Intel IT Annual Report: 2012 mid-year update that shares progress on key strategic initiatives that delivered business value to Intel — cloud computing, IT consumerization, business intelligence, social computing and enterprise security.

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: Intel IT created a framework that enables the successful planning, development and production of mobile applications. Project teams can use the framework to evaluate the suitability of applications for mobile use cases, follow governance standards, and identify [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is proactively gathering data about Ultrabook devices and how they fit into the enterprise, in anticipation of a wave of new devices and form factors, and the associated expectations from employees who want to buy [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT conducted a proof of concept demonstrating improved operations by providing facility technicians with Intel architecture-based tablets. Technicians in the study group reported an increase in productivity of 3 to 17 percent. Management also gained greater [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: Intel IT has developed a business intelligence system for infrastructure management to support Intel’s enterprise private cloud. This system collects, consolidates, and integrates infrastructure capacity and performance data about our IT environment, which includes virtual machines, physical [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To improve Intel’s business intelligence (BI), Intel IT is developing the systems and skills for analyzing big data. A major portion of this data consists of the large, unstructured data sets that constitute up to 90 percent [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing platform as a service (PaaS) to accelerate custom application deployment and promote cloud-aware application design. Our traditional application deployment process is less-than-ideal, taking as much as 140 days to deploy a new application. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is exploring data anonymization—the process of obscuring published data to prevent the identification of key information—in support of our vision of a hybrid cloud computing model and our need to protect the privacy of our [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is proactively implementing a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program that allows employees the flexibility to use personally owned devices like smartphones and tablets to connect to the corporate network for some IT services. While this presents productivity [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As Intel IT builds cloud infrastructure and enables cloud services, one of the goals is to make those services available to as broad a range of devices as possible. To do so, we are integrating our cloud [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing platform as a service (PaaS) to accelerate custom application deployment and promote cloud-aware application design. Our traditional application deployment process is less-than-ideal, taking as much as 140 days to deploy a new application. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is exploring data anonymization—the process of obscuring published data to prevent the identification of key information—in support of our vision of a hybrid cloud computing model and our need to protect the privacy of our [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is proactively implementing a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program that allows employees the flexibility to use personally owned devices like smartphones and tablets to connect to the corporate network for some IT services. While this presents productivity [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: As Intel IT builds cloud infrastructure and enables cloud services, one of the goals is to make those services available to as broad a range of devices as possible. To do so, we are integrating our cloud [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To better serve Intel’s global customer base in their native languages and reduce support costs, Intel IT conducted two proof-of-concepts and designed prototypes that integrate machine translation into existing collaboration environments to deliver real-time multilingual chat and [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: Intel IT has reached its goal of deploying virtually 100 percent of our approximately 91,000 mobile business PCs with Intel Solid-State Drives (Intel SSDs). Intel SSDs deliver benefits related to employee productivity, reliability, security, lifecycle, and total [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is transforming our application delivery model to enable the back-end cloud and the front-end client to work together to support an increasing number of combinations of operating systems, devices, and computing models. Our goal is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has conducted a successful pilot project of our hardware-based whole-disk encryption (WDE) solution to replace our current software-based WDE solution on systems with self-encrypting drives. Compared to software-based WDE, our new hardware-based WDE solution improves [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…]