IT Best Practices: As the pace of business and technology transformation continues to accelerate, Intel IT’s strategic importance within Intel grows. Intel IT tightly aligns its strategic planning with the Intel corporate planning process, working with business leaders around the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The number and variety of connected devices in the marketplace is increasing every year. To support the growing demand for use of small devices in our environment, we’ve created a pre-evaluation screening process. Having a formal and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: FMC targets virtualized laptops with end-to-end technologies from Intel and Lenovo.

IT Best Practices: Acquisitions are a critical component of Intel’s corporate growth strategy. Intel IT plays a key role in the smooth integration of new Intel acquisitions and in helping to achieve the unique business objectives for each one. Using [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: IT architect, system integrator, and managed services provider CANCOM delivers application virtualization services ahead of the competition with Intel Xeon processor 5600 series.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: IT reseller Bossers & Cnossen looks to Intel vPro technology to boost services revenue.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Intel Xeon processor 5600 series combined with VMware vSphere and VMware View 4 virtual desktop system streamline National Chi Nan University’s IT environment and advance them into cloud technology.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: AutoVAZ is one of Russia’s largest auto manufacturers. Founded in the 1960s following a collaboration with Italian manufacturer Fiat, the company has grown into a worldwide player in the automotive market segment. In early 2011, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As we begin the final phases of development for our enterprise private cloud, we have identified IT best practices in several areas that have helped us maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, introduce solutions quickly into [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To enable rapid adoption of new technologies and usage models—and provide protection in an evolving threat landscape—Intel IT has embarked on a radical five-year redesign of Intel’s information security architecture.

IT Best Practices: The purpose of this paper is to describe how Intel IT neutralized security risks that have allowed us to enable virtualization for the DMZ and SIZ thereby allowing Intel IT to expand the benefits of virtualization. Over [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As the holiday season approaches, we all turn to our computers to help get things done. But be aware that criminals are also looking for ways to get things done, and that may include scamming you. In [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The purpose of this paper is to describe how Intel IT neutralized security risks that have allowed us to enable virtualization for the DMZ and SIZ thereby allowing Intel IT to expand the benefits of virtualization. Over [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT conducted a pilot to explore the potential of PCs with Intel vPro processor technology, with ISV management software, to address management and performance challenges across Intel’s geographically dispersed training rooms. We remotely performed rebuilds, installs, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT developed a cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy for one of our data centers in Israel that has a potential business value of more than USD 3 million. During its first disaster recovery drill, the new [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our online support strategy, Intel IT developed a self-service PC Health Check utility to deliver better customer support, improve response time, and increase employee satisfaction—while reducing operating costs. PC Health Check empowers employees to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Face it: smartphones are your portable lifeline to the world. With everything that these handheld marvels allow you to do—check your e-mail, surf the Internet, send text messages, balance your bank account, play games and even call [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: We envision a private cloud that can determine device attributes and user preferences and deliver accordingly. Intel IT is actively working to create a client-aware cloud environment where application delivery is based on the client device and [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…]

IT Best Practices: Hard drive technology has been evolving at a rapid pace over the last decade – more capacity, higher speeds and smaller sizes. But in the last couple of years, a whole new approach to storage technology has [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT made a strategic decision 3 years ago to standardize our computing platform on PCs with Intel Core vPro processors. These PCs include a variety of technologies that enhance IT and end-user efficiency, and help meet [See the full post…]

IT Cloud Computing: An Intel cross-organizational group developed a common cloud computing taxonomy designed to meet Intel’s comprehensive requirements by classifying the entire breadth of existing cloud technologies. Based on this classification, diagramed in Figure 1 in this IT whitepaper, [See the full post…]

IT Business Efficiency: To help ensure application compatibility during Intel’s enterprise-wide migration from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows 7, Intel IT implemented a carefully controlled workflow in one common test environment. So far, out of more than 1,000 applications [See the full post…]

IT Business Agility: This IT@Intel whitepaper shares how Intel IT has defined an architecture and implementation roadmap for a private enterprise cloud designed to increase agility and IT efficiency. This shared multi-tenant environment is built on a highly efficient, automated, [See the full post…]

IT Information Security: Intel IT recently completed a technology evaluation of Intel Anti-Theft Technology (Intel AT), available on laptop PCs with 2010 Intel Core vPro processors. Intel AT is a hardware-based technology that can help detect theft and disable a [See the full post…]