Innovation

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.

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.

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.

45-nanometer technology with hafnium-based high-k metal gate transistor design represents the most significant change in transistor technology in the past 40 years. Read the article or listen to the podcast on how this will have a major impact on mobile, server and desktop devices designed to provide high-performance and energy-efficiency from the Winter 2008 Intel Premier IT magazine.

Environmental imperatives are increasing in importance for IT executives. This Gartner IT Symposium presentation by Lorie Wigle, Advanced Technology Director for Intel Corporation and President of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, details Intel’s approach to eco-technology. Wigle looks at sustainable manufacturing, energy efficient performance, policy and industry, and e-waste initiatives.

We’ve all read and may have experienced how virtualization technology is impacting enterprise IT. But where is this innovation coming from? Intel, a leader in virtualization, and several new emerging technology companies are key players pushing the envelope to develop new virtualization technology and solutions. As part of Intel’s overall product and technology enabling strategy, Intel Capital seeks out and invests in promising companies worldwide to enable an innovative and rich ecosystem around Intel products for our customers.

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.

Providing an overview to Intel’s enterprise architecture evolution toward a service oriented architecture plus giving insights on how IT innovation is a catalyst that enables company-wide results, this material was originally presented a t an Intel Premier IT Professional local IT best practices seminar. Steve Birkel, Chief Technical Architect and Director of Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Architecture and Innovation with Intel IT, was the presenter.