IT Best Practices: As we begin the final phases of development for our enterprise private cloud, we have identified IT best practices in several areas that have helped us maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, introduce solutions quickly into [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 14 – The IT organization faces tremendous challenges in developing and maintaining the data center for today’s enterprise. Demand for processing and storage is ramping, while the need to cut costs is actually causing the size [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To enable rapid adoption of new technologies and usage models—and provide protection in an evolving threat landscape—Intel IT has embarked on a radical five-year redesign of Intel’s information security architecture.

IT Best Practices: Episode 13 – The social media revolution over the past several years has been truly transformative. It’s a source of entertainment for millions, and it’s been a driving force in revolutions around the world. It’s changed the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The purpose of this paper is to describe how Intel IT neutralized security risks that have allowed us to enable virtualization for the DMZ and SIZ thereby allowing Intel IT to expand the benefits of virtualization. Over [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As the holiday season approaches, we all turn to our computers to help get things done. But be aware that criminals are also looking for ways to get things done, and that may include scamming you. In [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The purpose of this paper is to describe how Intel IT neutralized security risks that have allowed us to enable virtualization for the DMZ and SIZ thereby allowing Intel IT to expand the benefits of virtualization. Over [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 12 – The enterprise workplace has evolved tremendously in a short period of time. Intel IT has led the way in adopting and implementing new technologies and new strategies to create an environment conducive to collaboration. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 11 – Mobility in the enterprise used to mean a laptop. Now it’s much more. Employees are bringing their own mobile devices, and with them their expectations about how they want to work. More and more, [See the full post…]

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…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 10 – It’s hard to believe that the first touch-screen smart phone was released only four years ago. That widespread tablet computer use really took off only a year ago. In that short time these mobile [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT developed a cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy for one of our data centers in Israel that has a potential business value of more than USD 3 million. During its first disaster recovery drill, the new [See the full post…]

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…]

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…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 9 – The IT organization needs to be an agile service provider. Intel IT is undertaking a multi-year transition to cloud computing, focusing primarily on the private cloud, to increase this agility. More and more devices [See the full post…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 8 – With the ten-year anniversary of 9-11, we’re reminded of the importance of being prepared for disaster and how that day changed the way many IT professionals view data security. With Texas fires and Hurricane [See the full post…]

A tour of Intel IT‘s data center in Russia. This data center hosts about a thousand servers. To improve energy efficiency of the data center, it uses external cold air to cool the data center during winter, and uses the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 7 -Intel IT engages in a strategic planning cycle to ensure the IT@Intel team is aligned with the company’s business groups. It’s critical to engage in a real conversation within the organization to maximize the IT [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: Episode 6 – How do you build a private cloud for your organization? Cloud computing is one of the top three priorities this year for Intel IT. Their experience stands as an example for IT organizations looking [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 5 – The IT organization is undergoing rapid change. Changes like virtualization and consumerization present new opportunities for business, and new challenges for IT. Cloud computing shifts IT to more of a creator and distributor of [See the full post…]

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.

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).