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 Defined [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 devices [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 by [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, or [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 for [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.

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 is [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 users. [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.

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.

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 include [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 and [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 Collaboration [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 a [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, global [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. See also: [See the full post…]

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 analyze [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 to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 83 – Cyber security in the enterprise has evolved because the threat landscape has changed so dramatically. That’s certainly true at Intel. Tony Saint, is Intel IT’s Cyber Security Operations Manager. Like all security specialists in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT recently evaluated Apache Hadoop software for ETL (extract, transform, and load) functions. We first studied industry sources to learn the advantages and disadvantages of using Hadoop for big data ETL functions. We then tested what [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT and the Corporate Marketing Group, working together as a project team, are embarking on a big data analytics program that will help Intel focus more resources on successful media campaigns. Central to this program is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In the fall of 2012 Intel began exploring the potential benefits of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions in Intel data centers. DCIM may potentially help us achieve cost savings through remote management of critical data center [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Silicon design is one of the most critical business functions at Intel, and it requires significant computing resources. Larger and more compute-intensive design jobs require four-socket servers, which offer greater processing power and memory capacity to help [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To accommodate the increasing demands that data center growth places on Intel’s network, Intel IT is upgrading our data center network architecture to a combination of 10 GbE and 40 GbE connections. Existing 100 Mbps and 1 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed best practices for increasing data center efficiency by retrofitting data center infrastructure. Our goal is to optimize capacity and the return on invested capital and decrease operating costs. We also focus on minimizing [See the full post…]