Cloud computing is changing the way Intel IT manages Intel data centers. We are adopting cloud computing as part of our data center strategy to provide cost-effective, highly agile back-end services that boost both employee and business productivity.
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To support IT consumerization, Intel IT is shifting focus to deliver services to any device. By taking advantage of a combination of technologies and trends—such as ubiquitous internet connectivity, virtualization, and cloud computing—we have an opportunity to redefine the way we provide services to meet user requirements. Intel calls the vision of seamless, consistent experiences across devices the Compute Continuum, and Intel IT has established a program to help deliver these capabilities.
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As part of a multiyear strategy, Intel IT began migrating mission-critical computing environments from proprietary systems to Intel® architecture. These environments included silicon design, manufacturing, and global enterprise resource planning (ERP). As a result of a meticulous planning process and following best practices, the migrations turned out to be less difficult—and the benefits greater—than originally anticipated.
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To create the infrastructure for a private enterprise cloud, Intel IT has a goal of virtualizing up to 75 percent of our office and enterprise computing environments. To achieve this, Intel IT will need to virtualize mission-critical applications, which is challenging due to rigorous performance, availability, and other requirements. Based on the outcome of this POC, Intel IT plans to start virtualizing the first of many mission-critical applications in 2011 as part of our cloud environment.
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To meet the unique needs of Intel's most complex corporate divestiture, Intel IT developed new processes and tools that solved substantial challenges in the areas of intellectual property protection, legal, compliance, asset transfer, and manufacturing carve-out.
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Our Intel IT data center strategy is on track to deliver USD 650 million of value by 2014. A large driver is adopting the latest generation Intel® Xeon® processors, including the new Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family; testing results show up to a 35 percent performance improvement over prior generation Intel® Xeon® processor 7500. We are also seeing up to a 7.81x improvement over Intel® Xeon® processor 7100-based servers (targeted to be replaced).

Hear how Intel IT is increasing DC facility efficiency through innovative designs and approaches to reduce power consumption.

Experience Intel IT's data center strategy that has us on track to create USD 650 million of value for Intel. Through a series of videos, gain a deeper understanding of our facilities' compute, networking, and storage approaches. Then take a video tour of our world-class data centers.

Learn how Intel IT manages over 18 PB of storage in our design computing, manufacturing, office, and enterprise environments, including our new parallel storage solution for design.

Learn about Intel's investigation of air economizers to optimize power and cooling in their data centers. The proof of concept test used 100 percent 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 percent and a potential savings of USD 2.87 million for a 10-MW data center.