IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s enterprise private cloud has seen reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) annually and maintains a goal of absorbing private cloud growth while reducing absolute spending. To achieve this aggressive goal, continuous improvements in infrastructure efficiency [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Data mining using machine learning enables businesses and organizations to discover fresh insights previously hidden within their data. Whether exploring oil reserves, improving the safety of automobiles, or mapping genomes, machine-learning algorithms are at the heart of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 100 – Technology has evolved in amazing ways, and Intel’s factories have been at the forefront of that evolution. This means those factories have grown in complexity. This also means an equivalent growth in the amount [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over the past few years, the variety of client devices in use at Intel has grown significantly. While we still find that a 2- to 4-year refresh cycle offers the best total cost of ownership, some of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In order to increase user productivity and reduce IT costs, Intel IT plans to make getting a new laptop or switching from one device to another as easy as getting a new smartphone. Historically, our users spend, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our effort to strategically transform data centers and accelerate application delivery, Intel IT used design best practices to create a cloud application platform. This platform—more specifically, platform as a service (PaaS)—makes it easy to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Energy costs are the fastest-rising expense for today’s data centers. Naturally, power consumption is a top concern for managers of data center, enterprise, and cloud environments. Moreover, there are multiple proprietary power measurement and control protocols supported [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 99 – As clients have come to rely more and more on the private cloud in the enterprise, Intel IT has worked to simplify capacity management for its private cloud. The result has been an increase [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel employees have come to expect a certain level of convenience from their devices, and Intel IT must meet this expectation without compromising security and manageability. After evaluating a variety of mobile computing devices, Intel IT began [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 98 – The data center at Intel is the backbone of the company, critical to every aspect of business. To better meet Intel’s business requirements while providing internal customers with optimal capabilities and innovative business services, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To drive down cost and increase host utilization in Intel’s Office and Enterprise private cloud, Intel IT has simplified private cloud capacity management by transitioning from allocation-based capacity management to performance-based capacity management. Focusing on host and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 97 – Big data and advanced analytics have become increasingly important to Intel. More and more people and business groups rely on Intel’s big data capabilities to maximize productivity. A recent step in the evolution of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT values open-source-based, big data processing using Apache Hadoop software. Last year we migrated from the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software to the Cloudier Enterprise software. Based on our original experience with Apache Hadoop software, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 96 – We’ve all been there – waiting in a conference room as a presenter fumbles with cables, trying to get a laptop connected to a monitor or projector. Or someone is trying to join a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s smart factories use highly specialized Internet of Things (IoT) data specifications that make it possible to bring new factories online quickly and reliably by replicating identical processes from one facility to another. Imagine being able to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In the rapidly changing business and technology environment, manufacturers are striving to stay competitive, now and into the future, by increasing productivity and lowering costs. Like many companies, Intel has evolved over the decades to provide competitive [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The 2015-2016 Intel IT Annual Performance Report highlights technology trends driving rapid innovation across our enterprise. This edition showcases how Intel IT capitalizes on new technology to create business value and become a catalyst for organizational transformation. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT set a goal of defining and implementing a single user experience framework as a standard for all enterprise solutions. We developed a holistic understanding of the enterprise experience and then provided a model for other [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel uses social community forums to engage publicly with customers, developers, and industry experts. It is an important part of fostering discussions, ideas, and knowledge sharing that often lead to industry-wide solutions. In spring 2015 Intel experienced [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Imagine a computing environment where PCs fix themselves, even before employees know there’s a problem. Or where employees are proactively notified of issues, including self-service answers without having to know a lot of technical lingo or infrastructure [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Even with the proliferation of device types, Intel IT continues to adhere to the fundamentals of our PC Refresh Strategy. Listen to John Mahvi explain what we believed in the past and what we believe now.

IT Best Practices: Real-time data supports a supply chain that can instantly respond to change. We’ll be able to build on what we learn with the supply chain implementation, applying real-time data in innovative ways in many other areas of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented several IoT sensor technology solutions. As a result, the collected sensor data helps employees more effectively perform many tasks. Our set of best practices can guide the planning, design, and integration of this technology.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has used design best practices to create high-density energy-efficient data centers: a 1,100 W/square-foot cooling density and a 1,300 W/square-foot electrical density (10 times the industry average).

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is responsible for fueling Intel’s business transformation with information technology, which includes providing employees with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate. While email is pervasive in most businesses today, it can siphon time, productivity, [See the full post…]