Intel IT Business Review: Failure is an uncomfortable topic. Nobody wants to admit their setbacks, let alone call attention to them. For Intel IT Labs, however, failure is an acknowledged and expected aspect of the job and a necessary ingredient [See the full post…]

Let’s Talk IT: It’s an unfortunate truth that Laptops are stole. Michele Gartner and Nikhil Jain discuss how Intel Anti-Theft Technology can be used to secure laptops, and she gets a demo from Dan Brunton, showing how a laptop can [See the full post…]

Intel IT Business Review: “Whether it’s exploratory or targeted-, Intel IT has a process for identifying, prioritizing, and pursuing the opportunities that hold promise. It all boils down to use cases and business value, continually seeking new answers to an [See the full post…]

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…]

Let’s Talk IT: In this episode Craig Owen talks to Michele Gartner about host-based configuration of Intel Active Management Technology on Intel vPro platforms along with a demonstration of host-based configuration from Dan Brunton.

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: Recognizing the power of social computing as an important tool for supporting the increasing velocity of Intel’s businesses, Intel IT is developing a strategy to boost usage of social computing as part of a unified collaboration experience [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…]

Let’s Talk IT: When an organization issues a laptop to an employee it usually marks the beginning of a relationship between the employee and the company’s IT folks. In a large company that could means tens of thousands of clients. [See the full post…]

Let’s Talk IT: In this episode host Michele Gartner chats with Richard Foote about vPro, and she gets a demo from Minh Pham who does a remote search and destroy of a virus on a client PC.

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…]