IT Best Practices: Optimizing PC refresh is a priority for Intel IT. It is imperative that Intel employees have up-to-date technology and devices that let them perform their jobs efficiently. Intel IT historically updated on-sta? engineers’ devices every three years; [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s silicon design engineers need significant increases in computing capacity to deliver each new generation of silicon chips. To meet those requirements, Intel IT conducts ongoing performance tests, using the latest Intel silicon design data, to analyze [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In Intel IT tests simulating the daily workflow of a silicon design engineer, a workstation based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family completed multiple, concurrent electronic design automation (EDA) application workloads up to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: IT consumerization and the business need for broader network access present Intel IT with a continuously evolving challenge. The growing adoption of bring your own device (BYOD) poses additional challenges as consumer choices expand and employee expectations [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The Habit Restaurants reduces customer wait times, increases employee productivity, and supports 40 percent growth using Dell tablets with Intel Atom processors and Windows 8.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The Habit Restaurants reduces customer wait times, increases employee productivity, and supports 40 percent growth using Dell tablets with Intel Atom processors and Windows 8.

IT Best Practices: Design engineers at Intel face the challenges of integrating more features into ever-shrinking silicon chips, bringing products to market faster, and keeping design engineering and manufacturing costs low. A new category of workstations has emerged, based on [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has adopted a user-centered approach to delivering IT services that enable optimization of IT solutions, improve employee productivity, and increase business velocity. The user-centered approach involves proactively engaging and partnering with Intel employees and business [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our focus on a user-centered model of delivering IT services, in 2012 Intel IT optimized its PC delivery process, resulting in improved Intel employee productivity, a better employee experience, and reduced operational costs. We [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Acquisitions are a critical component of Intel’s corporate growth strategy. Intel IT plays a key role in the smooth integration of new Intel acquisitions and in helping to achieve the unique business objectives for each one. Using [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To help contain rising healthcare costs, Intel IT launched a unified, global Intel IT safety and ergonomics program. The safety program combines safety awareness activities with software solutions aimed at preventing and reducing the number and severity [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares six ways to keep your laptop safe from the elements as you make your way through winter.

IT Best Practices: Do you work directly from your notebook for long periods of time? In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares several techniques that show you how to set up your notebook to improve your posture and reduce [See the full post…]

Intel IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Executive Insights, we explain how Intel IT uses regular refresh, smart technology, the benefits of consumerization and proactive support to help us maintain our PC fleet and empower our 80,000 users across the [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 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…]

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…]

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 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…]

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…]