In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Jon Koomey, from Stanford University, talks about slowing the growth of energy use in the data center over the last five years including economic issues, the rise of virtualization, cloud [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The IT@Intel program connects IT professionals around the world with their IT peers inside our organization – sharing lessons learned, methods and strategies. Our goal is simple: Share the Intel IT best practices that create business value [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Mike Patterson Principle Engineer at Intel discusses new ways to let the data center run longer, hotter. See also: Intel Chip Chat

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Nicolas Barcet, Cloud Lead with Canonical, discusses interoperability & open cloud computing in the data center. See also: Ubuntu Cloud Computing Solutions

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Hytrust CTO Hemma Prafullchandra discusses the security challanages faced by virtualized, private, andpublic cloud data centers alike and solutions for those challenges. Hyperlink Description: Hytrust Inc. Intel Cloud [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Facebook’s Lead of Hardware Design Amir Michael & Intel’s Director of Cloud Marketing on the impressive innovation in data center efficiency resulting from 18 months of collaboration. Intel Chip Chat

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Interview with Brian Gracely from Cisco. Intel Cloud Builders

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Boyd Davis, GM of Data Center Group Marketing and VP of the Intel Architecture Group, discusses the Cloud 2015 announcement and the role of Intel in driving technology innovation. Intel [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In 2005, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of our overall data center strategy. We are currently accelerating virtualization adoption for general purpose applications, with a goal of [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: 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…]

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 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…]

IT Efficiency: Intel IT shares the results of testing of the new Intel Xeon 7500 processor on Intel silicon design workloads. Testing showed that the Intel Xeon 7500 increased throughput up to 2.68X compared to the Intel Xeon 7400, and [See the full post…]

IT Business Agility: 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: 5 years ago, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of our overall data center strategy. We are currently accelerating virtualization adoption for general purpose applications, with a goal [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Bob Burroughs from the Data Center Group stops by to discuss moving beyond counting cores and clock frequencies and instead using performance metrics when making server purchases. Intel Server Processors [See the full post…]

Green IT: To support Intel’s first planned certified green building, Intel IT has designed a system that saves energy by recovering data center heat and using it to heat the rest of the building. For more on Green IT visit [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over time, Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and business value of IT. Our new data center strategies shift the emphasis [See the full post…]

IT Cloud Computing: An Intel cross-organizational group developed a common cloud computing taxonomy designed to meet Intel’s comprehensive requirements by classifying the entire breadth of existing cloud technologies. Based on this classification, diagramed in Figure 1 in this IT whitepaper, [See the full post…]

IT Competitive Advantage: To help Intel consume fewer energy-related resources and produce less waste, Intel IT is executing an IT sustainability strategy based on our Sustainability Baseline Model, a tool developed in-house that quantitatively measures and predicts the environmental impact [See the full post…]

IT Business Agility: This IT@Intel whitepaper shares how Intel IT has defined an architecture and implementation roadmap for a private enterprise cloud designed to increase agility and IT efficiency. This shared multi-tenant environment is built on a highly efficient, automated, [See the full post…]

Green IT: To increase data center energy efficiency at one of our older data centers in India, Intel IT’s Data Center Services group collaborated on a technology study with the IT compute organization and Intel Facilities Management to develop a [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…]