® Core™2 Processors with vPro™ Technology and Windows® 7: Get More Done Faster The combination of 2 processors with vPro Solution Brief technology and Windows 7 can help you spend smart, Intel® Core™2 Processors do more, and be more secure. Intel® vPro™ Technology Business Challenge: Help users get more work done faster, protect PCs and the network from attacks or Intel® Virtualization malicious code, and reduce IT administrative overhead and the associated costs. Technology Technology Solution: Intel Core 2 processors with vPro technology and Windows 7–based desktop and Windows® 7 notebook PCs.

Windows® 7 was designed from the ground up to handle today’s tasks and workloads quickly and securely, while making the IT manager’s job easier. Intel® Core™ and Intel® vPro™ technology complement the new operating system by building high-performance, trusted computing and management mechanisms into the hardware. Whether working at a desk on the corporate network or on a notebook at home or in a hotel room, today’s information-centric employees must be able to quickly and securely access files on the corporate network. IT personnel must be able to exercise control over the that log on to that network, whether they’re connected to the LAN or connected remotely over the Internet. Windows 7 running on Intel Core 2 processors with vPro technology work together to help make all this easier.

Intel vPro Technology and Windows 7: Better for Business with Enhancements in Performance, Security, Manageability, and Additional Features Technical decision makers are faced with many challenges in today’s economy: help users get more work done faster and with fewer difficulties, protect the network and individual systems from attacks or malicious code, and reduce administrative overhead and the associated costs. The underlying hardware platform can provide a foundation for making the best use of new software capabilities. Intel Core 2 processors with vPro technology complement Windows 7 by building effective, trusted computing and management into the hardware. The release of Windows 7 provides an ideal opportunity for a PC refresh. • Intel Wide Dynamic Execution. Intel Wide Dynamic Execution delivers By refreshing the PC fleet to new desktops and notebooks with Intel Core more instructions per clock cycle. Fewer clock cycles means that less 2 processors with vPro technology, IT can benefit from up to a 50 percent power is required to complete a task, which can help reduce execution reduction in operational costs, do more with enhanced multitasking, and times and increase energy efficiency. be more secure by avoiding the 53 percent increase in security incidences • Intel Advanced Smart Cache. Intel Advanced Smart Cache increases seen in four-year-old PCs.1 Intel vPro technology eases the management the probability that each execution core can access data from the of PCs, and when activated, can save up to 40 minutes or more of end faster, more efficient processor cache subsystem. This enables each user productivity during an operating system upgrade.2 In addition, new core to dynamically use up to 100 percent of L2 cache, while obtaining PCs can do even more with shorter boot times and new productivity tools. data from the cache at higher throughput rates when compared to Intel vPro technology support built into Microsoft® System Center Intel’s previous generation Smart Cache. Configuration Manager 2007 can also significantly reduce migration • Intel Smart Memory Access. Intel Smart Memory Access hides overhead with remote inventory of PCs regardless of the power state memory latency, and this can optimize data bandwidth to the memory and with remote power on, out-of-band configuration, and improved subsystem and help improve system performance. management tools. This makes it possible to carry out company-wide Windows 7 migrations from the service center with minimal impact on • Intel Advanced Digital Media Boost. Intel Advanced Digital Media user productivity. Boost improves performance when Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE, SSE2, and SSE3) instructions are executed. These instructions enable Windows 7 enables you to run many legacy applications seamlessly Intel Core processors to deliver superior performance and energy with Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode or Microsoft Enterprise efficiency to a broad range of 32-bit and 64-bit applications, including Desktop Virtualization (MED-V). However, hardware virtualization assist is graphics, video encoding, 3-D imaging, and high-performance line-of- required to run Windows Virtual PC. PCs with Intel vPro technology include business applications. Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), which meets the hardware virtualization assistance requirement. In addition, some PCs that don’t use • Intel solid-state drive (SSD)6 and Windows 7 TRIM command Intel vPro technology may have Intel processors that support Intel VT. In support. The Intel solid state drives (SSDs) enable superior read/ both cases, Intel VT must be enabled in the BIOS. Organizations that want write performance and throughput and drastically outperform the best of the management and virtualization worlds will standardize on traditional hard disk drives. Windows 7 is engineered to reduce the PCs with Intel vPro technology. frequency of writes and flushes to further improve performance time. Windows 7 supports the SSD TRIM command to reduce the chance Energy-efficient technologies built into Intel Core 2 processor–enabled of SSD performance degradation over time. Windows 7 disables notebooks and desktops3 and power management features that are defragmenting, Superfetch, ReadyBoost, and boot and application included in Windows 7 4 reduce your energy costs. The combination launch prefetching on SSDs.7 of Intel vPro technology and Windows 7 helps reduce the total cost of ownership and increase the return on investment. Security Enhancements Viruses, worms, Trojans, drive-by malware, and social engineering exploits Intel vPro Technology PCs provide the best Windows 7 threaten the integrity of the services and data that help drive business experience. success. Attacks can come from removable devices, network connections, e-mail, Web sites, and numerous internal and external sources. With Intel •Intel vPro technology, when activated, helps ease the vPro technology, IT can: management of PCs and can save up to 40 minutes or more of end user productivity during the Windows 7 upgrade.2 • Push updates over the wire—regardless of the PC power state. Intel vPro technology includes a secure, encrypted power-up capability •Run legacy applications seamlessly with Intel Virtualization that helps IT prepare systems for updates. Technology and Windows Virtual PC. • Filter threats and isolate PCs based on IT policy. With Intel vPro technology, IT can use third-party software to define policies that will trigger hardware-based network isolation of a PC. Desktop PCs with Performance Enhancements Intel vPro technology also include hardware-based filters that monitor Intel Core 2 processors employ Intel Core microarchitecture5 on a the rate of outbound traffic to help identify suspicious behavior, revolutionary 45-nm die process that benefits from hafnium-based high-k including both fast-moving and slow-moving worms. metal gates. Intel Core microarchitecture speeds computing by using the • Send alerts even if a system is off the corporate network. following technologies: Notebook and desktop PCs with Intel vPro technology have policy- based alerting built into the system.

