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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 multitasking
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and up to 3.5x
faster encryption/decryption of sensitive data on a new
Intel® Core™ i5 processor.
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• Cut PC maintenance costs by up to 50%.
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• Speed up patch saturation by 56%
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and reduce patch deployment
costs by up to 98%.
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• Shift more workers to laptops and gain up to 51 more minutes per
user per day in user productivity.
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• Reduce energy costs enabled by secure remote power up/down.
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Spend wisely and recoup costs rapidly
Less-capable PCs can get bogged down when trying to support
the latest OS, such as Windows 7, or the latest application updates.
After 3 years, annual PC support costs can exceed the purchase price
for a new PC.
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On average, a 4-year-old PC can cost 59% more to
support than it did in its first year.
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In addition, 3-year-old PCs are 53%
more likely per year to experience a security incident.
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Worse, a single
PC out of compliance can create an expensive security incident – up to
$300,000 or more in costs – but businesses do not always budget
for the full cost of a security breach.
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Laptop and desktop PCs with a new Intel Core vPro processor can
handle the latest multi-threaded OSs, end-user applications and IT
software load – including Windows 7, Office* 2007, encryption soft-
ware, application streaming, and video conferencing. These PCs can
also be more easily secured, via intelligent client-side capabilities,
as well as through remote security features, such as PC disable via
“poison pill” responses. With better remote troubleshooting and prob-
lem resolution – through secure console redirection and KVM Remote
Control – IT can reduce user downtime, help improve user productivity,
keep desk-side visits to a minimum, and help businesses significantly
reduce TCO.
In an environment in which businesses have a critical need to spend
wisely, this new generation of PCs makes it easier for organizations
to manage systems as strategic assets. In fact, studies show that
businesses can recoup their investment in as little as 9 months.
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Refreshing wisely means keeping TCO at a minimum. Refreshing with
PCs with new Intel Core vPro processors can help you achieve a posi-
tive ROI rapidly and continuously for years to come.
New in the all new 2010 Intel Core
vPro processor family
The new 2010 Intel Core vPro processors includes powerful new
capabilities built into the hardware:
• Intel Anti-Theft Technology (Intel AT), lock down and “brick” the
PC if it fails to check in to the central server, or if it fails preboot login
based on local, hardware-level preboot/OS IT-defined rules. As part of
the lockdown, delete or disable critical elements of encryption keys
in order to prevent access to the keys and stored data. Allow rapid
reactivation, integrated with existing software vendor preboot login.
• Manageability of PCs with encrypted hard drives – remotely
unlock encrypted drives that require pre-boot authentication, even
when the OS is inoperable or software agents are missing. Remotely
manage data security settings even when PC is powered down.
• AES-NI instructions (Advanced Encryption Standard New Instruc-
tions).
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which offload from the processor some of the performance
burden of encryption, and file decryption.
• KVM Remote Control,
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a new hardware-based feature that works
for wired and wireless PCs with a new Intel Core vPro processor that
have integrated Intel® HD Graphics. This feature helps IT remotely
resolve the most complex software failures, and eliminates the need
to purchase and maintain costly hardware KVM switches in the produc-
tion environment. KVM Remote Control works for PCs both inside and
outside the corporate firewall.
• Fast call for help for wired or wireless systems, even beyond the fire-
wall.
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Helps users avoid the costly downtime of shipping PCs back to IT
to be fixed. If a PC crashes, a user can phone IT for help and, during the
boot process, press a specific key to securely connect the PC to IT for
troubleshooting. IT can then take over via remote console redirection
or hardware-based KVM Remote Control.
• PC Alarm Clock,
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a new hardware-based feature that lets IT schedule
a PC to wake itself from any idle, powered off, or sleep state without
a network connection.
The PC can then perform scheduled, IT-defined
tasks, such as initiate a secure call to the service center for automated,
off-hour services – even if outside the corporate firewall. As with other
features, PC Alarm Clock is configured via a management console.
However, once the feature is implemented, businesses do not need
a management console to access or use the feature in their produc-
tion environment. PC Alarm Clock works even if there is no network or
communication with the PC. For example, the feature allows indepen-
dent software vendors (ISVs), such as McAfee, to enable IT-scheduled
product updates even for businesses that don’t have an IT console.