Managing almost 2,500 PCs, including many notebooks used by mobile workers in utility trucks, was a challenge for one of the nation’s largest publicly-owned utilities. Software patches and other issues required lots of travel time for technicians. By deploying notebooks with Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology, the technicians have been able to remotely patch and remediate virtually all notebooks anytime, regardless of location. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘PC’
Utility District Achieves Positive ROI, Improves User Productivity
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Cleveland Clinic: Improving Productivity and Reducing Energy Costs
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Cleveland Clinic, a non-profit, multispecialty academic medical center, recently changed their asset management approach to a lease vs. buy program and are acquiring PCs with Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology over a four year period. This case study examines how they tackled issues such as mitigating missing assets, supporting the Clinic’s Healthy Environment energy policy, and providing better manageability – while increasing productivity of the Clinic’s staff. (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…)
State of Indiana: Reducing CO2 Emissions through Remote Services and Off-Hours Power Management
Thursday, February 26th, 2009The State of Indiana conducted a manageability assessment of PCs with Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology. Their decision to convert 20,000 desktop systems to PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology within four years was based on reduced operational expenses. An additional benefit was the reduced task time for some types of software diagnoses and repairs that can reduce nearly 860,000 pounds of CO2 emissions across four years. (more…)
Mortenson Reduces IT Support Costs by Building on Intel® vPro™ Technology
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009In evaluating the activation of Intel® vPro™ technology-based PCs, Mortenson, a privately-held commercial and industrial construction company and a leader in using 3D/4D virtual design and construction technology, concluded they would gain the greatest benefits by reducing IT support costs and end-user downtime. For example, by leveraging the tight integration of LANDesk* with Intel vPro technology, Mortenson can improve their current re-imaging processes by taking advantage of the remote management capabilities built into PCs with Intel vPro technology. It is estimated that through remote re-imaging, Mortenson could reduce travel and IT support time in half. Read the details on how they achieved a break-even point in 12 months. (more…)
Tyson Foods: Realizing Cost Savings and Improved Productivity Through Remote Management Capabilities
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Tyson started with 1,500 PCs (13% of their desktop environment), which were already capable of being managed with Intel® Standard Manageability, built into PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology. Within three days Tyson had enabled their infrastructure and three weeks later were well on their way to realizing the cost savings inherent in PCs with Intel vPro technology. Based on these results, Tyson plans to have 100% (11,500) of their desktop PCs refreshed with this technology over four years through their standard refresh program. (more…)
Molson Coors Brews Up Increased Business Efficiency and Enhanced System Defense with Intel® vPro™ Technology
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Based upon the success of a proof-of-concept pilot using PCs with Intel® Core™2 Duo processors with Intel® Standard Manageability, which is built into PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology, Molson Coors Brewing Company made a strategic decision to convert 4,011 desktop and 3,840 notebook systems to PCs with Intel® management technology over the next three years. The company, one of the world’s largest brewers, concluded that the Intel management capabilities can deliver the greatest results in improved asset management and patch management. Furthermore, the firm can realize improved end-user productivity, power savings and expanded security with System Defense. Read the details in this case study. (more…)
Livonia Public School District: Making the Grade
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009For Michigan’s Livonia Public School District, remote PC management capabilities help lower IT costs while providing a stable, up-to-date environment for delivering quality education. Read how they’ve learned to remotely manage, maintain and update the 5000 PCs throughout the 39 square miles of their district. (more…)
Improving Manageability with OS Streaming White Paper
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008OS streaming can deliver considerable manageability benefits to Intel IT training rooms with multi-user PCs. To evaluate performance and utilization in a production environment, we conducted proof of concept (PoC) testing in two rooms located in different buildings on an Intel campus. We found that OS streaming improved manageability and delivered fast client boot times with moderate server and network utilization, even during worst-case boot storms. (more…)
It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Via managed service providers, small and medium-sized businesses can now achieve enterprise-level IT and get problems fixed even if an Intel® vPro™ technology-based PC is powered off, the OS is unresponsive, or the hard drive has failed. (more…)
The following articles are also part of this issue of the Intel Premier IT Magazine:
- Intel Premier IT Magazine Winter 2009 Edition: Defining the Future of IT
- Crossing the Chasm Between Humans and Machines
- Making the Most of IT
- The Value Influence
- Intel’s New Approach to Strategic Planning
- The Future Will be Simulated
- Mad Dogs and Oil Men
- Virtualization Test
- Out With the New, In With the Newest
- The Fast and The Virtual
- It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
- It Can be Easy Being Green
- Mashups for the Masses
- Intelpedia Grows Up