IT Best Practices: Even with the proliferation of device types, Intel IT continues to adhere to the fundamentals of our PC Refresh Strategy. Listen to John Mahvi explain what we believed in the past and what we believe now.

IT Best Practices: Real-time data supports a supply chain that can instantly respond to change. We’ll be able to build on what we learn with the supply chain implementation, applying real-time data in innovative ways in many other areas of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented several IoT sensor technology solutions. As a result, the collected sensor data helps employees more effectively perform many tasks. Our set of best practices can guide the planning, design, and integration of this technology.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has used design best practices to create high-density energy-efficient data centers: a 1,100 W/square-foot cooling density and a 1,300 W/square-foot electrical density (10 times the industry average).

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is responsible for fueling Intel’s business transformation with information technology, which includes providing employees with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate. While email is pervasive in most businesses today, it can siphon time, productivity, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Our HPC environment, currently based on the Intel Xeon processor E7-4800 and 8800 v2 & v3 product families, has supported a 90.21x increase in compute demand with a 64.4x increase in stability. Tape-out time was reduced from [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of managing the more than 100,000 PCs in use at Intel, Intel IT spends a significant amount of time and effort managing operating system deployment. Historically, new OS versions have been released every few years. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is transforming our in-house testing environment to deliver better feedback more quickly to Intel’s product development groups. Intel employees use Intel’s products to do their jobs every day. Intel IT deploys and monitors the performance [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is building an analytics platform that integrates and connects business intelligence (BI) data using a data lake model to reduce insight latency from months to days. Eventually, we aim to reduce data insight latency to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The factories’ IT engineers realize the potential value of IoT and large-scale data analytics in three ways: analyzing volumes of data, identifying what is useful, and reporting that data in a way that meets the needs of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: One of the most serious security challenges facing enterprises today is that of insider threat. However, many enterprises do not fully understand the scope of the problem and until recently, there has been a lack of tools [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is developing a beyond-the-edge security strategy that will enhance security in our environment. This new strategy addresses several drawbacks with today’s approach to security.

IT Best Practices: To support Intel business groups’ increasing demand for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, Intel IT has developed several best practices that can help enhance SaaS security and protect Intel’s intellectual property. SaaS applications can provide efficiency and agility, cost [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Chromebooks with Intel processors and wireless technologies deliver reliable access for teaching and learning at California’s Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District.

IT Best Practices: While Intel’s PC fleet consists primarily of Intel architecture-based mobile devices, such as business Ultrabook devices, tablets, and a growing number of 2-in-1 devices, familiar desktop-class PCs continue to fill an important role. In fact these PCs [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: eHarmony enhances its matchmaking prowess with cloud-based data analytics using Cloudera software and servers based on Intel Xeon processors.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Wiltshire Police officers use Intel technology-powered devices to escape their desks and work among the community.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Belgian shopping district sets the standard for digital retail with Digitopia and Intel NUC and Intel Atom processor.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Yoga Systems harnesses the Intel IoT Gateway to deliver its secure, end-to-end Yoga Smart Home cloud-based platform to service providers.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: eHarmony builds a robust cloud environment with Cloudera software and Intel Xeon processors to make more, happier matches.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Laptops deliver reliable access for enhanced learning in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District.

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…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Touchscreen kiosks help Hardee’s improve the customer experience, speed ordering, and drive new sales.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: University Health migrates its EHR database from RISC to an open, standards-based architecture and slashes TCO while boosting performance and flexibility.

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…]