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Superior security and remote manageability on a chip with Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology for notebook PCs and Intel® vPro processor technology for desktop PCs.

More secure, out-of-band PC management: Improving security, speeding up problem resolution, and lowering costs for IT

Intel® Centrino® Pro and Intel® vPro processor technology deliver a new advanced and unified approach for improving the management and security of all of your business PCs.

Reduce IT costs by significantly reducing deskside visits, enforcing compliance, and improving security

Use of Intel® vPro technology by LANDesk management software, including LANDesk® System Manager, LANDesk® Server Manager, and LANDesk® Management Suite including practical issues of setting up new devices equipped with Intel® AMT (Active Management Technology) and then discovering and managing those devices using LANDesk products.

Bring together benefits for both end users and IT departments with the combination of Intel® Centrino® Pro and Intel® vPro processor technology with Microsoft Windows Vista.

Intel IT is deploying an integrated security software solution that cuts our response time to threats by 90 percent, while addressing enterprise needs for rapid software installation, scalability, reliability, and reporting.

To automatically grant system access to Intel's external business associates, the company created a role-based security solution that manages access permissions for more than 11,000 suppliers. Overall savings exceed $3.5 million due to reduced manual processes, and business associates now enjoy access to real-time information, faster and easier collaboration, and two-way information transfer.

To improve throughput on Intel wide area network circuits, Intel IT conducted a proof of concept study to investigate new WAN optimization technologies and products. Intel achieved significant benefits to WAN throughput in our test network and in a pilot production network using devices that incorporated a variety of optimization techniques.

To speed development of IT products that meet customers' needs, Intel IT combined two complementary approaches to software development: Systemic Innovation and Extreme Programming. This enabled globally dispersed teams to work more efficiently, even across language barriers, and to deliver more quickly to requirements while easily adapting to changing user needs.

Intel recently conducted a pilot program that integrated voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) into the production enterprise environment, giving a group of employees the opportunity to experience the benefits that VoIP and unified messaging bring to the workplace.

Through a variety of research methods, Intel gathers information about the work habits of employees and uses this data to design more efficient workspaces. Pilot study results indicate that adjusting workspaces based on data about employees' needs can increase employee productivity and satisfaction, while creating a more efficient use of space that lowers facilities costs.

To demonstrate how an automated, end-to-end manageability framework can be easily designed using emerging IT management standards, Intel IT conducted a proof of concept (PoC) based on the Web Services for Management specification (WS-Man).