IT Business Value: Episode 6 – How do you build a private cloud for your organization? Cloud computing is one of the top three priorities this year for Intel IT. Their experience stands as an example for IT organizations looking [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 5 – The IT organization is undergoing rapid change. Changes like virtualization and consumerization present new opportunities for business, and new challenges for IT. Cloud computing shifts IT to more of a creator and distributor of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT continues to proactively improve automation, consistency, and cost efficiency. Refining centralized IT services, Intel IT continues to look at ways to control software proliferation, manage hardware, enhance mobility, and reduce costs.

IT Best Practices: 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).

IT Best Practices: Ever spilled coffee on your laptop or cell phone and wondered what to do next? In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares several techniques that show you how to breathe new life back into your device.

IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT offers some common sense advice for helping your family know what to do with your online identity and resources after you are gone.

IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares six ways to keep your laptop safe from the elements as you make your way through winter.

IT Best Practices: Do you work directly from your notebook for long periods of time? In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares several techniques that show you how to set up your notebook to improve your posture and reduce [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel chose to encrypt all corporate notebooks to keep data from being accessed if lost or stolen. Including a detailed plan for secure and cost-effective implementation, Intel IT combined a software and hardware based solution to mitigate [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT security specialists deployed PCs with Intel vPro technology, focusing on high-priority areas including investigations, data protection, and loss prevention and system health. Testing and validating these capabilities, Intel was able to deliver reduced manual effort [See the full post…]

Intel IT Business Value: Intel IT is developing a Virtual User Environment (VUE), employing a managed, virtualized container that streams data and IT applications on any capable client hardware.

IT Best Practices: Episode 4 – With proper planning, development, and training, desktop virtualization gives users greater flexibility. At the same time, it offers IT more control and simplified management. It’s a great opportunity for the IT organization, but there [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The IT@Intel program connects IT professionals around the world with their IT peers inside our organization – sharing lessons learned, methods and strategies. Our goal is simple: Share the Intel IT best practices that create business value [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In a year long study of more than 45,000 SSDs deployed in our mobile business PC fleet, we validated that Intel Solid-State Drives provide an 87 percent reduction in the annualized failure rate compared to hard disk [See the full post…]

Intel CISO, Malcolm Harkins shares his perspective on security and the cloud.

Intel IT Best Practices: Intel IT plays a critical role in creating the future workplace by researching, evaluating, and analyzing emerging technologies that accommodate many form factors. The explosion of connected devices in the marketplace is compelling Intel IT to [See the full post…]

Intel CISO, Malcolm Harkins suggests we embrace social media and social computing to reduce risk.

Intel IT Best Practices: At Intel IT, we think “green” everyday under a formal IT Sustainability Program. In 2010, we implemented projects that reduced our consumption of IT associated emissions by ~60,000 metric tons of co2 and saved Intel’s business [See the full post…]

Intel IT Best Practices: At Intel IT we realized we needed to rethink how we approach enterprise security. We cannot continue to spend all our resources trying to block every threat. Our new approach takes into consideration that the role [See the full post…]

In this short IT Security vblog, Malcolm Harkins, Intel CISO, talks about why Intel IT has undertaken a radical new five-year redesign of our information security architecture. Malcolm says that compromise is inevitable under almost any compute model, find out [See the full post…]

Intel IT Best Practices: A solid strategic planning process is critical to the long-term success and health of any organization. Intel IT has been able to better respond to the dynamic nature of our business since implementing an IT strategic [See the full post…]

Intel CISO, Malcolm Harkins believes that underestimating or over exaggerating risk is one of the biggest vulnerabilities we face. Watch this short vblog to hear Malcolm’s explanation.

Intel IT Best Practices: Enterprise architecture is a critical component of Intel’s IT strategy. Enterprise architects map the way that technology and inforamtion help Intel achieve its current and future business goals. They produce strategic and solution-specific architectures used by [See the full post…]

Intel IT Business Value: In response to IT consumerization, Intel IT began allowing employees to use personal smart phones to access enterprise resources in early 2010. The program has rapidly become a success, delivering a variety of benefits to both [See the full post…]

Intel IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Executive Insights, we explain how Intel IT uses regular refresh, smart technology, the benefits of consumerization and proactive support to help us maintain our PC fleet and empower our 80,000 users across the [See the full post…]