http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog IT@Intel Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:36:30 GMT Clearspace 2.5.9 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-25T18:36:30Z http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/25/who-should-start-the-data-security-revolution After posting the video and opinion paper It is Time for a Data Security Revolution! a reader posed a simple yet deep question.  GroogFish, in the YouTube video comments asked ...who is supposed to start this "revolution"?  As my response is a bit roi value information_security model risk matthew_rosenquist it security rosi optimal_security matthew rosenquist intel it@intel Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:02:18 GMT matthew.rosenquist@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/25/who-should-start-the-data-security-revolution 2009-11-25T19:02:18Z 3 days, 6 hours ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/who-should-start-the-data-security-revolution http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12893 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/25/is-cloud-computing-really-cheap    Cloud computing buzz is on the raise. Cost reduction is one of the perceived benefits   of this capability. But is it really that cheap? Yes, it's a great solution for small companies with Web-based operations, which don't have to plan for peak touretsky cloud_computing it it@intel intel_it Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:34:49 GMT gregory.touretsky@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/25/is-cloud-computing-really-cheap 2009-11-25T09:34:49Z 3 days, 15 hours ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/is-cloud-computing-really-cheap http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12888 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/18/it-can-t-lead-corporate-sustainability-efforts-but-sure-can-help I’ve been hearing about green IT for a while now and personally thought it was a lot more hype than true business value creation.   I was surprised coming over to the IT side to see a good deal of focus being applied to Sustainability.   A couple energy_efficiency intel it@intel it power green_it chris_peters recognition cio sustainability it_sustainability awards best_practices Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:47:44 GMT christopher.p.peters@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/18/it-can-t-lead-corporate-sustainability-efforts-but-sure-can-help 2009-11-18T19:47:44Z 1 week, 3 days ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/it-can-t-lead-corporate-sustainability-efforts-but-sure-can-help http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12863 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/13/taking-back-the-security-initiative Threat agents maintain the initiative and we respond to restore balance. The bad guys innovate, find exposures, and use technology which they can leverage to achieve their objectives.  They take the first step, set the tempo, and lead this wicked threat security roi value rosi information_security intel_it strategy optimal matthew_rosenquist matthew rosenquist it optimal_security model risk it@intel Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:21:37 GMT matthew.rosenquist@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/13/taking-back-the-security-initiative 2009-11-13T19:21:37Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/taking-back-the-security-initiative http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12842 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/10/intel-initiative-aims-for-more-it-enabled-innovation For the past couple months, I have been working to understand Intel IT's innovation model ... specifically, how do we create business value with IT investment.  I have come across many approaches, opinions, projects, programs and more.   One of intel_it it it@intel chris peters value business innovation it-cmf institute martin curley strategic planning capability maturity framework ivi Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:21:33 GMT christopher.p.peters@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/10/intel-initiative-aims-for-more-it-enabled-innovation 2009-11-10T20:21:33Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago 3 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/intel-initiative-aims-for-more-it-enabled-innovation http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12820 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/09/assessing-business-value-with-net-present-what Net Present Value. Since coming to IT, I have spent much time focused on the topic of business value.   This topic has dominated customer presentations and events, CIO forums, internal discussions several blog posts and even a few twitter it business savings benefits project one strategy portfolio intel_it servers data_center datacenter matt beckert intel it@intel value net present valuation billion cio manager prioritization finance cfo capital costs chris peters Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:03:50 GMT christopher.p.peters@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/11/09/assessing-business-value-with-net-present-what 2009-11-09T23:03:50Z 2 weeks, 5 days ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/assessing-business-value-with-net-present-what http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12798 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/22/how-to-value-digital-assets Russell C Thomas delivers a great post on How to Value Digital Assets .  It covers many basics and more importantly gives a good direction to take while spotlighting common pitfalls in the valuation journey. “This tutorial article presents one method security roi rosi information_security optimal_security model matthew rosenquist asset value risk matthew_rosenquist intel it it@intel Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:05:38 GMT matthew.rosenquist@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/22/how-to-value-digital-assets 2009-10-22T19:05:38Z 1 month, 1 week ago 2 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/how-to-value-digital-assets http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12736 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/20/are-billion-year-passwords-weak No.  Just the people who use them. Passwords of reasonable strength (8 characters or more consisting of upper/lower case and special keys) coupled with timely expiration, are secure.  Passphrases with comparable measures are equally secure.  