IT Best Practices: Virtualizing High-Security Servers in a Private Cloud

January 30th, 2012 |
IT Best Practices: Virtualizing High-Security Servers in a Private Cloud

IT Best Practices: Intel IT created a High Trust Zone (HTZ) architecture to virtualize high-security servers. By identifying and classifying risks, we developed controls to mitigate the risks of moving sensitive information and applications to our private cloud.  

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IT Best Practices: Intelligent WAN Capacity Management at Intel

January 30th, 2012 |
IT Best Practices: Intelligent WAN Capacity Management at Intel

IT Best Practices: Intel’s large and complex wide area network (WAN) interconnects 200 sites around the globe. We experience an approximate annual WAN capacity growth of 10% per year. To best support this growth, Intel IT has developed a highly [See the full post…]

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Improving Workplace Ergonomics through IT

January 30th, 2012 |
Improving Workplace Ergonomics through IT

IT Best Practices: To help contain rising healthcare costs, Intel IT launched a unified, global Intel IT safety and ergonomics program. The safety program combines safety awareness activities with software solutions aimed at preventing and reducing the number and severity [See the full post…]

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Measuring the Value of Information Security Investments

January 30th, 2012 |
Measuring the Value of Information Security Investments

IT Best Practices: Intel IT finance created a new information security investment model which allows IT management, financial experts and security professionals to analyze and prioritize investments, based on risk mitigation against a variety of security threats. A key strength [See the full post…]

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Transforming Intel’s Supply Chain to meet Market Challenges

January 30th, 2012 |
Transforming Intel’s Supply Chain to meet Market Challenges

IT Best Practices: To support an efficient and responsive supply chain, Intel IT works closely with many teams throughout Intel to formulate a strategy that integrates IT solutions across all levels. While manufacturing technology and operations are at the center [See the full post…]

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Intel and Dell – IT Reinvention and Cloud Computing

January 30th, 2012 |
Intel and Dell – IT Reinvention and Cloud Computing

IT Best Practices: Discover how IT reinvention and cloud computing can improve your agility and help control costs from Intel IT and Dell experts. For more Intel IT best practices on cloud computing, go to www.intel.com/IT.

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Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine – Intel Chip Chat – Episode 168

January 29th, 2012 |
Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine – Intel Chip Chat – Episode 168

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this livecast archive from Oracle OpenWorld, Marie-Anne Neimat, VP of Development for Embedded Databases, discusses the Oracle Exalytics real-time analytics product embedded into the hardware appliance and appropriate applications [See the full post…]

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Oracle Exadata Database Machine – Intel Chip Chat – Episode 167

January 29th, 2012 |
Oracle Exadata Database Machine – Intel Chip Chat – Episode 167

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive of a livecast from Oracle OpenWorld, Allyson chats with Tim Shetler, VP of Exadata Product Management from Oracle, about the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and its use [See the full post…]

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Red Hat on Open Source and the Cloud – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 37

January 29th, 2012 |
Red Hat on Open Source and the Cloud – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 37

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Gordon Haff from Red Hat chats about cloud topics including: management of cloud workloads, challenges in solution delivery in a hybrid model, a broader adoption of open source [See the full post…]

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JUST RELEASED! 2011-2012 Intel IT Performance Report

January 25th, 2012 |
JUST RELEASED!  2011-2012 Intel IT Performance Report

IT Best Practices: Explore Intel IT’s strategies and actions that created business value for Intel in 2011, as well as their key focus areas for 2012, in the 11th edition of the Intel IT Performance Report. Key topics include IT [See the full post…]

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Performance Analysis Tools for HPC – Intel Chip Chat – Episode 166

January 23rd, 2012 |
Performance Analysis Tools for HPC – Intel Chip Chat – Episode 166

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: SC11 livecast archive: Ramesh Peri, principal engineer at Intel, talks developments and benefits of Intel Vtune Amplifier XE, a performance analysis tool for checking app performance on Intel processors. See [See the full post…]

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Cloud Interoperability: ODCA Usage Model Proof of Concept from Citrix

January 21st, 2012 |
Cloud Interoperability: ODCA Usage Model Proof of Concept from Citrix

Citrix discusses the challenges of providing virtual machine interoperability between private to private, and private to public cloud connections. Learn more how to integrate cloud interoperability with the detailed Citrix reference architecture from Intel Cloud Builders. See also: Intel Cloud [See the full post…]

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CANCOM: Keeping Ahead of the Cloud

January 19th, 2012 |
CANCOM: Keeping Ahead of the Cloud

Business Solutions for IT Managers: IT architect, system integrator, and managed services provider CANCOM delivers application virtualization services ahead of the competition with Intel Xeon processor 5600 series.

