2nd Generation Intel Core vPro Processors Built for Today's IT Challenges

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Today's businesses have networks without borders, giving users the ability to access information through laptop PCs and mobile devices like smartphones. The content consumed and created in the business now includes video, audio and rich Internet applications. Consider these statistics:

• Adobe Flash is now used by 98.2 percent of enterprise PCs
• 10 percent of all corporate bandwidth is taken up by watching YouTube videos
• By 2013, 25 percent of the content workers see in a day will be dominated by images, video or audio

In the background of every application and PC are the issues of security and manageability. These are important issues for IT professionals who know that the cost of the average organizational data breach was $6.75 million in 2009 and that the regulations regarding data security are getting tighter all of the time.

IT@Intel: Achieving Long-term Business Value with Intel® vPro™ Technology Recognizing Intel® vPro™ technology's significant business value, Intel IT made a strategic decision three years ago to standardize our computing platform on PCs—both laptop and desktop—with Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors.

To help prevent security problems and keep the business running, today's IT managers need access to PCs regardless of encryption, OS state, power state and connectivity.

The 2nd generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor family includes new capabilities that can help IT professionals maintain and secure PCs and data while providing a powerful computing experience for users of rich applications and multimedia.

Better Performance and Tighter Security

The 2nd generation processors include Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, which automatically speeds up the processor when the user's workload requires it. There are also built-in visuals with quick-sync video, hardware-based media acceleration for faster content creation and richer colors for multimedia and collaboration applications.

IT can remotely resolve the most complex software failures using KVM Remote Control, a hardware-based feature that works for wired and wireless PCs with 2ndgeneration Intel Core vPro processors that have built-in visuals. This feature eliminates the need to purchase and maintain costly hardware KVM switches in the production environment. KVM Remote Control now supports higher screen resolutions (up to 1920 x 1200 with 16-bit color). The feature works for PCs both inside and outside the corporate firewall.

Businesses can maintain consistency in their firmware infrastructure even as they upgrade PCs because PCs with 2nd-generation Intel Core vPro processors include Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) 7.x firmware, giving IT administrators a choice of the version of Intel AMT firmware to deploy.

New host-based configuration in 2nd-generation Intel Core vPro processors lets a business use streamlined scripts to activate PCs with Intel vPro technology in a matter of minutes.

Intel® AES-NI (Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions) for acceleration of encryption are now available with both dual-core and quad-core 2nd generation Intel Core vPro processors. The instructions will speed up performance for software that uses the AES algorithm for encryption and decryption. Intel claims second-generation Intel Core i5 vPro processors accelerate encryption of sensitive data up to four times faster than a three-year-old PC.

Intel® Anti-Theft Technology

Businesses already using Intel Core vPro processors have the option of using Intel® Anti-Theft Technology (Intel AT) to lock down PCs in suspicious circumstances. Local anti-theft triggers could be tripped if, for example, the PC fails to check in to the central server, or if it fails preboot login based on local, hardware-level preboot/OS IT-defined rules. As part of the lockdown the system can delete or disable critical elements of the encryption keys in order to prevent access to the keys and stored data.

New features of Intel AT in 2nd generation Intel Core vPro processors include:

• Re-authentication upon resuming from S3 sleep state, to protect data that has been decrypted. Such data has traditionally been vulnerable when users decrypt files and then put their laptop into a sleep state.
  
  
• Poison pill delivery over a 3G network, which helps reduce the window of vulnerability to respond to PC loss or theft. If the PC is 3G-enabled, it can now receive a poison pill via an encrypted SMS message. 3G connections can now take place out-of-band, without dependencies on BIOS or the OS, via a direct hardware link between Intel AT and the 3G module.
  
  
• Remote unlock via a 3G network, allowing IT to reactivate the laptop within minutes after it has been recovered.
  
  
• GPS beacon and relay of MAC address over a 3G network. Laptops can now send out-of-band location information back to the central server when an anti-theft trigger is tripped.

Putting New Intel Core vPro Processors to Work

Second-generation Intel Core vPro processors can use these features and more to help them efficiently tackle many of the IT projects they are planning in 2011. Businesses that plan on migrating to Windows 7 can use 2nd generation Intel Core vPro processors to help deliver that increasingly rich environment to users for multitasking, media and collaboration.

As more organizations look to mobilize their workforce without sacrificing security, 2nd generation Intel Core vPro processors can help them secure sensitive data in a mobile environment, and prove compliance with increasingly strict data-breach security regulations.

Because 2nd generation Intel Core vPro processors can speed up and automate helpdesk tasks, IT pros will find that the processors can help reduce user downtime and improve user productivity. Administrators can use the processors to automate more tasks, more easily conduct remote maintenance and complete offhours servicing regardless of the PC power state.

2nd generation Intel Core vPro processors can also help IT managers implement desktop virtualization that is flexible enough to support multiple compute models and can be implemented as needed for each user.

Click on the resources on this page to see how your business can improve efficiencies and reduce costs with 2nd generation Intel Core vPro processors while still delivering the services users need.