IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s multi-cloud strategy focuses on abstracting the application stack from the infrastructure to enable anything-as-a-service (XaaS) capabilities. This approach helps to accelerate innovation and allow application developers to focus on writing code, not rounding up compute, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: On manufacturing floors, OT dominates due to its exceptional reliability, but IT excels at aggregating data for analysis and action. Manufacturing efficiency could greatly benefit from IT practices, but a range of issues inhibit adoption, including a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Through data standardization, partnering with industry experts, and setting measurable goals, our FFU IIoT solution has allowed us to develop a foundation for edge-to-cloud IIoT computing that can scale to other processes and tools in the factory.

IT Best Practices: As technology evolves, Intel’s worldwide factories have experienced growing complexity in products and processes. We use data analysis and sensors to improve product quality, reduce capital costs, and speed time to market. Often a single tool is [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Sensor data and analytics, powered by a robust Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution can help manufacturers gain actionable insights into the behavior and performance of their tools in real time. With earlier and more accurate information, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s silicon design engineers need significant increases in computing capacity—both on their workstations and on data center servers—to deliver each new generation of silicon chips. To meet those requirements, Intel IT conducts ongoing throughput performance tests, using [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: To increase business velocity and cost efficiency, Intel IT designed and deployed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) capabilities on Intel’s enterprise infrastructure. The solution is unique in many ways. For example, we were the first IT department to incorporate the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Anyone who has worked in a large company knows what it is like to wait a half-day for a new computer from the IT department while the IT technician reloads all the applications and settings onto that [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Maximize the business value of the cloud. That simple statement underlies a three-year initiative to transform Intel IT’s cloud strategy: • Modernize our application stack by abstracting it from the infrastructure. • Focus on business and application [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Managing PC health in any organization takes sustained focus and a well-defined process. At Intel, we have experienced fatal errors, such as the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), due to driver and other hardware issues. In 2009, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Advances in modern client computing have brought broader features and capabilities to enterprises, helping them develop new markets, innovate new products, and improve communication. But these advancements have also brought new challenges. Solution providers are releasing updates [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s disaggregated server architecture allows independent refresh of the CPU/DRAM and NIC/Drives modules, without replacing other server components such as fans or power supplies. Annual estimated CAPEX savings is at least 44%.

IT Best Practices: Business focus is changing from data management to intelligent action. Artificial intelligence (AI) can add significant power and effectiveness to human processes by recognizing patterns across massive amounts of historical data. The Intel Inside Program (IIP), a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s factories rely on thousands of PCs for manufacturing automation; keeping these PCs up and running can prevent expensive downtime. To manage these systems, Intel IT is using the Intel vPro platform’s hardware-based feature, Intel Active Management [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: IT departments everywhere face what appears to be conflicting business needs: the need to take advantage of the agility and technology provided by the public cloud and the need to keep proprietary information secure. Recently, Intel IT [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT, in partnership with Intel s sales and marketing organizations and business units, has unified the digital experience for Intel s business-to-business (B2B) customers by eliminating unnecessary business processes and technical debt. Our efforts resulted in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Internet of Things (IoT) solution providers will see enormous opportunities for enterprise IoT solutions in the coming years. By 2020, 25 billion enterprise-owned Internet-connected things across the globe stand to generate up to USD 2 trillion in [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT supports a variety of provisional and external workers and contractors who access Intel resources for collaboration and productivity. Providing Intel-deployed PCs is not always an ideal option. Some of these workers require higher levels of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Protecting data is one of Intel IT’s most important duties to the enterprise. And the practice of protecting data includes not only data that is actively being used, but also data that needs to be erased when [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s enterprise private cloud has seen reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) annually and maintains a goal of absorbing private cloud growth while reducing absolute spending. To achieve this aggressive goal, continuous improvements in infrastructure efficiency [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Data mining using machine learning enables businesses and organizations to discover fresh insights previously hidden within their data. Whether exploring oil reserves, improving the safety of automobiles, or mapping genomes, machine-learning algorithms are at the heart of [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 100 – Technology has evolved in amazing ways, and Intel’s factories have been at the forefront of that evolution. This means those factories have grown in complexity. This also means an equivalent growth in the amount [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In order to increase user productivity and reduce IT costs, Intel IT plans to make getting a new laptop or switching from one device to another as easy as getting a new smartphone. Historically, our users spend, [See the full post…]

Constraints on talent undoubtedly hurt enterprise growth and profitability. If organizations can’t hire the right people, they can’t move the business forward. More than ever before, HR must be closely aligned with the goals of the business and attract, develop, [See the full post…]

Traditional application deployment models move applications from development through testing and into production. Along the way, the application and the runtime environment must be kept in alignment to ensure that testing and certi cation done in the prior step remains [See the full post…]