IT Best Practices: In the rapidly changing business and technology environment, manufacturers are striving to stay competitive, now and into the future, by increasing productivity and lowering costs. Like many companies, Intel has evolved over the decades to provide competitive [See the full post…]

Tech Tonics started 2015 with a goal of featuring the people and passion at the intersection of technology and health. We had 24 great shows featuring the perspectives of consumers and physicians, technologists and investors and others who represent the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The 2015-2016 Intel IT Annual Performance Report highlights technology trends driving rapid innovation across our enterprise. This edition showcases how Intel IT capitalizes on new technology to create business value and become a catalyst for organizational transformation. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT set a goal of defining and implementing a single user experience framework as a standard for all enterprise solutions. We developed a holistic understanding of the enterprise experience and then provided a model for other [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel uses social community forums to engage publicly with customers, developers, and industry experts. It is an important part of fostering discussions, ideas, and knowledge sharing that often lead to industry-wide solutions. In spring 2015 Intel experienced [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Imagine a computing environment where PCs fix themselves, even before employees know there’s a problem. Or where employees are proactively notified of issues, including self-service answers without having to know a lot of technical lingo or infrastructure [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Even with the proliferation of device types, Intel IT continues to adhere to the fundamentals of our PC Refresh Strategy. Listen to John Mahvi explain what we believed in the past and what we believe now.

IT Best Practices: Real-time data supports a supply chain that can instantly respond to change. We’ll be able to build on what we learn with the supply chain implementation, applying real-time data in innovative ways in many other areas of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented several IoT sensor technology solutions. As a result, the collected sensor data helps employees more effectively perform many tasks. Our set of best practices can guide the planning, design, and integration of this technology.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has used design best practices to create high-density energy-efficient data centers: a 1,100 W/square-foot cooling density and a 1,300 W/square-foot electrical density (10 times the industry average).

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is responsible for fueling Intel’s business transformation with information technology, which includes providing employees with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate. While email is pervasive in most businesses today, it can siphon time, productivity, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Our HPC environment, currently based on the Intel Xeon processor E7-4800 and 8800 v2 & v3 product families, has supported a 90.21x increase in compute demand with a 64.4x increase in stability. Tape-out time was reduced from [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of managing the more than 100,000 PCs in use at Intel, Intel IT spends a significant amount of time and effort managing operating system deployment. Historically, new OS versions have been released every few years. [See the full post…]

Writer, editor, entrepreneur, visionary – Thomas Goetz has always combined a sophisticated understanding of emerging technologies with a profound sense of humanism. This was evident in his work at Wired (where he served as executive editor for eleven years), in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is transforming our in-house testing environment to deliver better feedback more quickly to Intel’s product development groups. Intel employees use Intel’s products to do their jobs every day. Intel IT deploys and monitors the performance [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is building an analytics platform that integrates and connects business intelligence (BI) data using a data lake model to reduce insight latency from months to days. Eventually, we aim to reduce data insight latency to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The factories’ IT engineers realize the potential value of IoT and large-scale data analytics in three ways: analyzing volumes of data, identifying what is useful, and reporting that data in a way that meets the needs of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: One of the most serious security challenges facing enterprises today is that of insider threat. However, many enterprises do not fully understand the scope of the problem and until recently, there has been a lack of tools [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is developing a beyond-the-edge security strategy that will enhance security in our environment. This new strategy addresses several drawbacks with today’s approach to security.

IT Best Practices: To support Intel business groups’ increasing demand for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, Intel IT has developed several best practices that can help enhance SaaS security and protect Intel’s intellectual property. SaaS applications can provide efficiency and agility, cost [See the full post…]

When John Wilbanks graduated from Tulane with a major in philosophy and almost a minor in French, he had little idea that he would become one of the world’s most important forces for good in the areas of citizen science, [See the full post…]

UCSF professor Bob Wachter has had a front row view to the collision of irresistible emerging technology with an immovable healthcare system, and has managed to navigate this interface with unusual nuance and grace, a story he shares in the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: While Intel’s PC fleet consists primarily of Intel architecture-based mobile devices, such as business Ultrabook devices, tablets, and a growing number of 2-in-1 devices, familiar desktop-class PCs continue to fill an important role. In fact these PCs [See the full post…]

After his second series of medical school rejections, biomedical engineer David Goodman found his way to a nascent medical device company seeking to develop an easy way to measure oxygen levels in the blood. The result – the Nellcor pulse [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Silicon design is one of the most critical business functions at Intel, and it requires significant computing resources. Larger and more compute-intensive design jobs require four-socket servers, which offer greater processing power and memory capacity to help [See the full post…]