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…]

Intelligent Storage: Intel IT is using a variety of techniques to accommodate growing demand for storage capabilities, without increasing costs. In 2011 Intel faced a 53-percent increase in storage capacity from 2010, and the continued build out of our private [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Intel IT is transitioning to an enterprise private cloud that will support our office and enterprise computing applications. This cloud is based on virtualized infrastructure accessing shared pools of storage through storage area networks (SANs).

Intelligent Storage: Data growth is not only driving up storage costs, but also transforming performance and efficiency requirements for storage systems. IDC estimated that in 2011, the amount of information created and replicated would surpass 1.8 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes) [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…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Spanish bank Bankinter increases responsiveness when Gneis switched mission-critical applications to Intel Xeon processor-based servers.

Intelligent Storage: This paper examines the size and status of the worldwide market for high-performance computing (HPC) storage systems, along with evolutionary trends affecting this market. The paper also looks at Intel and Xyratex as examples of vendors at the [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: RAID running at the speed of Intel Xeon processors How things have changed! 10 years ago we told you that software RAID (redundant array of independent disks) was underpow- ered and incapable of providing the perfor- mance required [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Hitachi branded components include Intel Xeon processor based Hitachi CB500 blade chassis and a choice of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM), or Hitachi Unified Storage150 (HUS 150). Intel has rearchitected the Xeon [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: You would have to live under a pretty large rock to be completely unaware of the “Intel Inside” marketing and branding campaign. But the breadth of Intel’s intent and capability to be “inside” might come as something of [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Intel Xeon processors help scale-out-storage solutions with energy-efficient performance, more data protection, greater scalability.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: REALTECH uses SAP HANA, optimized for the Intel Xeon processor E7 family, to enable big data analytics on mobile devices.

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…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The high performance and remote manageability of the Intel Core vPro processor underpin OFSC’s interactive digital signage solution.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: DuPont R&D gets the on-demand resources it needs to support modeling, simulation, informatics, and analytics, while increasing data center security and compliance, with Intel Trusted Execution Technology.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The University of Hawaii improves performance and cuts costs for its library management system by migrating to Intel Xeon processor E7 family.

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…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Intel Xeon processor E5 family enables Atea to offer customers a choice of hosted or on-site private cloud infrastructures.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Costa Coffee delivers the next generation in self service with Intel Core i7 processor and Intel Solid-State Drive 520 series.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Fujitsu and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid create a ground-breaking supercomputing platform based on Intel Xeon processor E5-2670.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Mobile Telesystems significantly reduces total cost of ownership by migrating to an x86 architecture powered by the Intel Xeon processor E7 family.

Intelligent Storage: Rite Aid deployed two Hitachi Data Systems HUS 130 storage arrays to provide a highly automated and flexible technology solution. Powered by Intel Xeon processor LC3528, these devices provide a reliable foundation for data archiving and disaster recovery [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: To create patient-oriented “digital hospitals,” China seeks to implement a unified national hospital information system (HIS) platform, applying advanced network and digital technologies to hospitals and relevant medical fields.

Intelligent Storage: NetApp scale-out storage solutions built with Intel Xeon processors enable companies to successfully handle the massive data growth and infrastructure complexities required for today’s demanding workloads. By optimizing data management at this tremendous scale, organizations can easily adapt [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…]