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Isolation of Infected PCs and Remediation with Intel vPro Technology - Part 2 of 3

Paul Lancour — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:22:56 +0000

This is the second in a series of three videos from IT@Intel, each featuring Omer Ben-Shalom, principal engineer with Intel’s Information Technology Group. In these videos Omer demonstrates how Intel vPro technology System Defense filtering can be integrated with Security Event Management systems to improve corporate response capabilities to virus outbreaks, while at the same time reducing the resources required and improving speed to response. This second video shows how a human operator can use these Intel vPro technology capabilities to quarantine an offending host which has been detected by the security event management system.

Tags: AMT, event_manager, filtering, IT@Intel, management, network quarantine, Omer Ben-Shalom, quarantine, ron miller, Security, system defense, video, virus, vpro

Isolation of Infected PCs and Remediation with Intel vPro Technology - Part 1 of 3

Paul Lancour — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:00:52 +0000

This is the first in a series of three videos from IT@Intel, each featuring Omer Ben-Shalom, Principal Engineer with Intel’s Information Technology Group. In these videos, Omer demonstrates how Intel vPro technology System Defense filtering can be integrated with Security Event Management systems to improve corporate response capabilities to virus outbreaks, while at the same time reducing the resources required and improving speed to response. This first video is an overview of how Intel vPro technology capabilities for network quarantine can be used to enhance security event management systems by providing them with an active response capability.

Tags: AMT, event_manager, filtering, IT@Intel, management, network quarantine, Omer Ben-Shalom, quarantine, ron miller, Security, system defense, video, virus, vpro

Intel’s vPro Technology at Verizon

Paul Lancour — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:59:43 +0000

As Intel’s vPro technology continues to enter the marketplace, IT departments are realizing the great versatility and cost savings it brings. In this video, Chris Maylor, director of IT Architecture of Verizon Services, gives a brief outline of how vPro is affecting his organization and the quarter of a million devices his department manages.

Tags: Intel, vPro, IDF, Intel Developer Forum, Chris Maylor, IT, Verizon

Intel Centrino2: C.T. Phone Home!

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:01:00 +0000

Intel’s new, next-generation Centrino platform, Centrino2 and Centrino2 with vPro, is coming soon to a laptop near you. In this video from the vPro Expert Center, Josh Hilliker, vPro Expert Center’s Community Manager, along with Brian Tucker, Mobile Platforms Marketing Manager, and Senior Systems Engineer Todd Christ, give an sneak peek into Centrino2’s remarkable remote management capabilities, using a combination of Client-Initiated Remote Access (CIRA), and the recently-updated Active Management Technology (AMT) 4.0. Centrino2 with vPro can “phone home” for updates, assistance, or crisis management — even when it’s outside the corporate network, and IT Managers can access it for updates, software patches, troubleshooting, and hardware repair — even when it’s in “sleep” mode.

Tags: AMT, Brian Tucker, centrino, Centrino2, Centrino2 with vPro, CIRA, Intel, Josh Hilliker, Todd Christ, vpro

Tech Tools Unleash vPro’s Power

Catherine Girardeau — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:00:26 +0000

Activation and tools are what Intel vPro technology users need to use vPro to the fullest. In this video, Josh Hilliker, community manager of Intel’s online vPro Expert Center, with Tim “The Tool Guy” Duncan and Michele Gartner of the vPro Activation zone, introduces the tools available to IT professionals to make activating their vPro systems easier. Gartner’s job is to keep training materials, wikis and conversation fresh on the Activation zone. Duncan spends his time building tools to save IT professionals time and money while taking full advantage of vPro’s features.

Tags: activation, Josh Hilliker, Michele Gartner, Tim Duncan, vpro, vPro Expert Center, vPro tools

Intel vPro Experts Say Activate Now

Catherine Girardeau — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:02:51 +0000

“We’ve got the right tools, the right place, the right time: now is the time to activate,” said Intel vPro Expert Center Community Manager Josh Hilliker. What’s he talking about? Intel’s vPro technology, and the tools available to help end-users self-activate their vPro systems, taking them, as Hilliker says, “from zero to 60.” In this podcast, Hilliker is joined by Tim Duncan, “The Tool Guy.” He’s an Intel marketing engineer who leads a team developing tools to make Intel vPro technology-based platforms easier to use. Also in the podcast, Michele Gartner, who manages Intel’s online Activation zone. Tim talks tools, and Michele lets people know where to go to find everything they need to get their vPro-based systems up and activated.

