IT Best Practices: Intel IT is integrating its collaboration tools with its business processes, providing an end-to-end experience for employees that is a natural part of their work environment.

IT Best Practices: Episode 87 – The Internet of Things (IoT) is the concept that diverse machines, devices, and technologies interact in new ways. This expands the idea of the computer beyond servers, laptops, smart phones and tablets to include [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 86 – In the mid-1990s, the only client devices in use at Intel – or anywhere else for that matter – were PCs. Managing the lifecycle of those devices meant buying lower-cost, minimally equipped PCs and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 85 – The revolution in social media has created great opportunities for better communication and collaboration in the enterprise. Sara Browning’s job is to leverage those opportunities at Intel. She’s the Service Owner for Social Collaboration [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Big data and the technologies that enable it hold the promise to address societal problems, but we need to get privacy right. This video describes the importance of reinterpreting traditional principles of fair information practices in a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 84 – The enterprise today is awash in a variety of compute devices with diverse capabilities. The days of IT delivering a one-size-fits-all, desktop-only computer to every worker are long gone. For a very large, global [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s SIEM architecture is based on three layers: common logging service, correlation layer, and predictive analytics. This security BI architecture consumes almost 4 billion events per day to deliver near real-time trends and reporting. See also: [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s silicon design engineers need significant increases in computing capacity to deliver each new generation of silicon chips. To meet those requirements, Intel IT conducts ongoing performance tests, using the latest Intel silicon design data, to analyze [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In Intel IT tests simulating the daily workflow of a silicon design engineer, a workstation based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family completed multiple, concurrent electronic design automation (EDA) application workloads up to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 83 – Cyber security in the enterprise has evolved because the threat landscape has changed so dramatically. That’s certainly true at Intel. Tony Saint, is Intel IT’s Cyber Security Operations Manager. Like all security specialists in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In the fall of 2012 Intel began exploring the potential benefits of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions in Intel data centers. DCIM may potentially help us achieve cost savings through remote management of critical data center [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 help [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To accommodate the increasing demands that data center growth places on Intel’s network, Intel IT is upgrading our data center network architecture to a combination of 10 GbE and 40 GbE connections. Existing 100 Mbps and 1 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed best practices for increasing data center efficiency by retrofitting data center infrastructure. Our goal is to optimize capacity and the return on invested capital and decrease operating costs. We also focus on minimizing [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To accommodate the increasing demands that data center growth places on Intel’s network, Intel IT is upgrading our data center network architecture to a combination of 10 GbE and 40 GbE connections. Existing 100 Mbps and 1 [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 82 – The use of mobile devices in the enterprise – and everywhere for that matter – has increased dramatically over the past several years. This is as true at Intel as anywhere. As the use [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In 2013 Intel IT launched a new social collaboration platform that combined professional networking and social capabilities with content coauthoring for business-focused collaboration. The new platform improves user experience, allows increased security levels, integrates with core business [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 81 – The explosion of the use of mobile devices in the workplace and the consumerization of IT present special challenges to the organization. Employees have high expectations for network support. It’s hard to imagine not [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Until recently, Intel maintained multiple app stores and delivery platforms, resulting in inconsistent experience, quality, and support. Intel IT has developed an integrated enterprise app store, the Intel Software Market, which simplified employees’ ability to find, download, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 80 – Advances in the SMAC stack – social, mobile, analytics, and cloud – have affected every part of the enterprise. Organizational security has been as challenged as any facet of a company. Organizations want to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 79 – The data center has evolved at an astonishing rate in recent years. Developments like widespread server virtualization, new applications with great performance requirements, and a forty percent annual growth in internet connection requirements pushed [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 78 – The SMAC stack is changing the nature of business. SMAC is Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud. Advances in these areas have allowed many operations in the enterprise to move to the cloud, and Software [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s enterprise private cloud enables us to deploy a virtual machine in under 10 minutes, provide on-demand self-service to Intel users, and offer a rich set of services for software development. Providing an opportunity to innovate [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 77 – DCIM is Data Center Infrastructure Management. It’s the marriage of information technology and data center facility management. A DCIM solution looks to extend the traditional data center management function. It’s an area of great [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 76 – The technical and organizational landscape has changed dramatically in the past few years. Organizations have a wealth of new opportunities for greater employee productivity and operational efficiency. But these opportunities, combined with an increase [See the full post…]