IT Best Practices: Design engineers at Intel face the challenges of integrating more features into ever-shrinking silicon chips, bringing products to market faster, and keeping design engineering and manufacturing costs low. A new category of workstations has emerged, based on [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Security and privacy are like magnets. When they are turned in the right direction they are perfectly binding. But if one starts turning, they start to push away from each other. Listen to Malcolm Harkins, Intel Chief [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel practices responsible privacy and data protection. Respect for privacy is fundamental to our culture and helps us to maintain an environment where individuals can trust Intel and its technologies. Acquisitions are a critical component of Intel’s [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 60 – We’ve talked about Intel’s Bring Your Own Device program in previous podcasts. Intel enables employees to use their own smart phones, tablets, and other devices for work. Of those, about half – 20,000 in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The consumerization of IT and the popularity of our bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program allow Intel employees to work from multiple devices. Regardless of what type of device they use, they want to be able to access work content [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: By deploying data virtualization solutions that combine disparate data sources into a single virtual layer, Intel IT expects to increase the agility of our business intelligence (BI). This agility will enable our business groups to more quickly [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As Intel IT continues widespread adoption of cloud computing, Intel software development is undergoing a major shift. Intel architects and developers are learning to design cloud-aware applications that maximize cloud advantages, such as self-service provisioning, elasticity, run-anywhere [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: With a goal to improve our email application server performance and lower costs to meet ongoing email demand, Intel IT conducted a proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluating the benefits of Intel Solid-State Drive (Intel SSD) technology. Compared to our [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To meet Intel’s business computing needs more effectively and ensure continuity of service, Intel IT has developed a predictive data center capacity planning process. Our approach helps us to accurately forecast demand on our data center facilities [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 59 – Big data is a big focus for Intel. That means developing and deploying a variety of tools and methods to derive business value from the sea of data that surrounds us. These are datasets [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: 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 address [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT needed to determine an investment strategy that could meet the growing capacity needs for our new businesses that required hosting solutions. We could have built out the capacity and capability internally. Or we could have [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 58 – Intel is deploying a content sync and share solution for the enterprise, to synchronize user data across multiple devices. That endeavor sent Intel IT on a search for the right choice for the worldwide [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: Processor graphics systems—with their superior stability, power and cost efficiency, and support for emerging technologies and use cases—have become an important part of Intel IT’s transformation of the IT ecosystem for the applications and devices of the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 57 – Intel is a vast, global corporation, with over 100,000 employees in 154 sites spread across 63 countries. As you can imagine, collaboration is both essential to the company’s success, and a big challenge to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 55 – Emerging technologies are creating great new opportunities in the enterprise. Context-aware computing and new interaction methods like perceptual computing promise increased productivity and greater collaboration. But they also create new challenges that need to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is extending an enterprise mobile application framework to support cross-platform mobile application development. The framework lays the foundation for rapidly taking advantage of emerging technologies, such as context-aware computing, and interaction methods, such as perceptual [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is discovering that context-aware computing offers substantial business value across the enterprise. Context-aware computing factors in the situation of an entity—whether a person, place, or thing—and provides task-relevant information or services, making tasks more efficient [See the full post…]

Intel IT Business Review: Imagine a computing platform that understands you, helps you do what you want to do exactly when you want to do it. Intel IT researchers believe Intel Dynamic UX will one day reshape people’s computing experiences [See the full post…]

Intel IT Business Review: As far as Intel IT leaders are concerned, analyzing massive quantities of data is not the endgame. It’s just the beginning. Intel IT’s Deep Insights research is exploring how to take big data to the next [See the full post…]

Intel IT Business Review: How can applications be developed so they work on any platform, any operating system, any device—even ones that have yet to be conceived? Intel IT is creating a new app development paradigm to withstand the test [See the full post…]

Intel IT Business Review: Failure is an uncomfortable topic. Nobody wants to admit their setbacks, let alone call attention to them. For Intel IT Labs, however, failure is an acknowledged and expected aspect of the job and a necessary ingredient [See the full post…]

Intel IT Business Review: “Whether it’s exploratory or targeted-, Intel IT has a process for identifying, prioritizing, and pursuing the opportunities that hold promise. It all boils down to use cases and business value, continually seeking new answers to an [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 54 – We’re at the outset of a new development in the enterprise, driven in part by the widespread use of mobile devices. Context-aware computing has the promise to enhance employee productivity and offer value to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 53 – Information technology is no longer simply an isolated set of machines and tools used on a narrow set of tasks. The Global Digital Infrastructure, or GDI, is a worldwide network of devices and services [See the full post…]