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…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 2 – Inside IT is the latest on information technology straight from the people of Intel’s IT organization. This episode of the podcast is all about the consumerization of IT, and features Ron Miller and Ed [See the full post…]

In this IT Cloud Computing audio podcast: Das Kamhout (LinkedIn Profile) – Technical Engineering Lead, Intel IT Enterprise Private Cloud IT Best Practices: Episode 1 – Inside IT is the latest on information technology straight from the people of Intel’s [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Information security is a critical concern for Intel IT. New threats are continually evolving, and over time, this has forced us to invest in various security controls and mitigation strategies. As part of a three-month evaluation of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT recently developd a series of use cases that take advantage of Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) Remote Control, a hardware-based feature of PCs with 2010 Intel Core vPro processors and Intel HD Graphics. Unlike software-based KVM solutions, 2010 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In 2005, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of our overall data center strategy. We are currently accelerating virtualization adoption for general purpose applications, with a goal of [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: Welcome to our ninth edition of the Intel IT Performance Report. As we closed last year’s edition, we identified some of the many challenges IT organizations would face in 2009 given the economic environment, and we also [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Many large organizations have a centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment based on proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems. In contrast, Intel IT has successfully implemented a decentralized ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and supports [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented a low-cost thermal storage system that maintained cooling at a high-density data center during an electrical power outage. This enabled the data center to survive the outage without costly damage to servers. The system [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 Best Practices: Intel IT is actively integrating employee-owned hand-held devices into our enterprise environment. With safeguards in place to protect data and intellectual property, we are allowing employees to select the tools that suit their personal work styles and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT, in partnership with IAG, conducted testing and analysis to compare the user experience with different client cloud devices when accessing a range of applications hosted in the cloud. The results of our testing showed the [See the full post…]

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: Matt Bodin of Intel IT demonstrates in a proof-of-concept how Intel Active Management Technology can be used to reset passwords on encrypted hard drives, saving service deck technicians significant time. See also: IT Center Open Port

IT Best Practices: Intel IT implemented a proactive problem management process based on analysis of objective, largely system-generated data from client PCs across our worldwide environment. Using this approach, we have increased client stability by reducing the number of blue [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: By actively managing Intel’s PC fleet as a strategic asset, Intel IT has consistently decreased total cost of ownership (TCO) for PCs, achieving a 67 percent reduction since 1995. Because PC acquisition costs typically account for only [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: IT cloud computing is a significant trend with the potential to increase IT business agility and lower costs. Today, however, security risks, immature technology, and other concerns prevent widespread enterprise adoption of external clouds. Intel IT is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our cloud computing strategy, Intel IT has been opportunistically taking advantage of external offerings of software as a service (SaaS) applications. To prepare for broader SaaS adoption, we designed a SaaS architecture that will [See the full post…]