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Private Cloud PaaS – Accelerating Application Deployment

January 20th, 2013 |
Private Cloud PaaS – Accelerating Application Deployment

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 [See the full post…]

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Extending Intel’s Enterprise Private Cloud with Platform as a Service

Extending Intel’s Enterprise Private Cloud with Platform as a Service

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 [See the full post…]

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Extending Intel’s Enterprise Private Cloud with Platform as a Service

Extending Intel’s Enterprise Private Cloud with Platform as a Service

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 [See the full post…]

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Creating a Dynamic Client Build Using Driver Management

Creating a Dynamic Client Build Using Driver Management

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s Client Build (ITCB) process enables us to efficiently manage Intel’s laptops and desktop PCs, plus over 2,000 software applications. Before developing our current process, it took us six months to release a new build. [See the full post…]

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Intel IT: Keeping the Business Running in a Crisis

Intel IT: Keeping the Business Running in a Crisis

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s Response and Recovery Management (ITRRM) program keeps the Intel core business processes running when a disaster occurs and helps with recovery after the disaster subsides. A recent example of exercising our business continuity (BC) [See the full post…]

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Transforming Intel’s Supply Chain to meet Market Challenges

January 30th, 2012 |
Transforming Intel’s Supply Chain to meet Market Challenges

IT Best Practices: To support an efficient and responsive supply chain, Intel IT works closely with many teams throughout Intel to formulate a strategy that integrates IT solutions across all levels. While manufacturing technology and operations are at the [See the full post…]

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Enterprise IT Security Benefits of Microsoft Windows 7

December 17th, 2010 |
Enterprise IT Security Benefits of Microsoft Windows 7

IT Best Practices: Information security is a critical concern for Intel IT. New threats are continually evolving, and over time, this has forced us to invest in various security controls and mitigation strategies. As part of a three-month [See the full post…]

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Evaluating Hardware-based Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) Remote Control

December 16th, 2010 |
Evaluating Hardware-based Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) Remote Control

IT Best Practices: Intel IT recently developd a series of use cases that take advantage of Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) Remote Control, a hardware-based feature of PCs with 2010 Intel Core vPro processors and Intel HD Graphics. Unlike software-based KVM solutions, [See the full post…]

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Implementing and Expanding a Virtualized Environment

December 15th, 2010 |
Implementing and Expanding a Virtualized Environment

IT Best Practices: In 2005, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of our overall data center strategy. We are currently accelerating virtualization adoption for general purpose applications, with a goal [See the full post…]

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Intel IT Performance Report – Creating Business Value

December 10th, 2010 |

An ERP Platform Strategy Based on Industry-Standard Servers

December 9th, 2010 |
An ERP Platform Strategy Based on Industry-Standard Servers

IT Best Practices: Many large organizations have a centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment based on proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems. In contrast, Intel IT has successfully implemented a decentralized ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and [See the full post…]

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Thermal Storage System Provides Emergency Data Center Cooling

December 8th, 2010 |
Thermal Storage System Provides Emergency Data Center Cooling

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented a low-cost thermal storage system that maintained cooling at a high-density data center during an electrical power outage. This enabled the data center to survive the outage without costly damage to servers. The [See the full post…]

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High-Performance Computing for Silicon Design

November 11th, 2010 |
High-Performance Computing for Silicon Design

IT Best Practices: Designing Intel microprocessors is extremely compute intensive. Tapeout is a final step in silicon design and its computation demand is growing exponentially for each generation of silicon process technology. Intel IT adopted high-performance computing (HPC) to [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: Improving Client Stability with Proactive Problem Management

November 4th, 2010 |
IT Best Practices: Improving Client Stability with Proactive Problem Management

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented a proactive problem management process based on analysis of objective, largely system-generated data from client PCs across our worldwide environment. Using this approach, we have increased client stability by reducing the number of [See the full post…]

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IT Best Practices: PCs as Strategic Assets

November 2nd, 2010 |
IT Best Practices: PCs as Strategic Assets

IT Best Practices: By actively managing Intel’s PC fleet as a strategic asset, Intel IT has consistently decreased total cost of ownership (TCO) for PCs, achieving a 67 percent reduction since 1995.

Because PC acquisition costs typically account for [See the full post…]

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Developing an Enterprise IT Cloud Computing Strategy

October 29th, 2010 |
Developing an Enterprise IT Cloud Computing Strategy

IT Best Practices: IT cloud computing is a significant trend with the potential to increase IT business agility and lower costs. Today, however, security risks, immature technology, and other concerns prevent widespread enterprise adoption of external clouds. Intel IT [See the full post…]

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Architecting Software as a Service for the Enterprise

October 22nd, 2010 |
Architecting Software as a Service for the Enterprise

IT Best Practices: As part of our cloud computing strategy, Intel IT has been opportunistically taking advantage of external offerings of software as a service (SaaS) applications. To prepare for broader SaaS adoption, we designed a SaaS architecture that [See the full post…]

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Enabling Device-Independent Mobility with Dynamic Virtual Clients

October 19th, 2010 |
Enabling Device-Independent Mobility with Dynamic Virtual Clients

IT Best Practices: To enable device-independent mobility (DIM) at Intel, Intel IT is considering implementing dynamic virtual client (DVC) technology, which uses containerized software appliances to abstract the OS; applications; corporate and personal data and workspaces; and user-specific settings. [See the full post…]

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Developing an Enterprise Social Computing Strategy

October 14th, 2010 |
Developing an Enterprise Social Computing Strategy

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing an enterprise-wide social computing platform that combines professional networking tools with social media such as wikis and blogs, and integrates with existing enterprise software. Our goal is to transform collaboration across Intel, [See the full post…]

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Prioritizing Information Security Risks with Threat Agent Risk Assessment

October 12th, 2010 |
Prioritizing Information Security Risks with Threat Agent Risk Assessment

IT Business Value: Intel IT has developed a threat agent risk assessment (TARA) methodology that distills the immense number of possible information security attacks into a digest of only those exposures most likely to occur. This methodology identifies threat [See the full post…]

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Getting Ahead of Malware

Getting Ahead of Malware

IT Best Practices: To minimize the threat posed by malicious software, or malware, making its way into the enterprise, Intel IT has established a process that actively seeks to identify and take action against the malware before it reaches [See the full post…]

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Faster Silicon Design with Intel Xeon Processor 7500 Series

September 30th, 2010 |
Faster Silicon Design with Intel Xeon Processor 7500 Series

IT Efficiency: Intel IT shares the results of testing of the new Intel Xeon 7500 processor on Intel silicon design workloads. Testing showed that the Intel Xeon 7500 increased throughput up to 2.68X compared to the Intel Xeon 7400, [See the full post…]

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An ERP Platform Strategy Based on Industry-Standard Server

September 29th, 2010 |
An ERP Platform Strategy Based on Industry-Standard Server

IT Business Agility: Many large organizations have a centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment based on proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems. In contrast, Intel IT has successfully implemented a decentralized ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and [See the full post…]

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How Intel IT Implemented and Expanded a Virtualized Environment

September 28th, 2010 |
How Intel IT Implemented and Expanded a Virtualized Environment

IT Best Practices: 5 years ago, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of our overall data center strategy. We are currently accelerating virtualization adoption for general purpose applications, with a [See the full post…]

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Managing a Global Wireless LAN

September 21st, 2010 |
Managing a Global Wireless LAN

IT Innovation: Intel IT developed a new management and support structure for wireless LANs (WLANs). We consolidated first-level support and centralized the WLAN engineer workgroup as well as device management. We manage the WLAN as an integrated service that [See the full post…]

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