Tags: Intel, vPro, Josh Hilliker, self-activate, Tim Duncan, Michele Gartner

The meaning of the “v” in Intel vPro Technology

editor — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:04:49 +0000

When Intel released Intel vPro technology into the marketplace in 2006, the press asked us what the “v” in Intel vPro technology meant. Now that the technology has been in the marketplace for almost two years, we thought that the best answer to the question, “What does the “v” in Intel vPro technology mean to you?” would come from Intel customers, as well as from some of the technical experts from Intel and our partners who deal with our customers on an almost daily basis. Listen to the video to hear their answers.

Tags: Intel, vPro

vPro Expert Center: Where we are, where we’re headed

Catherine Girardeau — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:00:26 +0000

In this podcast, we check in with Josh Hilliker, who manages Intel’s online vPro Expert Center, for a community status report. How has the community grown? What topics are people blogging, vlogging, and discussing? How is the content feeding the community — and the community enriching the content? From an online talk radio show, to how-to videos, to deep dives into technical topics in collaborative conversations with sites like Ars Technica, Hilliker is doing everything he can to enliven, enrich, and enlighten the vPro Expert Center’s audience about all things vPro. Things like CIRA, Montevina, Danbury. He’s the Proest of vPros. Find out how you can be, too.

Tags: CIRA, Danbury, Intel, Josh Hilliker, vpro

Energy Consumption In The Data Center

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:00:49 +0000

In this podcast, Intel’s David Jenkins discusses energy efficiency from silicon through the data center. David is the Marketing Manager for Energy Efficient Technologies and Eco-Technology for the Server Platforms Marketing Group of the Intel Corporation. He has been with Intel for 9 years, holding various positions in Technical Marketing, Product Management and Product Marketing relating to servers and server technologies.

Tags: Intel, David Jenkins, Energy Efficient Technologies, Eco-Technology, Server Platforms

45nm and Beyond with Christopher Peters

editor — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:17:47 +0000

Intel is now shipping Xeon processors built via a 45nm manufacturing process. These chips exhibit some of the best performance per watt characteristics on the market. Later in 2008, however, Intel plans to advance its silicon again via a new architecture code-named Nehalem. Chips built with this architecture will show strong single-thread and multi-threaded performance and include an integrated memory controller along with the new QuickPath Interconnect. In this podcast, find out how Intel expects this technology affect performance per watt of the Xeon line.

Tags: Intel, Xeon, 45nm, Nehalem, QuickPath

ROI of Data Center Heat Recovery

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Intel IT has designed a new system to reduce energy costs, recycle excess heat, and the reduce environmental impact of the data center. In Part 2 of this podcast, Intel IT Data Center Design Engineer Doug Garday plugs in some numbers that show potential energy cost savings, amount of heat recovery, and return on investment of Intel IT’s data center heat recovery system.

Related links:
Data Center Heat Recovery (PDF)
Data Centers Recycle Excess Heat (Podcast)

Tags: energy costs, excess heat, Doug Garday, data center cooling, data center power, data center, green data centers

Intel’s Emerging Compute Model Forum

Catherine Girardeau — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:01:10 +0000

There are now possibilities in enterprise computing that have the potential to solve mainstream problems and become widely adopted. These “Emerging Compute Models” are creating a lot of buzz, but also a lot of confusion in the IT community. That’s why this video podcast focuses on Intel’s Emerging Compute Model Forum. Jason Davidson, technical evangelist for the forum, says IT shops are experimenting with new ways to deliver applications and operating systems, but there’s no consensus on the best model, or models, to use.

In this podcast, Davidson and his colleagues Mike Ferron-Jones, marketing manager for Intel’s Emerging Compute Models program, and Chuck Brown, who directs the program, lay out the basic questions IT managers need to ask before choosing new compute models, discuss some of the pros and cons of different models, and preview some Intel and industry developments in the ECM space.

Tags: Intel, Emerging Compute Model, Jason Davidson, Mike Ferron-Jones, Chuck Brown, Thin Client, Rich Client, Terminal Services, Virtual Hosted Desktop, Blade PCs, OS Streaming, Application Streaming, SaaS

Data Centers Recycle Excess Heat

Catherine Girardeau — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:01:20 +0000

Instead of wasting all the excess heat your data center generates, wouldn’t it be more efficient to reuse it to heat offices, water, and more? With the growing number of data centers being built, now is the time to integrate energy saving and reuse methods. In part one of this two-part podcast, Doug Garday, a data center design engineer with Intel Information Technology, explains energy recycling, a method of reducing the impact of data centers on the environment. Intel IT recommends building systems to recover data center heat into the design of new facilities. Garday explains Intel’s design scheme, and gives tips on calculating your return on investment.

