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Exploring the Rise of Ultrabook 2-in-1 Device Usage at Intel

Exploring the Rise of Ultrabook 2-in-1 Device Usage at Intel

IT Best Practices: Since 2013, 2-in-1 devices have been a standard offering for Intel’s PC refresh cycle. Intel IT anticipated that 2-in-1s could increase employee productivity, lower total cost of ownership, and satisfy employee preference for touch-enabled devices. Beginning with [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Sean Duffy’s Ascent from Legos to Healthcare

Tech Tonics: Sean Duffy’s Ascent from Legos to Healthcare

Sean Duffy was one of those kids building monumental Lego edifices when his friends were playing outside. He continued to progress on the building front until he hit on his latest endeavor, the establishment of Omada Health, a company that [See the full post…]

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Collaboration Technology Improves Conference Room Experience

Collaboration Technology Improves Conference Room Experience

IT Best Practices: Employee collaboration across the globe plays a vital role in Intel’s ability to innovate quickly and respond to marketplace opportunities. Over the years, Intel has invested in collaboration technology to increase collaboration, build stronger teams, and enable [See the full post…]

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IT Leadership – Starting with the End in Mind

IT Leadership – Starting with the End in Mind

IT Best Practices: In this video, we discuss execution excellence, business value creation, and being a catalyst for business organization transformation. Also, thoughts on innovation, risk and how Intel is looking at disruptive technologies such as the Internet of Things [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: John de Souza, Meant for Medicine

Tech Tonics: John de Souza, Meant for Medicine

As a child growing up in Ethiopia, John de Souza witnessed the grim reality of poverty — families wishing for rapid death for their sick children because a cure was out of reach socially and financially. Fast forward a number [See the full post…]

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Deploying Intel Solid-State Drives with Managed Hardware-Based Encryption

Deploying Intel Solid-State Drives with Managed Hardware-Based Encryption

IT Best Practices: To gain the security benefits of centrally managed hardware-based encryption and to better protect Intel’s intellectual property, Intel IT is deploying the Intel Solid-State Drive (Intel SSD) Professional Family (currently consisting of the Intel SSD Pro 1500 [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Kelly Brezoczky and Unmentionable Personal Healthcare

Tech Tonics: Kelly Brezoczky and Unmentionable Personal Healthcare

Innovator and entrepreneur Kelly Brezoczky, Founder and CEO of Butterfly Health, has always had a keen interest in where the consumer and health merge. And in Kelly’s case, that merger occurs in very intimate places, as she has pioneered multiple [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Optimizing Mobile-Device Design with Targeted Content

IT Best Practices: Optimizing Mobile-Device Design with Targeted Content

IT Best Practices: To help Intel IT’s mobile-device-design customers find the documentation they need, Intel has created a new content repository that simplifies the search process. Until recently, customers who design mobile devices often experienced difficulty locating Intel design information [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Integrating IT Demand Management and Business Relationship Management

IT Best Practices: Integrating IT Demand Management and Business Relationship Management

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed a Business Solutions Integration (BSI) service that incorporates business demand management (business requests) and business relationship management processes (our relationships with internal customers in all of Intel’s lines of business [LOBs]). We developed [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Dr. Jason Langheier and the Power of Personalization

Tech Tonics: Dr. Jason Langheier and the Power of Personalization

“If Amazon can personalize book recommendations, if we can get digital prescriptions of drugs nailed down with Walgreens, why can’t the two come together so that physicians can give personalized prescriptions for healthy eating?” wonders Dr. Jason Langheier, the CEO [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Erik Douglas, and the Move to Mobile Digital Diagnostics

Tech Tonics: Erik Douglas, and the Move to Mobile Digital Diagnostics

Many people who work in the medical industry come to it for personal reasons. For scientist and hardware hacker Erik Douglas, his stint helping diagnose patients in the remotest parts of Africa and Asia was a pivotal moment. It led [See the full post…]

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Collaborative Visual Data Analysis Enables Faster, Better Decisions

Collaborative Visual Data Analysis Enables Faster, Better Decisions

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has built a visual data analysis solution that provides unique possibilities for collaboration. The Info Wall is a touch-enabled interactive video wall with a viewing area measuring 5 feet high and 15 feet wide. The [See the full post…]

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Hadoop Migration Success Story: How Intel IT Moved to Cloudera

Hadoop Migration Success Story: How Intel IT Moved to Cloudera

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has adopted the Cloudera Distribution for Apache Hadoop (CDH). The migration team that converted the Intel Distribution to CDH showcased the ease of conversion while using Cloudera’s tools to improve performance, management, and ease of [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Bob Kocher on Fixing Hospitals and Healthcare

