Intel® vPro™ Technology

Innovating Above and Beyond Standards

Introduction

Intel cooperates with other vendors in the industry to accelerate technology adoption by driving industry specifications and by innovating above and beyond these standard specifications. This balanced mix allows for the timely deployment of value-added functionality, followed by the broadest possible industry support for the necessary infrastructure to deliver the next level of innovations. This model for ongoing innovation is based on evolving standards, and as we will show, is an integral part of Intel’s manageability philosophy. From this perspective, one can clearly see why innovators are often the primary drivers of standards.

Innovators could avoid standards, but ultimately it would cost them a lot more to provide a steadily increasing variety of end-customer-focused value as quickly and easily as they can by adhering to, and promoting, standards. Similarly, without innovations on top of standards, there would be very little need for standards, since innovations are almost always a reflection of end-user added value. In reality the best products and services require a balance of both.

In this article, we outline the history of Intel’s client platform innovations above and beyond standards in the context of Intel® vPro™ technology and provide examples of how standards and innovations are integrated to produce some of Intel's best products and technological advances.

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