Welcome to the Intel IT Technology Center—the resources compiled here explore ways your organization can work to achieve high performance computing. Read more about boosting server performance, how you can power desktops, increasing mobility and securing client systems. These tools will provide you with information to help your organization deliver the best overall performance. Period.

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  • The Value of PC Refresh with Microsoft Windows 7

    - Intel IT plans to begin enterprise-wide deployment of Microsoft Windows 7 on PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology in early 2010. We conducted an extensive three-month evaluation that showed the OS meets the key requirements of Intel's business groups, giving us the ability to improve employee productivity and deliver IT cost efficiencies.

  • Discover the Hidden Costs of Keeping Older PCs

    - Don't let inefficient notebooks and desktops hurt your business and slow your recovery. Discover for yourself how you can realize immediate savings. Get the facts from Intel IT, Intel finance, analysts and other industry leaders.

  • Intel® vPro™ Technology Energy Saving Video

    - This quick animation is an Intel® vPro™ technology teaser, see how Intel® vPro™ technology can save your business money on your energy bill! It is really a simple equation: More secure access + Better energy management practices = energy savings.

  • Unseen Forces: IT Manager Game

    - This game will take you through what it is like to be an IT Manager of a small company with big ambitions. Through playing this game you will test your IT Knowledge as well as have the opportunity to create the ultimate network.

  • Enhance Security with Intel® vPro™ Technology

    - Security and compliance are strong values even in a down economy. Hear from a variety of clients that have used Intel® vPro™ Technology to identify problems, disable and enable the network, enhance patch management, and enabled them to isolate threats quickly and efficiently.

  • Polycom Case Study: Securing Success

    - Polycom has achieved success as the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communication. With more than 75 percent of the Polycom workforce either remote or mobile, the IT team looked for ways to boost the security of the company’s worldwide fleet of over 2,000 laptop computers. Read on to learn what Intel solutions made this possible.

  • Dynamic Virtual Clients

    - In this video, Dave Buchholz and Clyde Hedrick explain how Intel IT is considering implementing Dynamic Virtual Client (DVC) technology that will provide a more robust and flexible platform that users want and that the enterprise needs.

  • A Policy of Productivity: Erie Insurance

    - To increase user uptime while reducing IT support costs, the Erie Insurance IT team decided to deploy PCs based on the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor with vPro™ technology. Access A Policy of Productivity to see how the IT team projects power savings of $45,603 over three years, productivity savings of $161,253 over three...

  • Intel's Proving Grounds

    - Visit Intel's center for systems management excellence to experience the robust difference hardware-based manageability and security makes. This virtual environment will help you asses where you are and what the next steps are with your project. It also provides a variety of other resources.

  • IT@Intel: Evaluating Netbooks for Enterprise Use

    - This Intel Brief suggests that netbooks potentially could become companion devices that employees use in select situations and locations. We plan to continue investigating these usage models to determine the potential for enterprise deployment.

  • IT@Intel: Using TCO to Determine PC Upgrade Cycles

    - At Intel, we've developed a comprehensive methodology, based on total cost of ownership (TCO), that lets us calculate the real cost of operating more than 90,000 PCs. Using it, we can understand the real cost of deploying and maintaining our PCs across varying time horizons.

  • Network Security: Challenges and Solutions

    - In this article we first explore the motivation for protocol security solutions, ones that are capable of protecting data in transit. We describe several solutions, at various layers of the open systems interconnection (OSI) stack, addressing several key network and platform threats.

  • Better together rich client PCs and cloud Computing

    - Read this IT beief to learn how Intel IT has found that whether services are kept in-house or outsourced to the cloud, the ability to perform local computing on the client offers the best user experience and the flexibility to run different types of applications.

  • An Introductory Breakdown of Trusted Computing

    - This technical article provides an introduction to Trusted computing and its components, and is an comprehensive primer to IT departments evaluating security at the platform level.

  • Power efficiency and sustainable Information Technology

    - Read this white paper to hear how the authors tackle the ever-increasing problem of the cost of energy consumption in an enterprise. They show how the use of remote power-management technologies allows a business to manage energy consumption while ensuring that systems can be awakened in a reliable, secure manner.

  • HSBC Calculates Improved IT Support Productivity and Patch Management

    - In this ROI investigation , HSBC Mexico can look forward to driving improved operating efficiencies across their IT support model, with a projected positive ROI of 605% and a break-even point achieved in 2 months, while serving as a foundation to drive worldwide adoption and savings through the use of Intel vPro technology.

  • The Return on Investment for PC Refresh
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    Summary:
    In this video, John Mahvi, PC Fleet Manager for Intel IT diagrams the financial logic Intel IT uses to justify a regular refresh of Intel's PC fleet. By maintaining a refresh cadence of approximately 3 years, Intel gains the benefits of increased security and manageability capabilities, as well as increased productivity and lower overall costs.
  • New Security Solutions Using Intel vPro Technology

    - To increase our ability to maintain, manage, and protect PCs while reducing management costs, Intel IT is undertaking a multi-year program to implement Intel vPro technology throughout our environment. Read this white paper for how they're doing it and the expected benefits your organization can also have with this process.

  • Integrated Software Enhances Enterprise Security

    - Intel IT is deploying an integrated security software solution that cuts response time to threats by 90 percent, while addressing enterprise needs for rapid software installation, scalability, reliability, and reporting.

  • Optimizing WAN Performance for the Global Enterprise

    - WAN performance is critical to enterprise business around the globe. Read this white paper to learn the latest WAN optimization technologies, market products available for optimizations and analyst recommended WAN best practices.

  • Manage and Protect Your Entire PC Fleet

    - Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology delivers a new advanced and unified approach for improving the management and security of all of your business PCs.


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