IT Best Practices: By actively managing Intel’s PC fleet as a strategic asset, Intel IT has consistently decreased total cost of ownership (TCO) for PCs, achieving a 67 percent reduction since 1995. Because PC acquisition costs typically account for only [See the full post…]

Data network bandwidth requirements are currently shifting from 1Gb to 10Gb. But 100Gb is not far away – optical networking becomes essentially mandatory to carry large amounts of data. Researchers are investigating not only materials and equipment, but also novel [See the full post…]

Beethoven’s 14th String Quartet, a tangled seven movement masterpiece, has been regarded by some as the pinnacle of art music. It was never conceived to be played for an audience (few of his quartets were) but an orchestrated version helped [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: IT cloud computing is a significant trend with the potential to increase IT business agility and lower costs. Today, however, security risks, immature technology, and other concerns prevent widespread enterprise adoption of external clouds. Intel IT is [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Rich Bader, president of Oregon-based EasyStreet, discusses his company’s efforts to move beyond “adding a CRAC unit” and instead building an energy-efficient data center. For more information see: EasyStreet Home [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Clive D’Souza stops by to talk about newly announced storage features – integrating SAS onto an Intel processor and next generation software RAID. For more information see: Intel Storage Intel [See the full post…]

Agriculture presents good opportunities for robotics and computer vision research. And practices, devices and algorithms developed by researchers may someday significantly benefit farmers and improve crops. Determining vineyard yields is one of Intel Labs’ computational agriculture projects. Total time – [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our cloud computing strategy, Intel IT has been opportunistically taking advantage of external offerings of software as a service (SaaS) applications. To prepare for broader SaaS adoption, we designed a SaaS architecture that will [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To enable device-independent mobility (DIM) at Intel, Intel IT is considering implementing dynamic virtual client (DVC) technology, which uses containerized software appliances to abstract the OS; applications; corporate and personal data and workspaces; and user-specific settings. In [See the full post…]

As computer and network use becomes more widespread, more people are faced with the problem of making meaning out of large data sets. Big data presents not just technical challenges but time and cost challenges as well. In this episode [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing an enterprise-wide social computing platform that combines professional networking tools with social media such as wikis and blogs, and integrates with existing enterprise software. Our goal is to transform collaboration across Intel, addressing [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: Intel IT has developed a threat agent risk assessment (TARA) methodology that distills the immense number of possible information security attacks into a digest of only those exposures most likely to occur. This methodology identifies threat agents [See the full post…]

Brain trauma affects more than 2 million people in the U.S. each year because of accidents and participation in sports. But little is understood about the connections within the brain that can be broken but not detected. Using MRI scans, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To minimize the threat posed by malicious software, or malware, making its way into the enterprise, Intel IT has established a process that actively seeks to identify and take action against the malware before it reaches Intel’s [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Carl Hansen from Intel Ethernet discusses the advancements in 10 gigabit Ethernet – including integrating the PHY and MAC into a single processor, reducing power and cost. Intel and Ethernet [See the full post…]

Open Cirrus, a test bed for cloud computing (spearheaded by the companies HP, Intel and Yahoo, and including research partners such as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois) recently announced its expansion. An Internet service such as Facebook [See the full post…]

IT Efficiency: Intel IT shares the results of testing of the new Intel Xeon 7500 processor on Intel silicon design workloads. Testing showed that the Intel Xeon 7500 increased throughput up to 2.68X compared to the Intel Xeon 7400, and [See the full post…]

IT Business Agility: Many large organizations have a centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment based on proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems. In contrast, Intel IT has successfully implemented a decentralized ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and supports [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: 5 years ago, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of our overall data center strategy. We are currently accelerating virtualization adoption for general purpose applications, with a goal [See the full post…]

A coming major advance in computer technology is a form of context awareness known as Socially Enabled Services or SENS, which refers to mobile devices that can anticipate user needs, such as advising the best routes to take on the [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer and an Intel Senior Fellow, talks about the future of contextual-based computing – making your phone, TV, etc. into a truly amazing device. Justin Rattner [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Sunil Ahluwalia from the LAN Access Division discusses Fibre Channel over Ethernet – aggregating Ethernet and storage networks to reduce TCO and infrastructure and get seamless management. Fibre Channel over [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Greg Wagnon, the up and coming Intel Data Center Dude, stops by to talk about his video series and preview some upcoming technologies like Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture. The [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Bob Burroughs from the Data Center Group stops by to discuss moving beyond counting cores and clock frequencies and instead using performance metrics when making server purchases. Intel Server Processors [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Brian Johnson from the LAN Access Division discusses the move to virtualizing servers and supporting technology, including Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity and SR-IOV. Intel Ethernet Intel Chip Chat Home [See the full post…]