Tags: datacenter, data center cooling, data center power, green data centers

IDF Shanghai 2008: Atom-Enabled Devices To Debut

Jason Lopez — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:00:23 +0000

A new processor for the ultra-mobile market is Intel’s latest move to revolutionize mobility computing, from UMPCs to mobile Internet devices and even notebooks and desktops (er, “netbooks” and “net-tops”). While Atom (née Silverthorne) received its brand-new brand name recently, the family of tiny processors, which relies on 45nm technology just like the Penryn line of Core 2 Duo processors, will debut in devices on display at IDF in Shanghai in early April.

It’s no secret that China has come a long way in a short time — from being a country known for manufacturing cheap products for export to being, potentially, the next great IT superpower. National Science Board figures show that in 1994 there were only seven U.S. companies doing research in China. Ten years later, that number had risen to more than 500. Gartner analysts James Popkin and Partha Iyengar wrote, in their 2007 book I.T. and the East, that the world “will witness the birth of a real IT superpower if government restrictions are loosened and the Chinese instinctive talent for entrepreneurialism continues to be encouraged.”

It’s against this backdrop that the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, April 2 and 3, 2008, takes on extra significance. China now supplies the talent, within the country, to conduct advanced research in chip design. At this year’s IDF in Shanghai, Intel will provide an update on new technologies and features that enable devices with better performance, less power, more mobility, and lower cost.

If you’re not attending the event in person, be sure to follow online at Intel’s IDF pages and check in here for more video podcast coverage.

Tags: new processor, ultra-mobile, Intel, mobility computing, UMPC, mobile Internet devices, notebooks, desktops, netbooks, net-tops, Atom, 45nm technology, Penryn, Core 2 Duo, IDF, National Science Board, James Popkin, Partha Iyengar, I.T. and the East, Intel Developer Forum

ACM Adoption Update

editor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:00:48 +0000

In the last of a three-part series on the growing interest in alternative client compute models, Mike Ferron-Jones, manager of Intel’s Emerging Models Program, provides an overview of a study Intel conducted to determine the current status of adoption.

Tags: alternative client compute models, Mike Ferron-Jones, Intel, Emerging Models Program

Overview of Client-based Models

editor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:02:58 +0000

In the second of a three-part series on the growing interest in alternative client compute models, Mike Ferron-Jones, manager of Intel’s Emerging Models Program, looks at client-based models, including OS and application streaming.

Tags: Mike Ferron-Jones, Intel, Emerging Models, client-based models, application streaming

A Look at Server-based Models

editor — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:00:13 +0000

There’s been a growing interest from cost and security perspective in new ways for providing personal computing services. In the first of a three-part series on the topic, Mike Ferron-Jones, manager of Intel’s Emerging Models Program, looks at various personal computing models based on server-based systems, including terminal services, virtual hosted desktops and blade models. In subsequent podcasts, he will discuss client-based models and the results of a study into the current state of adoption.

Tags: Mike Ferron-Jones, Intel, Emerging Models, virtual hosted desktops, blade models

Fall IDF Video Demo - Faster video encoding on Penryn family of processors

editor — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:56 +0000

Darren Yee, Tech Marketing Engineer Intel Software Solutions Group, and I shot a video demo of TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress, a popular video encoder that was optimized for Quad-core and Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (Intel SSE4) instructions on the Penryn family of Intel processors at the Fall 2007 Intel Developer Forum. The demo in the video show how the same application encoding video on both a Core 2 Duo and a Wolfdale dual core processor in Penryn family. This optimized version resulted in an over 2X improvement over Core 2 Duo using the same application encoding the same video clip. The Core 2 Duo machine encoded the file in 1:06 seconds where the Penryn machine tool only 40 seconds. The primary instruction used in this software optimization was MPSADBW for optimized Sum absolute difference calculations, a common operation used in motion estimation. More information on Penryn and the SSE4 instruction sets can be found at:
www.intel.com/software/penryn

IT@Intel: Software as a Service

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:00:05 +0000

In a big company like Intel, users get their software in a variety of ways - on their desktops, delivered over a network, or some combination of those. Catherine Spence, an enterprise architect with Intel IT Research and Technology Development, studies alternate and emerging compute models for enterprise operations. In this audio podcast, Spence discusses what her group learned through a recent study on the effects of streaming and virtual hosted desktop computing models on server and network utilization. On-demand software, or Software as a Service, is one of the emerging software delivery models showing benefits in boosting productivity and lowering costs.

Tags: Intel, Catherine Spence, enterprise architect, IT Research and Technology, compute models, streaming, virtual hosted desktop, On-demand software, Software as a Service

Intel Asks “What Is This Thing?” at CES 2008

Paul Lancour — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:10:02 +0000

The Consumer Electronics Show is going on in Las Vegas. In this video podcast we walk out of the Intel booth at the show and onto the Las Vegas Strip to ask “what is this thing?” … and we get some interesting answers.

