The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Secure your PCs. Cut your costs. Achieve more control. Now that’s smart ROI. White Paper Intel® Core™ i7 vPro™ Processor Intel® Core™ i5 vPro™ Processor PCs powered by a new 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor can adapt to the needs of your business with smart security, cost-saving manageability, and intelligent, adaptable performance.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Table of Contents Executive Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 All-New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Executive Summary The all new 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor family can help businesses by delivering intelligent security; cost-saving remote manageability; and adaptable performance. Smart security with programmable filters can systematically guard against viruses and malicious attacks.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family Intelligent security, remote manageability, and adaptable performance to help businesses cut costs and improve efficiencies The way we do business has changed In today’s global markets, business is increasingly borderless, and mobility is becoming mandatory. The amount of e-mail that corporate users manage each day has also increased dramatically.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs PCs can now be managed as strategic assets With the new 2010 Intel Core vPro processors, businesses can significantly cut IT service costs, reduce power bills, increase efficiency, and improve productivity. For example: • Experience up to 2x faster multitasking11 and up to 3.5x faster encryption/decryption of sensitive data on a new Intel® Core™ i5 processor.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Key features of the all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family The all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family delivers unique and powerful technologies in security, remote manageability, energy management, mobility, virtualization, and performance improvements. Tables 1 and 2 list some of the key features of laptop and desktop PCs with a new Intel Core vPro processor. Table 1.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs What, exactly, is Intel® vPro™ technology? Intel® vPro™ technology is a set of IT capabilities – manageability, security, power management – embedded into the hardware of all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family-based PCs. Because the capabilities are built into the hardware, they are available virtually anytime, even if the OS is inoperable, PC power is off, or the hard drive has failed.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Manage PCs regardless of power state PCs based on the all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family are designed to give IT technicians greater remote visibility into and access to the system in both wired and wireless states, as described in Table 4. When managing PCs with the all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family, technicians can remotely power up a PC almost anytime.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Remote communication – virtually anytime Use an existing management console for both laptop and desktop PCs PCs with a new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor can use the same management console and communication mechanisms as other PCs. You can manage both laptop and desktop PCs with a new Intel Core vPro processor from the same IT console.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Communication outside the corporate firewall Communicate remotely with wired or wireless PCs Laptops and desktop PCs with a new Intel Core vPro processor support secure communication in an open wired or wireless LAN – outside the corporate firewall.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Robust security schemes for remote communication The hardware-based communication and manageability capabilities are secured through a variety of robust methodologies, technologies, and schemes. These include: • Transport Layer Security (TLS). • HTTP authentication. • Enterprise-level authentication using Microsoft Active Directory* (Kerberos). • Access control lists (ACLs). • Digital firmware signing.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Advanced layers of defense for PCs with a new Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor 1 2 Wired or wireless user OS/environment 3 4 5 6 Support for 802.1x, Cisco NAC,* and Microsoft NAP* to enable remote out-of-band management even in an environment with full Cisco SDN or Microsoft NAP security.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs • Recovery token, which is generated by IT or the user’s service provider via the theft management console (upon request by the end user). The one-time recovery token is provided to the user via phone or other means. The user then enters the passcode in a special pre-OS login screen in order to reactivate the system.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs User OS User Application User Application User Application OS network stack PC hardware Intel® AMT Isolation Hardware-based filters Hardware network stack Internet Figure 4. System defense filters inspect network traffic.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Receive alerts even if a system is off the corporate network PCs with a new Intel Core vPro processor have policy-based alerting built into the system. IT administrators can define the types of alerts they want to receive. Although all alerts are logged in the persistent event log, IT administrators can receive only the alerts they want.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Problem-resolution capabilities in PCs with a new Intel Core vPro processor can help IT managers reduce deskside visits by up to 56%12 through features such as: IT technicians can now remotely: • Remote/redirected boot, through integrated drive electronics redirect (IDE-R).
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Accurate, remote discovery and inventory for wired or wireless systems On average, up to 20% of a business’s PCs are not in compliance at any given time.12 Adding to this problem is the difficulty in getting accurate software inventories. For example, software inventories for laptops are often up to 11% inaccurate.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Now that IT administrators have KVM Remote Control built into the PC’s hardware, they also have the built-in ability to remotely resolve even complex edge problems. IT administrators can now increase efficiencies and lower manual labor costs, without increasing service costs in their IT environment.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Virtualization enables flexible computing models Hardware-assisted virtualization for multiple OSs User environment OS #1 Virtualization partitions a PC so that it can run separate operating systems and software in each partition. This allows one PC to act as many, and takes advantage of the multi-core processing power available in PCs with a new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs • OS and application streaming: the OS and applications are not installed locally. Instead, the OS and applications are streamed to the PC across the network. Critical application data can be stored at the data center, traditional problems with OS and/or application corruption are remediated by simply re-streaming the “gold” software image.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) features Virtualization can be achieved entirely with software — but this approach has traditionally had several challenges, including too much overhead, poor performance, and unenforced isolation (a security issue). Intel VT includes hardware enhancements that shift much of the burden of software-based virtualization into the hardware.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Go mobile – cut costs and improve productivity Go mobile and take your savings to a new level Employees are increasingly required to access enterprise applications while away from the office. Now that more powerful, seamless tools are available – such as video conferencing, streaming OS virtualization, and real-time application streaming – working off-site has become easier than ever.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Responsive, energy-efficient intelligent performance One of the key pain points in using older PCs is lack of performance – newer applications are not always responsive on older hardware. A new 2010 Intel Core i5 vPro processor can run business productivity applications up to 80% faster than a 3-year-old PC.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor, the previous-generation Intel® Core™ Processor Intel HT Technology allows each processor core to work on two tasks at the same time. This typically doubles the number of threads being executed (see Figure 8). With Intel HT Technology, computational latency is reduced, and every clock cycle is used to its optimum potential.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Simplify and speed up activation The all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family allows secure, remote access and management of PCs even if the OS is inoperable, PC power is off, a hard drive has failed, or the PC is outside the corporate firewall.
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Stable, standards-based, and with broad industry support Wired or wireless: The intelligence of security and manageability on every chip To help the industry get the most from its technology investments, PCs with a new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor are: The all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family delivers cost-cutting efficiency and maximum productivity with the intelligence of hardware-assis
White Paper: The All New 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family: Intelligence that Adapts to Your Needs Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See www.intel.com/products/ processor_number for details.
Source: Major Utility District ROI case study, http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-1494. Study commissioned by Intel. 14 Source: Increase Productivity by Providing Laptops Beyond Road Warriors, Forrester Consulting, October, 2008 (www.Forrester.com). Study commissioned by Intel. 15 Source: University of Plymouth ROI Analysis http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-2020. Study commissioned by Intel. 16 Source: CSI Computer Crime & Security Survey, 2008, http://www.pgp.
