IT Best Practices: As part of managing the more than 100,000 PCs in use at Intel, Intel IT spends a significant amount of time and effort managing operating system deployment. Historically, new OS versions have been released every few [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is transforming our in-house testing environment to deliver better feedback more quickly to Intel’s product development groups. Intel employees use Intel’s products to do their jobs every day. Intel IT deploys and monitors the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is building an analytics platform that integrates and connects business intelligence (BI) data using a data lake model to reduce insight latency from months to days. Eventually, we aim to reduce data insight latency [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The factories’ IT engineers realize the potential value of IoT and large-scale data analytics in three ways: analyzing volumes of data, identifying what is useful, and reporting that data in a way that meets the needs [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: One of the most serious security challenges facing enterprises today is that of insider threat. However, many enterprises do not fully understand the scope of the problem and until recently, there has been a lack of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is developing a beyond-the-edge security strategy that will enhance security in our environment. This new strategy addresses several drawbacks with today’s approach to security. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To support Intel business groups’ increasing demand for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, Intel IT has developed several best practices that can help enhance SaaS security and protect Intel’s intellectual property.

SaaS applications can provide efficiency and agility, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: While Intel’s PC fleet consists primarily of Intel architecture-based mobile devices, such as business Ultrabook devices, tablets, and a growing number of 2-in-1 devices, familiar desktop-class PCs continue to fill an important role. In fact these [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Silicon design is one of the most critical business functions at Intel, and it requires significant computing resources. Larger and more compute-intensive design jobs require four-socket servers, which offer greater processing power and memory capacity to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Since 2013, 2-in-1 devices have been a standard offering for Intel’s PC refresh cycle. Intel IT anticipated that 2-in-1s could increase employee productivity, lower total cost of ownership, and satisfy employee preference for touch-enabled devices. Beginning [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Employee collaboration across the globe plays a vital role in Intel’s ability to innovate quickly and respond to marketplace opportunities. Over the years, Intel has invested in collaboration technology to increase collaboration, build stronger teams, and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In this video, we discuss execution excellence, business value creation, and being a catalyst for business organization transformation. Also, thoughts on innovation, risk and how Intel is looking at disruptive technologies such as the Internet of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To gain the security benefits of centrally managed hardware-based encryption and to better protect Intel’s intellectual property, Intel IT is deploying the Intel Solid-State Drive (Intel SSD) Professional Family (currently consisting of the Intel SSD Pro [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To help Intel IT’s mobile-device-design customers find the documentation they need, Intel has created a new content repository that simplifies the search process. Until recently, customers who design mobile devices often experienced difficulty locating Intel design [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed a Business Solutions Integration (BSI) service that incorporates business demand management (business requests) and business relationship management processes (our relationships with internal customers in all of Intel’s lines of business [LOBs]). We [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: For years, Intel IT has been evolving toward software-defined infrastructure (SDI), beginning with software-defined compute (SDC), to move from a proprietary fixed-function RISC Unix compute environment to an agile Intel architecture and Linux compute environment. To [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has built a visual data analysis solution that provides unique possibilities for collaboration. The Info Wall is a touch-enabled interactive video wall with a viewing area measuring 5 feet high and 15 feet wide. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has adopted the Cloudera Distribution for Apache Hadoop (CDH). The migration team that converted the Intel Distribution to CDH showcased the ease of conversion while using Cloudera’s tools to improve performance, management, and ease [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has laid the groundwork for mining big data using business intelligence and advanced analytics techniques. Traditionally, advanced analytics have been viewed as the domain of a few highly skilled data scientists. We believe that [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed a context-aware recommender system (CARS) to address big data predictive analytics challenges involving expanding data warehouses, constantly changing contextual parameters, and fast response times. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT, in collaboration with Intel Labs, is evaluating a new storage technology called Differentiated Storage Services (DSS). When combined with Intel Solid-State Drives, used as disk caches, we found that DSS can improve the performance [See the full post…]

Intel IT performance report: How IT is delivering value to Intel through innovations in social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and the Internet of Things. These innovations at Intel are improving productivity, efficiency, time to market, and profitability. [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In 2010 Intel IT created an IT Business Intelligence Data Management team to standardize and centralize the collection, storage, processing, and distribution of the information Intel needs to run its business. By architecting solutions that make [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing a strategy for multiple business intelligence (BI) data warehouses to provide significantly more powerful analytics capabilities to business groups across Intel. By providing an array of BI platforms, we are helping Intel [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 93 – Previously in this podcast series we discussed Intel IT’s Software Defined Infrastructure strategy. SDI consists of three major components – Software Defined Computer, Software Defined Network, and the topic of this podcast, Software [See the full post…]