IT Best Practices: In a year long study of more than 45,000 SSDs deployed in our mobile business PC fleet, we validated that Intel Solid-State Drives provide an 87 percent reduction in the annualized failure rate compared to hard disk [See the full post…]

Intel IT Best Practices: Intel IT plays a critical role in creating the future workplace by researching, evaluating, and analyzing emerging technologies that accommodate many form factors. The explosion of connected devices in the marketplace is compelling Intel IT to [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 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: 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: 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: To enable device-independent mobility (DIM) at Intel, Intel IT is considering implementing dynamic virtual client (DVC) technology, which uses containerized software appliances to abstract the OS; applications; corporate and personal data and workspaces; and user-specific settings. In [See the full post…]

IT Innovation: Intel IT developed a new management and support structure for wireless LANs (WLANs). We consolidated first-level support and centralized the WLAN engineer workgroup as well as device management. We manage the WLAN as an integrated service that enables [See the full post…]

IT Client Technology: Intel IT’s security team continually analyzes our computing model to determine how it needs to evolve in response to an ever-changing threat landscape. Recent cyber-attacks on a number of high-profile targets provided added impetus to re-evaluate the [See the full post…]

IT Business Efficiency: To help ensure application compatibility during Intel’s enterprise-wide migration from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows 7, Intel IT implemented a carefully controlled workflow in one common test environment. So far, out of more than 1,000 applications [See the full post…]