Tech Tonics: Bob Kocher on Fixing Hospitals and Healthcare

This week we are delighted to feature an interview with Venrock partner Dr. Bob Kocher, who probably knows more about the business of healthcare delivery than almost anyone in the world. He grew up in Seattle and was the fourth [See the full post…]

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Broadening Access to Advanced Analytics in the Enterprise

February 24th, 2015 |
Broadening Access to Advanced Analytics in the Enterprise

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has laid the groundwork for mining big data using business intelligence and advanced analytics techniques. Traditionally, advanced analytics have been viewed as the domain of a few highly skilled data scientists. We believe that there [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: From Apples to Apple to Better, Geoff Clapp’s Road to Healthcare Technology

February 23rd, 2015 |
Tech Tonics: From Apples to Apple to Better, Geoff Clapp’s Road to Healthcare Technology

Today’s Tech Tonics Podcast features Geoff Clapp, CEO of Better, Inc. From the apple growing community of central Massachusetts to the Apple Computer community of Silicon Valley, Geoff has been a lifelong high technology fan. He started out as a [See the full post…]

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Using Apache Hadoop for Context-Aware Recommender Systems

February 23rd, 2015 |
Using Apache Hadoop for Context-Aware Recommender Systems

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed a context-aware recommender system (CARS) to address big data predictive analytics challenges involving expanding data warehouses, constantly changing contextual parameters, and fast response times.

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Solid-State Drive Caching with Differentiated Storage Services

February 20th, 2015 |
Solid-State Drive Caching with Differentiated Storage Services

IT Best Practices: Intel IT, in collaboration with Intel Labs, is evaluating a new storage technology called Differentiated Storage Services (DSS). When combined with Intel Solid-State Drives, used as disk caches, we found that DSS can improve the performance and [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Michelle Snyder and the Transformation of Sickcare to Wellcare

February 9th, 2015 |
Tech Tonics: Michelle Snyder and the Transformation of Sickcare to Wellcare

Announcing our 3rd edition of Tech Tonics, the Podcast. Today’s show features an interview with long-time digital health entrepreneur Michelle Snyder. Michelle is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Welltok, a company that works with health plans and other population health [See the full post…]

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Enabling Big Data Solutions with Centralized Data Management

February 3rd, 2015 |
Enabling Big Data Solutions with Centralized Data Management

IT Best Practices: In 2010 Intel IT created an IT Business Intelligence Data Management team to standardize and centralize the collection, storage, processing, and distribution of the information Intel needs to run its business. By architecting solutions that make enterprise [See the full post…]

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Using a Multiple Data Warehouse Strategy to Improve BI Analytics

February 2nd, 2015 |
Using a Multiple Data Warehouse Strategy to Improve BI Analytics

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing a strategy for multiple business intelligence (BI) data warehouses to provide significantly more powerful analytics capabilities to business groups across Intel. By providing an array of BI platforms, we are helping Intel mine [See the full post…]

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Inside IT: Software Defined Storage at Intel

January 27th, 2015 |
Inside IT: Software Defined Storage at Intel

IT Best Practices: Episode 93 – Previously in this podcast series we discussed Intel IT’s Software Defined Infrastructure strategy. SDI consists of three major components – Software Defined Computer, Software Defined Network, and the topic of this podcast, Software Defined [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Lisa Maki and the Power of Empathy to Develop Healthcare Solutions

January 18th, 2015 |
Tech Tonics: Lisa Maki and the Power of Empathy to Develop Healthcare Solutions

Lisa Maki’s unexpected journey took her from the outskirts of Puget Sound (where we discovered she grew up, in her words, a “Seattle Hillbilly”), to Silicon Valley. Today she is CEO of a company that helps people find profoundly useful [See the full post…]

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Inside IT: Enabling Native Email and Applications on Android Devices

January 13th, 2015 |
Inside IT: Enabling Native Email and Applications on Android Devices

IT Best Practices: Episode 92 – Intel has a Bring Your Own Device program for employees that has been very popular – so popular, in fact, that by the end of 2011 there were 6000 employees bringing their Android devices [See the full post…]

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Why Business Client Devices Are Needed for Self-Service BI

Why Business Client Devices Are Needed for Self-Service BI

IT Best Practices: We are in the midst of the democratization of big data. Broadening business users’ access to analytics makes it difficult for traditional business intelligence (BI) to meet user demand. At Intel, some users perform self-service BI by [See the full post…]

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