IT@Intel

Most engineers love having a technical problem to solve. When it comes to sustainability challenges, Intel's Yoram Hassidim is a great example, whether it's his water recycling system he built on the roof of his home or a PC innovation that happens to change the way we use computers.

This is the third of four videos from Intel IT. These videos highlight various IT Sustainability projects and the IT experts that have worked on them. The experts showcased in these videos have a passion for sustainability not only in their professional lives at Intel but also within their homes and personal lives. Feel free to rate and comment on this video and stay tuned for future videos in this series of Making IT Real!

Learn about Intel IT's pioneering HPC solution to meet the compute demands for the design of Intel's next–generation processors, supporting a 13X increase in compute demand and a 10X increase in stability. The Intel IT HPC solution includes a new parallel storage solution combined with large memory compute and batch compute servers.

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Architecting Software as a Service for the Enterprise is an IT@Intel white paper that shares how Intel IT has opportunistically taken advantage of external offerings of software as a service (SaaS) applications. In order to prepare for broader SaaS adoption, we've designed a SaaS architecture that will enable us to shift to a more strategic view and facilitate faster, more standardized implementations. Authors: Catherine Spence, Jason Devoys and Sudip Chahal.

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In this video, Dave Buchholz and Clyde Hedrick explain how Intel IT is considering implementing Dynamic Virtual Client (DVC) technology that will provide a more robust and flexible platform that users want and that the enterprise needs. DVC technology uses containerized software appliances to abstract the OS, applications, user data and workspaces (both corporate and personal), and user–specific settings. Abstraction of components into virtual containers enables faster turnaround time on upgrades and new capability introduction, and provides greater flexibility and faster solution development at lower cost, while simplifying the platform IT has to manage.

Intel IT plans to begin enterprise–wide deployment of Microsoft Windows 7* on PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology in early 2010. Intel IT worked closely with Microsoft to perform early evaluation of the OS and ultimately found that Microsoft Windows 7* overwhelmingly met our requirements. In addition, we determined that the best performance and manageability is provided by deploying Microsoft Windows 7* on new PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology.

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In college Dean Blevins was recycling, and even met a certain someone across the street because of it—now he's involved in paring down servers at Intel to save energy and costs. Welcome to the second of four videos from Intel IT. These videos highlight various IT Sustainability projects and the IT experts that have worked on them. The experts showcased in these videos have a passion for sustainability not only in their professional lives at Intel but also within their homes and personal lives. Feel free to rate and comment on this video in our community site and stay tuned for future videos in this series of Making IT Real!

With a passion for sustainability, Mike Breton, Intel IT Technology Evangelist, shows off some disruptive technologies and proofs of concepts for the home and office. Welcome to the first of four videos from Intel IT that highlight various IT Sustainability projects and the IT experts that have worked on them. These videos showcase not only the work that is being done within Intel IT around sustainability but also within their homes and personal lives. Feel free to touch bases with Mike on his blog and stay tuned for future videos in this series of Making IT Real!

In this video, Matt Bodin of Intel IT provides a demonstration of 3 use cases using Intel® vPro™ technology. The demos show how Intel vPro technology can be used 1) to upgrade solid state drive software, 2) to remotely upgrade an operating system, and 3) to perform a remote reset of an encryption password.

Learn about Intel IT's tests with large silicon design workloads in which we substituted lower–cost solid–state drives (SSDs) for part of a server's physical memory—resulting in a 1.74X performance–normalized cost advantage while delivering up to 88 percent of the performance.

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Learn about Intel IT's new data center strategies that shift the emphasis away from reducing the number of physical data center facilities to, instead, focusing on approaches that leverage the full potential of our data centers worldwide. Paper includes Intel's key results, strategies and innovations in the areas of facilities, compute, networking, and storage.

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Learn how Intel IT implemented a proactive problem management process to improve the stability of our client PCs across our worldwide environment. Using this approach, we have reduced the number of blue screen crashes by more than 50 percent, and we are beginning to realize benefits in other areas including application crashes.

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To help Intel consume fewer energy–related resources and produce less waste, Intel IT is executing a sustainability strategy based on our Sustainability Baseline Model, a tool developed in–house that quantitatively measures and predicts the environmental impact of key changes related to IT.

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Hear Intel IT Principal Engineers, Sudip Chahal and Shesha Krishnapura, talk about Intel IT's analysis that has led them to standardize on high–end processors for two–socket servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. Analysis includes performance and TCO comparisons of servers based on low–end and high–end processors in the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series.

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  Intel IT's analysis that has led them to standardize on high–end processors for two–socket servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization.
  
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Matt Beckert, a senior financial analyst with Intel IT, talks about Intel's server refresh strategy, why Intel decided on a 4–year refresh rate, and the benefits and savings Intel has realized to date.

Hear Matt Beckert, a senior financial analyst with Intel IT, talk about why Intel remained committed to its 4–year server refresh rate in 2009 after current economic conditions forced a re-evaluation of the strategy.

Intel IT has begun to deploy up to 10,000 notebooks with solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of hard disk drives (HDD) this year. Following an evaluation, Intel IT found significant benefits from using SSDs including reductions in IT support costs and improvements in user productivity.

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Intel IT has been implementing a service-based architecture over the last few years to improve the responsiveness of enterprise solutions while reducing development time and development costs. This strategy has proved to be very effective in delivering quick responses to changing business requirements and efficient use of scarce IT development resources. Our experience with building a service-based architecture shows that an incremental approach to developing reusable modular building blocks provides better results and return on investment than a more ambitious approach.

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Intel IT has deployed an enterprise-wide social computing platform that combines professional networking tools with social media such as wikis and blogs, and integrates with existing enterprise software. Read how Intel IT transformed collaboration across Intel while addressing top business challenges such as helping employees to find relevant information and expertise more quickly, breaking down silos, attracting and retaining new employees, and capturing the tacit knowledge of mature employees.

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Discover Intel IT's quantitative approach to enterprise resource planning (ERP) server platform sizing that showed that the headroom advantage of 4-socket servers can increase flexibility and help avoid mid-life refresh in situations where there is greater uncertainty in workload growth forecasts and larger demand peaks.

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