IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed a Business Solutions Integration (BSI) service that incorporates business demand management (business requests) and business relationship management processes (our relationships with internal customers in all of Intel’s lines of business [LOBs]). We developed this service in response to our CIO’s “Customer at the Center” initiative, which calls for […]

IT Best Practices: For years, Intel IT has been evolving toward software-defined infrastructure (SDI), beginning with software-defined compute (SDC), to move from a proprietary fixed-function RISC Unix compute environment to an agile Intel architecture and Linux compute environment. To fulfill our vision, we are working on software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS). We envision […]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has built a visual data analysis solution that provides unique possibilities for collaboration. The Info Wall is a touch-enabled interactive video wall with a viewing area measuring 5 feet high and 15 feet wide. The Info Wall connects data to decision makers to help guide them to a conclusion or […]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has adopted the Cloudera Distribution for Apache Hadoop (CDH). The migration team that converted the Intel Distribution to CDH showcased the ease of conversion while using Cloudera’s tools to improve performance, management, and ease of use. The post Hadoop Migration Success Story: How Intel IT Moved to Cloudera first appeared on Connected Social Media.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has laid the groundwork for mining big data using business intelligence and advanced analytics techniques. Traditionally, advanced analytics have been viewed as the domain of a few highly skilled data scientists. We believe that there is an opportunity to extend some of this knowledge to business teams throughout the enterprise. […]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed a context-aware recommender system (CARS) to address big data predictive analytics challenges involving expanding data warehouses, constantly changing contextual parameters, and fast response times.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT, in collaboration with Intel Labs, is evaluating a new storage technology called Differentiated Storage Services (DSS). When combined with Intel Solid-State Drives, used as disk caches, we found that DSS can improve the performance and cost effectiveness of disk caching.

IT Best Practices: Episode 94 – The start of a new year is a great time to take stock. With that in mind, here’s a wide-ranging conversation with Intel Corporate Vice President and CIO Kim Stevenson. In this podcast you’ll hear her address Intel IT’s focus on security, analytics, business trends in the coming year, [...]

Intel IT performance report: How IT is delivering value to Intel through innovations in social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and the Internet of Things. These innovations at Intel are improving productivity, efficiency, time to market, and profitability.

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is implementing a strategy for multiple business intelligence (BI) data warehouses to provide significantly more powerful analytics capabilities to business groups across Intel. By providing an array of BI platforms, we are helping Intel mine a broader range of data faster, deeper, and more cost-effectively. This expanded architecture enables our […]