Research@Intel 2013: How can big data benefit people they way they live in their communities? By capturing the data important to their lives and distilling it into useful applications. In this demo, watch how allergy sufferers could essentially monitor pollen [See the full post…]

Research@Intel 2013: Using sensor technologies the cars of the future promise to do more than just monitor the vehicle but the driver, too. In this demo, Intel researchers show how computer technologies can watch a driver’s eyes or measure their [See the full post…]

Research@Intel 2013:What would it be like if the TV, the ambient lighting in the room, the audio, and the video images themselves helped to make it feel more real? Intel researchers have been investigating how technologies can re-create recorded experiences, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 52 – We’ve talked in previous podcasts about Intel’s plans to deploy Ultrabooks with Microsoft Windows 8 to its employees. Well, the company has now decided to accelerate that deployment. So we decided to look into [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: GS Home Shopping reduces costs and increases performance by replacing its UNIX-based IT environment with Intel Xeon processor-based servers.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Acano brings groundbreaking collaboration solution to the marketplace, optimized for Intel technology-based hardware.

IT Best Practices: With a goal to improve our email application server performance and lower costs to meet ongoing email demand, Intel IT conducted a proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluating the benefits of Intel Solid-State Drive (Intel SSD) technology. Compared to our [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As Intel IT continues widespread adoption of cloud computing, Intel software development is undergoing a major shift. Intel architects and developers are learning to design cloud-aware applications that maximize cloud advantages, such as self-service provisioning, elasticity, run-anywhere [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Designing Intel microprocessors is extremely compute intensive. Tapeout is a final step in silicon design and its computation demand is growing exponentially for each generation of silicon process technology. Intel IT adopted high-performance computing (HPC) to address [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has adopted a user-centered approach to delivering IT services that enable optimization of IT solutions, improve employee productivity, and increase business velocity. The user-centered approach involves proactively engaging and partnering with Intel employees and business [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Recognizing the power of social computing as an important tool for supporting the increasing velocity of Intel’s businesses, Intel IT is developing a strategy to boost usage of social computing as part of a unified collaboration experience [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Charles University and Intel support an initiative to demonstrate and evaluate use cases for ICT in the classroom.

Intelligent Storage: Understanding the Architectural Changes of Data Center Storage. Explains the evolution to scale-out storage for greater manageability, performance, and utilization.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is accelerating the deployment of touch-enabled business Ultrabook devices with Microsoft Windows 8 ahead of the schedule we created in January 2013. This decision was based on several factors: employee demand for touch capabilities is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Moving from Microsoft Windows 7 to Windows 8 meets Intel’s long-term client computing needs, gives employees more powerful systems, and prepares them to use Intel’s growing number of touch-enabled applications. By end of June 2013, Windows 8 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has standardized on Intel Xeon processors with a core frequency of 2.6 gigahertz (GHz) for two-socket servers to offer maximum IT value for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. Our analysis demonstrates that higher-end processors [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: At Florida State University, new servers based on Intel Xeon processors E5 family deliver up to four times faster application performance for high-performance computing workloads without requiring recoding.

IT Best Practices: As part of our focus on a user-centered model of delivering IT services, in 2012 Intel IT optimized its PC delivery process, resulting in improved Intel employee productivity, a better employee experience, and reduced operational costs. We [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The Intel vPro platform enhances remote management, user productivity, and client security for Meredith Corporation.

Intelligent Storage: Oracle’s Jason Schaffer — Senior Director, Systems Development, Mikael Vidstedt — JVM Architect, Java Platform, and Ashok Joshi — Senior Director, Development: Oracle No SQL Database, give their perspectives on Intel and Oracle engineered systems for Big Data [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To increase business productivity, Intel IT conducted multiple proof of concepts (PoCs) to identify business, safety, and ergonomic requirements for the use of mobile devices, including tablets, in our manufacturing environments. Using these mobile devices, as well [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Intel IT is using a variety of techniques to accommodate growing demand for storage capabilities, without increasing costs. In 2011 Intel faced a 53-percent increase in storage capacity from 2010, and the continued build out of our private [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Intel IT is transitioning to an enterprise private cloud that will support our office and enterprise computing applications. This cloud is based on virtualized infrastructure accessing shared pools of storage through storage area networks (SANs).

Intelligent Storage: Data growth is not only driving up storage costs, but also transforming performance and efficiency requirements for storage systems. IDC estimated that in 2011, the amount of information created and replicated would surpass 1.8 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes) [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 51 – Edward Goldman is Chief Technology Officer at Intel IT. He has another job title as well–General Manager of Strategy, Architecture, & Innovation, or the SAI group. It exists to blaze the trail for IT. [See the full post…]