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IT Architecture: Plan for Success

Jason Lopez — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:47:01 +0000

It may seem obvious that planning pays. But for those CIOs and their staffs, managing an IT infrastructure often occurs in an environment where problems are moving targets. Many organizations have little time to plan ahead. But they must. “You’re not going to get there unless you have a plan,” says Bob Stoddard, Intel IT Architect. He was on the team that molded Intel’s IT plan starting in late 1990s. Almost a decade later, Intel’s IT shop is seeing dividends from that plan in the form of lower TCO and improved client efficiency. “vPro is really a beachhead for us in cracking the code to get closer to an end-to-end management solution, not just for the client, but across compute network and storage,” says Prasad Rampalli, vice president of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. “vPro transcends clients all the way to the data center.” In this podcast, Intel’s Josh Hilliker, Prasad Rampalli and Bob Stoddard discuss the role of planning and why IT architecture is crucial to success.

Tags: CIO, IT infrastructure, Bob Stoddard, Intel, vPro, Prasad Rampalli, Digital Enterprise Group, Josh Hilliker, IT architecture

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

Paul Lancour — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:09:27 +0000

This is the last in a series of three videos from IT@Intel, each featuring Omer Ben-Shalom, Principal Engineer with the 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 third video demonstrates how a security event manager can programmatically utilize Intel vPro capabilities without human intervention through an existing AMT 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 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

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

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

Intel: Rock

Jason Lopez — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:52:47 +0000

Intel’s Josh Hilliker, who manages the company’s online vPro Expert Center, says he wants to know of other IT pros who are the proest of pros. So, Intel is staging a video contest which Josh will put on the website. The winner could pull the wrappings off a new Intel Centrino Pro based Lenovo T61p or a HP Compaq 2510p notebook. In this podcast Josh talks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez.

Enter the Intel vPro Expert Center “Rock Your World” Contest here.

Tags: Intel, Josh Hilliker, vPro, Expert Center, proest of pros, video contest, Centrino, Lenovo, T61p, Compaq

Intel vPro and Altiris Update

James Gaskin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:25:29 +0000

Fred Jentgen, American Marketing Manager for Intel, and Kevin Unbedacht, Sr. Manager, Strategic Alliance Channel Sales for Altiris (now a part of Symantec), discuss the continued integration of Intel’s vPro technology hooks into Altiris/Symantec software. Improvements on the initial feature set provide more ways to manage computers without actually touching them, which saves money as companies support their users. This interview was done at the fall ManageFusion 07 convention in Orlando.

Tags: Fred Jentgen, Intel, Kevin Unbedacht, Altiris, Symantec, vPro, ManageFusion

Intel and HP Discuss Latest in Energy-Efficient Computing

Catherine Girardeau — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:30:20 +0000

Energy management and energy efficiency in data centers: Intel and HP are working together to save energy and money while boosting computing performance. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is one way that Intel and HP are working to create sustainable high-performance technology for the enterprise. How do the energy management capabilities achieved by deploying Intel’s vPro platform contribute to power savings across an entire business? And what should the energy-conscious data center manager consider in trying to implement power savings in the data center? (More information on energy-effient chips related to this week’s announcement from another sponsor of the initiative, Marvell — a chip that actually determines the energy requirements of individual applications.

Tags: Energy management, energy efficiency, data centers, Intel, HP, computing performance, Climate Savers Computing Initiative

Small Business Gets IT

editor — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:52:41 +0000

Remote repairs can reduce desk-side computer visits. Intel’s vPro business computer chips have built-in tools so IT pros can get under the hood and repair PCs even if they won’t start.

Tags: Intel, vPro, IT

Online Communities: Office 2.0 part 2

Aron Pruiett — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:47:16 +0000

Dion Hinchcliffe moderates the panel of Diane Davidson ( Director of Customer Marketing, WebEx Communications ), Robert Duffy ( Online Communities Strategist, Intel ), Mark Finnern ( SDN Collaboration Wiz, SAP ), Josh Hilliker ( Intel vPro Expert Center Community Manager, Intel ) and Mike Walsh ( Chief Executive Officer, Leverage Software ).

Part two includes a question and answer session with the Office 2.0 audience. Viral marketing, construction concerns and support are all informative question topics raised through this continued online community forum.

Online Communities: Office 2.0

Aron Pruiett — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:59:28 +0000

Dion Hinchcliffe moderates the panel of Diane Davidson (director of customer marketing, WebEx Communications), Robert Duffy (online communities strategist, Intel), Mark Finnern[/ta] (SDN Collaboration Wiz, SAP), [tag]Josh Hilliker (Intel vPro Expert Center Community Manager, Intel) and Mike Walsh (chief executive officer, Leverage Software) during the 2007 Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Highlights include Intel’s Open Port and vPro Expert Center as well as SAP Developer Network strategies and directions.

With increasing demand being placed on transparency within online communities, will the value of open communication offset escalating portal supply? Are companies relying more on user participation to administer community FAQ’s and support?

Tags: Dion Hinchcliffe, Diane Davidson, Robert Duffy, Mark Finnern[/ta] (SDN Collaboration Wiz, SAP), [tag]Josh Hilliker, Intel vPro, Mike Walsh, Office 2.0 conference

Live from IDF: Gelsinger Puts Nehalem and Virtualization on Display

Catherine Girardeau — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:06:45 +0000

In his keynote today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, gave a broad update on Intel’s efforts this year.

