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 address [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Recognizing the power of social computing as an important tool for supporting the increasing velocity of Intel’s businesses, Intel IT is developing a strategy to boost usage of social computing as part of a unified collaboration experience [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is accelerating the deployment of touch-enabled business Ultrabook devices with Microsoft Windows 8 ahead of the schedule we created in January 2013. This decision was based on several factors: employee demand for touch capabilities is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Moving from Microsoft Windows 7 to Windows 8 meets Intel’s long-term client computing needs, gives employees more powerful systems, and prepares them to use Intel’s growing number of touch-enabled applications. By end of June 2013, Windows 8 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has standardized on Intel Xeon processors with a core frequency of 2.6 gigahertz (GHz) for two-socket servers to offer maximum IT value for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. Our analysis demonstrates that higher-end processors [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our focus on a user-centered model of delivering IT services, in 2012 Intel IT optimized its PC delivery process, resulting in improved Intel employee productivity, a better employee experience, and reduced operational costs. We [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To increase business productivity, Intel IT conducted multiple proof of concepts (PoCs) to identify business, safety, and ergonomic requirements for the use of mobile devices, including tablets, in our manufacturing environments. Using these mobile devices, as well [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 51 – Edward Goldman is Chief Technology Officer at Intel IT. He has another job title as well–General Manager of Strategy, Architecture, & Innovation, or the SAI group. It exists to blaze the trail for IT. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our focus on a user-centered model of delivering IT services, in 2012 Intel IT optimized its PC delivery process, resulting in improved Intel employee productivity, a better employee experience, and reduced operational costs. We [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 50 – The RSA Conference in San Francisco earlier this year. It was an opportunity to check in with a few attendees, and to take the pulse of the security industry. In this podcast we hear [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 49 – Earlier this year, Intel conducted its second Cloud Aware Code-a-Thon. It’s an inventive way to get developers to think in new ways. In this podcast we talk to Cathy Spence, an Enterprise Architect in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 47 – Intel has implemented a new granular trust model to improve security throughout the enterprise. It’s designed to support key initiatives like IT consumerization and cloud computing. At the same time Intel wants to keep [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To make it easier for employees to use small form factor devices to accomplish job duties, Intel IT is developing an enhanced connectivity solution. This solution will help broaden the range of applications available to managed devices [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 46 – IT has developed a new partnership with its users over the past few years. Changes in technology, and the needs and demands of employees, have created new flexibility and greater choice for workers. Intel [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT compared the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software (Intel Distribution) to two other Apache Hadoop distributions using a well-defined set of evaluation criteria. The evaluation criteria included aspects of platform architecture; administration, operations, and support; [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As velocity and complexity of Intel’s business accelerates, Intel IT has identified explosive opportunities for business intelligence — especially advanced analytics — to become a significant competitive differentiator for Intel. Intel IT, working with internal business groups, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 45 – Intel’s approach to security has evolved. The current strategy looks to apply reasonable protections that allow information to flow through the organization. This reduces risk, but maintains a quality user experience. A big component [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: Learn about Intel IT’s strategies and initiatives that are accelerating Intel’s business growth in the 2012-13 Intel IT Annual Performance Report. Learn how Intel IT is delivering business value through big data, cloud computing, consumerization of IT, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 43 – There’s a revolution going on in workplace computing at Intel. In previous podcasts we’ve talked about the introduction of new, portable platforms, the bring-your-own-device program, and the deployment of Windows 8 throughout the enterprise. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As Intel IT builds cloud infrastructure and enables cloud services, one of the goals is to make those services available to as broad a range of devices as possible. To do so, we are integrating our cloud [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is proactively implementing a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program that allows employees the flexibility to use personally owned devices like smartphones and tablets to connect to the corporate network for some IT services. While this presents productivity [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 42 – Big changes are coming to the Intel workplace this year. In our last podcast we talked about the company’s Ultrabook rollout that’s taking place in 2013, expected to bring thousands of new devices to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is exploring data anonymization—the process of obscuring published data to prevent the identification of key information—in support of our vision of a hybrid cloud computing model and our need to protect the privacy of our [See the full post…]

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 application. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 41 – The look of the modern workplace is changing all the time. The way people worked five years ago is significantly different from the way they work now, which in turn will be substantially different [See the full post…]