Intel® vPro™ Technology

Innovating Above and Beyond Standards

ISV Ecosystem Value, Innovation Opportunities, and the Promise of Interoperability

In this section we briefly look at how the Intel® vPro™ technology ecosystem extends the platform value proposition described in previous sections. We then investigate the differences between ecosystem interoperability and specification compliance from the perspective of IT organizations.

Ecosystem Value: Transforming Features to Solutions

Intel vPro technology ecosystem partners provide a critical ingredient to the overall Intel vPro technology value proposition to IT organizations. The WS-MAN standard is used to deliver end-to-end solutions for IT organizations in areas, such as manageability and security, in the following ways.

An Intel vPro technology hardware inventory OOB capability can be remotely accessed by using WS-MAN, and it can be exposed on an inventory or support screen in the current version of the most common enterprise management consoles such as Altiris* or LANDesk*. In this way, IT organizations can realize how a platform feature of Intel vPro technology, once integrated into their systems, can offer them more value than that offered by a variety of console and software offerings they are already using.

Interoperability and Compliance

Once industry standard specifications are completed, the value for IT organizations is only partially realized. For true interoperability to be achieved, which is the primary benefit of standards for IT organizations, compliance programs and tools need to be developed and vetted in the field. While Intel is a primary driver of the DASH Compliance Program, we realize that it will take broader participation from hardware and software vendors and a vetting of the tools themselves before this interoperability goal can be realized by end-user IT organizations.

Intel’s experience with developing and validating an ISV ecosystem is not only a proxy for the inevitable goals of specification compliance, it allows IT organizations to take advantage literally of the exact level of vendor selection and interoperable goals that vendors hope to realize from DASH and related industry specifications. Solution-level interoperability is possible today, due to the broad adoption of Intel® vPro™ technology across all the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and in conjunction with all the primary enterprise management and security ISVs.

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