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Intel vPro Chipset Lures MSPs, System Builders

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 28 August 2007 - 14:11 · 3 comments & 2681 views

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Managed service providers, system administrators and system builders have discovered a common interest -- getting Intel's deep-drilling vPro and cPro platforms into the desktops and laptops they manage and sell. The vPro platform, rolled out last September, was built to allow remote management of systems below the operating system. It includes a Core 2 Duo processor, the business-optimized Q965 chipset, Intel gigabit network processors, and Intel Active Management and Virtualization technology. With a vPro platform installed, authorized administrators can get into a desktop to manage it even if it's powered down. The cPro platform, launched this past May, does the same with Intel Centrino technology for laptops.

The latest version of the vPro board, code-named "Weybridge," was released Monday. It features beefed-up security and new virtualization capabilities in a package that includes a Core 2 Duo processor, the Q35 Express chip set and the 82566DM gigabit network interface connector. On the "Green IT" front, Intel claims improved energy performance for the vPro 2007 to the tune of 30 percent for CPU max power and 60 percent for idle power, and 55 percent for both chipset max and idle power.

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(1 reply) #1 Zeshin on 28 Aug 2007 - 14:39
We've got Intel vPro on all of our lab PC's here at work... I've 'still' not figured out how to actually use it though... I really should read up on that sometime. Especially seeing how we purchased them all based on their claims of lights-out management and all the other fancy stuff it does.
#1.1 ciaran00 on 29 Aug 2007 - 03:13
Zeshin, vPro is amazing stuff. PM me if you need some pointers. You'd be getting help "from the source", so to speak
#2 metalguy90 on 28 Aug 2007 - 22:35
this is great technology if it works.
we have HP iLos at our work, and they are fantastic.

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