In this podcast, Gelsinger covers what he calls the company’s “relentless pursuit of Moore’s Law,” spotlighting Nehalem (that’s the codename for “the first-ever Intel 45 nanometer High-k metal gate next-generation microarchitecture dual processor server,” according to company statements).

He also revealed Intel’s plans to build on the latest roll-out of Intel vPro processor technology with a 2008 release called “McCreary,” which will include new halogen and lead-free 45nm dual and quad-core processors.

Encryption and decryption technology is addressed with Danbury technology (one reaction to which can be found here).

Underscoring the current momentum around virtualization, Gelsinger was joined onstage at one point by John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun Microsystems. A demonstration of Intel Virtualization Technology and Intel Trusted Execution Technology shed some light on how Intel will provide protection for virtual environments in the workstations and desktop PCs of the future.

Check out Pat Gelsinger’s blog for more thoughts from (and after) IDF.

Tags: Intel Developer Forum, Patrick Gelsinger, Digital Enterprise Group, Moore’s Law, Nehalem, 45 nanometer, microarchitecture, dual processor, vPro, McCreary, lead-free, Encryption, decryption, Danbury technology, virtualization, John Fowler

IDF Exclusive: Intel CIO John “JJ” Johnson

Michael Johnson — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:49:04 +0000

Live, from the “Upload Lounge” at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel Vice President and CIO John “JJ” Johnson spoke with PodTech for this podcast about some of the hot topics being talked about at this year’s Fall IDF.

Johnson talks about the many ways in which Intel’s Enterprise Capability Framework helps enterprise data networks keep up with the demands associated with managing emerging technologies, including social media like IM, blogs and wikis as well as the newest generation of smart phones. A big part of the challenge facing the enterprise involves providing the requisite security without limiting capability.

For the enterprise, Johnson highlights virtualization (a hot topic at the end of Day 1) and the value of Intel’s vPro — including advantages like the ability to fix or reboot a crashed machine in the network, or to analyze network machines remotely.

It all points in one direction — increased mobility brings increased demands, which together create what Johnson sees as the most interesting innovation in the last ten years.

Check out Intel’s IT Community.

Tags: Intel Developer Forum, John “JJ” Johnson, IDF, data networks, social media, smart phones, virtualization, vPro

Intel vPro: Make the Platform More Responsive

Jason Lopez — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:00:34 +0000

In technology development, most researcher “to-do lists” do not have an item that says something like: “invent society-changing technology.” Mostly, to-do lists contain step-by-step improvements. But we are reminded that the step-by-step can be as important as any monumental leap. Intel says its latest chip release, code-named “Weybridge,” reduces costs, reduces energy use, and improves security. Rob Crooke, Intel’s general manager of the Business Client Group, says it’s all about constantly making the vPro platform more responsive. In this podcast, PodTech’s Jason Lopez collects comments from Intel partners at the “Weybridge” announcement in San Francisco.

Tags: Intel, Weybridge, Rob Crooke, vPro

Intel Launches social media experience Open Port

Jason Lopez — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:00:57 +0000

“Corporate Websites are losing a bit of relevance,” says Bob Duffy, Intel’s online community strategist. “Open Port is Intel’s first public online community targeted at the IT tech enthusiast audience; it’s a central destination for Social Media.”

Because of the Web every company is suddenly a media outlet. Intel says it has positioned itself to communicate directly with the users of its technology, especially the IT administrators and professionals who watch over networks and fleets of PCs.

Open Port is divided into zones, each focused on different IT themes. The vPro Expert Center, managed by Josh Hilliker, is expected to address issues around integration and adoption of Intel’s Pro products.

IT@Intel will be a destination where Intel’s own IT pros share experiences with deploying technologies within the world’s largest chip maker. “(IT@Intel) is an opportunity for us to share some of the hurdles that we’ve gone over,” says Intel Global Web Program Manager Laurie Buczek.

Join the Intel Open Port community at:
communities.intel.com/openport

Tags: Bob Duffy, Intel, Social Media, vPro, Josh Hilliker, IT@Intel, Laurie Buczek, Intel Open Port

vPro’s Extensive Roadmap

Jason Lopez — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:00:09 +0000

“I’d like to call it the perfect storm,” says Hewlett-Packard’s Bruce Michelson, distinguished technologist for the company’s PC division. He says the features on today’s business PCs have come together in such a way that they’re years ahead of the average user’s needs… today. “What you are going to see with vPro as you go forward is increased automation, increased simplification of provisioning,” adds John Mahvi, who manages the Intel’s own IT PC Suite. PodTech’s Jason Lopez has the podcast.

Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Bruce Michelson, vPro, John Mahvi, Jason Lopez

CentrinoPro: Proest of Pros

Jason Lopez — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:49:36 +0000

Where do you turn on manageability in a network? Try at the chip level. Intel’s Pro technologies—CentrinoPro and vPro are changing the way IT shops manage large fleets of computers. Administrators now have the ability to see what’s happening to every laptop no matter where it moves around in the network. As Intel’s Josh Hilliker says, “If a box has been compromised physically, I know it has happened. If a box has got their memory changed, I know that has happened. If they’ve changed software, I know about it.” In this Intel podcast we go to Folsom, California to talk with Hilliker and his Intel cohorts who helped develop and test CentrinoPro.