What does greed have to do with information security? You’ll find out in this short video called The Greed Principal from IT@Intel’s Matthew Rosenquist, who explains how greed can help IT catch the bad guys.
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The Greed Principal
Monday, August 10th, 2009The Green Grid
Friday, April 17th, 2009In the video, Jon Haas of Intel’s EcoTechnology Program Office explains how The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and information service delivery, is tackling the energy issues. Data center managers around the world are running into limits related to power, cooling, and space – and the rise in demand for the important work of data centers has created a noticeable impact on the world’s power grids. In response, the members of The Green Grid have taken up the challenge of developing metrics to measure data center efficiency and the tools to improve it. (more…)
Intel Solid State Drives
Monday, April 13th, 2009Intel IT explains the benefits we’ve seen from using Intel Solid State Drives (SSD) in our environment, including gains in productivity and reliability, and savings in energy costs. We also show a demo comparison between a laptop with a SSD and a conventional hard drive. (more…)
Intel CMO Sean Maloney and Intel’s Newest Processor
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Information Week’s Alex Wolfe interviews Intel’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President Sean Maloney. Maloney talks about the new Intel® Xeon® processor (sporting 741 million transistors) and compares it to one of Intel’s first server processors, the Intel® Pentium® Pro processor (with only six million processors), and offers some advice to IT managers who may be gun-shy about upgrading their servers in the current economic environment. (more…)
Replacing Micro-Management with Macro-Leadership
Monday, March 30th, 2009
By Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
Last week, I had a fascinating conversation with the vice president of software development for a large technology company. The focus of our discussion was good and bad leadership styles.
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The Ghost of Christmas Future, Part II
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
In my last column we were drifting in our holiday bliss, looking forward 25 years to how we will protect ourselves in a digital world. We have a world in which we and our proxies must have some strong, and preferably standardized, way of authenticating ourselves for everything from purchases to work. We need to bridge the gap between the heavy authentication security vendors will want and the transparency that users will need.
So how does it happen?
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Thomson Reuters: Powering the Law
Monday, February 16th, 2009Thomson Reuters has been providing research tools and information to legal professionals for over 130 years and their services are used by nearly 95 percent of major U.S. law firms to research legal issues. Other Thomson Reuters databases provide vital information for science, healthcare, business, and other fields. With customer usage of its online research services growing rapidly, Thomson Reuters faced the challenge of expanding its IT infrastructure to support an increased demand while also containing costs to maintain profitability. Read how they expect to achieve a 25:1 server consolidation ratio, reducing power requirements and freeing up space. (more…)
Defense-in-Depth Strategy Optimizes Security Video
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Intel developed a defense-in-depth strategy to optimize information security using interlocking prediction, prevention, detection and response capabilities. It is a structure designed to support consistent and comprehensive security controls throughout the organization while allowing flexibility needed to manage risk. Intel information security strategist Matthew Rosenquist has details in this video.
You can also find the related Defense-in-Depth Optimizes Security white paper.
Improving Security and Productivity through Federation and Single Sign-on
Monday, February 2nd, 2009Intel IT has developed a single sign-on strategy and process that provides seamless user access to both internally and externally hosted applications, improving the security of sensitive user profile information, reducing maintenance and costs, and simplifying the user experience. Single sign-on enables centralized storage of sensitive user profile information through the use of standards-based identify federation, and this information remains under Intel’s sole control. (more…)