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 interest to Intel’s Paul Vaccaro, Data Center Architect with Intel’s IT Group. In this podcast […]

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 in the number and sophistication of cyber threats, require an evolution in information security capabilities. […]

IT Best Practices: Episode 75 – In order to keep up with the velocity of business, Intel IT has partnered with the company’s Sales and Marketing team to create a social collaboration platform. It’s a powerful set of tools designed to enhance individual productivity and open up the collective intelligence of the sales organization. Two […]

IT Best Practices: Episode 74 – Traditionally, advanced analytics – the scientific process of finding insight in data – have been the domain of a few highly-trained data scientists in the organization. Intel is looking to change that. The company wants to extend at least some of the analytics done in the organization to the […]

IT Best Practices: Episode 73 – Intel IT has found that the combination of a Windows 8 operating system running on tablets based on Intel architecture yields some significant benefits. These devices are a great resource for employees, and offer manageability and security benefits for IT. In this podcast we talk with Tiffany Pany, Program […]

IT Best Practices: Episode 72 – Intel recognizes the value a big data platform can bring to Business Intelligence. Organizations like Intel are rich in data, but that value can’t be realized until there’s a way to collect, sort, and analyze that data to extract meaningful business intelligence from it. And no one knows more […]

IT Best Practices: Episode 71 – The annual RSA security conference was held in San Francisco recently. It was a chance to get together with top officials from a couple of large enterprise security organizations and talk about security by design – the idea of incorporating security measures throughout the entire development and manufacturing process. […]

IT Best Practices: Episode 70 – Over the last decade, Intel IT has been employing virtualization technology in the data center for the office, enterprise, and service environments. Servers have been virtualized, and server and storage provisioning have become automated and self-service. That level of automation and virtualization is now moving into the network element. […]

IT Best Practices: Episode 69 – In previous podcasts we’ve examined Intel’s overhaul of its data center strategy, and how Intel IT looks to run its data center service like a factory. One key aspect of that strategy is the data center server refresh program. Shesha Krishnapura is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel IT. […]

IT Best Practices: Episode 68 – The evolution of the cloud has had a profound impact on business. Cloud capabilities have opened up new opportunities, and have created new possibilities in the area of Business Intelligence. But this rapid evolution presents challenges to keep up with the latest technology, and at the same time continue […]