Hear Matt Beckert, a senior financial analyst with Intel IT, talk about why Intel remained committed to its four-year server refresh rate in 2009 after current economic conditions forced a re-evaluation of the strategy. View Intel Stays Committed to Server Refresh (1:52, SWF).
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Intel Stays Committed to Server Refresh
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Intel IT’s Server Refresh Strategy
Monday, August 10th, 2009Matt Beckert, a senior financial analyst with Intel IT, talks about Intel’s server refresh strategy; why Intel decided on a four-year refresh rate; and the benefits and savings Intel has realized to date. Watch the interview with Matt in Intel IT’s Server Refresh Strategy (4:39, SWF).
Establishing a Low-cost Disaster Recovery Site
Thursday, June 4th, 2009Learn about Intel IT’s cost-effective disaster recovery strategy for one of its data centers. The solution was designed to avoid idle compute servers, use a tiered storage system, and offload backup from the main data center. Read Establishing a Low-Cost Disaster Recovery Site. (616KB, PDF)
Intel’s Long-Term Plan: Spend Money to Make Money
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Fast Company reports, “When it comes to economic crisis, grizzled veterans like Intel have stared into the abyss before and lived to tell the tale. We look at how several giants are approaching today’s meltdown with distinctive strategies for not only surviving but also thriving.” Read the rest of the story at Fast Company.com.
Intel’s Laptop Strategy, featuring Diane Bryant and John Mahvi
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009In 1997, Intel IT made a strategic decision to move to laptops based on facts, but also a gut instinct. Hear Intel CIO Diane Bryant and Intel PC fleet manager John Mahvi explain how that that decision helped Intel lower costs, raise productivity, reduce energy and even provide some unexpected benefits. (more…)
Better Together: Rich Client PCs and Cloud Computing
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009With more and more services delivered from the cloud, new questions arise about the optimal enterprise client computing strategy. Which combination of client platforms and service delivery models best meets the needs of users and IT organizations? This new white paper looks at the Intel IT environment, which contains a mixture of conventional and cloud computing services, and concludes that the ability to perform local computing on the client offers the best user experience and the flexibility to run different types of applications. (more…)
Deploying ERP on Cost-effective Industry-standard Servers
Monday, March 16th, 2009Intel IT has successfully implemented an ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and supports more than 10,000 users. Four-socket servers play an essential role in this strategy and provide the performance, memory capacity, I/O expandability and proven technology required to run Intel IT’s larger production ERP instances. (more…)
Proactive PC Support Improves Service and Lowers TCO
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Like all lT organizations, Intel IT constantly strives to deliver better support and reduce the cost of online service calls. As part of our online support strategy, Intel IT developed a self-service PC Health Check utility to deliver better customer support, improve response time, and increase employee satisfaction — while reducing operating costs. (more…)
Securing the Corporate Network at the Network Edge
Sunday, February 8th, 2009In this white paper, Intel IT documents its efforts to address ever-increasing security threats originating from within the corporate network. Intel IT designed and successfully deployed a pilot that provided an on-connection authentication service to two sites, securing the network at the network access layer. We developed best practices, automation scripts, and a solid strategy for effectively tackling global, corporate-wide deployment to over half a million network access ports in the future. (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.