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IT Best Practices: Managing Training Rooms with Intel vPro Technology

October 21st, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Managing Training Rooms with Intel vPro Technology

IT Best Practices: Intel IT conducted a pilot to explore the potential of PCs with Intel vPro processor technology, with ISV management software, to address management and performance challenges across Intel’s geographically dispersed training rooms. We remotely performed rebuilds, installs, [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Virtualization with the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: A Proof of Concept

October 12th, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Virtualization with the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: A Proof of Concept

IT Best Practices: Intel IT, together with Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, End User Platform Integration, and Intel’s Software and Services Group, conducted proof-of-concept testing and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to assess the virtualization capabilities of Intel Xeon processor [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Improve service and lower TCO – Proactive PC Support Improves Service and Lowers TCO

IT Best Practices: Improve service and lower TCO – Proactive PC Support Improves Service and Lowers TCO

IT Best Practices: As part of our online support strategy, Intel IT developed a self-service PC Health Check utility to deliver better customer support, improve response time, and increase employee satisfaction—while reducing operating costs. PC Health Check empowers employees to [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Simple Ways to Boost Your Smartphone’s Battery Life

September 30th, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Simple Ways to Boost Your Smartphone’s Battery Life

IT Best Practices: Face it: smartphones are your portable lifeline to the world. With everything that these handheld marvels allow you to do—check your e-mail, surf the Internet, send text messages, balance your bank account, play games and even call [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Top 12 Ways to Keep your PC Cool

September 24th, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Top 12 Ways to Keep your PC Cool

IT Best Practices: Keep your computer out of the hot zone even as temperatures climb indoors and out Hi there. This is your laptop computer speaking – well, writing to you. Please forgive the temporary disruption of service, but you [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Intel IT Executive Insight: Moving to Client-aware Cloud

September 23rd, 2011 |
IT Best Practices: Intel IT Executive Insight: Moving to  Client-aware Cloud

IT Best Practices: We envision a private cloud that can determine device attributes and user preferences and deliver accordingly. Intel IT is actively working to create a client-aware cloud environment where application delivery is based on the client device and [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Evolving Centralized IT Client Management

IT Best Practices: Evolving Centralized IT Client Management

IT Best Practices: Intel IT continues to proactively improve automation, consistency, and cost efficiency. Refining centralized IT services, Intel IT continues to look at ways to control software proliferation, manage hardware, enhance mobility, and reduce costs.

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IT Best Practices: Implementing Cloud Storage Metrics to Improve IT Efficiency and Capacity Management

IT Best Practices: Implementing Cloud Storage Metrics to Improve IT Efficiency and Capacity Management

IT Best Practices: 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).

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IT Best Practices: How to Protect your Handheld Device or Laptop from Water Damage

IT Best Practices: How to Protect your Handheld Device or Laptop from Water Damage

IT Best Practices: Ever spilled coffee on your laptop or cell phone and wondered what to do next? In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares several techniques that show you how to breathe new life back into your device.

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IT Best Practices: Your Last Words are Your Passwords: What Happens to Your Digital Life when You Pass Away?

IT Best Practices: Your Last Words are Your Passwords: What Happens to Your Digital Life when You Pass Away?

IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT offers some common sense advice for helping your family know what to do with your online identity and resources after you are gone.

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IT Best Practices: The PC that came in from the cold: Protect your laptop from winter weather

IT Best Practices: The PC that came in from the cold: Protect your laptop from winter weather

IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares six ways to keep your laptop safe from the elements as you make your way through winter.