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Bossers & Cnossen: Leading the Competition

January 18th, 2012 |
Bossers & Cnossen: Leading the Competition

Business Solutions for IT Managers: IT reseller Bossers & Cnossen looks to Intel vPro technology to boost services revenue.

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Inside IT: Re-Architecting Storage

January 18th, 2012 |
Inside IT: Re-Architecting Storage

IT Best Practices: Episode 16 – The role and scope in the enterprise has changed dramatically in the past few years. So much so, in fact, that designing and managing that storage infrastructure has required new ways of thinking. In [See the full post…]

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National Chi Nan University: Desktop Services on the Cloud Provide Easy Service Deployment and Administration

January 16th, 2012 |
National Chi Nan University: Desktop Services on the Cloud Provide Easy Service Deployment and Administration

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Intel Xeon processor 5600 series combined with VMware vSphere and VMware View 4 virtual desktop system streamline National Chi Nan University’s IT environment and advance them into cloud technology.

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STI: Growing IT Maintenance Business with Intel vPro Technology

January 16th, 2012 |
STI: Growing IT Maintenance Business with Intel vPro Technology

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Spanish reseller Sistemas Técnicos Interactivos (STI) expands its IT maintenance business with help from 2nd generation Intel Core i5 and i7 vPro processors.

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HPC Impact In Our Daily Lives – Intel Chip Chat – Episode 165

January 16th, 2012 |
HPC Impact In Our Daily Lives – Intel Chip Chat – Episode 165

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive from an SC11 livecast, Debra Goldfarb, HPC Strategy Director for Intel, talks about how high performance computing touches our daily lives, everything from food production to car [See the full post…]

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VMware and the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 36

January 16th, 2012 |
VMware and the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud – Intel Conversations in the Cloud – Episode 36

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Dave Martin from VMware stops by to talk about virtualization and mobile devices in the data center, innovation in the enterprise hybrid cloud space, virtualizing mission-critical apps for [See the full post…]

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Intel Cloud Builders Reference Architecture: Cloud On-Boarding with Citrix

January 14th, 2012 |
Intel Cloud Builders Reference Architecture: Cloud On-Boarding with Citrix

Citrix explains the challenges that an IT manager may face when moving data, applications or integrated solutions from the data center to the cloud. Through their Intel Cloud Builders reference architecture, Citrix provides guidance for this cloud on-boarding. See also: [See the full post…]

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Buncombe County Schools: Engaging Students and Simplifying PC Management

January 13th, 2012 |
Buncombe County Schools: Engaging Students and Simplifying PC Management

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Buncombe County Schools deploy PCs with Intel Core vPro processors to boost performance, ease remote management, and improve energy efficiency.

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3M: Transforming Research and Development with Innovative Hybrid Cluster

January 12th, 2012 |
3M: Transforming Research and Development with Innovative Hybrid Cluster

Business Solutions for IT Managers: A new system with Intel Xeon processors 5600 and 7500 series delivers 50 percent performance gains for 3M on a range of applications.

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VDI Meta: Growing Despite Budget Cuts

January 10th, 2012 |
VDI Meta: Growing Despite Budget Cuts

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Czech reseller VDI Meta launches a remote PC management service based on 2nd generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, carving out new business.

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ORCC: Strengthening the Foundation for Online Bill Payments

ORCC: Strengthening the Foundation for Online Bill Payments

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Online Resources Corporation (ORCC) implements a new database environment with Intel Xeon processor 7500 series on NEC servers to enhance availability and reduce its total cost of ownership.

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Craft and Science on Sala-ma-Sond

January 6th, 2012 |
Craft and Science on Sala-ma-Sond

“If I lived in a house, I probably have more uses for a level than I do on a boat,” optics engineer Tim Litvin admitted. Boats, even when berthed in a harbor as Litvin’s is in Santa Cruz, California, rock [See the full post…]

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