While in Oregon this week I was able to talk with Jake G, He's in the Brand Promise Validation team (which I thought he was part of Interop team), however you'll see what he tells me when you watch the video. This is the first part of the day & throughout the afternoon he showed me a couple of innovative ways Intel is testing vPro to ensure it is ready for IT shops & End Users.

Also to note, if you have seen my prior posts on CIRA (FAst Call for Help), Jake is the one helped me get the pitures, demo's & startup data for those posts a few month's back.

Next Up, Jake walks me through the Ideation Lab, their infrastructure & their console testing automation setup.

Prior Feet on the Street

Feet on the Street - vPro Series - Meet Wendy West

In continuation of my quest to learn more about power and identify who's making the IT shop transition to power management a possibility, I have news to report out on.

Today while talking with a Frank (Intel IT) he mentioned that the very company I used to work for is now giving out rebates to customers that are utilizing power management software to control their PC's. Specifically if you are in the Northern California area, the power company is called PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) www.pge.com.

Here are the conditions: (Please note the NO laptop portion).

NETWORK PC POWER MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Must be a PG&E electric customer. The installation of qualifying

software must allow centralized control at the server level of the

power management settings (sleep mode and shutdown) of PCs

on a distributed network. In addition, the software must have a

reporting feature that allows monitoring and validation of energy

savings. Qualifying software must be purchased and installed on

or after March 1, 2007. When contacted, customers must allow

PG&E access to customer property site to verify the software

license installation at the server level and the number of PCs

being controlled by the system. When submitting a rebate

worksheet, customers must ensure the following documentation

is attached:

1. copy of Software License Agreement,

2. a report directly from the Network Energy Management

Software that verifies the number of PCs that are being

controlled by the system, and

3. the number of computers authorized per License.

New Requirements

• Effective August 8, 2008, the rebate for the qualifying

software is for control of desktop PCs only.

• Effective August 8, 2008, a rebate will not be available for

control of laptop and laptop stations.

• Customers who purchase qualifying software by August 8,

2008 for laptop and laptop stations will receive a rebate if

applications are postmarked or received by PG&E’s Integrated

Processing Center (IPC) by October 8, 2008.

• Applications postmarked or received by PG&E’s IPC on or

after October 8, 2008 are not eligible for a rebate for laptop

and laptop stations.

Product Code Rebate/Unit Measure

M03 Network PC Power

Management Software $15.00/perPC

http://www.pge.com/includes/docs/pdfs/mybusiness/energysavingsrebates/rebatesincentives/eefficiency/ref/computing/08businesscomputing.pdf

How wide spread is this across the globe? i know in New York this is happening, where else?

Here's a followon post for the new ICON in the system tray. I just received my new Dell e6400 machine and thought showing the real icon vs. the screen shots from the past would be helpful. They definitely show more information as I discussed prior.

Centrino2 with vPro - Finally more Screens to share out

Quick Tip for the Dell e6400

• During bootup you will NOT be presented with a CTRL+P screen, however if you hit right after the machine starts it will take you into the MEBx. I looked throughout the BIOS and there are no places to change this. if you find a route, let me know..

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if your reading this blog you may have heard these words "Fast call for help" in relation to vPro, however without seeing it in action on a live platform it may not make a lot of sense. Therefore this last week I had an opportunity to see my first platform live in action making a call back to the enterprise and then to be managed through a Serial over LAN to go into the BIOS. The Platform was the new Panasonic CF-F8. Nicole already posted out the console view.

http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/activation/2008/10/28/fast-call-for-help-feature-in-amt-40-then-utilizing-sol-example-to-see-the-bios

What questions do you have about this feature? Also to note is that I started blogging about this capability called CIRA (see blogs below).

Client Initaitied Remote Access - vPro in 2008 - IDF

Centrino 2 - Digging in deeper into CIRA

My plan is to do a few more platforms over the next week with help from my IT expert (Frank).

Today I was sent this URL, checked it and was impressed enough to share it with the community. http://ark.intel.com/Platforms.aspx

It gives you the ability to either map from a code name or a platform and find all ingredients that apply. This answers a lot of questions that i get asked & I see the community asks around vPro. Enjoy.

also if you have a good URL like this for a specific OEM please comment at the bottom of this blog. Thank You

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Brush off your calculator, this number is certainly going to make you cringe..  “  1984 Tons of CO2 a year.  “

If you leave your PC on AT night it will cost you money & contribute to your carbon footprint (NOT GOOD)!.

I’ve talked about power management for some time now & I’ve focused on the importance of power management, however what I have not talked about is the $$’s, #’s and the hard data.  Let me use this opportunity to do so.  After spending the last few months learning even more about power I would like to go after a few power data points (Power Points  ) that I think are going to make you cringe.

First let’s look at how electricity is made worldwide  - here’s a graph from - http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/electricity.html  showing worldwide electricity generation by fuel 2005-2030.  Coal is of course the #1 source worldwide for electricity generation.

Now let’s peak into the US. On Wikipedia.org @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation

In the US – 48.9% of electricity is created by coal.  At this point your probably wondering where I’m headed on this blog and what is my point..  well. If we know that coal worldwide is #1 and in the US it has 48.9% of generation source, then when we talk about not using electricity it should be a good thing ($$’s, eco friendly, etc..)  So let’s model it out.  !

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First we need to lay out a few assumptions around what is a Managed PC & NON Managed PC.

• Here in this EPA presentation it discusses power cost comparison for both.  http://eetd.lbl.gov/EA/Reports/39466/39466-2  

• For this blog we are discussing a “Managed PC” and we are utilizing the energy star calculator located @ http://www.energystar.gov/ia/products/power_mgt/LowCarbonITSavingsCalc.xls

• Assuming a install base of 1000 well managed PC’s

What is the Output?

