Intel® Core™2 Processor with vPro™ Technology
Designed from the ground up to empower IT while meeting the needs of business, Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology provides enhanced security, remote manageability, energy efficiency, and performance so you can spend more time on strategic initiatives and less time on PC issues and downtime.¹
- Learn more about PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology
- Intel® Desktop Business Computing Solutions. Read the product brief. (PDF 783KB)
- View the results of 10 pilot implementations of Intel vPro technology. Read the case study. (PDF 36KB)
Features and benefits
Get peace-of-mind with hardware-assisted security features. Designed from the ground up Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology provides built-in hardware-assisted security features that IT can rely on. Intel® Trusted Execution Technology and Intel® VT² for directed I/O provide hardware rooted security architecture that can significantly reduce the risk of "hyper-jacking" or rootkit attacks. New filters have also been included that identify malicious patterns, viruses, worms or potential attacks in network traffic. Plus, with the addition of Cisco Self-Defending Network* (PDF 289KB) and 802.1x support, there is no need to lower security for OS-absent management.
Reduce deskside visits for software and hardware problems up to 56 percent.³ Using powerful out-of-band access and management, you can automatically isolate, remotely diagnose, and repair infected PCs using hardware-based remote manageability features¹—even if your PCs are turned off or the OS is unresponsive. And with convenient remote configuration, you now have an option for over the-the-wire set-up.
Conduct hardware and software inventory up to 94 percent faster.³ Maintain accurate asset inventory, and up-to-date licenses; helping to ensure that you're only paying fees for software you're actually using.
Reduce PC power bills. Built on the latest 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro technology offers reduced electrical current leakage, and increased performance while meeting Energy Star4 requirements.
Enjoy broad industry support. Intel collaborates with major manageability and security independent software vendors (ISVs) such as Symantec*, LANDesk*, HP*, Microsoft*, and Cisco* to enable Intel vPro technology features.
Remain compliant with next-generation management standards. More capable, extensible and secure than ASF5 and standardizes management between console and PC as well as inside the PC, Intel® Core™2 with vPro™ technology supports next generation communication protocols such as WS-MAN and DASH.
Prepare for the future with an industry leading foundation for Microsoft Windows Vista*. Get breakthrough performance for 64-bit Microsoft Windows Vista and next-generation multithreaded software with Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology. With powerful Intel® integrated graphics you can run Microsoft Windows Vista with full Aero* graphics support without the expense of an external graphics card.
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¹ Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) requires the computer system to have an Intel® AMT-enabled chipset, network hardware and software, as well as connection with a power source and a corporate network connection. Setup requires configuration by the purchaser and may require scripting with the management console or further integration into existing security frameworks to enable certain functionality. It may also require modifications of implementation of new business processes. With regard to notebooks, Intel AMT may not be available or certain capabilities may be limited over a host OS-based VPN or when connecting wirelessly, on battery power, sleeping, hibernating or powered off. For more information, see www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/intel-amt/.
² Intel® Virtualization Technology requires a computer system with an enabled Intel® processor, BIOS, virtual machine monitor (VMM) and, for some uses, certain platform software enabled for it. Functionality, performance or other benefits will vary depending on hardware and software configurations and may require a BIOS update. Software applications may not be compatible with all operating systems. Please check with your application vendor.
³ Results shown are from the 2007 EDS Case Studies with Intel® vPro™ processor technology, by LeGrand and Salamasick, 3rd party audit commissioned by Intel, of various enterprise IT environments. The studies compare test environments of Intel® vPro™ processor technology equipped PCs vs non-Intel® vPro™ processor technology environments. Tested PCs were in multiple OS and power states to mirror a typical working environment. Actual results may vary. The study is available at www.intel.com/vpro and www.eds.com.
4 Energy Star* denotes a system level energy specification, defined by the US Environmental Protection Agency, that relies upon all of the system's components, including processor, chipset, power supply, HDD, graphics controller and memory to meet the specification. For more information, see www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction= find_a_product.showProductGroup&pgw_code=CO.
5 Intel® vPro™ processor technology in 2007 DASH implementation is based on draft DASH 1.0 specifications.