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Intel® vPro™ Technology
Foreword
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Gregory Bryant, Vice President, Business Client Group; General Manager, Digital Office Platform Division, Intel Corporation
Current Articles
Security
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Advanced Security Features of Intel® vPro™ Technology
Security and manageability go hand in hand and, as these authors demonstrate, Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) provides robust and complex security features to secure the manageability infrastructure against attacks from outside and inside the network.
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Storage Protection with Intel® Anti-Theft Technology
Learn how Data-at-Rest (DAR) encryption technology acts as an automated and quick response mechanism to prevent the inevitable loss and theft of storage devices from becoming the loss and theft of the data stored on those devices.
Manageability
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Innovating Above and Beyond Standards
Standards and innovation are not mutually exclusive: in fact, quite the opposite is true. These authors take a look at standards vis-a-vis innovation and demonstrate how standards encourage innovation, lead to technology advances, and ultimately to better products for the end user.
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Configuring Intel® Active Management Technology
Learn all about the various mechanisms and protocols available for configuration of Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT), the actual entity inside Intel vPro technology that is configured. The authors emphasize the versatility of Intel AMT, demonstrating its many configuration options that cater to every type of customer.
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Remote System Repair Using Intel® vPro™ Technology
Client platforms have to function efficiently and effectively to maintain low costs and high productivity for the enterprise. These authors propose a two-stage solution architecture, Remote System Repair (RSR), that comprises technological features and tools, built into the platforms, that enable such remote repair with a minimum of interruption for the end user.
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Mobile Manageability in Low-Power and Operating-System-Absent States
Find out how Intel vPro technology overcomes the shortcomings of Alert Standard Format (ASF) in managing laptop computers both in Sx states and in the absence of an operating system in the S0 state.
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Power Efficiency and Sustainable Information Technology
These 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 allow a business to manage energy consumption while ensuring that systems can be awakened in a reliable, secure manner.
Emerging Compute Models and Innovative Usages
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Enabling Dynamic Virtual Client Computing with Intel® vPro™ Technology
See how the boundaries created by different hardware devices (for example, servers, desktop, and mobile computers) can be spanned by Dynamic Virtual Client (DVC) computing. The result is a sharp improvement in flexibility when reallocating IT resources.
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Next-Generation Streaming Clients, Based on Intel® vPro™ Technology
Take a look at next-generation mechanisms for streaming the results of operating systems, data storage, and applications to client systems. Learn how Intel vPro technology provides industry-first solutions that can be used by IT organizations to build these streaming client platforms that offer the mobility and flexibility of personal computers.
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Extreme Programming with Intel® vPro™ Technology: Pushing the Limits with Innovative Software
This author believes an alternative path to innovative solutions is to use already deployed features in a new and creative way: learn about the use of four Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT) functions: Serial-over-LAN, IDE-Redirection, Agent Presence, and Third-Party Data Storage.
Preface
Richard Bowles
Publisher
David King
Managing Editor
Intel Technology Journal
The wide variety of uses of Intel® vPro™ technology is the scope of this Intel Technology Journal (Vol. 12, Issue 4). Content architect for this issue is John Vicente and he has assembled an excellent sampling of the ways that Intel vPro technology can be deployed to maintain system and data security, to improve manageability, and to support emerging compute models.
Security
The Journal begins with a thorough explanation of the security mechanisms built into the firmware, memory, and chipsets that are components of Intel vPro technology.
This cluster of technologies ensures that Intel's manageability framework is robust to attacks and that only authorized users can access the functions through local or remote management features.
A second article looks at the shifting requirements for the protection of data. In particular, the author explains and evaluates different ways to protect data at rest. Encryption provides the foundation, but should encryption be undertaken by software running on a client machine, by the chipset surrounding the processor, or by technology embedded in the storage device?
Manageability
"Innovating Above and Beyond Standards" is a rich article that puts the evolution of improved system management into an historical context. The authors point out that there is a natural tension between innovation and standardization and, at the same time, the two can and should coexist. The article provides a historical roadmap of related manageability standards and explains their association to current components of Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT).
