IT Best Practices: Episode 53 – Information technology is no longer simply an isolated set of machines and tools used on a narrow set of tasks. The Global Digital Infrastructure, or GDI, is a worldwide network of devices and services [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing our technology roadmap for using hybrid cloud services. While cloud computing presents opportunities to reduce costs, increase data availability, and generate new sources of revenue, it also poses electronic discovery (eDiscovery) challenges. Cross-platform [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 52 – We’ve talked in previous podcasts about Intel’s plans to deploy Ultrabooks with Microsoft Windows 8 to its employees. Well, the company has now decided to accelerate that deployment. So we decided to look into [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: With a goal to improve our email application server performance and lower costs to meet ongoing email demand, Intel IT conducted a proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluating the benefits of Intel Solid-State Drive (Intel SSD) technology. Compared to our [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As Intel IT continues widespread adoption of cloud computing, Intel software development is undergoing a major shift. Intel architects and developers are learning to design cloud-aware applications that maximize cloud advantages, such as self-service provisioning, elasticity, run-anywhere [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 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: Intel IT is accelerating the deployment of touch-enabled business Ultrabook devices with Microsoft Windows 8 ahead of the schedule we created in January 2013. This decision was based on several factors: employee demand for touch capabilities is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Moving from Microsoft Windows 7 to Windows 8 meets Intel’s long-term client computing needs, gives employees more powerful systems, and prepares them to use Intel’s growing number of touch-enabled applications. By end of June 2013, Windows 8 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has standardized on Intel Xeon processors with a core frequency of 2.6 gigahertz (GHz) for two-socket servers to offer maximum IT value for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. Our analysis demonstrates that higher-end processors [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: To increase business productivity, Intel IT conducted multiple proof of concepts (PoCs) to identify business, safety, and ergonomic requirements for the use of mobile devices, including tablets, in our manufacturing environments. Using these mobile devices, as well [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 51 – Edward Goldman is Chief Technology Officer at Intel IT. He has another job title as well–General Manager of Strategy, Architecture, & Innovation, or the SAI group. It exists to blaze the trail for IT. [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: Episode 50 – The RSA Conference in San Francisco earlier this year. It was an opportunity to check in with a few attendees, and to take the pulse of the security industry. In this podcast we hear [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 49 – Earlier this year, Intel conducted its second Cloud Aware Code-a-Thon. It’s an inventive way to get developers to think in new ways. In this podcast we talk to Cathy Spence, an Enterprise Architect in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 47 – Intel has implemented a new granular trust model to improve security throughout the enterprise. It’s designed to support key initiatives like IT consumerization and cloud computing. At the same time Intel wants to keep [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 46 – IT has developed a new partnership with its users over the past few years. Changes in technology, and the needs and demands of employees, have created new flexibility and greater choice for workers. Intel [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 45 – Intel’s approach to security has evolved. The current strategy looks to apply reasonable protections that allow information to flow through the organization. This reduces risk, but maintains a quality user experience. A big component [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 43 – There’s a revolution going on in workplace computing at Intel. In previous podcasts we’ve talked about the introduction of new, portable platforms, the bring-your-own-device program, and the deployment of Windows 8 throughout the enterprise. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 42 – Big changes are coming to the Intel workplace this year. In our last podcast we talked about the company’s Ultrabook rollout that’s taking place in 2013, expected to bring thousands of new devices to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 41 – The look of the modern workplace is changing all the time. The way people worked five years ago is significantly different from the way they work now, which in turn will be substantially different [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 40 – The role of a corporate web site has evolved. It’s no longer just a static source of information. It’s the place where a company creates and maintains a relationship with the world of customers, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 39 – You could say that Business Intelligence is the collective knowledge of an enterprise. How intelligent a particular business is depends on a lot of factors, but the ability to make sense of a vast [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 38 – More and more, Intel is offering consumer-facing web services, like the AppUp store. That creates new challenges – consumers expect web services to be always available, and demand for services can spike or drop [See the full post…]