In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Cathy Spence, Principal Engineer at Intel stops by to talk about Intel’s IT infrastructure move to the cloud and how [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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

Intelligent Networking: Intel IT is adopting software-defined networking (SDN) to enable on-demand provisioning of networks and network services. to offer better support for internal customers.

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…]

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…]

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…]

IT Best Practices: For years, Intel IT has been evolving toward software-defined infrastructure (SDI), beginning with software-defined compute (SDC), to move from a proprietary fixed-function RISC Unix compute environment to an agile Intel architecture and Linux compute environment. To fulfill [See the full post…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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.

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…]

Intel IT performance report: How IT is delivering value to Intel through innovations in social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and the Internet of Things. These innovations at Intel are improving productivity, efficiency, time to market, and profitability.

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…]

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…]

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…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Developer Forum, Cathy Spence (@cw_spence), a Principal Engineer with Intel IT, stops by to talk about developing cloud-aware applications with specific [See the full post…]

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…]

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…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 91 – Our podcast series has chronicled the evolution of the compute, storage, and network resources that comprise the data center. This evolution has presented challenges and opportunities to the IT department. Software Defined Infrastructure, or [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 90 – It seems as if wearables have appeared almost overnight. It’s a new area for people to use technology to enhance their lives, particularly around personal health and fitness. And it’s a new area for [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s exclusive use of wireless infrastructure helps us improve employee mobility, job satisfaction, and productivity—as well as deliver LAN access in new construction faster and at lower cost.