The systems value information_security rosenquist it@intel password optimal_security model risk matthew intel it threat vulnerability security matthew_rosenquist Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:45:20 GMT matthew.rosenquist@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/20/are-billion-year-passwords-weak 2009-10-20T22:45:20Z 1 month, 1 week ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/are-billion-year-passwords-weak http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12722 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/20/is-data-security-really-that-bad With a painful taste of irony, it was recently reported that the Ministry of Defense's (MoD) manual explaining how to prevent leaks, was itself leaked.  Source: The telegraph.co.uk   "The Defense Manual of Security is intended to help MoD, armed value information_security risk it@intel information roi rosi intel security model matthew rosenquist it data optimal_security matthew_rosenquist Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:33:55 GMT matthew.rosenquist@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/20/is-data-security-really-that-bad 2009-10-20T20:33:55Z 1 month, 1 week ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/is-data-security-really-that-bad http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12720 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/19/it-is-time-for-a-data-security-revolution It is Time for a Data Security Revolution! Information technology has lagged behind society’s skyrocketing need to manage and secure data.   Information is growing exponentially and our demands for control and oversight continue to develop rapidly.   rosenquist it matthew_rosenquist data information security value information_security optimal_security model risk matthew it@intel intel_it threat strategy Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:51:08 GMT matthew.rosenquist@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/19/it-is-time-for-a-data-security-revolution 2009-10-20T04:51:08Z 1 month, 1 week ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/it-is-time-for-a-data-security-revolution http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12707 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/13/silos-and-server-huggers-are-they-holding-your-it-organization-back As I started my transition into a new job within Intel IT a few months ago, I discovered that one our internal IT strategic imperatives was “Partnership”.   I have to admit that at first I dismissed this a simply one of many standard business partnership engineering operations strategy 5500 business_value intel_it chris_peters value server huggers architecture it@intel virtualization nehalem xeon cto silo it cio it_operations Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:46:46 GMT christopher.p.peters@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/13/silos-and-server-huggers-are-they-holding-your-it-organization-back 2009-10-13T14:46:46Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago 2 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/silos-and-server-huggers-are-they-holding-your-it-organization-back http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12689 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/11/more-on-the-cash-machines Watch Diane Bryant, Intel CIO, talks about the cash machines in data centers in this press breifing . Haven't heard about the amazing cash machines for your data centers yet?! Better check it out now: Installing Cash Machines in your Data Center it@intel xeon performance power energy_efficiency intel virtualization value cost_savings intel_it it cio server data_center xeon_5500 roi case_study jimmy_wai Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:26:13 GMT jimmy.wai@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/11/more-on-the-cash-machines 2009-10-12T05:26:13Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/more-on-the-cash-machines http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12684 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/09/installing-cash-machines-in-your-data-center At a recent event our CIO, Diane Bryant, talked about our continued plan to replace old servers in our Data Centers ( http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44213/135/ ). Here is a summary of her key points: Not replaceing servers could have costed Intel intel_it it it@intel jimmy_wai roi server server_refresh nehalem data_center data_center_cooling data_center_power virtualization energy_efficiency intel case_study value cost_savings Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:10:04 GMT jimmy.wai@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/09/installing-cash-machines-in-your-data-center 2009-10-09T08:10:04Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/installing-cash-machines-in-your-data-center http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12673 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/07/do-you-have-access-to-social-media-at-work Reading from news ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10368956-36.html ) today, a survey has shown that 54% workplaces block social networks completely. I'm glad to be in a company which is the 10% which allow social-network use at work so I can stay it it@intel social_networking social_media social_computing strategy intel_it value productivity risk jimmy_wai Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:55:28 GMT jimmy.wai@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/07/do-you-have-access-to-social-media-at-work 2009-10-07T15:55:28Z 1 month, 3 weeks ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/do-you-have-access-to-social-media-at-work http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12664 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/01/getting-rid-of-the-blue-screen I just read this paper authored by some of Intel's IT experts in the area of client management.  As an employee of Intel, I am now a huge fan of these rock stars.  Why? because they were able, through proactive IT management practices, reduce blue client intel_it it it@intel measure value vpro chris_peters blue_screen business_continuity business_value productivity employee solutions Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:49:36 GMT christopher.p.peters@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/01/getting-rid-of-the-blue-screen 2009-10-01T20:49:36Z 1 month, 4 weeks ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/getting-rid-of-the-blue-screen http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12646