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IT Best Practices: How to work more comfortably on your notebook

IT Best Practices: How to work more comfortably on your notebook

IT Best Practices: Do you work directly from your notebook for long periods of time? In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares several techniques that show you how to set up your notebook to improve your posture and reduce [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Strengthening Enterprise Security through Notebook Encryption

IT Best Practices: Strengthening Enterprise Security through Notebook Encryption

IT Best Practices: Intel chose to encrypt all corporate notebooks to keep data from being accessed if lost or stolen. Including a detailed plan for secure and cost-effective implementation, Intel IT combined a software and hardware based solution to mitigate [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Security Solutions Enabled by Intel vPro Technology

IT Best Practices: Security Solutions Enabled by Intel vPro Technology

IT Best Practices: Intel IT security specialists deployed PCs with Intel vPro technology, focusing on high-priority areas including investigations, data protection, and loss prevention and system health. Testing and validating these capabilities, Intel was able to deliver reduced manual effort [See the full post…]

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IT Business Value: Client Computing within a Virtual User Environment (VUE)

IT Business Value: Client Computing within a Virtual User Environment (VUE)

Intel IT Business Value: Intel IT is developing a Virtual User Environment (VUE), employing a managed, virtualized container that streams data and IT applications on any capable client hardware.

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Get Direct Insight into Intel IT’s Best Practices

Get Direct Insight into Intel IT’s Best Practices

IT Best Practices: The IT@Intel program connects IT professionals around the world with their IT peers inside our organization – sharing lessons learned, methods and strategies. Our goal is simple: Share the Intel IT best practices that create business value [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Validating the Reliability of Intel Solid-State Drives

IT Best Practices: Validating the Reliability of Intel Solid-State Drives

IT Best Practices: In a year long study of more than 45,000 SSDs deployed in our mobile business PC fleet, we validated that Intel Solid-State Drives provide an 87 percent reduction in the annualized failure rate compared to hard disk [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Preparing the Enterprise for the Impact of Alternative Form Factors

IT Best Practices: Preparing the Enterprise for the Impact of Alternative Form Factors

Intel IT Best Practices: Intel IT plays a critical role in creating the future workplace by researching, evaluating, and analyzing emerging technologies that accommodate many form factors. The explosion of connected devices in the marketplace is compelling Intel IT to [See the full post…]

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Intel IT Business Value: Executive Insights – IT Sustainability

Intel IT Business Value: Executive Insights – IT Sustainability

Intel IT Best Practices: At Intel IT, we think “green” everyday under a formal IT Sustainability Program. In 2010, we implemented projects that reduced our consumption of IT associated emissions by ~60,000 metric tons of co2 and saved Intel’s business [See the full post…]

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Intel IT Best Practices: Information Security should Protect and Enable

Intel IT Best Practices: Information Security should Protect and Enable

Intel IT Best Practices: At Intel IT we realized we needed to rethink how we approach enterprise security. We cannot continue to spend all our resources trying to block every threat. Our new approach takes into consideration that the role [See the full post…]

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Intel IT Best Practices: Maximizing the Business Value of IT

Intel IT Best Practices: Maximizing the Business Value of IT

Intel IT Best Practices: A solid strategic planning process is critical to the long-term success and health of any organization. Intel IT has been able to better respond to the dynamic nature of our business since implementing an IT strategic [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Developing a Standard Enterprise Architecture Practice

IT Best Practices: Developing a Standard Enterprise Architecture Practice

Intel IT Best Practices: Enterprise architecture is a critical component of Intel’s IT strategy. Enterprise architects map the way that technology and inforamtion help Intel achieve its current and future business goals. They produce strategic and solution-specific architectures used by [See the full post…]

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IT Business Value: Benefits of Enabling Personal Handheld Devices in the Enterprise

IT Business Value: Benefits of Enabling Personal Handheld Devices in the Enterprise

Intel IT Business Value: In response to IT consumerization, Intel IT began allowing employees to use personal smart phones to access enterprise resources in early 2010. The program has rapidly become a success, delivering a variety of benefits to both [See the full post…]

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Intel IT Best Practices: PC Fleet Management

Intel IT Best Practices: PC Fleet Management

Intel IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Executive Insights, we explain how Intel IT uses regular refresh, smart technology, the benefits of consumerization and proactive support to help us maintain our PC fleet and empower our 80,000 users across the [See the full post…]

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Securing Intel’s External Online Presence

Securing Intel’s External Online Presence

To protect Intel and its customers, Intel IT established a program that assesses, monitors, and enforces the security, privacy, and regulatory compliance of externally facing Intel-branded Web sites and online marketing programs.

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