Looking forward to consolidating its presence in the enterprise segment, Intel has launched its new 2010 Intel Core processor family based on vPro, its remote manageability technology. The platform, based on the 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family, includes the Intel Q57 Express chipset and Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection for notebooks and Intel 82578DM Network Connection for desktop PCs.
Rick Echevarria, VP (Intel architecture group) and GM for business client platform division, Intel, said, “The new installment of vPro was not just for large enterprises but also for smaller organizations, an announcement that could cause some wariness at rival AMD, who released their own remote management platform – Vision Pro, for small organizations last month. With the launch of the new version of vPro, Intel hopes to tap a business segment which is looking to recover from the global recession. Organizations have not updated their hardware for quite some time and hence are facing a computing environment that no longer handles newer applications. Coupled with continued software innovations, we are expecting a PC refresh cycle by mid-2010.”
OEM & ODM partners like ASI, Toshiba, Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Gigabyte, etc. have already started introducing business PCs and notebooks based on the vPro platform for both large and small enterprises. In addition, developers of software solutions for SMBs and enterprises such as Kaseya, LANDesk, LogMeIn, Microsoft, Symantec, RealVNC, WinZip, etc. will support the new features in their upcoming products.
