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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 82 – The use of mobile devices in the enterprise – and everywhere for that matter – has increased dramatically over the past several years. This is as true at Intel as anywhere. As the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In 2013 Intel IT launched a new social collaboration platform that combined professional networking and social capabilities with content coauthoring for business-focused collaboration. The new platform improves user experience, allows increased security levels, integrates with core [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 81 – The explosion of the use of mobile devices in the workplace and the consumerization of IT present special challenges to the organization. Employees have high expectations for network support. It’s hard to imagine [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Until recently, Intel maintained multiple app stores and delivery platforms, resulting in inconsistent experience, quality, and support.

Intel IT has developed an integrated enterprise app store, the Intel Software Market, which simplified employees’ ability to find, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 80 – Advances in the SMAC stack – social, mobile, analytics, and cloud – have affected every part of the enterprise. Organizational security has been as challenged as any facet of a company. Organizations want [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 79 – The data center has evolved at an astonishing rate in recent years. Developments like widespread server virtualization, new applications with great performance requirements, and a forty percent annual growth in internet connection requirements [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 78 – The SMAC stack is changing the nature of business. SMAC is Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud. Advances in these areas have allowed many operations in the enterprise to move to the cloud, and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s enterprise private cloud enables us to deploy a virtual machine in under 10 minutes, provide on-demand self-service to Intel users, and offer a rich set of services for software development. Providing an opportunity to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 77 – DCIM is Data Center Infrastructure Management. It’s the marriage of information technology and data center facility management. A DCIM solution looks to extend the traditional data center management function. It’s an area of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 76 – The technical and organizational landscape has changed dramatically in the past few years. Organizations have a wealth of new opportunities for greater employee productivity and operational efficiency. But these opportunities, combined with an [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is incorporating cloud business intelligence (BI) into our overall enterprise BI strategy, enabling Intel business units to perform and present analytics on data no matter where it resides—within the enterprise boundaries or outside.

Cloud [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 75 – In order to keep up with the velocity of business, Intel IT has partnered with the company’s Sales and Marketing team to create a social collaboration platform. It’s a powerful set of tools [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is deploying 2-in-1 combination laptop and tablet devices to help satisfy a growing demand for mobile and touch-enabled computing. Our analysis and feedback from employees show that 2-in-1 devices in the enterprise can increase [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has built a web-based IT support portal to improve efficiency and effectiveness of our IT support agents. This portal integrates more than 20 tools and data sources, enabling support agents to quickly resolve a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is adopting software-defined networking (SDN) to enable on-demandprovisioning of networks and network services. By virtualizing the network through a programmable interface, we can offer better support for internal customers—Intel application developers—who work in a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 74 – Traditionally, advanced analytics – the scientific process of finding insight in data – have been the domain of a few highly-trained data scientists in the organization. Intel is looking to change that. The [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 73 – Intel IT has found that the combination of a Windows 8 operating system running on tablets based on Intel architecture yields some significant benefits. These devices are a great resource for employees, and [See the full post…]