Intel IT offers guidelines for achieving quick returns and long-term value with Intel® vPro™ technology, based on the first year of a multi-year deployment program. This paper describes the methodology used in planning, developing and deploying Intel vPro technology and quantifies our cost savings for this deployment. Download Implementing Intel® vPro™ Technology to Drive Down Costs (401K, PDF) from intel.com.
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Implementing Intel® vPro™ Technology to Drive Down Costs
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Mortenson Construction: Building a Better PC Environment
Sunday, April 12th, 2009With nearly half of the company’s PC users out in the field and just a small IT staff to manage networked devices located at six offices and over 120 job sites, Mortenson Construction relies heavily on remote management for PC software repair. Their previous solution was only effective if the PC was up and running. The company conducted an ROI study and found that implementing Intel® vPro™ technology would lower IT costs, reduce user downtime, and save energy. This case study has the details. (more…)
Intel Security Use Cases
Friday, April 10th, 2009Intel IT security specialists discuss 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. (more…)
Replacing Micro-Management with Macro-Leadership
Monday, March 30th, 2009
By Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
Last week, I had a fascinating conversation with the vice president of software development for a large technology company. The focus of our discussion was good and bad leadership styles.
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The Ghost of Christmas Future, Part II
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
In my last column we were drifting in our holiday bliss, looking forward 25 years to how we will protect ourselves in a digital world. We have a world in which we and our proxies must have some strong, and preferably standardized, way of authenticating ourselves for everything from purchases to work. We need to bridge the gap between the heavy authentication security vendors will want and the transparency that users will need.
So how does it happen?
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Deploying ERP on Cost-effective Industry-standard Servers
Monday, March 16th, 2009Intel IT has successfully implemented an ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and supports more than 10,000 users. Four-socket servers play an essential role in this strategy and provide the performance, memory capacity, I/O expandability and proven technology required to run Intel IT’s larger production ERP instances. (more…)
Case Studies Detail Improved Client Patch Success Rate
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Recent case studies show how Intel® vPro™ Technology improves client security and more.
- Calgary Health Region achieves up to 98% patch saturation in four hours vs. five days.
- Telkomsel is able to patch PCs with Intel vPro Technology 42% faster, reducing security exposures.
- CSK’s patch success rate increased to 90% enabling them to deploy patches up to 2x a month without increasing costs.
- Find additional Intel vPro Technology case studies.
Probe New Client Security Use Cases
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009The Intel IT white paper, New Security Solutions Using Intel® vPro™ Technology, provides client security insights, examining 10 security use cases in high-value categories — data protection and loss prevention, system health and updates, and e-discovery and investigations. (more…)
Telework Benchmarking Study
Friday, January 30th, 2009Intel and others participated in this benchmarking report to identify best practices for large scale implementation in public and private sector organizations. Published in 2006 by TelCoa, the findings are still helpful in view of the increased emphasis on teleworking. (more…)
Implementing Intel® vPro™ Technology to Drive Down Client Management Costs
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008Intel IT is deploying Intel® vPro™ technology to maintain, manage and protect client systems more effectively. One important issue was integrating the solution with existing security infrastructure and policies to ensure secure client management across the enterprise. After performing qualitative risk assessments, potential threats were identified and prioritized leading Intel IT to design a certificate-based authentication solution to control access to the client management console. (more…)