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…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Raejeanne Skillern, director, cloud computing marketing at Intel discusses the Cloud Builder Program and how it brings together vendors that create cloud solutions. Intel Cloud Builder Home Page Intel Chip [See the full post…]

Many digital tools are available to help photographers achieve better results. But those tools only augment the photographer’s ability to see. Computer vision researchers have been working on programs that allow computers to see. Subhabrata Bhattacharya, working with Intel Labs, [See the full post…]

A wide range of Intel Capital portfolio companies go to the stage, each for 90 seconds, to deliver their best shot. The aim is to let potential partners know who they are, what they do and what the opportunities are. [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…]

A seamless and ubiquitous computing experience on the Internet also requires the user to take on a certain amount of risk that personal information would get into the wrong hands. Computer scientists are developing tools that protect a user’s privacy. [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…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Dylan Larson from Intel discusses the importance of data center security, the technologies that improve security from the microprocessor level and end users’ responses to the technologies. Intel Server Room [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…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Josh Hilliker and Jason Davidson from Intel discuss the Intel Hybrid Cloud, the types of customers that would benefit from the hybrid cloud, and how it differs from the traditional [See the full post…]

Researchers are developing technologies that will eventually allow users to control devices like computers, televisions and cell phones with their thoughts. Scientists have created Brain Computer Interface, also known as “BCI,” technology that allows computer programs to interpret human intentions [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…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Christophe Bertrand from Hitachi discusses the company’s recent enterprise storage products announcements that utilize Intel processors. Also see: Hitachi Data Systems Intel Chip Chat Home Page

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

The 3D Internet is a rapidly converging set of technologies used for visualizing information on the web in game-like 3D environments. This convergence promises to allow future Internet users to interact with people and information in ways that are much [See the full post…]

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…]

Data network bandwidth requirements are currently shifting from 1Gb to 10Gb. But 100Gb is not far away – optical networking becomes essentially mandatory to carry large amounts of data. Researchers are investigating not only materials and equipment, but also novel [See the full post…]

Beethoven’s 14th String Quartet, a tangled seven movement masterpiece, has been regarded by some as the pinnacle of art music. It was never conceived to be played for an audience (few of his quartets were) but an orchestrated version helped [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…]