Intel IT Executive Insights

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 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.

What effect will the advent of new, smaller 45nm transistors have on computing? Richard Dracott, general manager for Intel High Performance Systems, offers his insights on how this new technology will impact high-performance computing platforms.

In this Intel technology and product roadmap presented at a recent Intel Premier IT Professional local IT best practices seminar, the presenter discusses how Intel is enabling “predictive enterprise” with a strong computing foundation and close work with the eco-system.  Some of the technologies and products that will be a part of that enabling are also previewed.

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.

In this exclusive IDF interview hosted on the PodTech site, Intel CIO John Johnson talks about the many ways in which Intel’s Enterprise Capability Framework helps enterprise data networks keep up with the demands associated with managing emerging technologies, including social media like IM, blogs and wikis as well as the newest generation of smart phones. For the enterprise, Johnson highlights virtualization and the value of Intel(R) vPro(R) Technology — including the ability to fix or reboot a crashed machine in the network, or to analyze networked machines remotely.

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.

This annual publication from Intel IT describes how the organization performed in 2006, contributing USD 1.3 billion in business value to Intel.

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.