Resources Tagged with 'Client Management'

Intel IT Services manage more than 77,000 mobile and 14,000 desktop PCs in 144 sites in 60 countries—all under ever tightening budgets. In this article posted on FierceCIO.com, authors George Clement, a Systems Programmer for Intel IT, and Richard Lansford, a business value analyst with the Intel IT Business Value program, say that by treating the PC as an asset, rather than a piece of expendable hardware and by employing new strategies and technologies, Intel has been able to lower costs, achieve greater productivity and increase both worker satisfaction and IT efficiency.

Rich clients, thin clients, everywhere a small form factor: Intel IT reports on the benefits and drawbacks of three client computing models in this Intel® Premier IT Professional magazine article.

Windows Vista* Business and Intel® vPro™ processor technology make a great bottom-line technology team according to this Intel Premier IT Professional magazine article.

Intel’s annual information technology performance report details how Intel IT reorganized in 2006 to improve results and met their three strategic objectives. Read this preview of the report from the Intel Premier IT Professional magazine.

Presentation by Malcom Harkins, General Manager, Information Risk and Security, Intel

Presentation by Steve Watson, IT/IS Crisis Manager, Intel Information Technology

The Metrics of IT Business Value: How Intel reshaped its IT department from a cost center to a business partner.This is the full magazine as a single PDF. You can also download individual articles.

This article from the Intel Premier IT Magazine asserts “Most companies lack an up to date and accurate assessment of the total cost of ownership for each desktop PC.” If this is true of your company, you’ll find the insights and information on Intel® vPro® technology in this article helpful.

Until recently, IT departments could only communicate with PCs when they were powered up and functioning properly. Intel vPro technology-equipped PCs offer a specialized, remote communication channel that’s available even when the PC is off or completely frozen. How does it work and what are the implications for your PC fleet?

This podcast is presented by Kevin Unbedacht, Senior Platform Strategist, Altiris

For the latest on vPro, visit the vPro Expert Center.

Maintaining current versions of software applications across an enterprise PC fleet is a constant challenge. However, not doing so invites trouble, as a single unpatched PC poses a security risk to the entire network. We’ll explore best practices and a new tool for keeping the software on PC fleets up-to-date.