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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.
PC Alarm Clock – local wake from any sleep state
A new feature in PCs with a new Intel Core vPro processor is PC
Alarm Clock. PC Alarm Clock is a secure, policy-based client-side
(local) scheduled power-on.
Two forms of this feature – BIOS timers and ACPI interfaces – exist in
the market today. However, BIOS timers are not universally available
or easy to configure, and ACPI interfaces allow wake only from S3
and S4. In contrast, a new Intel Core vPro processor’s alarm-clock
feature allows a PC to wake from any powered-off state or sleep
state, including from a full power down. Also, because this is client-
side intelligence, no network is required. IT can use this capability
to schedule tasks even for PCs that are not on the network.
Potential uses for PC Alarm Clock include waking PCs:
• To ensure that virus scans run according to policy
• To ensure PCs pull and apply scheduled updates from the central server
• To execute periodic backups
• In anticipation of start of work
• To run periodic disk defragmentation
IT administrators can now be more confident that maintenance and key
security tasks are performed regularly, even for laptop PC users who
are not always on the corporate network.
Power down at night and save on power bills
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Businesses are increasingly concerned about power consumption.
Battery life in laptops is one consideration. Just as important are on-site
energy costs – a significant operating expense. In addition, with a global
presence, businesses are faced with increasingly stringent energy regu-
lations around the world, and an ever-increasing corporate focus on
environmental responsibility.
Positive ROI in 9 months –
just from reducing power consumption
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Unmanaged PCs waste energy. Simply by using the secure
remote power up/down capability, some companies have
recouped their investment in a PC with a new Intel® Core™ vPro™
processor in as little as 9 months.
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By implementing other capa-
bilities of a new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor, businesses can
realize further savings.
Actual customer savings from moving to a PC with
a new Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor
When managing PCs with a new Intel Core vPro processor,
businesses can experience exceptional performance while
lowering power consumption and power bills.
• Calgary Health Region: Total projected savings
of $276,800
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• Cleveland Clinic: Power savings 66% over 4 years
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• EDS Call Center: Power-efficiency improvement of 25%
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• CSK (Japan): Saved approximately $61,000 in energy costs
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• State of Indiana: Projected savings of over $1.4 million
in 4 years
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ROI studies, such as from the University of Plymouth, have shown that
companies can reduce power bills by up to 50% by powering down PCs
during off-hours.
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IT technicians simply use the built-in remote power
up/down capability of a new Intel Core vPro processor to remotely
power systems down during off-hours. They can use the same secure
capability to remotely power systems back up from the service center.
This lets technicians minimize power consumption, but still maintain
access to the PC to perform off-hours work – or simply ready the PC
for the next work shift.