IT Best Practices: Intel IT is responsible for managing all of Intel’s endpoint devices—at 147 sites spread across 56 countries. Managing endpoints can be time-consuming and expensive, often requiring a technician to physically visit the devices to troubleshoot them. Examples [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, it propelled Intel’s global workforce of over 100,000 employees, along with contingent workers and ecosystem partners, to begin working remotely practically overnight. Virtual private network (VPN) connections would be needed for all [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is enabling business transformation on Intel campuses around the world by standardizing on Wi?Fi for wireless LAN (WLAN) access. Our exclusive use of a wireless infrastructure helps to improve employee mobility, job satisfaction, and productivity—as [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Advanced cyber threats continue to increase in frequency and sophistication, threatening computing environments and impacting businesses’ ability to grow. More than ever, large enterprises must invest in effective information security, using technologies that improve detection and response [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel Manufacturing factories rely on advanced technology for smooth 24/7 operation. Each factory includes two data centers with hundreds of servers to manage materials, equipment automation, process control, inventory, analytics, and more. Manufacturing IT recently built a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is using Intel Silicon Photonics to affordably increase network bandwidth in Intel’s data centers. Intel’s demand for network bandwidth grows 30 to 40 percent a year. As a result, a key component of Intel IT’s [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel factories are using the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit to streamline deep-learning integration with the factories’ computer vision automatic defect-classification systems. Intel factories have been using computer vision for over a decade to automate defect detection [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: A robust merger and acquisition (M&A) process (which also applies to divestures) is a growing aspect of Intel’s business. But there is nothing simple about evaluating and integrating technologies and business capabilities or supporting incoming employees. IT [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has formed an Agile Program Management Office (PMO), as a part of Intel IT’s transformation and modernization. We have adopted Agile methodologies to deliver ongoing value to our customers. Instead of long release cycles with [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Optimizing PC refresh is a priority for Intel IT. It is imperative that Intel employees have up-to-date technology and devices that let them perform their jobs efficiently. Intel IT historically updated on-sta? engineers’ devices every three years; [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is building a multi-cloud-ready enterprise network that can meet Intel’s constantly-changing network requirements. Increasing adoption of public cloud services, enormous data and network bandwidth demand growth, an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape, and new business models [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Construction of smart buildings at scale isn’t easy. For decades, enterprises have included smart technologies in their buildings to gain operational efficiencies, save maintenance costs, and make their offices more user-friendly. While these companies may have experienced [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is improving Intel’s security posture with data intelligence–deploying a new Cyber Intelligence Platform (CIP) based on leading-edge technologies, including Splunk Enterprise and Apache Kafka. The new platform ingests data from hundreds of sources and security [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s integrated enterprise security architecture has achieved greater business flexibility by collaborating with business units and providing clear security guidelines, applying a “trust-but-verify” model; improved business enablement by removing many interdependencies to make security easier and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Like many companies, Intel is being transformed by next-gen analytics and the data that fuels them. The analytics engines required at scale are a major investment, and architectural decisions have multi-year, multi-million-dollar implications. Intel is digitally transforming [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Facing a complex environment of docking solutions, some of which do not meet the needs of our new workplace transformation requirements, Intel IT conducted multiple rounds of Thunderbolt 3 technology testing. The results of these tests indicate [See the full post…]

IT@Intel Brief: Learn how Intel IT is protecting the enterprise against advanced persistent threats (APTs), using machine learning with pattern analysis and other advanced cybersecurity techniques such as honeypots, sinkholes, and Layer 7 monitoring.

IT Best Practices: Intel optimized operations and reduced costs by virtualizing industrial PCs in front of individual production tools. The solution combines servers equipped with Intel CPUs, enterprise-level Intel Solid State Drives (Intel SSDs), virtualized storage, and virtualized servers that [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Enterprise architecture (EA) has become essential for corporations to be successful in addressing and supporting digital transformation and business growth at a much faster pace in an ever-changing environment. At Intel, we define EA as applying technology [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Dan McKeon, Intel IT VP and IT Infrastructure GM, explains how Intel IT is focusing on the business by using a multi-cloud strategy that allows Intel to get the right workload in the right location.

IT Best Practices: Aziz Safa, Intel IT VP and Chief Data Officer explains how the Corporate Data Office is using data and AI to provide greater insights for Intel.

IT Best Practices: Large organizations gradually accumulate technical debt for various reasons. Intel largely runs its business with enterprise platform solutions that comprise a mix of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom applications. Over time, the number of platforms and applications [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT plays a crucial role in providing the solutions and services that drive Intel’s digital transformation, leading to enhanced business outcomes for Intel. Uniquely positioned to help transform Intel into a digital powerhouse, Intel IT brings [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: The availability of new software applications, coupled with easy access to cloud computing, has allowed businesses to optimize their workloads for faster time-to-market (TTM). But without a clear plan, IT organizations can find themselves playing catch-up with [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Automated defect classification (ADC) using machine vision (MV) and machine learning (ML) can improve speed, consistency, and efficiency in manufacturing processes.