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Intel has teamed with leading companies and computer industry experts to publish a comprehensive IT Best Practices Series of books. The result is a single reference source for IT professionals who plan, develop, deploy, and manage Intel® Architecture-based e-Business environments. 

In this latest issue of the Intel Premier IT Professional program’s IT best practice magazine, Intel and industry leaders provide insights on successful technologies and practices to get you started on your way to IT Utopia.  Highlights include an Intel Product Roadmap from two perspectives (”tops-down” from industry trends and “bottoms-up” from the microprocessor), an interview with Intel CIO John Johnson, and an article on how Sony Imageworks utilizes their 8500 core data farm.

In this Intel Premier IT magazine article, Intel CIO John “JJ” Johnson talks about how Intel IT has upped the ante on the information aspect of IT while continuing to focus on technology. The components: a focus on design center efficiency, ERP replatforming, social media, and business process improvements.

In a point/counterpoint Intel Premier IT Professional magazine article, two Intel strategists look at the Intel product roadmap from opposing directions.  Is it the industry trends like virtualization, energy-efficient computing and cloud computing that are driving technology development? Or is it the increasing performance and capabilities offered by the latest microprocessors.  Read and then pick your side.

Intel Capital has a long history of investment in open source software companies, and has augmented that effort by establishing the Open Source Incubator Program. In this Intel Premier IT magazine article, Intel Capital says the time is ripe for accelerated adoption in the enterprise, calling open source a cornerstone of sound IT strategies.

Because our knowledge workers are also consumers of digital technology, our user experiences create new opportunities for innovation, enabling what we call the consumerization of IT.  “Digital natives”, who grew up surrounded by computers, MP3 players, mobile phones, and all the applications that go with them, are trendsetters and trend predictors.  They pick up on innovations and enthusiasm for them, advocating and using new technologies long before they catch on in the mainstream. This Intel Premier IT magazine article examines the ways Intel IT empowers these digital natives to conribute to the consumerization of IT and become enablers of new ideas.

Sony Pictures Imageworks deployed 3,000 new cores with Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors to help power the animation and digital effects behind its blockbuster films, including Spider- Man 3, Surf’s Up, Beowulf, and I Am Legend.  As this Intel Premier IT magazine case study reports, servers with Intel processors are helping keep real estate and power costs under control.

Taken separately, virtualization, service orientation and grid computing are “old news”.  But merge these three powerful technologies, and we’ve got a new information technology model that will fundamentally change the way we do business.  This Intel Premier IT magazine article is an extract from the Intel Press IT Best Practice Series book titled The Business Value of Service-Oriented Grids: Strategic Insights for Enterprise Decision Makers.  The book synthesizes multiple technology trends, including software and hardware architecture, high-performance computing, networking, and telecommunications, with business trends such as outsourcing, systems integration, hosting, and the emerging Internet portal data center.

New server and desktop technology, along with managed services, fill the infrastructure needs of small to medium-sized Businesses according to this Intel Premier IT magazine article.

Several times a year, Intel employees meet and plot how to hijack shipments of microprocessors, sell our intellectual property to competitors, blackmail our coworkers, and hack our networks. And we pay them to do it. We even provide lunch.  This article describes how Intel Information Security teams participate in wargaming exercises to better understand vulnerabilities and identify holes in the company’s defenses.