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Posted Nov 19, 2008 Intel’s Social Media Consumer Lab
Twitter, Digg, Facebook, My Space…they’re big with younger consumers. But do they have a place in the enterprise? Intel social media consumer lab manager Carl Fiorentino briefly describes a Twitter application Intel is considering using on their internal news site.
Posted Nov 8, 2008 Next Generation Wireless Technology: WiMAX
What’s going on with WiMAX? Intel marketing manager Eric Townsend provided this update to the Gartnter ITXpo audience including hints of products and services to come.
Posted Nov 7, 2008 Social Media and Security
Malcolm Harkins, general manager of information risk and security for Intel IT, explains how and why social engineers can use new media to exploit the good intentions of your workforce. Learn how to protect your company by seeing how Intel guards their enterprise network against the risks of blogs, wikis, mobile devices and other seemingly harmless security intrusions.
Posted Nov 6, 2008 Scalability and Sustainability
Gartner Fellow Martin Reynolds begins this presentation to the Intel Premier IT Professional local seminar with a revised forecast for 2009 end-user spending on IT products and services and paints a picture of its impact on IT. Reynolds offers key suggestions on how to deal with increasing costs, how to deliver meaningful value and innovation to business unit customers, and what new technologies and ideas IT managers should be thinking about. He further talks about the changes which the Obama presidency will bring about with an increased emphasis on global warming and the need for IT to care about CO2 emissions.
Posted Nov 5, 2008 Air Economizer Proof of Concept Webinar
Intel IT conducted a proof of concept to see if an air economizer could be used to cool production servers with 100% outside air. In this archived webinar, Don Atwood, data center and server operations manager in five states in the United States and Central/South America, discusses the proof of concept and the results.
Posted Oct 24, 2008 Evaluating Thin Clients and Alternative Compute Models
Can new application delivery models, improved hardware management and security models, and best practices and tools bring some relief to the pain that IT managers are feeling today? Rich Nockels, Intel marketing manager, looks at a spectrum of compute models and customer stories to shed light on these issues.
Posted Oct 23, 2008 Intel’s Drive to Green IT
Intel marketing manager Eric Doyle, presenting at Gartner ITxpo, explains how to optimize all of the elements in a data center in order to deliver the best energy efficiency. From metrics, to planning and layout, to instrumentation and management, he covers it all.
Posted Oct 21, 2008 Innovating So You Can Too: Intel® vPro™ technology
Most of our IT budgets go to keep the business running with an aveage of less than 10% going toward innovation. In this presentation from Gartner ITXpo, Intel Marketing Manager Rich Nockels shows how the built-in manageability and security features of Intel® vPro™ technology can offer some budget relief and free up funds for innovation.
Posted Oct 21, 2008 Can I Ever Co-Exist With Generation Next? (Part Two)
From The Practical CIO by Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
In my last column, I explained how I put together three focus groups of “Gen Next” employees. My goal was to better understand what they expected from their jobs, as well as what they expected from their leaders. The responses they gave were insightful and, at times, surprising. They also tended to fall into three general categories:
• What I need from my leaders.
• How I expect to interact.
• What I want from my employer.
Posted Oct 18, 2008 It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
Via managed service providers, small and medium-sized businesses can now achieve enterprise-level IT and get problems fixed even if an Intel® vPro™ technology-based PC is powered off, the OS is unresponsive, or the hard drive has failed.


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