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Chip Shot: Got a Bright Idea?

If so, and it involves Intel vPro Technology, capture your idea on a video and enter the Intel vPro Technology Innovation Contest. You could win a $4,000 American Express gift card or an Intel Core i5 vPro laptop plus the admiration of fellow innovative thinkers.

Chip Shot: Symantec, Intel Take Bite Out of Data Loss Costs

Symantec today introduced PGP Whole Disk Encryption with support for Intel Anti-Theft Technology, helping businesses to protect their laptops and, more costly, their data.  Losing the latter takes roughly a $6.75 million bite per case out of U.S. enterprises and $3.4 million out of companies elsewhere in the world, according to the Ponemon Institute.

Chip Shot: vPro Activation ‘Cheat Sheet’ Goes Online

With Intel vPro-based PCs in the majority of Global 100 companies and supported by all leading manageability and security vendors, Intel has harnessed growing industrywide resources on its new Intel vPro 101 site. It’s like a cheat sheet for questions around activation, software availability, tips and tricks, and more. to help IT implement vPro strategically and simply.

Chip Shot: Live Chat Today on Desktop Virtualization

Have a question on all those desktop virtualization models?  Want to know a Type-1 hypervisor from a Type-2?  Can’t figure out if you want to stream apps and OS, or just apps? From noon-1 PDT today, Intel engineering, technology and marketing experts will be online to answer your toughest questions during the Desktop Virtualization Ask An Expert session.

Intel vPro Enhancements Coming with ‘Sandy Bridge’

With the chip architecture code-named Sandy Bridge will come the fifth generation of Intel’s vPro software, and the company’s acquisition of McAfee may promise future innovation for desktops and notebooks. – Much of the discussion around Intel’s quot;Sandy
Bridge quot; chip has centered on
its integrated graphics technology. However, the next-generation Core
architecture also will come with some key enhancements to the company’s vPro
management and security capabilities.
In his keynote address Sep…


Chip Shot: Searching for vPro Apps?

Intel will provide a first look today at a searchable catalog containing a myriad of software applications that take advantage of the capabilities of Intel Core vPro processors from hundreds of software vendors.  The demonstration, scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow, at the vPro Zone, at Intel Developer Forum, will showcase the key component of the upcoming Intel vPro Activation 101 Resource Site.

Chip Shot: Intel vPro Now Manages Self-Encrypting Drives

Softex has introduced SecureDrive, which works with Intel Core vPro processors to manage the growing number of self-encrypting hard drives in PCs, a rapidly growing alternative to software-based encryption. For those at Intel IDF 2010, take Softex SecureDrive for a spin in booth # 675 in the Intel® vPro™ Technology Community.

Chip Shot: Intel vPro Tackles Industrial-Strength Jobs

Intel Core vPro processors are most commonly seen nurturing and protecting countless business laptops and desktops in corporate offices.  However, in August’s RTC magazine Intel industrial automation expert Ian Gilvarry tells how vPro is now rolling up its sleeves to tackle “Industrial-Strength Computerized Machine Management.”

Chip Shot: Federal Agency Plans Desktop Virtualization to Boost Security, Cut PC Management Costs

Mike Mestrovich, senior technology officer for innovation at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), says DIA will move to desktop virtualization based on Citrix Xen, Intel vPro and Microsoft technologies.  Mestrovich told InformationWeek that a pilot program showed that desktop virtualization will both improve security and reduce the cost of managing DIA’s desktops. Unlike earlier thin-client technology, DIA’s desktop virtualization infrastructure can handle graphically demanding applications for DIA employees, Mestrovich told Federal Computer Week.

Chip Shot: Chat with Intel on Microsoft System Center

The Intel vPro Expert Center Community will host a live open chat at noon PDT, August 12, with Intel IT pros discussing how to take advantage of Microsoft System Center to manage real and virtual PCs, and other computing devices from the data center to the pants pocket.

Chip Shot: Chat with Intel on Microsoft System Center

The Intel vPro Expert Center Community will host a live open chat at noon PDT, August 12, with Intel IT pros discussing how to take advantage of Microsoft System Center to manage real and virtual PCs, and other computing devices from the data center to the pants pocket.

Chip Shot: Got A Bright Idea?

Intel is always searching for innovative uses of Intel vPro Technology. If you have one, enter a video for a chance to win $4,000 toward a trip to the 2010 Intel Developer Forum, Sep. 13-15, in San Francisco.

Chip Shot: Got A Bright Idea?

Intel is always searching for innovative uses of Intel vPro Technology. If you have one, enter a video for a chance to win $4,000 toward a trip to the 2010 Intel Developer Forum, Sep. 13-15, in San Francisco.

Chip Shot: Intel vPro Ready for Microsoft PC Manager

The new Intel Core vPro Processor Management Pack v1.0 for Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 is available. The management pack brings the latest Intel vPro features to System Center Service Manager 2010, including the ability for a repair technician view a remote PC screen exactly as the viewer sees it without expensive additional hardware.

Chip Shot: The vPro Doctor Is In

Aternity, whose Frontline Performance Intelligence Platform analyzes and measures real end-user experience, has integrated new Intel vPro Technology to speed up treatment of poorly performing PCs throughout business networks. Using vPro’s new keyboard-video-mouse feature, the service technician can see the ailing PC remotely and cure problems even more rapidly.

Intel Brings vPro to New Core Processors

Intel is adding its vPro platform to the Core i5 and i7 desktop and laptop chips that were introduced in January. The vPro technology lets IT administrators remotely manage and secure desktops and notebooks. Version 2.0 brings in more encryption and anti-theft features.
– Intel is bringing its vPro platform to its new Core processors, a move aimed
at making it easier for businesses to secure and manage the systems.
Intel announced Feb. 4 that it will put the vPro technology in
its 32-nanometer dual-core Core
i5 and i7 chips, which the company officially rolled ou…


Business PCs Arrive with New Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 4, 2010 – Intel Corporation today unveiled its 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor family to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes for PCs with greater, more flexible performance, theft prevention and cost savings in a rapidly changing business computing environment.

Dell OptiPlex 780 Offers a Small Footprint, Intel vPro

Dell introduces two new desktops with shrunken chassis but wide-ranging options, including several Intel processors and a choice of operating systems and form factors. Dell calls the OptiPlex 780 the worlds smallest fully functional commercial desktop PC.
– Dell is revamping its line of OptiPlex commercial desktops, with the Dec. 10
introduction of the OptiPlex 780 USFF and the OptiPlex 380.
The Dell OptiPlex 780 is now the worlds smallest fully functional
commercial desktop PC with an integrated power supply and Intel vPro
technology, which enabl…


Chip Shot: Intel® vPro™ technology at Core of New Unisys Outsourcing Services

Intel vPro technology is a key to Unisys End-User Productivity Services, a new suite of automated service solutions designed for organizations supporting an increasingly mobile, tech-savvy workforce. Intel vPro technology helps Unisys remotely diagnose and repair customers’ systems, track their hardware and software assets, even cut electric bills while boosting customers’ productivity.

Chip Shot: Video – Intel vPro Technology Update from IDF

Rick Echevarria, vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group and general manager of the Digital Office Platform Division, was on hand at the Intel Developer Forum to discuss two new features of Intel vPro technology: Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM) and Remote PC Assist Technology (Intel® RPAT) as used in AT&T’s Tech 360 service for small and medium businesses. Rick did a short video to update you. (WMV 16.5MB)