IT Best Practices: Episode 8 – With the ten-year anniversary of 9-11, we’re reminded of the importance of being prepared for disaster and how that day changed the way many IT professionals view data security. With Texas fires and Hurricane [See the full post…]

A tour of Intel IT‘s data center in Russia. This data center hosts about a thousand servers. To improve energy efficiency of the data center, it uses external cold air to cool the data center during winter, and uses the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 7 -Intel IT engages in a strategic planning cycle to ensure the IT@Intel team is aligned with the company’s business groups. It’s critical to engage in a real conversation within the organization to maximize the IT [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: Episode 6 – How do you build a private cloud for your organization? Cloud computing is one of the top three priorities this year for Intel IT. Their experience stands as an example for IT organizations looking [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 5 – The IT organization is undergoing rapid change. Changes like virtualization and consumerization present new opportunities for business, and new challenges for IT. Cloud computing shifts IT to more of a creator and distributor of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT continues to proactively improve automation, consistency, and cost efficiency. Refining centralized IT services, Intel IT continues to look at ways to control software proliferation, manage hardware, enhance mobility, and reduce costs.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is transitioning to an enterprise private cloud that will support our office and enterprise computing applications. This cloud is based on virtualized infrastructure accessing shared pools of storage through storage area networks (SANs).

IT Best Practices: Ever spilled coffee on your laptop or cell phone and wondered what to do next? In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares several techniques that show you how to breathe new life back into your device.

IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT offers some common sense advice for helping your family know what to do with your online identity and resources after you are gone.

IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares six ways to keep your laptop safe from the elements as you make your way through winter.

IT Best Practices: Do you work directly from your notebook for long periods of time? In this IT@Intel Technology Tip, Intel IT shares several techniques that show you how to set up your notebook to improve your posture and reduce [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel chose to encrypt all corporate notebooks to keep data from being accessed if lost or stolen. Including a detailed plan for secure and cost-effective implementation, Intel IT combined a software and hardware based solution to mitigate [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT security specialists deployed PCs with Intel vPro technology, focusing on high-priority areas including investigations, data protection, and loss prevention and system health. Testing and validating these capabilities, Intel was able to deliver reduced manual effort [See the full post…]

Intel IT Business Value: Intel IT is developing a Virtual User Environment (VUE), employing a managed, virtualized container that streams data and IT applications on any capable client hardware.

IT Best Practices: Episode 4 – With proper planning, development, and training, desktop virtualization gives users greater flexibility. At the same time, it offers IT more control and simplified management. It’s a great opportunity for the IT organization, but there [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The IT@Intel program connects IT professionals around the world with their IT peers inside our organization – sharing lessons learned, methods and strategies. Our goal is simple: Share the Intel IT best practices that create business value [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In a year long study of more than 45,000 SSDs deployed in our mobile business PC fleet, we validated that Intel Solid-State Drives provide an 87 percent reduction in the annualized failure rate compared to hard disk [See the full post…]

Intel CISO, Malcolm Harkins suggests we embrace social media and social computing to reduce risk.

In this short IT Security vblog, Malcolm Harkins, Intel CISO, talks about why Intel IT has undertaken a radical new five-year redesign of our information security architecture. Malcolm says that compromise is inevitable under almost any compute model, find out [See the full post…]

Intel IT Best Practices: Enterprise architecture is a critical component of Intel’s IT strategy. Enterprise architects map the way that technology and inforamtion help Intel achieve its current and future business goals. They produce strategic and solution-specific architectures used by [See the full post…]

Intel IT Best Practices: In this IT@Intel Executive Insights, we explain how Intel IT uses regular refresh, smart technology, the benefits of consumerization and proactive support to help us maintain our PC fleet and empower our 80,000 users across the [See the full post…]

To protect Intel and its customers, Intel IT established a program that assesses, monitors, and enforces the security, privacy, and regulatory compliance of externally facing Intel-branded Web sites and online marketing programs.

Enterprise architecture is a critical component of Intel’s IT strategy. Enterprise architects map the way that technology and inforamtion help Intel achieve its current and future business goals. They produce strategic and solution-specific architectures used by all major IT projects [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 3 – Inside IT is the latest on information technology straight from the people of Intel’s IT organization. In this episode of the podcast, we take a look at the state of IT security with Intel’s [See the full post…]

An array of tools for collaboration has emerged just in the past decade – email, instant messaging, wikis, blogs, video conferencing and social media – that we often take for granted. And hardware like laptops, smart phones, mids and tablets [See the full post…]