IT Best Practices: Intel IT is replacing our previous software-based encryption solution with McAfee Drive Encryption, an integral component of new McAfee security products such as McAfee Complete Data Protection – Advanced software. This high-performing, reliable solution provides integrated manageability, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over the last five years, Intel IT has evolved its approach to BI solutions for Intel’s worldwide sales organization to enable rapid delivery of advanced self-service business intelligence (BI) and data visualization capabilities. By moving to a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over the past few years, we have investigated the concept behind the big data technologies and now have much of the capabilities running in our production environment. The IT Labs continue their work to explore new and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Let’s face it: big data is still very new. And that means the infrastructure platforms on which big data analytics are performed are also relatively immature. What it doesn’t mean, however, is that organizations can’t or shouldn’t [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Businesses are often guilty of operating at a pace that is measured and process driven, in reactive fashion. These businesses observe a problem or development in the marketplace and then collect data to understand and act upon [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Five people. Six months. $10 million in ROI. Those were the parameters and goals of Intel IT’s initial big data projects, which started in earnest three years ago. “We wanted to prove that big data analytics are [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: China Telecom builds an Intel Xeon processor-based business platform resources pool, improving its server’s performance and computing density and enhancing reliability.

IT Best Practices: In an age when organizations such as Intel are rich in data, the true value of this data lies in the ability to collect, sort, and analyze it to derive actionable business intelligence (BI). Recognizing the need [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To deliver the extreme query responsiveness required for real-time analysis of high-volume data sets, Intel IT conducted tests to find the optimal platform for a cost-effective, high-performance in-memory business intelligence (BI) solution. Performing server-sizing and stress tests [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: 10 Gigabit Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter and Intel Solid-State Drives boost throughput capacity of TEAMSUN’s object storage solution.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Schlumberger increases performance for its PIPESIM software by up to 10 times while streamlining the development process.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Using big data technologies to analyze doctors’ notes helps Leeds Teaching Hospitals plan resources and spot under-billing.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Gap Inc. migrates from a RISC environment to industry-standard servers with Intel Xeon processors, reducing operating costs and accelerating application deployment.

IT Best Practices: As part of an evolution in how we assess IT business value for investments, Intel IT and Intel Finance have developed a framework that is faster and more scalable than our previous processes. This new Business Value [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Hidden Path Entertainment produces better games faster than before while conserving data center space with the Intel Xeon processor E5 family.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: CERN uses the Intel Xeon processor E5 family to find the Higgs boson.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Intel Solid-State Drive 520 series improves video server data read/write performance and enhances data reliability for China Digital Video.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT continues to expand and strengthen our bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program offerings. As the variety of devices increases, so does our challenge to maintain security and eDiscovery while protecting employees’ privacy, their data, and the enterprise. Google [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Physicians at Inca Local Hospital in Mallorca use Intel technology-based tablets to access critical medical information on the move.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: New Jersey’s Hackensack University Medical Center handles its ever-growing data volume and stays on budget with help from the Intel Xeon processor E5 family.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: To meet extreme computing demand, the Mexican stock market designs a proprietary system based on Intel Xeon processors.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: PepsiCo equips its French sales team with 2 in 1 devices powered by 3rd-generation Intel Core i5 vPro processors.

IT Best Practices: Silicon chip design engineers at Intel face the challenges of integrating more features into ever-shrinking silicon chips, resulting in more complex designs. The increasing design complexity creates large design workloads that have considerable memory and compute requirements. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Design engineers at Intel face the challenges of integrating more features into ever-shrinking silicon chips, bringing products to market faster, and keeping design engineering and manufacturing costs low. A new category of workstations has emerged, based on [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: HP helps customers create more powerful and efficient server fleets by consolidating on Intel technology.