1000 well managed PC’s =

1,232,676, kWh of savings (CFO’s cringe)

1984 Tons of CO2 (Eco folks cringe here)

Now let’s make this specific by region on the US, if you utilize the following power rate’s - http://www.jea.com/services/electric/rates_quarterly.asp and since I’m headed to Florida I’ll utilize the current rate between $110-114/1000kwh, this equals $140k (Finance analyst take note –

is the response I’m looking for.  )

Now for certain regions of US the story ends here, however for power districts where coal is the source of electricity generation we move on to CO2.  Taking an average passenger car which produces 5.2 Ton’s of CO2 per year (quoted from EPA Site  http://www.epa.gov/OMS/climate/420f05004.htm#issue.).    If you take that same 1000 PC’s that equals 1984 tons of CO2 a year, make them vPro, manage them, you can potentially put the

  Sounds great right.. of course, now if you look at the 3 following case studies you will see more specific to Health & Education .

#1. Cleveland Clinic - http://communities.intel.com/openport/docs/DOC-1915

This article describes how Cleveland Clinic will achieve positive ROI of $442,000 in net power savings over 4 years and will also save 29,000 IT support man-hours in the same time period.

#2. University of Plymouth - http://communities.intel.com/openport/docs/DOC-2020

Recently, the University of Plymouth completed a refresh of their 4,800 desktop PCs, upgrading the systems to PCs with Intel® Core™2 processors with vPro™ technology in order to offer students the latest in IT services. The university was particularly interested in Intel® vPro™ technology because of the potential to allow intelligent power management, which could reduce power consumption and reduce the university’s carbon footprint.

#3.  IOT - http://communities.intel.com/openport/docs/DOC-1703

The State of Indiana’s newly consolidated Indiana Office of Technology (IOT) conducted a manageability assessment of PCs with Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology1. Their decision to convert 20,000 desktop systems to PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology within four years was based on reduced operational expenses2. The challenge was the consolidation of several IT service groups serving different agencies into a centralized service delivery organization while improving customer service and decreasing support costs

  vPro Managed PC = Lower costs for POWER = Reduce Carbon Footprint

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Let’s take this to action now:  2 part story here, 1) what are the management consoles doing  2) what can you do with power software in the mix.

Scale out w/ the following power jobs:

*Altiris -  http://juice.altiris.com/article/2182/utilizing-intel-vpro-amt-technology-with-task-server-part-1-power-management

What are the leading software vendors saying?

JamieK’s blog on vPro Expert Center - http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/proexpert/2008/06/03/intro-to-verdiem-and-pc-power-management

 Verdiem web site http://www.verdiem.com/surveyor5/default.asp

A typical PC consumes nearly 600 kWh of electricity annually. SURVEYOR can help reduce that energy consumption by an average of 200 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per PC annually. In a PC-intensive organization, this typically represents a 3-6% annual reduction in total electricity consumption, saving an average of $20-$60 per PC annually. Additionally, by eliminating PC network energy waste, organizations also reduce associated CO2 greenhouse gas emissions.

 1E doc on the climate savers site: http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/docs/Energy_Report_US.pdf

Power management software can reduce a PC’s power consumption by 80 percent, allowing com¬panies to save between $25 - $75 per desktop PC.28 Beyond automated “shut down,” power savings are derived during the day by automating monitor shut-down after a period of inactivity.

At 8.68 cents per kWh, a typical PC left on overnight wastes $55.13 a year. That’s more than $165,000 for a 10,000-PC enterprise that leaves 60 percent of its machines on, and $1.72 billion for the 60 percent of work computers that may be running across the country each night unnecessarily.

So… why did I say “Don’t share this BLOG with your finance Analyst or your ECO team, they will not be happy! .. “  Well if you’re the last to know about vPro and you have it in your IT shop, that could be a fun conversation to have with your CIO & CFO.    So.      “don’t be the last to know about vPro”..

PRIOR ENERGY BLOGS

Saving energy part III  - http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/proexpert/2008/05/15/saving-energy-part-iii-verdiem-nyquil-for-energyhog-pcs-

Saving Energy part II - http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/proexpert/2008/04/24/saving-energy-part-ii-managefusion-material

Saving Energy Part I - http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/proexpert/2008/04/10/saving-energy-does-it-matter

Eco Friendly PC - http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/proexpert/2008/06/17/i-have-the-first-eco-certified-computer-in-my-lab-yes

Announcement of EcoFriendly PC - http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/proexpert/2008/04/29/first-eco-certified-computer-interesting-article

Is having an IT Client Architecture important?

At first glance the discussion around architecture can be more of academic exercise vs. practical. It also may conjure up hours of wasted calories that have little relevance to the fires of the day. However I encourage you that the activity of IT architecture is something of great relevance and will help define your business, data, applications & technology strategy with their interdependencies. My boss and direct manager Prasad Rampalli (Vice President, Digital Enterprise Group) was one of the founding fathers of setting up Architecture practices in Intel IT and his experiences prior, during and after help shed light on why IT Architecture is critical for the success of the IT shop. Also, over the last couple of months you have seen Bob Stoddard (IT Architect) from Intel talk about what is happening in his world from and why it is important for his role in Intel IT. I also have participated, contributed and helped drive architecture in my prior roles inside Intel IT, therefore I thought it would be good to get us all together and spend a few moments talking about why IT Architecture is important.

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I would also check out our Architecture WIKI, where we are taking our Enterprise Integration Lab and Architecture activities a step further.

Bob’s blogs

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Please let us know if you have questions.

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