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IT@Intel Update  This month the Intel® IT Center newsletter is catching up with the latest projects from Intel IT. Check out the links below to learn about strategies and best practices directly from our IT staff.
	2011-12 Intel IT Performance Report Explore the IT strategies and actions that created business value in 2011. Investigate the best practices in cloud computing and how Intel IT is delivering 80 percent of new business services through its cloud. Find out the security strategy that resulted in 30 percent fewer malware incidents in 2011, despite a 50 percent increase in the number of detections. Then compare key focus areas for 2012 with yours. Read now > Roadmap for Transforming Intel's Business with Advanced Analytics Before you plot your own course for big data, learn how Intel IT laid the technical and business foundation for deploying advanced business intelligence solutions across our enterprise. See how helping business groups envision new ways of using business intelligence can improve insight, decision making, and business velocity. And find out why advanced analytics, such as "what if" scenarios and the ability to mix and match data from a wide variety of sources in real time, can greatly improve response to market changes and transform business. Read now > Overcoming Security Challenges to Virtualize Internet-Facing Applications Learn how Intel IT neutralized security risks to expand virtualization into our demilitarized zone, thereby allowing our company to further accrue the business benefits of virtualization. See why server virtualization is the first step to achieving the business benefits of cloud computing. These benefits include: server consolidation; higher compute capacity utilization; data center space, power, and cooling efficiencies; and operational agility. Read now >   Intel IT's Data Center Strategy for Business Transformation Intel has recently updated our data center strategy with a bold vision. Intel IT realizes that maintaining world-class business capabilities requires constant IT innovation and the optimization of data center investments. Take an inside look at how our data centers are aligned to unique, constantly changing business requirements while balancing the key vectors of total cost, service level agreements, and resource utilization. Read now > Enabling Employee Owned Phones in the Enterprise IT consumerization is not a passing trend. This paper defines and discusses the eight best practices that Intel IT identified to deploy our successful personal device program. Read about the new proactive approach to supporting personal devices securely that has resulted in significant benefits for both program participants and IT. Read now >   Virtualizing High-Security Servers in a Private Cloud A High Trust Zone (HTZ) architecture constitutes the highest trust instance of Intel's virtualized server environment. Learn how the HTZ features 24 administrative, application, monitoring, and network controls to reduce the consequences of risks. Then you can see how Intel IT is now able to move the most sensitive information and applications to our private cloud. Read now > Best Practices for Building an Enterprise Private Cloud Intel IT has adopted cloud computing to improve cost efficiency, business agility, and IT resiliency (availability and security) as a means to boost both employee and business productivity. Learn about the best practices in several areas that, over the past two years, have helped maximize the business benefit of cloud computing and deliver a highly available computing environment. Read now >
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	Proactively protect intellectual property Thursday, May 24, 2012 9 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time Register now > Mitigate Insider Threats with Open-Source Intelligent Security Get proactive protection from insider threats with open-source software and best practices from Intel IT. Join Grant Babb, Proactive Investigations Program manager for Intel IT, as he discusses the impact of insider threats on organizations and the software and best practices Intel has developed to preempt this type of attack.