IT Best Practices: Aziz Safa, Intel IT VP and Chief Data Officer explains how the Corporate Data Office is using data and AI to provide greater insights for Intel.

IT Best Practices: Large organizations gradually accumulate technical debt for various reasons. Intel largely runs its business with enterprise platform solutions that comprise a mix of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom applications. Over time, the number of platforms and applications [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT plays a crucial role in providing the solutions and services that drive Intel’s digital transformation, leading to enhanced business outcomes for Intel. Uniquely positioned to help transform Intel into a digital powerhouse, Intel IT brings [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The availability of new software applications, coupled with easy access to cloud computing, has allowed businesses to optimize their workloads for faster time-to-market (TTM). But without a clear plan, IT organizations can find themselves playing catch-up with [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To truly drive digital transformation, data must be integrated into every aspect of the company. Amy Warner, VP & GM, IT Digital Business Solutions at Intel, discusses Intel’s transformation from a PC-centric company to a data-centric company. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The supply chain is a critical asset for Intel. Digital transformation can help ensure alignment of the customer experience throughout their journey. Steve Sciarappo, VP & GM, IT Enterprise Business Solutions, explains how Intel is using technology, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Automated defect classification (ADC) using machine vision (MV) and machine learning (ML) can improve speed, consistency, and efficiency in manufacturing processes.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s multi-cloud strategy focuses on abstracting the application stack from the infrastructure to enable anything-as-a-service (XaaS) capabilities. This approach helps to accelerate innovation and allow application developers to focus on writing code, not rounding up compute, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: On manufacturing floors, OT dominates due to its exceptional reliability, but IT excels at aggregating data for analysis and action. Manufacturing efficiency could greatly benefit from IT practices, but a range of issues inhibit adoption, including a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Through data standardization, partnering with industry experts, and setting measurable goals, our FFU IIoT solution has allowed us to develop a foundation for edge-to-cloud IIoT computing that can scale to other processes and tools in the factory.

IT Best Practices: As technology evolves, Intel’s worldwide factories have experienced growing complexity in products and processes. We use data analysis and sensors to improve product quality, reduce capital costs, and speed time to market. Often a single tool is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 106 – We have talked quite a bit in this podcast series about the rapidly changing threat landscape, and the corresponding changes to the IT organization’s approach to security. The evolution of cyber threats means IT [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Sensor data and analytics, powered by a robust Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution can help manufacturers gain actionable insights into the behavior and performance of their tools in real time. With earlier and more accurate information, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s silicon design engineers need significant increases in computing capacity—both on their workstations and on data center servers—to deliver each new generation of silicon chips. To meet those requirements, Intel IT conducts ongoing throughput performance tests, using [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To increase business velocity and cost efficiency, Intel IT designed and deployed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) capabilities on Intel’s enterprise infrastructure. The solution is unique in many ways. For example, we were the first IT department to incorporate the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Anyone who has worked in a large company knows what it is like to wait a half-day for a new computer from the IT department while the IT technician reloads all the applications and settings onto that [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Maximize the business value of the cloud. That simple statement underlies a three-year initiative to transform Intel IT’s cloud strategy: • Modernize our application stack by abstracting it from the infrastructure. • Focus on business and application [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 105 – Intel IT has embarked on a three-year initiative to transform to a multi-cloud strategy which will enable the company to achieve its digital and business transformation goals. In this podcast we hear from Chris [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Managing PC health in any organization takes sustained focus and a well-defined process. At Intel, we have experienced fatal errors, such as the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), due to driver and other hardware issues. In 2009, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Advances in modern client computing have brought broader features and capabilities to enterprises, helping them develop new markets, innovate new products, and improve communication. But these advancements have also brought new challenges. Solution providers are releasing updates [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s disaggregated server architecture allows independent refresh of the CPU/DRAM and NIC/Drives modules, without replacing other server components such as fans or power supplies. Annual estimated CAPEX savings is at least 44%.

IT Best Practices: Business focus is changing from data management to intelligent action. Artificial intelligence (AI) can add significant power and effectiveness to human processes by recognizing patterns across massive amounts of historical data. The Intel Inside Program (IIP), a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s factories rely on thousands of PCs for manufacturing automation; keeping these PCs up and running can prevent expensive downtime. To manage these systems, Intel IT is using the Intel vPro platform’s hardware-based feature, Intel Active Management [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: IT departments everywhere face what appears to be conflicting business needs: the need to take advantage of the agility and technology provided by the public cloud and the need to keep proprietary information secure. Recently, Intel IT [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 104 – Intel IT has recently released its 2016-2017 IT Annual Performance Report, or APR. Here at Inside IT that means our annual check-in with the Intel Chief Information Officer. This year we welcome new CIO [See the full post…]