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…]

IT Best Practices: Improving big data platform efficiency is an ongoing effort for Intel IT. In initial testing, Granulate reduced both memory and CPU utilization in our production environment in our production environment via a light-weight agent, with no code [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 Best Practices: Empowering clients with the tools for self-service from the initial acquisition of hardware, through the lifecycle of their devices, and full circle through device refresh helps IT maintain budgets and forecast future client device needs. Leveraging telemetry [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT planned the deployment of the Vistex rebate management solution, based on the SAP platform, over three releases. The solution was part of a portfolio of modernization initiatives through which Intel sought to standardize its contract [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: How Intel Automated Factory Solutions delivers tremendous benefits to semiconductor manufacturing environments: The idea of creating replicas of real-world objects is not new. Architects, for instance, have long built models of the buildings they propose to create, [See the full post…]

As Intel’s business grows, increased demands on the data center have required greater innovation and new strategies and technologies that support not just lowering costs and improving efficiency, but also meeting environmental responsibility goals. Today’s environmental and climate-change challenges make [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT delivers improved automation, reliability, scalability, security and resource efficiency to Intel’s factory floor by deploying Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) technology. Over the last few years, Intel IT has transformed Intel’s factory data centers using [See the full post…]

We are witnessing the beginning of another information technology transformation. The infrastructure of the metaverse, though nascent, is in place: cryptocurrency, blockchain, 5G, immersive technologies like augmented reality and virtual reality and other elements of this next wave are here. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In this fourth episode of Intel’s Path to Cloud series, Phil Vokins, Cloud Services Director with Intel Americas is joined by Intel IT Principal Engineers Sachin Ashtikar and Jose Alonso Cambronero Ramirez along with Joe Carvalho Principal [See the full post…]

Intel embraces Containers as a Service for its enterprise cloud environment to add flexibility, drive new capabilities, accelerate development and increase efficiency. The rapid expansion of cloud-native environments presents mounting challenges for today’s large digital enterprises, especially in the development, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s artificial intelligence (AI) group works across Intel to transform critical work, optimize processes, eliminate scalability bottlenecks and generate significant business value (more than USD 1.5B return on investment in 2021). Our efforts unlock the power [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: An accelerated analytics breakthrough helps quickly identify underutilized factory equipment and deliver data that drives improvements and increases equipment productivity. For Intel’s complex factory environments, quickly identifying tools that are operating below their optimal capacity and finding [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As Intel’s business grows, demand for data center network capacity has increased by more than 25% annually. Additionally, business pressures require new capacity to be brought into production within 24 hours. As far back as 2014, we [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Large-scale, Agile transformations are extremely challenging for digital enterprises. Every organization’s path is unique and more often than not, failure is part of the process. Intel IT’s Agile journey is no different-attimes oscillating between challenging to downright [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Master data is defined by Garner as “the consistent and uniform set of identifiers and extended attributes that describes the core entities of the enterprise.” Intel uses vast amounts of master data every day for many reasons, [See the full post…]

Intel has long been at the forefront of radical innovations that have revolutionized the way we live and work – beginning with the development of the first microprocessor, transforming the world as we knew it by making a new era [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT operates 56 data center modules at 16 data center sites. These sites have a total capacity of 103 megawatts, housing more than 360,000 servers that underpin the computing needs of 116,000 employees. Intel IT has [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel employees expect easy-to-use, seamless and effective printing. Intel IT has the responsibility to find the most cost-effective, secure and technically viable solution. Marrying these two goals is an art, and Intel IT’s best practices can demystify [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT tests Wi-Fi 6 in an actual office environment during COVID lockdown, proving enhanced performance under challenging, real-world scenarios and delivering important insights for successful deployments. Wi-Fi 6 may be the ideal gateway toward realization of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In this second video of the Path to Cloud series Phil Vokins, Cloud Services Director, Intel Americas, is joined by Shachaf Levi, Intel IT Cloud Security Architect and Sridhar Mahankali, Intel IT Principal Engineer, Network Security where [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has a large AI group that works across Intel to transform critical work, optimize processes, eliminate scalability bottlenecks and generate significant business value (more than USD 1.5B return on investment in 2020). Our efforts unlock [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s innovative disaggregated server architecture and data center facilities design and operation reduce e-waste and increase energy efficiency—helping to protect the environment and produce significant cost savings. Do what’s right for the business and what’s right for [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In several proofs of concept, fuel cell technology has proved to be a reliable, stable, efficient and sustainable source of electricity for Intel’s data centers. Intel IT joined forces with Intel’s Corporate Services and Global Supply Chain [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT Principal Engineers Craig Chvatal and Subbarao Mantha talk to Phil Vokins, Cloud Services Director at Intel Americas, outlining Intel’s best practices businesses should consider when moving to the cloud. In this first edition of our [See the full post…]