IT Best Practices: Episode 3 – Inside IT is the latest on information technology straight from the people of Intel’s IT organization. In this episode of the podcast, we take a look at the state of IT security with Intel’s [See the full post…]

An array of tools for collaboration has emerged just in the past decade – email, instant messaging, wikis, blogs, video conferencing and social media – that we often take for granted. And hardware like laptops, smart phones, mids and tablets [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 2 – Inside IT is the latest on information technology straight from the people of Intel’s IT organization. This episode of the podcast is all about the consumerization of IT, and features Ron Miller and Ed [See the full post…]

In this IT Cloud Computing audio podcast: Das Kamhout (LinkedIn Profile) – Technical Engineering Lead, Intel IT Enterprise Private Cloud IT Best Practices: Episode 1 – Inside IT is the latest on information technology straight from the people of Intel’s [See the full post…]

The buzz around the new Intel Xeon E7 10-core microprocessor, such as here and here shows that enterprise hardware still commands attention. In this video, meet the engineer who put the chip through its paces and and ran it, as [See the full post…]

Delivering Competitive Advantage through IT: Read how our Intel IT experts and solutions are enabling Intel’s growth and transformation in this 10th Annual Intel IT Performance Report. Topics included in this report: • Business Solutions: Delivering IT Business Value • [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Hard drive technology has been evolving at a rapid pace over the last decade – more capacity, higher speeds and smaller sizes. But in the last couple of years, a whole new approach to storage technology has [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Information security is a critical concern for Intel IT. New threats are continually evolving, and over time, this has forced us to invest in various security controls and mitigation strategies. As part of a three-month evaluation of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT recently developd a series of use cases that take advantage of Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) Remote Control, a hardware-based feature of PCs with 2010 Intel Core vPro processors and Intel HD Graphics. Unlike software-based KVM solutions, 2010 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In 2005, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of our overall data center strategy. We are currently accelerating virtualization adoption for general purpose applications, with a goal of [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: Welcome to our ninth edition of the Intel IT Performance Report. As we closed last year’s edition, we identified some of the many challenges IT organizations would face in 2009 given the economic environment, and we also [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Many large organizations have a centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment based on proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems. In contrast, Intel IT has successfully implemented a decentralized ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and supports [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented a low-cost thermal storage system that maintained cooling at a high-density data center during an electrical power outage. This enabled the data center to survive the outage without costly damage to servers. The system [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT made a strategic decision 3 years ago to standardize our computing platform on PCs with Intel Core vPro processors. These PCs include a variety of technologies that enhance IT and end-user efficiency, and help meet [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is actively integrating employee-owned hand-held devices into our enterprise environment. With safeguards in place to protect data and intellectual property, we are allowing employees to select the tools that suit their personal work styles and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing a program to rapidly deploy Microsoft Windows 7 across our large enterprise environment. The program has already enabled us to deploy the OS to 30 percent of Intel’s 100,000 PCs in nine months, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: This Intel IT brief highlights the performance of workstations based on Intel Xeon processor 5600 series, demonstrating significant IT business value and IT efficiency. In Intel IT tests simulating the daily workflow of a silicon design engineer, [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: Intel IT is aggressively deploying SSDs in order to enhance employee productivity and mobility while reducing IT total cost of ownership. We now require all newly purchased laptops and retrofitted PCs to be equipped with an Intel [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT, in partnership with IAG, conducted testing and analysis to compare the user experience with different client cloud devices when accessing a range of applications hosted in the cloud. The results of our testing showed the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: 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: Matt Bodin of Intel IT demonstrates in a proof-of-concept how Intel Active Management Technology can be used to reset passwords on encrypted hard drives, saving service deck technicians significant time. See also: IT Center Open Port

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented a proactive problem management process based on analysis of objective, largely system-generated data from client PCs across our worldwide environment. Using this approach, we have increased client stability by reducing the number of blue [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: By actively managing Intel’s PC fleet as a strategic asset, Intel IT has consistently decreased total cost of ownership (TCO) for PCs, achieving a 67 percent reduction since 1995. Because PC acquisition costs typically account for only [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: IT cloud computing is a significant trend with the potential to increase IT business agility and lower costs. Today, however, security risks, immature technology, and other concerns prevent widespread enterprise adoption of external clouds. Intel IT is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our cloud computing strategy, Intel IT has been opportunistically taking advantage of external offerings of software as a service (SaaS) applications. To prepare for broader SaaS adoption, we designed a SaaS architecture that will [See the full post…]