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Intel

vPro: Encryption at the Hardware Level

Jason Lopez — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:29:23 +0000

There’s a revolution afoot in the computer industry that’s not so sci-fi. It’s more in line with the notion of “heavy lifting” and “blocking and tackling.” Corporate networks are benefiting from software at the chip level below the operating system. Intel has been providing the software building blocks for greater functionality in the hardware in vPro and CentrinoPro. The updates to the technologies continue in 2008 with “Danbury,” which performs core encryption in hardware. PodTech’s Jason Lopez interviewed Intel’s Steve Grobman, director of business client architecture.

Tags: Corporate networks, vPro, CentrinoPro, Danbury, core encryption, Steve Grobman

Virtualization and Data Center Consolidation

Jason Lopez — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:30:27 +0000

Intel is launching an eight-year process of data center consolidation, as Brently Davis, communications and stakeholder manager, blogs on IT@Intel. In this video podcast, he discusses the benefits — reducing costs, improving server and storage utilization], creating higher density & more energy-efficient data centers — and challenges, like impact on business partners, impact on different parts of the company, and costs. The strategy is known as “D.O.M.E.,” which stands for “Design, office, manufacturing and enterprise” computing. IT Architect Travis Broughton, who uses a parking lot to illustrate some of the challenges of virtualization in a recent post on IT@Intel, also weighs in on virtualization’s role in data center consolidation.

Related links:
Intel’s Matthew Rosenquist blogs about Virtualization from a security professional’s perspective - is it a dream or a nightmare?

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Tags: data center consolidation, Brently Davis, IT@Intel, storage utilization, data centers, D.O.M.E., Travis Broughton, virtualization, Matthew Rosenquist

Intel vPro Technology: Activation Getting Easier

Jason Lopez — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:30:38 +0000

In this video podcast, IT pros from the Enterprise Solutions Group at Intel join Josh Hilliker, manager of the Intel vPro Expert Center, to discuss vPro activation. (more…)

Tags: Enterprise Solutions Group, Intel, Josh Hilliker, Intel vPro, vPro activation

ROI: Intel vPro Technology in the Enterprise

Jason Lopez — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:02:50 +0000

With Intel vPro Technology, the enterprise has a measurable way to improve IT efficiency and cut costs significantly. Enterprises that deploy Intel vPro technology-based PCs as part of a comprehensive PC refresh program can expect to reduce hardware complexity and the expenditures associated with that complexity. Wipro conducted a survey of IT managers from 40 different companies in a variety of industries, asking about current desktop management activities and costs that could be reduced by PCs with Intel vPro technology. The results the research team came up with were impressive — according to the white paper documenting their findings, a company with 32,000 desktops and a 4-year refresh cycle can achieve desktop management cost reductions of approximately $1 million in year one of the refresh, and as much as $7.5 million in year five, by which time the entire PC population would be part of a base featuring PCs with Intel vPro technology.

In this video podcast, Intel Senior Business Marketing Manager Justin Van Buren, Wipro Chief Application Architect Patrick Kalaher, Wipro Architect Timothy Morey, and Intel’s own Josh Hilliker discuss the technology and its implications for business with PodTech’s Jason Lopez.

Check out the Intel vPro Technology ROI Estimator

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Tags: Intel vPro Technology, IT efficiency, PC refresh program, hardware complexity, Wipro, desktop management, Justin Van Buren, Patrick Kalaher, Timothy Morey, Josh Hilliker, ROI Estimator

Virtualization and Enterprise Architecture: The Security Architect

Jason Lopez — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:34:55 +0000

Data centers today are under pressure from rising compute requirements, demand for storage capacity and energy costs. In this video podcast from IT@Intel, Alan Ross, principal engineer and enterprise architect with Intel IT, shares experiences, technology assessments and best practices around data center efficiency, virtualization and consolidation.

Transforming the data center requires understanding the underlying domains: facility, network, server, storage and how security interacts with manageability and other technology. The security architect has to evolve plans for business continuity and disaster recovery, as well as jump into emerging threat and risk arenas like Web application security. Facilities monitoring and management and energy savings require understanding and balancing customer service levels with the need to pinpoint where, when and how much compute power is needed, and migrating workloads accordingly. Virtualization is another game-changer in the data center, increasing capacity and manageability while decreasing energy consumption.

Alan Ross comes to enterprise architecture from an unconventional background. He holds a number of patents, has worked with electrorheological fluids to change the behavior of automotive dampers, and hopes someday to be part of future innovations in energy efficiency, photovoltaics and photolytics.

Blogs IT@Intel

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Tags: storage capacity, IT@Intel, Alan Ross, virtualization, data center, Alan Ross, enterprise architecture, electrorheological fluids, energy efficiency