IT Best Practices: Construction of smart buildings at scale isn’t easy. For decades, enterprises have included smart technologies in their buildings to gain operational efficiencies, save maintenance costs, and make their offices more user-friendly. While these companies may have experienced [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is improving Intel’s security posture with data intelligence–deploying a new Cyber Intelligence Platform (CIP) based on leading-edge technologies, including Splunk Enterprise and Apache Kafka. The new platform ingests data from hundreds of sources and security [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s integrated enterprise security architecture has achieved greater business flexibility by collaborating with business units and providing clear security guidelines, applying a “trust-but-verify” model; improved business enablement by removing many interdependencies to make security easier and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Like many companies, Intel is being transformed by next-gen analytics and the data that fuels them. The analytics engines required at scale are a major investment, and architectural decisions have multi-year, multi-million-dollar implications. Intel is digitally transforming [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Facing a complex environment of docking solutions, some of which do not meet the needs of our new workplace transformation requirements, Intel IT conducted multiple rounds of Thunderbolt 3 technology testing. The results of these tests indicate [See the full post…]

IT@Intel Brief: Learn how Intel IT is protecting the enterprise against advanced persistent threats (APTs), using machine learning with pattern analysis and other advanced cybersecurity techniques such as honeypots, sinkholes, and Layer 7 monitoring.

IT Best Practices: Intel optimized operations and reduced costs by virtualizing industrial PCs in front of individual production tools. The solution combines servers equipped with Intel CPUs, enterprise-level Intel Solid State Drives (Intel SSDs), virtualized storage, and virtualized servers that [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Enterprise architecture (EA) has become essential for corporations to be successful in addressing and supporting digital transformation and business growth at a much faster pace in an ever-changing environment. At Intel, we define EA as applying technology [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Large organizations gradually accumulate technical debt for various reasons. Intel largely runs its business with enterprise platform solutions that comprise a mix of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom applications. Over time, the number of platforms and applications [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT plays a crucial role in providing the solutions and services that drive Intel’s digital transformation, leading to enhanced business outcomes for Intel. Uniquely positioned to help transform Intel into a digital powerhouse, Intel IT brings [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The availability of new software applications, coupled with easy access to cloud computing, has allowed businesses to optimize their workloads for faster time-to-market (TTM). But without a clear plan, IT organizations can find themselves playing catch-up with [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Automated defect classification (ADC) using machine vision (MV) and machine learning (ML) can improve speed, consistency, and efficiency in manufacturing processes.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s multi-cloud strategy focuses on abstracting the application stack from the infrastructure to enable anything-as-a-service (XaaS) capabilities. This approach helps to accelerate innovation and allow application developers to focus on writing code, not rounding up compute, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: On manufacturing floors, OT dominates due to its exceptional reliability, but IT excels at aggregating data for analysis and action. Manufacturing efficiency could greatly benefit from IT practices, but a range of issues inhibit adoption, including a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Microsoft Windows 10 works synergistically with laptops based on 6th, 7th, and 8th generation Intel Core vPro processors, resulting in up to 10 hours of battery life and a new, intuitive user experience. These capabilities provide increased [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is in a unique position to lead Intel’s digital transformation. We have the experience needed to solve complex business challenges and deliver new value to the company. We are using our highly connected datasets and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Through data standardization, partnering with industry experts, and setting measurable goals, our FFU IIoT solution has allowed us to develop a foundation for edge-to-cloud IIoT computing that can scale to other processes and tools in the factory.

IT Best Practices: As technology evolves, Intel’s worldwide factories have experienced growing complexity in products and processes. We use data analysis and sensors to improve product quality, reduce capital costs, and speed time to market. Often a single tool is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Sensor data and analytics, powered by a robust Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution can help manufacturers gain actionable insights into the behavior and performance of their tools in real time. With earlier and more accurate information, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s silicon design engineers need significant increases in computing capacity—both on their workstations and on data center servers—to deliver each new generation of silicon chips. To meet those requirements, Intel IT conducts ongoing throughput performance tests, using [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To increase business velocity and cost efficiency, Intel IT designed and deployed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) capabilities on Intel’s enterprise infrastructure. The solution is unique in many ways. For example, we were the first IT department to incorporate the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Anyone who has worked in a large company knows what it is like to wait a half-day for a new computer from the IT department while the IT technician reloads all the applications and settings onto that [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Maximize the business value of the cloud. That simple statement underlies a three-year initiative to transform Intel IT’s cloud strategy: • Modernize our application stack by abstracting it from the infrastructure. • Focus on business and application [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Managing PC health in any organization takes sustained focus and a well-defined process. At Intel, we have experienced fatal errors, such as the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), due to driver and other hardware issues. In 2009, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Advances in modern client computing have brought broader features and capabilities to enterprises, helping them develop new markets, innovate new products, and improve communication. But these advancements have also brought new challenges. Solution providers are releasing updates [See the full post…]