Intel IT is deploying Intel® vPro™ technology to maintain, manage and protect client systems more effectively. One important issue was integrating the solution with existing security infrastructure and policies to ensure secure client management across the enterprise. After performing qualitative risk assessments, potential threats were identified and prioritized leading Intel IT to design a certificate-based authentication solution to control access to the client management console. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘planning’
Implementing Intel® vPro™ Technology to Drive Down Client Management Costs
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008Intel CIO on The Strategic Value of Intel IT
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008Intel CIO Diane Bryant discusses how Intel IT works to be a strategic partner:
- Deliver business solutions that support Intel’s strategy in driving our business goals
- Help our business groups define, develop and deliver new products and platforms that address specific challenges for IT
- Share best known practices from Intel IT with the industry
Increasing the Business Value of Mobility
Monday, December 22nd, 2008Mobile computing has become a strategic asset for Intel. Wireless-enabled notebooks increase the productivity per average employee by more than five percent and help to create a more efficient work environment. Today, approximately 80 percent of Intel employees use a notebook as their primary business tool. Now we are working to take the mobility of our workers to the next level by taking a look at our overall mobile strategy.
The result is a major upgrade of our mobile computing solutions coupled with a redesign of our physical office space. This white paper describes our experience in designing and deploying the new mobile work environments, and in helping our employees make the transition. It will be useful for IT and business decision makers looking for ways to increase the value of mobility in their own businesses so they can reduce operating costs and improve the productivity, responsiveness, and satisfaction of their employees. (more…)
Intel IT’s Air Economizer Proof of Concept
Monday, December 1st, 2008Learn about Intel’s investigation of air economizers to optimize power and cooling in their data centers. The proof of concept (PoC) test used 100% air exchange over a 10-month period with an extreme range in temperature, humidity and air quality. The result was an estimated data center power savings of 67% and a potential savings of $2.87 million for a 10-MW data center. (more…)
Manage Desktop and Mobile PCs from the Same Console Webcast
Thursday, November 20th, 2008Join Gartner’s Research Vice President Stephen Kleynhans, and Intel’s Director of Business PC Marketing Fred Jentgen as they discuss the latest enhancements for managing both desktop and mobile PCs from the same IT console.
Program discussion topics include:
- Three key trends for IT buyers
- Overcoming the challenges of PC manageability
- The benefit of remote support without a working OS
- Advantages for corporate PC buyers
- The DASH initiative – Desktop Management Task Force
- What’s new with Intel® vPro™ Technology
- Case studies
Reducing Storage Costs and Growth
Thursday, November 20th, 2008After assessing Intel’s current storage environment, including pain points and business drivers, Intel IT developed a storage optimization plan. The plan, documented in this IT@Intel white paper, identified opportunities to reduce Intel’s storage capacity requirements by 27 percent over the next five years, keep storage costs nearly flat, and deliver significant ROI. (more…)
Reinventing IT
Thursday, November 20th, 2008When a study showed that some DuPont data centers were becoming outdated and inefficient, the IT team took a fresh look at the infrastructure. Intel worked with the DuPont team in three key areas to support separate but interrelated initiatives: server optimization, data center reviews, and hardware evaluation. Read the details in this case study. (more…)
The Value Influence
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008To hear Ramon Baez, Kimberly-Clark’s CIO, tell it, the key to IT value has as much to do with inspiration and influencing as it does with technology. (more…)
The following articles are also part of this issue of the Intel Premier IT Magazine:
- Intel Premier IT Magazine Winter 2009 Edition: Defining the Future of IT
- Crossing the Chasm Between Humans and Machines
- Making the Most of IT
- The Value Influence
- Intel’s New Approach to Strategic Planning
- The Future Will be Simulated
- Mad Dogs and Oil Men
- Virtualization Test
- Out With the New, In With the Newest
- The Fast and The Virtual
- It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
- It Can be Easy Being Green
- Mashups for the Masses
- Intelpedia Grows Up
It Can be Easy Being Green
Sunday, October 19th, 2008With energy-optimized hardware, smart siting, attention to detail and some financial incentives, EasyStreet Online Services sees its plans for a new data center as a potential blueprint for future energy-efficient facilities. (more…)
The following articles are also part of this issue of the Intel Premier IT Magazine:
- Intel Premier IT Magazine Winter 2009 Edition: Defining the Future of IT
- Crossing the Chasm Between Humans and Machines
- Making the Most of IT
- The Value Influence
- Intel’s New Approach to Strategic Planning
- The Future Will be Simulated
- Mad Dogs and Oil Men
- Virtualization Test
- Out With the New, In With the Newest
- The Fast and The Virtual
- It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
- It Can be Easy Being Green
- Mashups for the Masses
- Intelpedia Grows Up
Intel’s New Approach to Strategic Planning
Thursday, October 16th, 2008A changing business environment leads Intel IT down the road of a new strategic planning process. That process has identified eight megatrends that will affect how Intel IT supports the corporation and form the basis of the three- to five-year business outlook. (more…)
The following articles are also part of this issue of the Intel Premier IT Magazine:
- Intel Premier IT Magazine Winter 2009 Edition: Defining the Future of IT
- Crossing the Chasm Between Humans and Machines
- Making the Most of IT
- The Value Influence
- Intel’s New Approach to Strategic Planning
- The Future Will be Simulated
- Mad Dogs and Oil Men
- Virtualization Test
- Out With the New, In With the Newest
- The Fast and The Virtual
- It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
- It Can be Easy Being Green
- Mashups for the Masses
- Intelpedia Grows Up