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 [...]

IT Business Value: As the technology landscape continues to evolve, Intel is in a race to introduce new products across multiple market segments; products that range from ultra-mobile devices to those targeted for the data center and the Internet-of-Things. These emerging technologies and new lines of businesses challenge the traditional role that IT has played [...]

IT Business Value: We use three key metrics to measure data center transformation success: meet growing customer demand (service-level agreements and quality of service) within constrained spending targets (cost-competitiveness) while optimally increasing the utilization of infrastructure assets (operational efficiency). Building on previous investments and techniques, our refined data center strategy has created new business value in [...]

IT Best Practices: As Intel’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program grows and Android devices become more popular, Intel IT wants to help employees using these devices while also keeping the enterprise secure. We are delivering a native email solution that enables employees to access their email, calendar, and contacts using the native applications on their Android devices. [...]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT and Corporate Services, working as a team, have identified a range of factors to consider when choosing a data center site. When Intel experiences growth that requires investment in data center facilities, the project team uses this set of factors to select a site that maximizes Intel’s return on investment. These [...]

IT Best Practices: We use three key metrics to measure data center transformation success: meet growing customer demand (service-level agreements and quality of service) within constrained spending targets (cost-competitiveness) while optimally increasing the utilization of infrastructure assets (operational efficiency). Building on previous investments and techniques, our refined data center strategy has created new business value in [...]

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: Teamwork starts with listening. Listening leads to understanding. Understanding fosters alignment and informed activity. What sounds so simple and so fundamental isn’t always the norm. Often overwhelmed with new service requests, systems administration, infrastructure optimization, and problem resolution, IT organizations sometimes overlook the users they serve. “End users are our customers,” says Faith McCreary, [...]

IT Best Practices: Creating new products. Accelerating time to market. Expanding and evolving a world-wide design organization. Supporting these efforts is hard enough. Driving them forward is even harder. Some 20 years ago, the product design team at Intel consisted of about 40 people, focused solely on processors. Today, there are dozens of product development teams and [...]