IT Best Practices: Episode 54 – We’re at the outset of a new development in the enterprise, driven in part by the widespread use of mobile devices. Context-aware computing has the promise to enhance employee productivity and offer value to [See the full post…]

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: 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: 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: 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 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…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 37 – Consumerization is a big trend in the enterprise. Intel is at the forefront of this trend, with an extensive BYO program. Tens of thousands of employee-owned smart phones and tablets are now in use [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 36 – It’s the essence of this podcast series – the change of IT’s place in the organization, and the role IT plays in relation to all the business units in the company. In this episode [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 35 – The variety of ways we connect and compute is very different from even a few years ago. And it’s changing all the time. More devices are making their way into the enterprise, allowing employees [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 33 – In a previous podcast we discussed migrating mission-critical systems to Intel architecture. We outlined the process Intel has undergone to move from a RISC-based platform in the 90s to a complete Intel architecture-based platform [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 32 – Information Technology is no longer just a technology provider. It has become a key partner in every aspect of the business. To reflect that change, Intel IT is in the midst of a transformation [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 31 – The line between the IT department and the organization itself has blurred. IT is no longer just the number you call when your computer doesn’t work. As the role of IT has changed, so [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 30 – More and more, users want their own personal small form-factor device, such as a smart phone or tablet, as their work device. As Intel has developed it’s consumerization program, the number of mobile devices [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 29 – IT@Intel is at the forefront of IT evolution in a number of ways. One big change in the past few years at IT@Intel is the company’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program. Since implementing the program several [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 28 – It’s been amazing to watch technology converge to make the cloud possible. Connection speeds, processing power, and the explosion of connected devices all contribute to this transformation in the compute experience. It might seem [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 27 – The Gartner Group just released its eighth annual Supply Chain Top 25, identifying global supply chain leaders and highlighting their best practices. It’s an elite group of companies, and coming at number 7 this [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 26 – There was a time when Intel Corporation didn’t run on an Intel platform. Until the early 90s, Intel ran on a proprietary RISC-based platform for its silicon design and manufacturing environments. At the time, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 25 – Intel is a large operation, with ninety thousand employees and an equal number of servers. Like a lot of organizations, Intel has been virtualizing servers over time to increase utilization and efficiency, and to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 24 – Employee theft is not a new problem. It does, however, have new dimensions to it in this era of data sophistication. And insider incidents have taken on new prominence in the public consciousness as [See the full post…]