White Papers

This Alinean white paper examines a recent server consolidation project by a large U.S. retailer who was able to reduce annual IT operating costs by modernizing their IT infrastructure and lower current cash outflows by leveraging attractive leasing options. Access…

Intel IT has begun to deploy up to 10,000 notebooks with solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of hard disk drives (HDDs) this year, following an evaluation that showed significant benefits including reductions in IT support costs and improvements in user productivity. Get the detailed analysis on the SSD benefits that motivated Intel IT to move forward.

As a major medical institution, the majority of this healthcare system’s PCs are used for mission-critical patient care—from maintaining patient records to clinical workstations. With this in mind, the healthcare system looked to Intel® vPro™ technology specifically to take advantage…

Intel IT has been implementing a service-based architecture over the last few years to improve the responsiveness of enterprise solutions while reducing development time and costs. One key learning: an incremental approach to developing reusable modular building blocks provides better…

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 requires agencies spending stimulus funds to report on the number of jobs created or retained as a result of that spending. In this white paper, IDC applies its understanding of complex technology…

Intel IT is implementing an enterprise-wide social computing platform that combines professional networking tools with social media such as wikis and blogs, and integrates with existing enterprise software. Our goal is to transform collaboration across Intel, addressing top business challenges…

Intel IT developed a quantitative model to assist with server sizing to show that the headroom advantage offered by four-socket servers can increase flexibility and help avoid mid-life refresh in situations where there is greater uncertainty in workload growth forecasts…

Intel IT tested multiple front-end and back-end electronic design automation (EDA) applications operating on real Intel silicon design workloads. Increasing Design Productivity with Digital Workbenches (190KB, PDF) documents how Intel was able to increase performance, design engineer productivity and time to…

After nearly a hundred integration projects, Intel IT has found that extending corporate IT standards into acquired IT environments generally pays off in a faster integration, lower costs, reduced risk, and enhanced collaboration. Find out about the balancing act IT…

This revised animated version of a classic white paper covers the comprehensive methodology, based on total cost of ownership (TCO), that lets Intel IT calculate the real cost of operating more than 90,000 PCs. Read Using TCO to Determine PC…