Intel vPro Expert Center Blog

Why should I even care about Win7 and why would my IT shop really want this new Operating System.

josh.hilliker@intel.com — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:23:23 GMT

In the world of IT, the challenge of defining value is mission important and keeping relevance to your end users is a key aspect of this. One of the opportunities ahead for IT is the move to Windows 7 and the impact this will have on your end users. Let's start this discussion around three areas of why you should take notice:

Microsoft & Intel have been working together to make Windows 7 and our Hardware perform optimally with this new OS
Intel Architecture is best of breed with Centrino2 & Core2 you have the best for energy efficiency, security, productivity ( the list goes on ).
With Intel vPro Technology it's easier to get this new OS loaded or to bring your IT shop to a new playing field for IT support.

Microsoft & Intel have been working together to make Windows 7 and our Hardware perform optimally with this new OS

Why does it work better together you ask? Well. Better Yet - we'll show you

DVD video - Part I, II & III.

Security

Collaboration

Intel Architecture is best of breed with Centrino2 & Core2 you have the best for energy efficiency, security, productivity ( the list goes on ).

Intel Architecture simply rocks

Get the best overall performance with Intel® Core™2 Duo processor you'll get an arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 6MB of shared L2 cache and up to 1333 MHz Front Side Bus.

Enjoy 3X faster multitasking performance with multi-core processing combines two independent processor cores in one physical package.¹ Processors run at the same frequency and share up to 6MB of L2 cache and up to 1333 MHZ Front Side Bus for truly parallel computing with over.

Improve execution time and energy efficiency with more instructions per clock cycle enabled by Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution.

Get smarter, more energy-efficient performance enabled by Intel® Intelligent Power Capability.

Improve system performance enabled by Intel® Smart Memory Access, optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth.

Get higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem enabled by Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, optimized for multi-core and dual-core processors.

Accelerate a broad range of applications, , including video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications, enabled by Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost.

With Intel vPro Technology it's easier to get this new OS loaded or to bring your IT shop to a new playing field for IT support.

vPro who? If you haven't heard of vPro yet, here's 4 intersection points with Windows 7 that make's it easier to deploy & manage.

Use vPro to deploy win7 - Windows 7 & Intel vPro Technology - Use Case #2
Use your update to win7 to turn on vPro = more managed PC - Use Case: Activating vPro during your Windows 7 Deployment- Use Case #3
Bare metal machine's are in scope to activate + new OS - Use Case: Pre-OS vPro Provisioning - Use Case #4 (SEE THE USE CASE VIDEO HERE)
Legacy application migration becomes easier & deployment of those VM's are done afterhours. - Use Case: Operating System Migration and Legacy App in a SMB Environment - Use Case #1

So what?

Well it's optimized to work better together, our latest IA is better for your business and vPro just makes it all happen.

Don’t' forget we have a windows 7 wiki - http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-3096

Lost your laptop? Turn it into a brick! Join our webinar and learn more...

michele.gartner@intel.com — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:53:04 GMT

Losing a laptop costs your company a lot more than just the lost hardware...think of the data that is on that PC. Now think about how many laptops you have in your enterprise and potential that there is for data breaches. Yeah, it is staggering - isn't it?!

Join us for the Securing Your Environment with Intel Anti-Theft Technology webinar on Tuesday, June 23 2009 to learn more about the impact of data breaches and how Intel Anti-Theft Technology can help you strengthen your PC hardware and security solutions.

Our panelists include Dr. Larry Ponemon, Mike Schulien, and Geoff Glave:

Dr. Larry Ponemon, Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, will share information from his annual study on the cost of data breaches; the associated financial impacts to business, the threat of customer turnover as well as preventative solutions. The Ponemon institutue is a research “think tank” dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Click here to read the study.

Intel Solution Architect, Mike Schulien, will discuss how Intel’s latest security innovation, Intel® Anti-Theft Technology, can combat security breaches by strengthening PC hardware and security solutions. This new hardware-level technology will shut down a PC and/or its data if it is lost or stolen with the ability to reactivate it if it is recovered.

Geoff Glave, Absolute Software Product Manager, will talk about how IT administrators can use Computrace, Absolute’s leading IT asset-management and security solution, to secure their assets remotely, automatically locking down a system quickly in case of theft or suspicious circumstances. Computrace technology is the leading security service now using Intel® Anti-Theft Technology. Computrace with Intel® Anti-Theft Technology Whitepaper

Logistics

Date: June 23, 2009

Time: 9:00 am PDT

Registration: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/217766930

And of course, what's an Intel Anti Theft announcement without Josh's stellar surfing video?

Windows 7 – Be Ready

josh.hilliker@intel.com — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:42:17 GMT

Key challenge with deploying a new operating system is preparing for the upgrade in your enterprise, from legacy applications, deployment schedules and seriously down to the how are you planning to roll out a new OS. While in the lab testing we discovered a few use cases that highlighted how you could deploy new OSes after normal work hours - Minimize end user and IT productivity impacts and maximize deployment saturation in the shortest period of time using Intel vPro Technology to initiate a remote PXE or media boot or an integrated power on command.

We dug in deeper and found the following value points from our lab test for deploying after you have vPro enabled:

• Perform remote OS deployments on bare metal hardware

• Perform remote OS deployments on PCs where the OS or PC agent are non-responsive

• Meet defined or mandated OS deployment timelines regardless of PCs’ power state or connectivity (wired / wireless)

While I realize that having vPro enabled is not always possible before an OS upgrade, therefore we are going to be posting how to deploy Win7 and enable vPro at the same time to assist with your deployment. We will be updating the following wiki as the new use cases are completed.

First Use case completed (as seen at MMS)

http://communities.intel.com/click.jspa?searchID=446723&objectType=102&objectID=3232

Windows 7 / vPro Wiki

http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-3096

Ready. Set. ROI. "Sounds like something you saw?"

josh.hilliker@intel.com — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:59:35 GMT

This week we just launched a new program to help you on your activation journey of Intel vPro technology. The x-intel team has provided key links to defining how to get a ROI, how to activate and how to get in contact with Intel insiders to explain what vPro can do for you. here's the link to the site and I highly recommned it if you are just getting started on vPro.

Activation Program

Now for those already activated, I recommend the ROI section as it was re-vamped to help pin point particular use cases and the value IT shops are seeing. http://communities.intel.com/openport/docs/DOC-1494

If you were reading the Wall Street Journal today, you might have seen this ad - http://twitpic.com/6hhwi

Now if your joining the community check out a few of our Pro's like Trevor Sullivan & Javed Lodhi, these guys are pro's on Intel Technology.

Josh H