2 • Perform automatic checking for agents. Notebook and desktop PCs • Improve remote inventory for wired and wireless systems. with Intel vPro technology use a regular, programmable “heartbeat” Notebook and desktop PCs with Intel vPro technology give technicians presence check, which is built into the Intel Management Engine. If an access to asset information from virtually anywhere. This information is agent hasn’t checked in before a heartbeat timer expires, the agent is stored in protected, persistent memory that is contained on a chip. presumed removed, tampered with, or disabled and can be remediated • Windows 7 manageability features. Windows 7 introduces its own automatically. new and powerful tools that complement Intel platform technologies, • Enable out-of-band management on Network Access Protection such as Windows PowerShell™ 2.0,10 Windows Troubleshooting (NAP)–protected networks. With the latest PCs with Intel vPro Platform,11 and Problem Steps Recorder.12 technology, network security credentials can be embedded in the hardware. This includes an Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® Additional Features AMT) posture plug-in, which collects security posture information (such Intel Core 2 processors with vPro technology that are running Windows 7 as firmware configuration and security parameters), and the Intel AMT provide significant benefits beyond security and manageability. Embedded Trust Agent.

• Block buffer overflows with Intel Execute Disable Bit. The Intel • Improve mobility and extend manageability. DirectAccess13 uses Execute Disable Bit functionality can help prevent certain classes Internet Protocol security (IPsec) and IPv6 to enable an encrypted, of malicious buffer overflow attacks when it is combined with a private tunnel between a PC and the DirectAccess server. PCs can be supporting operating system, such as Windows 7. managed over a DirectAccess connection in the same way that PCs on Windows 7 offers complementary technologies that help protect the PC the corporate network are managed, by using the same management fleet by introducing new operating system platform security features and security tools. such as AppLocker™,8 BitLocker™,9 and the Windows Biometric Service. • Ensure application compatibility. Intel Core 2 processors with vPro Manageability Enhancements technology work together with Windows 7 to enable numerous Intel Core 2 processors with vPro technology that are running Windows 7 features designed to maintain application compatibility. Intel VT is introduce a number of manageability capabilities that can help reduce the available with Intel vPro technology–based PCs as well as with many total cost of ownership by increasing automation, improving productivity, non-Intel vPro technology–based PCs. Intel VT enables Windows 14 15 16 and providing flexible administrative control to meet compliance Virtual PC, Windows XP Mode, and MED-V to create a virtual requirements. At the same time, these manageability improvements can environment on the PC for running legacy applications. increase the company’s return on investment. • Reduce costs and stay productive longer with Windows 7 and

• Manage PCs regardless of the power state. With the ability to Intel Power Management. Microsoft and Intel have collaborated on remotely wake, power up, maintain, and manage a PC anytime, IT can studies about power usage in PCs, enabling PC OEMs to build more ensure that key tasks are performed when they are needed and at power-efficient PCs. times that don’t affect user productivity. • Simplify migration with Intel vPro technology and Windows 7

• Push updates down the wire regardless of the power state. With deployment tools. Intel vPro technology, Windows 7 deployment Intel vPro technology, users can still power off their PCs before leaving tools, and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager can work for the night or for the weekend, saving energy costs. IT can remotely together to streamline migration to Windows 7. power on these PCs from the service center to install critical application and operating system updates if needed. Summary Intel Core 2 processors with vPro technology work in tandem with • Receive alerts even if the system is powered off or is disabled. Windows 7 to boost performance, reduce power use, increase security, Intel vPro technology enables out-of-band alerts so that IT can and make PCs more manageable. Intel vPro technology enables PCs to be notified rapidly and automatically when a system falls out of be more manageable and gives IT more control over the PCs on which it compliance, when hardware is about to fail, or when applications hang. is activated, even if the wired or wireless is powered off, has a disabled operating system, or suffers from a failed hard disk. • Resolve more problems remotely. Intel vPro technology delivers powerful tools, such as remote/redirected boot, console redirection, Overall, the combination of Intel Core 2 processors with vPro technology persistent event logs, and access to pre-boot BIOS, that let IT more and the operating system improvements included with Windows 7 can accurately diagnose hardware and software problems from the service help reduce the total cost of ownership and increase the return on both center. hardware and operating system investments.

3 Resources, Links, and Footnotes 7. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid- state-drives-and.aspx 1. http://www.wipro.com/resource-center/ 8. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378941(WS.10).aspx wipro-council-for-industry-research/pdf/using_total_cost_of_ownership_ to_determine_optimal_pc%20refresh_lifecycles.pdf 9. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd548341(WS.10).aspx

2. Source: Intel. The actual time that is saved depends on network traffic 10. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd367858(WS.10).aspx

conditions, migrated user data, applications, drivers, or downloaded 11. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&Family policies.Desktop and mobile PC data collected by Intel was migrated to ID=48c2fc09-c3e0-4188-8f4f-216e0c25df1d#tm Windows 7 under various conditions. To view a Microsoft Management 12. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B72D3AC2- Summit demo that shows a remote, wireless Windows 7 upgrade on 4352-4184-9992-E122DBB80883&displaylang=en Windows XP , visit the following Website: 13. http://www.vimeo.com/4430604 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/dd420463.aspx

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