Business Value of IT

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. 

What are the benefits of Operating System Streaming?  Intel IT Systems Engineer Christian Black looks at OS streaming, one of the virtualization technologies.  He examines the pain of a failed hard drive and discusses Intel’s benchmarking of local drives verses a centralized virtual disk.

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 this peek inside Intel’s IT operations, Intel examines progress against 2007 goals including operational excellence, performance and profitability.  The in-depth report also evaluates key programs including data center efficiency, enterprise resource planning transformation, and IT governance programs.

Intel is deriving value — in terms of innovation and inspiration — from internal blogs and wikis. Jeff Moriarty, a web 2.0/social media design engineer, writes about Intel’s learnings in the Winter 2008 Intel Premier IT magazine article.

Rising data center and storage costs are having a significant effect on total cost of ownership. To help reduce costs, Intel has devised an eight-year transformation plan based on four principles: consolidate, virtualize, optimize, and standardize. An aggressive data center efficiency plan will shake up the way Intel delivers IT resources. Read the details in this Winter 2008 Intel Premier IT magazine article.

Intel IT tested servers based on select Intel multi-core processors to analyze the potential role of each in data center server virtualization strategies. Each server provided significant potential benefits in performance, power consumption per workload, and operating costs over older servers running non-virtualized workloads. Read the details in this article from the Winter 2008 Intel Premier IT magazine.

This on-line version of the Winter 2008 Intel Premier IT magazine is available for download. In addition to the entire magazine, downloads of the individual articles are also available below.

By building upon a solid foundation of security, data center consolidation, innovation and other best practices, Northorp Grumman strategically invests in the future via educational, workforce and other initiatives. Vice-president and CIO Tom Shelman explains how Northrop Grumman uses IT as a catalyst for faster growth.

To gain real-time visibility into our corporate network at the application layer and insight into how traffic impacts overall network health, Intel IT implemented a simple, scaleable, cost-effective tool based on an Internet protocol (IP) flow specification available in router operating systems. Read about the implementation of this new IP flow tool.