Hewlett Packard has provided a handy ROI tool to determine the potential return on investment when you activate your PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology using HP’s Intel® vPro™ Activation Care Pack Service. For companies with an HP install base, try it out here.
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HP’s Intel® vPro™ Activation Care Pack Service
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009UBS Investment Bank: High Performance Financial Computation with Intel® Xeon® 5500 Processors (Nehalem)
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009In this presentation from the Intel® Xeon® 5500 processors launch event, UBS Investment Bank Executive Director of High Performance Computing (HPC) Scott Ross explains his firm’s financial services HPC requirements. He then details UBS’ strategy for implementing servers based on the new Intel Xeon processor.
UBS Investment Bank: High Performance Financial Computation
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The Return on Investment for PC Refresh
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009What is the financial logic that Intel IT uses to justify a regular refresh of the Intel PC fleet? John Mahvi, PC Fleet Manager for Intel IT, diagrams the logic that Intel uses to maintain a refresh cadence of approximately three years. This cadence gives Intel the benefits of increased security and manageability capabilities, as well as increased productivity and lower overall costs. (more…)
Georgian College of Canada Achieves 1,350% ROI Over Four Years Across Seven Campuses
Friday, February 27th, 2009In late 2008, Georgian College of Canada began refreshing systems with desktop PCs with Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology and notebooks with Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology. The college then studied the return on investment (ROI) realized by deploying the PCs across their nine sites. Based on the results of their investigation, Georgian College expects to save approximately $104,000 Canadian just in help desk and travel costs for technicians. In addition, the college projects a conservative ROI of 1,353% over four years. Find out more about this progressive institution’s experience. (more…)
EDS: Increasing Call Center Productivity
Friday, February 27th, 2009EDS and Intel have worked together to successfully prove that when deployed, Intel® vPro™ Technology can save an enterprise three times their investment costs over three years while extending remote management capabilities. One example of production deployment includes an EDS-managed call center located in Canada. As call centers frequently have a high employee turnover rate, company policy requires a terminated call center agent’s workstation to be “wiped clean,” deleting all files on the disk drive. With vPro Technology, the task can be performed remotely resulting in productivity that equates to answering 370 calls a year—an efficiency improvement. (more…)
Measuring the Return on IT Security Investments
Friday, February 6th, 2009Intel IT developed a model for measuring return on security investments in our manufacturing environments that produces a much higher level of accuracy than other methods currently available. Our model has enabled us to make business-driven decisions about security programs, resulting in savings in excess of USD 18 million per year in avoided losses. (more…)
Leaner and Greener with Intel® vPro™ Technology
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Recently completing a refresh of 4,800 desktop PCs, upgrading to PCs with Intel® Core™2 processors with vPro™ technology, the University of Plymouth studied the ROI realized by this deployment. Within two months of initiating intelligent power management enabled by Intel® vPro™ technology, the university saved approximately £5,200 in electricity costs, and the break-even point for Intel vPro technology was achieved in under a year. (more…)
War Games: Serious Play that Tests Enterprise Security Assumptions
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Enterprises today have made significant investments in securing their data centers, factories, offices, and other assets against security threats. Their risk assessment methodologies and security precautions are usually designed by a single group of people—internal information security specialists—and aimed at understanding vulnerabilities in a particular environment. Intel has embraced wargaming as an additional type of risk analysis that helps us better understand and defend against malicious attackers from within and without. This white paper from Intel IT provides an overall description of the methodology.
Intelligence in Finance Newsletter – Summer 2008
Sunday, June 8th, 2008A Year in the Life of Trading Technology
Nigel Woodward, Global Director, Financial Services for Intel takes a look at developments over the last 12 months, taking us from new releases of Intel Architecture of quad core, through 45nm and the arrival of standardized benchmarks for comparative testing.