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Intel announces new 350- and 400-MHz Pentium II processors bringing new levels of performance to Professional Desktop platforms
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Intel Takes System Management to New Heights with Alert on LAN* Solution
New Intel® LANDesk® Client Manager v3.3 and LAN on Motherboard Chip Set Combine to Deliver Alert on LAN* Solution to PC OEMs. Alert on LAN is a new technology that alerts network administrators when a PC has a problem, even if the PC is powered down, or the operating system is unavailable. From a system management perspective, Alert on LAN technology helps the network administrator to react quickly and effectively when problems occur, rather than waiting for input from the end user.
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Intel Helps Extend Reach of Enterprise Vendor Solutions Over Millions of Managed PCs and Servers
Intel introduced Intel® Application Integration Modules (AIMs), which allow IT managers to integrate the system health management capabilities already installed on millions of servers, desktops and mobile PCs with their existing enterprise management solutions.
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Learn how Giant Step, one of America's leading interactive agencies, took advantage of Intel architecture and Microsoft Active Server Pages technology to create a pioneering e-business website for United Airlines.
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New white paper available on Balanced Computing Model for Business. This white paper explains how three emerging compute models—server-centric, network-centric, and connected PC—offer specific ways to allocate the workload among servers, clients and networks and introduces a fourth alternative, the balanced computing model that encompasses the benefits of the others.
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Download the Intel white paper on Why Java is Best Suited for Intel Architecture.
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Wired for Management (WfM) technology, the latest news
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Network PC (Net PC) technology, the latest news
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Competitiveness, control, stability, TCO. These are the watchwords of today's Information Technology (IT) managers. But IT must walk a line between the need for tight control over their enterprise, and the business needs of their users, who demand agility and responsiveness from information systems to adapt to the ever-changing competitive picture. Today, Intel helps IT manage this dichotomy with standard technology building blocks and system manageability initiatives to help lower TCO, but also by enabling business platforms with plenty of performance to easily adapt to dynamic business needs. With these tools, IT and developers can build innovative solutions, such as visual electronic business applications, without compromising the reliability of the enterprise.
Intel Architecture (IA) microprocessors provide a common basis for most business computing models. Whether emulating terminals for a central database, to running the latest office productivity software, an IA device is an integral part of the solution. This, of course, runs the range from Lean Clients to powerful desktop PCs with Intel's latest Pentium® II processor, all the way to multiprocessing servers.
In addition to a full line of microprocessors, Intel is driving a common set of manageability features into all IA-based clients and servers. The embodiment of this initiative is the Wired for Management (WfM) baseline specification. With WfM-enabled systems, IT has standard portals into the system for asset tracking, software updates and power management. The WfM specification has been adopted by dozens of industry-leading OEMs as the foundation for their overall management solutions.
Many business deployments also require strict management of the client hardware. Intel's Network PC (Net PC) platform combines a highly controlled client with the remote management capabilities of WfM to deliver the lowest TCO, without sacrificing PC performance, versatility and compatibility.
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Intel's Wired for Management (WfM) initiative is part of a broad-based industry effort to reduce the costs of business computing without compromising compatibility or performance. The initiative includes new hardware and software products to help OEMs and others implement WfM capabilities, alliances with other industry leaders, education and development programs, and Intel-led industry efforts aimed at developing widely accepted manageability standards. Most importantly, the WfM initiative targets real reductions in support costs, the most expensive element of business computing.
The WfM Baseline Specification establishes a minimum set of management capabilities such as remote configuration and installation of operating systems and software applications, remote system inventory and monitoring, and after-hours maintenance. OEMs can build further capabilities on this baseline to deliver even more value to their customers.
Need to explain WfM to someone in a hurry? Check out the Wired for Management Specification Quick Reference Guide.
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The Network PC, or Net PC, was born out of Intel's WfM initiative to reduce TCO and increase control without sacrificing necessary performance. The Net PC introduces a new category of business PC designed from the ground up to be centrally managed, while simultaneously delivering the power and versatility of a traditional business desktop computer. The benefits of the Net PC include remote system configuration over the network, automated distribution of software, simplified remote diagnosis and maintenance, asset management support and a sealed chassis. The built-in manageability features and locked chassis of the Net PC give IT (Information Technology) support staff a known entity, while at the same time locking systems to reduce unauthorized or unplanned changes in the client.
Need to explain Net PC to someone in a hurry? Check out the Net PC Quick Reference Guide.
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* Legal Information © 1998 Intel Corporation
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