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…]

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…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 62 – In this podcast we look at Intel’s deployment of McAfee Drive Encryption at Intel. A major component of security in an enterprise is securing the data on all those computers out there. In the [See the full post…]

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…]

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…]

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: Episode 61 – In this podcast we engage in a wide-ranging discussion on business velocity, security, and privacy with Intel’s Malcolm Harkins. Harkins has a unique view from his position as the Chief Security and Privacy Officer [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…]

IT Best Practices: Security and privacy are like magnets. When they are turned in the right direction they are perfectly binding. But if one starts turning, they start to push away from each other. Listen to Malcolm Harkins, Intel Chief [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel practices responsible privacy and data protection. Respect for privacy is fundamental to our culture and helps us to maintain an environment where individuals can trust Intel and its technologies. Acquisitions are a critical component of Intel’s [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 60 – We’ve talked about Intel’s Bring Your Own Device program in previous podcasts. Intel enables employees to use their own smart phones, tablets, and other devices for work. Of those, about half – 20,000 in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The consumerization of IT and the popularity of our bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program allow Intel employees to work from multiple devices. Regardless of what type of device they use, they want to be able to access work content [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: By deploying data virtualization solutions that combine disparate data sources into a single virtual layer, Intel IT expects to increase the agility of our business intelligence (BI). This agility will enable our business groups to more quickly [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: 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: To meet Intel’s business computing needs more effectively and ensure continuity of service, Intel IT has developed a predictive data center capacity planning process. Our approach helps us to accurately forecast demand on our data center facilities [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 59 – Big data is a big focus for Intel. That means developing and deploying a variety of tools and methods to derive business value from the sea of data that surrounds us. These are datasets [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Consumers care about privacy, is your company or organization paying attention? This video shows why companies and organizations should incorporate privacy early in their design, development, and deployment process – whether they’re working on products, programs or [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: 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 needed to determine an investment strategy that could meet the growing capacity needs for our new businesses that required hosting solutions. We could have built out the capacity and capability internally. Or we could have [See the full post…]

Beautiful sand artistry, by Shubhada Sahasrabudhe comparing the creation of technology with the development of a child and the importance of protecting both. For more information, see: intel.com/TMI