Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology and Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology include a core component called Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT). Intel® AMT extends management capabilities for in-band and out-of-band management. As a security measure, these features may not be active when received from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendor. Intel AMT must be activated (or provisioned) in order to benefit from these additional management capabilities. This paper focuses on four key aspects of enterprise mode provisioning of Intel AMT systems.
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Simplifying the Provisioning Process
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Solving Enterprise IT Challenges for Federal Customers
Saturday, January 31st, 2009This solutions brief provides an overview of Intel technologies that can help federal IT organizations deal with choosing the right technologies, increasing security, lowering costs and improving energy-efficiency. (more…)
Intel IT 2008 Performance Report
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Each year, the annual performance report from Intel IT has provided Intel Premier IT Professionals with valuable benchmark data and insights into how Intel is doing in it’s corporate IT mission. One important focus we report on is how Intel IT is adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services.
The progress toward 2008’s mission, Deliver competitive I + T, is also thoroughly documented with examples and data in this Information Technology 2008 Performance Report. Download your copy of this year’s comprehensive report to get insights on Intel IT’s progress in:
- Improving organizational health
- Reducing the cost of our overall operations, including carrying out our data center consolidation strategy, optimizing the WAN, accelerating server refresh cycles to optimize total cost of ownership, and saving us $95 million to date
- Adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services (see page 18)
- Delivering IT Solutions that drive business growth, such as our supply chain management solutions enabling Intel to be more responsive to our customers, better manage our inventory and enjoy cost savings
- Improving the on-line experience of our customers through the design, delivery and management of new infrastructure required for web 2.0
- Passing the halfway point on the complete upgrade of our enterprise resource planning system
- Partnering with Intel business groups to define, develop and enable technology and products that address the needs of enterprise IT organizations
Developing an Enterprise Cloud Computing Strategy
Saturday, January 24th, 2009Security risks, the lack of mature technology and standards, and other concerns prevent widespread enterprise adoption of external cloud computing today. Intel IT is developing a cloud computing strategy based on growing the cloud from the inside out, initially growing our internal virtualized computing environment to support an increasing number of cloud-like attributes over time. Additionally, Intel is already taking advantage of external cloud computing technologies including software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This white paper documents our findings and suggests which applications are not suitable and which are suitable for hosting in external clouds at present. (more…)
Discussing Virtualization: Part III, Intel’s Role
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009The third in a 3-part series on server virtualization, this video discusses Intel’s role and addresses the benefits, issues and technology considerations shared by Intel IT in parts 1: Usage Models and 2: Technology Considerations in the series. The video includes conversation between Chris Peters, Intel server product marketing manager, and Radhikrishna Hiremane Shridhar, Intel enterprise technologist.
Testing Live Migration with Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration
Monday, January 19th, 2009Live migration is an essential technology for an agile, dynamic data center environment based on server virtualization. Previously it has not been possible to perform successful live migration between servers based on different generations of processors, each with different instruction sets. In this proof-of-concept testing of live migration using Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration (Intel® VT FlexMigration) assist and the Enhanced VMotion feature of VMware ESX 3.5U2*, Intel IT was able to successfully complete manual and automated live migrations of virtual machines (VMs) containing complex enterprise applications between two- and four-socket servers based on two generations of Intel® Core™ microarchitecture. Our testing showed that live VM migration using Intel VT FlexMigration assist and VMware Enhanced VMotion is robust enough for hosting Intel IT business applications in a mixed production environment. Read the details in this white paper. (more…)
Improving the Mobile Experience with Solid-State Drives
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009Intel IT is evaluating solid-state drive (SSD) technology to better understand the benefits to users and the impacts on the enterprise. A proof of concept study, that includes extensive benchmark testing as well as deployment of notebooks, is demonstrating some significant advantages of SSDs over traditional hard disk drives for both users and IT. These include faster system performance, lower energy consumption that extends battery life, and the potential to reduce IT support costs. Read the details on why Intel IT sees this as a logical step in improving users’ experience with mobile computing at Intel. (more…)
A New Era of Virtualization
Monday, November 10th, 2008In this technical article from the Intel Software Digest, the author looks at how virtualization needs to be baked into the engineering of every software release, requiring knowledge of both proprietary and open source virtualization ecosystems and how key decisions will impact the performance of enterprise applications. If you are looking at vitualization solutions, this article will give you some inside intelligence to guide your search. (more…)