Over the last four years, Intel IT’s proactive investments and innovations—including deploying advanced storage, networking, and facilities solutions—have increased the performance of our data centers. What’s more, we have improved the efficiency and achieved IT sustainability goals even as the number of data centers has been reduced from 150 to 69 worldwide and our global server count has decreased from 100,000 to 75,000 worldwide.
But Intel IT realized that true business value would occur if we optimized solutions to directly support individual lines of business. By taking advantage of emerging virtualization and cloud computing technologies, we were able to improve cost efficiency and business agility in the following operations, including:
- Design: To support quicker design and validation of increasingly complex Intel processors, we've created large, shared distributed grid computing solutions complimented with high performance computing.
- Office/Enterprise: To deliver on-demand self-service applications, we transitioned from a traditional enterprise infrastructure to an enterprise private cloud built on a highly virtualized infrastructure.
- Manufacturing: Improving factory automation and supply-chain planning efficiency for Intel’s manufacturing facilities meant deploying a dedicated, highly reliable data center infrastructure.
- Services: Highly available online netbook applications are a new approach to support Intel’s external service businesses. For example, the Intel AppUpSM center offers Intel services to help validate apps and software.
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Intel IT on key data center capabilities
Using the cloud to deliver business value
Intel runs on a global schedule, supporting silicon design teams, factories and data centers. We’ve adopted cloud computing as part of our data center strategy to provide cost-effective, highly agile back-end services that boost both employee and business productivity.
High performance computing for silicon design
Designing Intel® microprocessors is extremely compute intensive. Intel IT has adopted high-performance computing (HPC) solutions to address the final step in silicon design and has realized significant improvements in computing performance, reliability, and costs.
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Supporting operations through server investment
Through proactive investments including advanced storage, networking, and facilities innovations, we have increased the performance of our data centers by 2.5x while reducing our capital investments by 65% over the last four years.
Testing high-performance servers
Learn how Intel IT plans to take advantage of the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family as a result of our discoveries during testing.
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Our best practices for building a private cloud
Learn Intel IT’s best practices for building an enterprise private cloud. Get details about our strategy to provide highly secure services and data on demand to authenticated users, and learn how our move to a multitenant infrastructure depends on a shared, elastic cloud architecture.
Intel's data center strategy
Learn what's changing in Intel IT's data centers across the world, and see how our new strategy is leading to a widespread business transformation.
IT@Intel: Sharing Intel IT best practices with the world
IT@Intel features insights from your peers inside Intel IT and showcases the practical application of IT innovations delivering business value right now. We invite you to engage in the latest thought leadership around industry trends.
By participating, you’ll gain regular tips and tools as well as key perspectives from a range of experts. You’ll learn more ways IT can build business value by using agility, innovation, and proactive investment to overcome today’s toughest business and IT challenges.
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Intel CIO Kim Stevenson
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Meet Intel CIO Kim Stevenson
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Business Value of IT Transformation
Information Security and Cloud Computing
Data Center Strategy
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Intel IT Executive Insights
Strategies, innovation roadmaps, tools, and techniques on a variety of strategic IT topics
Information Security Best Practices
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Protect to Enable
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Virtualizing Secure Servers
Intel IT’s method of creating a virtual environment, while employing controls to maintain security
Secure Cloud Servers
Intel IT’s best practices and lessons learned
Laws of Information Security
Balancing business needs with information security risks
IT Long Term Sustainability Strategy
Optimize Value of Technology Investments
Enterprise Mobile Security
Maintaining information security in the enterprise while allowing personal devices access
Intel IT Cloud Security
Dealing with compliance, privacy, data and application security in the cloud
Stopping Security Threats
Intel’s CISO Malcolm Harkins discusses his approach to these new and changing threats
Cyber Information Sharing
Cyber Information Sharing: An Outcomes-based Approach to Achieving Specific Security Objectives
A Preventative Client Health Strategy
Enabling Global Collaboration
Intel IT Prepares for the Future
Improving Workplace Safety
How improving workplace ergonomics through IT can help reduce healthcare costs
Fast Encryption for Intel SSDs
Building a Private Cloud
Intel IT’s best practices and lessons learned
Data Center Strategy
Our approach for creating a sustained competitive advantage
Cloud Security Practices
Intel IT’s best practices for overcoming cloud security risks
Data Storage Solutions
How to support storage capacity & performance improvements
Converged Network Adapters
Using converged network adapters for FCoE network unification
Re-architecting Storage
Designing and managing the storage infrastructure using a tiered approach
Intel IT Resources
IT@Intel: Sharing IT Best Practices
IT@Intel connects IT professionals with their peers inside Intel, providing insight, best practices & lessons learned on today’s top technology issues.
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Intel IT APR Tool
Explore Intel IT’s strategies and actions that created business value in 2011, as well as key focus areas for 2012, in the interactive guide to the Intel IT Performance Report.
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Intel IT Executive Insights
The Executive Insights series was created to educate IT leaders on a variety of strategic topics, providing insights to the key Intel IT focus areas, outlining our strategy, innovation roadmap, tools, and techniques in a short executive-level format.
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IT@Intel Technology tips
IT Technology Tips were created to educate employees on a variety of IT subjects. The goal is to help improve employee productivity, take advantage of new IT services and raise awareness on other IT topics of interest both personal and professional.
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Inside IT Radio Show
Intel IT’s bi-weekly podcast features our subject matter experts, and other invited experts, discussing a variety of topics ranging from cloud computing and security to social media and the compute continuum in an easily consumable, eight minutes.
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