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Business PCs

Notebooks with Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology and desktops with Intel® Core™2 processors with vPro™ technology are optimized to help IT better manage and protect your fleet of business PCs. Safeguarding your business from data loss and disruption, these desktop and notebook PCs deliver proactive and enhanced security and remote manageability even if the PC is off or the OS is inoperable,ą lowering IT management costs and reducing the need for deskside visits.²

Designed to unleash the benefits of business software, Intel vPro technology helps IT enhance fleet manageability by combining PCs with Intel vPro technology with top software management solutions from providers like Microsoft, Symantec, LANdesk, HP, and more. And with the exceptional energy-efficient performance of the latest hafnium-based 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, you'll have a robust foundation for Microsoft Windows Vista* along with future 64-bit and next-generation multithreaded software.

Mobilize your work force

Mobilize your work force

Innovate on the go with robust security and manageability features, longer battery life, and faster wireless connections built into notebooks powered by Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology.¹

Empower desktop manageability

Empower desktop manageability

Get groundbreaking security and manageability, industry-leading performance³ and energy-efficient performance in the desktop PCs with Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology—Intel's best technology for business.

Revolutionary technologies optimized for business

Notebooks with Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology and desktops with Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology deliver unique, hardware-assisted technologies that help enable a revolutionary computing experience.

  • Discover. With built-in manageability and posture authentication in Microsoft* network access protection (NAP) environments, IT can discover assets even while PCs are powered off.¹
  • Diagnose. Reducing downtime by providing management capabilities even when the PC's OS is inoperable, end users can request help with a keystroke from inside or outside the firewall and IT can remotely isolate and recover systems
  • Verify. Hardware-based agent presence checking proactively detects that software agents are running while missing agents are automatically detected and alerts are sent to the management console.
  • Isolate. Proactively blocking incoming threats, these PCs contain infected clients before they impact the network while alerting IT when critical software agents are removed.
  • Update. Help keep software and virus protection up-to-date with enabled third-party software to store version numbers or policy data in non-volatile memory for off-hours retrieval or updates.

Configuration Manager 2007*

Configuration Manager 2007

When should enterprises activate Intel® vPro™ technology with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 in the PC infrastructure?

ROI Estimator

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Business PC demo

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Gartner research

Gartner discusses Intel® vPro™ technology for corporate purchases.

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 http://www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/intel-amt/index.htm.

² 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 http://www.intel.com/business/vpro/index.htm and http://www.eds.com/.

³ System performance, battery life, power savings, high-definition quality, video playback and functionality, and wireless performance and functionality will vary depending on your specific operating system, hardware, chipset, connection rate, site conditions, and software configurations. References to enhanced performance refer to comparisons with previous generation Intel technologies. See www.intel.com/cd/products/services/emea/eng/centrino/index.htm and www.intel.com/performance/mobile/benchmarks.htm for more information on performance, power savings, and energy efficiency.

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