Intel IT’s data center strategy is to apply breakthrough technologies, solutions, and processes to accelerate Intel’s business. We also run Intel data center services like a factory, e?ecting change in a disciplined manner. Our approach enables us to optimally meet [See the full post…]

To better meet Intel’s business requirements while providing internal customers with optimal data center infrastructure capabilities and innovative business services, Intel IT has overhauled its data center strategy. Its data center transformation strategy is to run Intel data center services [See the full post…]

Intel IT runs Intel data center services like a factory, affecting change in a disciplined manner and applying breakthrough technologies, solutions, and processes. This enables us to optimally meet Intel’s business requirements while providing our internal customers with effective data [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: We use three key metrics to measure data center transformation success: meet growing customer demand (service-level agreements and quality of service) within constrained spending targets (cost-competitiveness) while optimally increasing the utilization of infrastructure assets (operational efficiency). Building [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT conducted a technology evaluation of Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager and Intel Data Center Manager (Intel DCM). Our goals were to assess the potential of these Intel power management technologies to increase data center energy [See the full post…]

Today, Intel IT manages about 18 petabytes (PB) of primary and backup storage in our design computing, manufacturing, office, and enterprise environments. We choose storage and backup and recovery solutions based on the application use models for these respective areas. [See the full post…]

Network standardization and WAN optimization are key focus areas in our efforts to improve our data center efficiency. Through standardization of our network service offerings, standards and reference designs, and access layer infrastructure, we can now serve a larger community [See the full post…]

Accelerating server refresh, virtualizing our server resources, and utilizing data center virtualization have significantly reduced Intel IT’s overall energy consumption levels and compute costs. These efforts alone have driven us to realize 35% of our data center efficiency goal of [See the full post…]

Intel IT is increasing data center facility efficiency by integrating innovative designs and approaches to reduce power consumption, using modular designs with the latest technologies, and building higher density data centers rather than spreading out server load. Hear from Don [See the full post…]

Intel IT’s Data Center Strategy is on track to create $650M of value for Intel’s business. They’ve realized over 30% of this already, with server refresh and data center virtualization driving a large portion of the value. Hear about how [See the full post…]