On my way back from Vegas now – a jam packed, 36 hours where I never saw the sun and never left the hotel (and didn’t sleep much) – but well worth the trip all the same. I attended HP’s D...
As anyone who has been following my blog knows the first thing you'll need to do when you pick up a NUC is buy memory, a hard drive, and a wireless module. The wireless module is an easy choice; just get the Int...
China, like the rest of the world, is dealing with a massive aging population. Add to this a rising middle class migrating to the cities and a changing family structure and the stresses to China's healthcare and socia...
When you first see the NUC your reaction might be that it's meant only for the PC enthusiast. A home theater PC or a home server is what it's for, you might say. But the NUC is capable of becoming so much ...
I work in Intel IT and run our IT Subject Matter Expert program. Often I am asked how to determine if an IT employee should be considered a Subject Matter Expert. There are many subjective measurements to ...
Welcome everyone to my Next Unit of Computing blog! The goal of this blog is to evaluate the NUC and provide feedback on the experience from an end-user standpoint. The NUC has many applications and uses; ...
1) It’s a major headache to replace the content; 2) It’s costly to replace the laptop; 3) It invites the misuse of the sensitive data files you have stored on it; 4) It opens the door to the potentially b...
Intel AMT, Anti-Theft Technology, and other solutions interfacing with the Management Engine in the chipset commonly use a kernel level driver. Formerly called the HECI (Hardware Embedded Controller Interf...
There’s more to the Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop* software (IDH) than meets the eye.
Intel is building an entire partner ecosystem around IDH that extends optimized hardware, data storage...
As Intel IT continues widespread adoption of cloud computing, Intel software development is undergoing a major shift. Intel architects and developers are learning to design cloud-aware applications that maximize cloud...
Managing the Changing IT Landscape: Greater Productivity without Sacrificing Security by Chris Peters Some of you may know that Computex Taipei 2013 took place last week. And you may also know that it was here ...
One of the most important aspects of creating a secure software solution is to focus on security from the start, it cannot be tested in. Many organizations make extensive use of security testing products to help find ...
For the past 12 years or so, San Francisco-based MedAmerica has relied on a web portal to keep doctors in touch with other physicians and clinical staff. More recently, as the BYOD trend has helped define mobile use i...
In my first entries, I stated that I felt that there were 3 items necessary ingredients for innovation. The first that I briefly discussed was the resources and allowing people the time to spend in this area.&nb...
SSD's are not expensive, they are actually cheaper when you look at the correct set of indicators. Do you buy a stock just on the price of that stock (hopefully you don't); instead you look at indicators and ratios to...
Back in 2001-02 when virtualization started to garner interest in the IT world, I wondered about running different Operating systems simultaneously on a server, I remember setting up a small environment in the lab usi...
If you are dealing with data analytics, you have probably heard about or are using Apache Hadoop*. By leveraging the compute power of multiple nodes in a cluster, Hadoop can analyze practically unlimited volumes of da...
Below is a guest blog from Narayan Sundararajan, global healthcare program manager at Intel, who attended last month’s Global Midwifery Symposium. Think about this: pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, post-partum ...
HP and Intel have been collaborating for a few years on project Moonshot to bring new levels of density, efficiency and TCO for light weight web workloads such as static web and dedicated hosting. Recently, HP u...
I woke up this morning and realized that yesterday marked my 19th year at Intel. Just as turning 29 and 39 freaked me out more than the actual decade birthday in my life, year 19 at Intel woke me up that s...
