A special edition focused on PCs presents bottom line best practices for deploying, maintaining, managing, mobilizing, refreshing, and securing your client fleet. Read now.

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Game: This is the game that grabs you by the nodes and puts fire in your firmware. You are the IT manager of a small company with big ambitions. You must master and deploy the technologies your company needs.

Video: While at Symantec ManageFusion 2009 from March 10th to 12th, we had a chance to talk to IT executives and managers from Disney International, Fox Interactive Media, Blue Cross Blue Shield and McCormick Spice Company and respected industry analyst from Enterprise Management Associates and Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC. In this video, they discuss the impact of Intel vPro technology on security enterprise.

Case Study: Polycom, Inc. helps keep its worldwide operations secure by refreshing its laptop fleet with Intel® vPro technology and Intel® Anti-Theft Technology.

Case Study: Erie Insurance cuts power costs and helps employees work more productively with Intel vPro technology.

Intel IT performed a technology evaluation and verified that netbooks cannot replace our users' laptop and desktop PCs due to several factors. Our study suggests that netbooks potentially could become companion devices that employees use in select situations and locations. We plan to continue investigating these usage models to determine the potential for enterprise deployment.

How can you get the most out of your PC purchases? How do you know when your PC support costs are more than the cost to purchase new PCs? At Intel, we've developed a comprehensive methodology, based on total cost of ownership (TCO), that lets us calculate the real cost of operating more than 90,000 PCs. Using it, we can understand the real cost of deploying and maintaining our PCs across varying time horizons.

As more services are delivered via cloud computing, which combination of client platforms and service delivery methods best meets the needs of users and IT organizations? Intel IT has found that whether services are kept in-house or outsourced to the cloud, the ability to perform local computing on the client offers the best user experience and the flexibility to run different types of applications. Rich clients support the full range of service delivery methods and provide mobile computing capabilities for our users.

Video: While at Symantec ManageFusion 2009, we had a chance to talk to IT executives and managers from Disney International, Fox Interactive Media, Blue Cross Blue Shield and McCormick Spice Company and industry analysts from Enterprise Management Associates and Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC. In this video, they talk about the security benefits of Intel vPro technology - which include the ability to deploy software patches faster into the installed PC base, and the ability to quarantine infected PCs and remotely remediate them.

While at Symantec ManageFusion 2009, we had a chance to talk to IT executives and managers from Disney International, Fox Interactive Media, Las Vegas Sands Corporation and McCormick Spice Company and industry analysts from IDC, Enterprise Management Associates and Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC about Intel vPro technology and industry trends. In the video below, they discuss the impact of Intel vPro technology on power consumption reduction and energy cost reduction.

These authors tackle the ever-increasing problem of the cost of energy consumption in an enterprise. They show how the use of remote power-management technologies allows a business to manage energy consumption while ensuring that systems can be awakened in a reliable, secure manner.

Virus and worm attacks are on the rise along with increase in exploitation of equipment vulnerabilities and social engineering to attack corporate networks. In this article we first explore the motivation for protocol security solutions, ones that are capable of protecting data in transit. We describe several solutions, at various layers of the open systems interconnection (OSI) stack, addressing several key network and platform threats.

Experiential animated demo of how vPro will solve pressing IT issues through usage models.

With a projected positive ROI of 605% and a break-even point achieved in two months, HSBC Mexico can look forward to driving improved operating efficiencies across their IT support model, while serving as a foundation to drive worldwide adoption and savings through the use of Intel vPro technology.

Intel IT offers guidelines for achieving quick returns and long term value with Intel vPro technology based on our experience in the first year of a multi-year deployment program.

While at Symantec ManageFusion 2009, we had a chance to talk to IT executives and managers from Disney International, Fox Interactive Media, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Las Vegas Sands Corporation and McCormick Spice Company and industry analysts from IDC, Enterprise Management Associates and Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC about Intel vPro technology and industry trends. In the video below, they discuss how PC refresh and Intel vPro technology helps minimize total cost of ownership.

As part of their online support strategy, Intel IT developed a self-service PC Health Check utility to deliver better customer support, improve response time, and increase employee satisfaction—while reducing operating costs

Intel IT security specialists have identified significant new enterprise security use cases that we can implement using Intel vPro technology. We focused on three high-priority, high-value categories—e-Discovery and investigations, data protection and loss prevention, and system health and updates—and successfully performed lab tests to validate each use case. Potential benefits include fewer labor-intensive deskside visits, increased security, and greater user productivity. As we continue to deploy Intel vPro technology throughout our environment, we plan to further investigate these use cases for enterprise implementation.

Intel IT has developed a PC platform performance benchmarking process that enables us to measure, manage and optimize our client PC builds from the user perspective, resulting in an improved platform performance and more realistic user expectations.

The remote reboot and power-up features of the Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology have enabled Fractalia to virtually eliminate on-site visits to repair faulty PCs, improving mean time to repair and decreasing IT support costs per PC by 85 percent.

Intel IT developed a new computing approach that combines multiple emerging technologies, including client virtualization and streaming, to potentially transform the way we deliver computing to users.

In Intel IT tests, a laptop PC based on Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology running a virtualized client environment performed up to 125 percent faster than a three-year-old native-mode system due for refresh.

Learn how Intel IT is implementing Intel® Active Management Technology across the enterprise.

Intel IT explored the technical feasibility and value of enterprise streaming. The study showed very favorable results with respect to performance, user perceptions, and the impact on IT operations.

View the results of Intel IT testing the impacts of streamed client and Virtual Hosted Desktop on server and network utilization.

In this paper Intel IT explores a proof of concept study that examined the viability of abstracting the client operating system from the hardware platform using virtualization.

Intel vPro Technology helps Verizon get to the PCs regardless of state. Net to the company is time and money.

Intel Active Management Technology provides various configuration options for customers to use when deploying Intel vPro and Intel Centrino Pro processor technology-enabled systems into their environment. Get a step-by-step approach of what needs to be done to successfully deploy Intel AMT systems.

Organizations struggling to manage their PCs have been limited to solutions that work within the operating system. Intel has positioned vPro as an offering that can assist with out-of-band management, making it possible to do remote support of PCs without a working OS environment.