Intel® Roadmap Directions 2007 A Resource Guide for CIOs and IT Professionals www.irdonline.in July – September 2007 Intel continues to lead with innovative technologies and breakthrough products. The recently launched Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology for notebook PCs, along with the existing Intel® vPro™ processor technology for desktop PCs, feature unsurpassed superior hardware-enabled security and manageability that will enable organizations to keep ahead of the change curve. The Quad-Core processor, for desktops and servers, sets new standards for performance, and redefines the processor technology landscape. This edition of the Intel Roadmap Directions also gives you key insights on how to save on mobile fleet management costs, thus helping enhance your business profitability and productivity on a continued basis. We look forward to your comments and opinions at [email protected] www.irdonline.in Intel® Core™2 Quad processors. Intensify to the power of quad Improve efficiencies and influence your bottom line with faster, more stable computing solutions for the digital office. With Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Q6600 based PCs, your business can harness the top-of-the-line computing power needed to compete and win in an increasingly competitive business environment. The Intel® Core™2 Quad processor is the latest in cutting edge processor technology for the desktop PC. Based on the new Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the Intel Core 2 Quad processor delivers four complete execution cores within a single processor, delivering unprecedented performance and responsiveness in multi-threaded and multitasking business use environments. This quad-core processor represents Intel’s continued leadership and drive of multi-core processing and more parallel computing. Doing More with Intel Quad-core The Intel Core 2 Quad processor is at the center of today’s most interactive and content rich software experiences. The evolving set of threaded multi-media applications, including digital content creation, will shine as users are able to complete tasks faster. Multitasking environments can be expanded like never before. Users can stream high-definition content or run multiple complex data bases while developing professional content and running virus protection software in the background. The Intel Core 2 Quad processor is a powerful new tool for today, with the ability to grow and expand tomorrow. Platform Support The Intel® P965 and 975X Express Chipsets support the Intel Core 2 Quad processor. With four execution cores, the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor blows through processor- intensive tasks in demanding multitasking environments and makes the most of highly threaded applications. http://www.intel.com/products/processor/core2quad www.irdonline.in Improve operational efficiency and increase up-time with Intel-based notebook and desktop PCs Superior hardware-enabled security and manageability with Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology for notebook PCs and Intel® vPro™ processor technology for desktop PCs. The new Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology for notebook PCs and Intel® vPro™ processor technology for desktop PCs will change your IT reality. With hardware-based advances in management and security, you can reduce the time and resources required to maintain and protect both notebook and desktop PCs. Building on a common technology foundation, notebook computers with Intel Centrino Pro processor technology and desktops with Intel vPro processor technology offer a unified approach for managing and securing computers throughout your organisation. With the latest IT management consoles, you can manage your notebooks and desktops over a wired or secure wireless network even if the OS is inoperable or the PC is powered off1. Plus, both Intel Centrino Pro and Intel vPro processor technology-based PCs contain the high performance, energy-efficient Intel® Core™2 Duo processor. Key Benefits • A unified framework for secure remote management of PCs • Proactively protect your notebook and desktop PCs • Lower costs and improve efficiency with built-in manageability • Setting new standards in energy-efficient performance • The Intel® Core™2 Duo processor performance • Security and manageability for superior business performance Intel® Centrino® Pro and Intel® vPro™ processor technology enable more accurate inventories, greater policy compliance, fewer deskside service visits and less interruption to business operations. Also, can help cut average user downtime and reduce the average in-person IT support time up to 95%.2 www.intel.com/go/businesspc http://download.intel.com/business/business-pc/businesspc_brochure.pdf www.irdonline.in How to cut your mobile fleet management costs with Intel® Centrino® Pro platform Managing mobile PCs is complex and challenging because they can be difficult to inventory, update and repair. That’s why Fujifilm and Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS carried out proof-of-concept tests to understand how new Intel® Centrino® Pro technology could help them better manage their mobile fleets. Recognising that workforce mobility is an important business driver, Fujifilm plans to introduce wireless LANs at all of its Japanese locations. Notebooks now make up 40% of the company’s 20,000 PCs, a proportion that will increase steadily in coming years. As Fujifilm upgrades, it expects to deploy Intel® Centrino® Pro technology to take advantage of its Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) to manage their notebooks. Fujifilm is already reaping the benefits of having Intel® vPro™ in its desktop computers. Prior to deployment, the company found it very difficult to track and manage PC assets, up to 10% of which were unaccounted for. Fujifilm’s IT team is now using Intel® AMT to help discover desktop assets remotely. As a result of the time and labour savings this produced, the company plans to use the same tools in Intel® Centrino® Pro technology to improve management of its growing mobile fleet. Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS is a managed services provider in charge of thousands of company PCs. One of the company’s aims is to continually improve customer service. They believe that Intel® Centrino® Pro technology can help them achieve this goal by enabling their staff to more efficiently maintain, update and inventory the mobile PCs in their charge. By making it far simpler to resolve problems, contain viruses and deploy critical patches, they anticipate that user downtime will be minimised considerably, and this will translate into much improved customer service. Forrester Research 2006, ‘Why enterprise mobility matters’. Key findings include: • Enterprises are adopting mobile applications faster than planned, mainly due to technological advances, such as high-speed wireless networks, increased competitive pressure as others start adopting mobile technology, and overall increased speed of business • Today, 22% of the workforce uses mobile applications such as mobile email and calendaring, field force automation and logistics • Companies can use mobile technologies to drive changes – from improving productivity to radically redefining business processes • Leading companies are using wireless networks not only to track assets but report back identities, conditions and locations EDS Workpace management Services, 2006. Complete case studies at www.irdonline.in/casestudies http://www.intel.com/business/casestudies/proof_of_concepts_fujifilm.pdf www.irdonline.in Capture Quad-Core performance. Expanding value through accelerated IT refresh IT organisations typically replace older generations of servers every four to six years to gain the performance advantages of newer technology. But refreshing now with Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers puts your business ahead of the curve. The industry’s first quad-core processor3, the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300~ Series provides breakthrough performance and capabilities per watt for the ultimate in powerful, cost- effective and energy-efficient general-purpose servers. There are two ways to capture the value of quad-core servers for your business: Standard Refresh: Expand performance, headroom, and reliability As your existing servers age and your business demands more performance and capability, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor-based servers offer • Reliability • High-performance • Cost-efficient and Energy-efficient solution Refresh and Virtualize An alternative to simple 1:1 server replacement, many IT professionals are turning to virtualization as they deploy new servers. Virtualization allows business to boost IT flexibility, improve server utilisation through application consolidation, and dramatically reduce IT costs, while still improving overall performance at existing service levels. Boost flexibility, save space, and reduce costs • 87% reduction in footprint3 • 66% less power consumed3 • $6,000 annual IT cost savings3 Quad-Core processor based servers provide a new level of value for clients, delivering three to five times the performance of systems that were offered just 12 to 18 months ago. These new systems enable clients to significantly grow compute power by upgrading or replacing their current systems while maintaining the same hardware footprint or consolidating applications onto fewer, more powerful servers. – IDC, April 20074 http://www.intel.com/products/server/processors http://download.intel.com/technology/quad-core/server/quadcore-refresh.pdf www.irdonline.in Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor “We wanted a solution which would