IT Best Practices: Intel IT has used design best practices to create high-density energy-efficient data centers: a 1,100 W/square-foot cooling density and a 1,300 W/square-foot electrical density (10 times the industry average).

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is responsible for fueling Intel’s business transformation with information technology, which includes providing employees with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate. While email is pervasive in most businesses today, it can siphon time, productivity, and creativity from the workforce. Intel IT decided to explore the correlation between productivity and […]

IT Best Practices: Our HPC environment, currently based on the Intel Xeon processor E7-4800 and 8800 v2 & v3 product families, has supported a 90.21x increase in compute demand with a 64.4x increase in stability. Tape-out time was reduced from 25 days to 10 days.

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 years. Today, the industry is transitioning to an OS-as-a-service model, with updates and new features delivered […]

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 performance of these products. By sharing what we learn with the product development groups, we provide […]

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 to 24 hours. A data lake is a repository for large quantities of structured and unstructured […]

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 of engineers and managers.

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 tools to respond to this challenge. Using the Threat Agent Library developed by Intel IT, study […]

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.

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, cost savings, and enhanced collaboration especially with suppliers and customers. At the same time, SaaS applications […]