IT Best Practices: Intel IT is building an analytics platform that integrates and connects business intelligence (BI) data using a data lake model to reduce insight latency from months to days. Eventually, we aim to reduce data insight latency [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: We are in the midst of the democratization of big data. Broadening business users’ access to analytics makes it difficult for traditional business intelligence (BI) to meet user demand. At Intel, some users perform self-service BI [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 88 – The democratization of big data is taking place in the enterprise. The business value of advanced analytics is clear, and the technology is giving access to such analytics to a broader population of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 72 – Intel recognizes the value a big data platform can bring to Business Intelligence. Organizations like Intel are rich in data, but that value can’t be realized until there’s a way to collect, sort, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 68 – The evolution of the cloud has had a profound impact on business. Cloud capabilities have opened up new opportunities, and have created new possibilities in the area of Business Intelligence. But this rapid [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 64 – We live in the era of big data. And big data comes with big challenges. One way business intelligence strategy is helping to turn those challenges into opportunities is data visualization. In this [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over the past few years, we have investigated the concept behind the big data technologies and now have much of the capabilities running in our production environment. The IT Labs continue their work to explore new [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Let’s face it: big data is still very new. And that means the infrastructure platforms on which big data analytics are performed are also relatively immature.

What it doesn’t mean, however, is that organizations can’t or [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Businesses are often guilty of operating at a pace that is measured and process driven, in reactive fashion. These businesses observe a problem or development in the marketplace and then collect data to understand and act [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Five people. Six months. $10 million in ROI.

Those were the parameters and goals of Intel IT’s initial big data projects, which started in earnest three years ago.

“We wanted to prove that big data analytics [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In an age when organizations such as Intel are rich in data, the true value of this data lies in the ability to collect, sort, and analyze it to derive actionable business intelligence (BI). Recognizing the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: By deploying data virtualization solutions that combine disparate data sources into a single virtual layer, Intel IT expects to increase the agility of our business intelligence (BI). This agility will enable our business groups to more [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 59 – Big data is a big focus for Intel. That means developing and deploying a variety of tools and methods to derive business value from the sea of data that surrounds us. These are [See the full post…]

Transforming Storage – Episode 1 – When terrorists tried to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993, Wall Street started to seriously worry about the safety of their financial data. The moment marks a shift in thinking about the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As velocity and complexity of Intel’s business accelerates, Intel IT has identified explosive opportunities for business intelligence — especially advanced analytics — to become a significant competitive differentiator for Intel.

Intel IT, working with internal business [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 45 – Intel’s approach to security has evolved. The current strategy looks to apply reasonable protections that allow information to flow through the organization. This reduces risk, but maintains a quality user experience. A big [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Prabha Ganapathy from the Datacenter Software Division of Intel, stops by to talk about what big data means to Intel, how enterprises can utilize big data with currently analytics [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive of a livecast, Pauline Nist, a general manager in the Datacenter Software Division of Intel, discusses the rise of Hadoop to analyze unstructured data, where we [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 39 – You could say that Business Intelligence is the collective knowledge of an enterprise. How intelligent a particular business is depends on a lot of factors, but the ability to make sense of a [See the full post…]

Intel IT Annual Report: 2012 mid-year update that shares progress on key strategic initiatives that delivered business value to Intel — cloud computing, IT consumerization, business intelligence, social computing and enterprise security. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is proactively gathering data about Ultrabook devices and how they fit into the enterprise, in anticipation of a wave of new devices and form factors, and the associated expectations from employees who want to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed a business intelligence system for infrastructure management to support Intel’s enterprise private cloud. This system collects, consolidates, and integrates infrastructure capacity and performance data about our IT environment, which includes virtual machines, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To improve Intel’s business intelligence (BI), Intel IT is developing the systems and skills for analyzing big data. A major portion of this data consists of the large, unstructured data sets that constitute up to 90 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 22 – We are awash in data today. That presents a challenge for the IT organization. But if real meaning can be extracted from all that data – structured and unstructured, human-generated and machine-generated – [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]