IT Best Practices: Intel IT and the Corporate Marketing Group, working together as a project team, are embarking on a big data analytics program that will help Intel focus more resources on successful media campaigns. Central to this program is the implementation of an analytics platform that provides a detailed, integrated view within and across [...]

IT Best Practices: Silicon design is one of the most critical business functions at Intel, and it requires significant computing resources. Larger and more compute-intensive design jobs require four-socket servers, which offer greater processing power and memory capacity to help ensure that these long-running jobs are completed to meet critical design timelines. Accordingly, large-memory four-socket [...]

IT Best Practices: In the fall of 2012 Intel began exploring the potential benefits of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions in Intel data centers. DCIM may potentially help us achieve cost savings through remote management of critical data center infrastructure and increased operational efficiency. We conducted a DCIM proof of concept (PoC) that explored existing [...]

IT Best Practices: To accommodate the increasing demands that data center growth places on Intel’s network, Intel IT is upgrading our data center network architecture to a combination of 10 GbE and 40 GbE connections. Existing 100 Mbps and 1 GbE connections no longer support Intel’s growing business requirements. Our new 10/40 GbE data center [...]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has developed best practices for increasing data center efficiency by retrofitting data center infrastructure. Our goal is to optimize capacity and the return on invested capital and decrease operating costs. We also focus on minimizing the impact to customers during the retrofit process. Several factors have led Intel to perform increasing [...]

IT Best Practices: To accommodate the increasing demands that data center growth places on Intel’s network, Intel IT is upgrading our data center network architecture to a combination of 10 GbE and 40 GbE connections. Existing 100 Mbps and 1 GbE connections no longer support Intel’s growing business requirements. Our new 10/40 GbE data center [...]

IT Best Practices: Episode 82 – The use of mobile devices in the enterprise – and everywhere for that matter – has increased dramatically over the past several years. This is as true at Intel as anywhere. As the use of mobile devices increased at the company, so did the number of mobile applications written [...]

IT Best Practices: Over the past few years, the variety of client devices in use at Intel has grown significantly. While we still find that a 2- to 4-year refresh cycle offers the best total cost of ownership, some of our client device fleet management practices have also evolved. Improvements in security have enabled Intel [...]

IT Best Practices: In 2013 Intel IT launched a new social collaboration platform that combined professional networking and social capabilities with content coauthoring for business-focused collaboration. The new platform improves user experience, allows increased security levels, integrates with core business processes, and encourages employee participation. To increase employee adoption, we developed use cases and focused on [...]

IT Best Practices: Episode 81 – The explosion of the use of mobile devices in the workplace and the consumerization of IT present special challenges to the organization. Employees have high expectations for network support. It’s hard to imagine not having near-ubiquitous network access in the workplace. But it wasn’t really that long ago that [...]