IT Best Practices: Episode 29 – IT@Intel is at the forefront of IT evolution in a number of ways. One big change in the past few years at IT@Intel is the company’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program. Since implementing the program several [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: To better serve Intel’s global customer base in their native languages and reduce support costs, Intel IT conducted two proof-of-concepts and designed prototypes that integrate machine translation into existing collaboration environments to deliver real-time multilingual chat and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 28 – It’s been amazing to watch technology converge to make the cloud possible. Connection speeds, processing power, and the explosion of connected devices all contribute to this transformation in the compute experience. It might seem [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has reached its goal of deploying virtually 100 percent of our approximately 91,000 mobile business PCs with Intel Solid-State Drives (Intel SSDs). Intel SSDs deliver benefits related to employee productivity, reliability, security, lifecycle, and total [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is transforming our application delivery model to enable the back-end cloud and the front-end client to work together to support an increasing number of combinations of operating systems, devices, and computing models. Our goal is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has conducted a successful pilot project of our hardware-based whole-disk encryption (WDE) solution to replace our current software-based WDE solution on systems with self-encrypting drives. Compared to software-based WDE, our new hardware-based WDE solution improves [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 27 – The Gartner Group just released its eighth annual Supply Chain Top 25, identifying global supply chain leaders and highlighting their best practices. It’s an elite group of companies, and coming at number 7 this [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To better serve Intel’s global customer base in their native languages and reduce support costs, Intel IT conducted two proof-of-concepts and designed prototypes that integrate machine translation into existing collaboration environments to deliver real-time multilingual chat and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 26 – There was a time when Intel Corporation didn’t run on an Intel platform. Until the early 90s, Intel ran on a proprietary RISC-based platform for its silicon design and manufacturing environments. At the time, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 25 – Intel is a large operation, with ninety thousand employees and an equal number of servers. Like a lot of organizations, Intel has been virtualizing servers over time to increase utilization and efficiency, and to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has transformed Intel’s ERP system into an agile, cost-effective tool that supports high-velocity business growth and ever-changing business needs. The transformation of our ERP system greatly reduced its complexity, providing increased business value through improved [See the full post…]

As services and data move to the cloud, Intel IT has found that the end–point device is not only retaining its relevancy, but is also becoming even more important. This belief runs contrary to the industry assumption that the abstraction [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To improve our ability to use certain remote management features of Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT) a component of Intel vPro technology, Intel IT worked with Intel’s software development team to develop ways to enhance Intel [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 24 – Employee theft is not a new problem. It does, however, have new dimensions to it in this era of data sophistication. And insider incidents have taken on new prominence in the public consciousness as [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 22 – We are awash in data today. That presents a challenge for the IT organization. But if real meaning can be extracted from all that data – structured and unstructured, human-generated and machine-generated – it [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 21 – Blue screens have been around for about as long as there have been PCs. They’re a major challenge for an organization, and they can significantly reduce productivity.. In spite of that, not enough has [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Increasingly, healthcare organizations are realizing the value of risk assessments as much more than a regulatory or compliance checkbox. Risk assessments also bring a targeted and measured approach to privacy and security. Risks can be mitigated through [See the full post…]

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) plans [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 20 – There’s a trend in the enterprise that challenges IT: how can we secure productivity gains by allowing employees to use smart phones for work, without compromising security or creating a huge management problem? Now [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Many of us use a variety of devices both in our work life and personal life. Wouldn’t it be great if you could access the information you needed anywhere, anytime, and on whatever device you happened to [See the full post…]

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: Intel IT has made significant progress in responding to the growing demand for use of personally owned devices, such as smart phones, tablets and PCs in the Intel work environment. To support this initiative, we have developed [See the full post…]

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