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

IT Best Practices: In Intel IT tests simulating the daily workflow of a silicon design engineer, a workstation based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family completed multiple, concurrent electronic design automation (EDA) application workloads up [See the full post…]