Everyone wants information security to be easy. Wouldn't it be nice if it were simple enough to fit snugly inside a fortune cookie? Well, although I don't try to promote such foolish nonsense, I do on occasion pass on readily digestible nuggets to reinforce security principles and get people thinking how security applies to their environment. Common Sense I think the key to fortune cookie advice is ‘common sense' in the context of security. It must be simple, succinct, and make sense to everyone, while conveying important security aspects. Here is my Fortune Cookie advice for June: A perfect security program does not make your environment invincible! It would be astronomically too expensive. The 'perfect' security program achieves the optimal balance of spending, loss prevented, and acceptable losses (residual loss). Now if I can just figure out how to stuff these little cookies... Am I contributing to the problem of over simplifying security? Or am I reaching out to those who might not take an inordinate amount of time necessary to understand the complexities and nuances of our industry? You decide and feel free to share your knowledge-nuggets.Fortune Cookie Security Advice - May 2008>

What is the connection between Intel???s products and Intel???s education initiatives? Are teachers asked to buy a Classmate PC after completing a training module on how to teach 21st century skills? Of course not. One notable aspect of the Intel...

Wow, what a question to come up with. It is pretty broad. What is it used for? To have that cool sticker planted on your laptop or on your desktop? Is it a status issue? The first blog I posted did tell a little about vPro. It is a tiny little processor, no bigger than an aspirin pill, if you saw on the floor you would just throw it away, more likely, it would be lodged in your foot. That tiny little piece is so vital to what would take us to the future of virtual technology because of the remote management capabilities. Imagine this: *+I have a friend who lives in, oh I don't know, Timbuktu and he comes over here to visit me here in Folsom. He realized he needed to get a file from his computer. Well, if he has the vPro processor in his computer and I, of course, have one in mine, he will be able to get what he needs from his computer virtually. You think to yourself: what a simple but complicated idea. It's complicated because you think, how does it do that? I don't have to go anywhere and I would be able to fix a computers software from my house. *+

Tenho pensado em escrever algo sobre os Netbooks. Depois de ouvir pessoas sobre este assunto, acho que posso colocar algo no computador. Vamos l??. Antes de mais nada, gostaria de mencionar o primo do Netbook, chamado Nettop. Assim como o...

Hank and I decided to take a road trip to Denver today to attend the latest event. Hank is writing up a blog that we will be updating as well. http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/server/2008/06/26/live-from-intel-premier-it-professional-eventdenver check out his blog. If you are interested in a play by play.. I'm using twitter @ http://twitter.com/JoshProStar.Here's the booth's that are here. I talked w/ Dave, Intel IT guy.>

I'm blogging here today from the Intel Premier IT Professional (IPIP) event in Denver, Colorado. This is a really amazing setting at the Center for the Perfoming Arts in downtown Denver. There are some 200 industry professionals here networking and sharing best practices around client and server technologies with some of the main topics including Intel's technology roadmap, security, client and server virtualization. For those who couldn't be here, check the IPIP Website for event details and to download the presentations. In addition to updates on this blog, Josh Hilliker and I will have an event wrap-up on Blog Talk Radio, stay tuned for the details. Check back to this blog for event updates as they occur. Wm. Hank LeaCommunity ManagerOpen Port-The Server Room>

Some days, it seems that there are more rating lists on corporate responsibility out there than we can count. (For an example, check out Dave Stangis??? blog post a few days ago on the latest Harris Interactive Reputation list.) That???s...

In the spirit of risk-taking, we’re facing the fact that we need advice from people who are doing great things in the quickly advancing area of social media…so we’ve pulled together The Insiders. This social media advisory board will be...

With little fanfare, Gartner announced yesterday that the number of computers in use worldwide had reached 1 billion. I remember many a speech in the mid to late 1990’s —- Andy Grove, Craig Barrett and other Intel executives expousing the...

Last week an important report was published entitled Smart 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age. Coming from The Carbon Group on behalf of GeSI (Global eSustainability Initiative), the study has important data on information and communication...

Netbooks are hot and we’re seeing some nifty little systems like the MSI Wind, the Acer Aspire One, Asus EeePC 901, and others. These simple little Internet machines are going to be hot items especially when selling for as low...

Sophia the intern doing my first blog, where I was asked to learn and communicate to you guys in a multi-part series about a product that is made by Intel called vPro. what it is?what it is used for?why I should personally use vPro?what is it meant to do?what benefits do I get out of having vPro?why the v in vPro?To boil it down, I just want to know all about it?!?To start my journey, I researched vPro, gathered feedback about vPro in both questions and comments, which gave me the first few topics to study and write about in my blog series. My goal in the series is simple - become an expert about vPro, and share my journey with you along the way. I want to know so much about it, that my head is going to explode. I plan to try to accomplish this in about 9 weeks. On this particular blog, I am going to figure out what vPro is... What did I do to figure this out?

Energy consumption and energy efficiency issues are becoming more prevalent in the datacenter. This short podcast hosted by the Register provides some insight on topics that IT manager should consider to improve energy efficient performance in the datacenter.http://www.podtech.net/home/5116/energy-consumption-in-the-data-center>

Today, Intel was announced as having one of the best Corporate Reputations among the 60 most visible companies in the U.S. We came in at #3 ??? our highest ranking in the 9-year history of the index and our largest...

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If you have not read Part 1 in this article series, please refer to it as this is a continuation of the story begun there:http://juice.altiris.com/article/4367/altiris-and-intel-vpro-use-cases-part-1-the-setupAntivirus is a must for any IT infrastructure. Without it productivity is quickly reduced as viruses run rampant in the environment. Keeping Antivirus installed and up to date is vital to ensure continuity of business services. In Part 2 the IT team for Mighty Modern Marketing is put up to the challenge of protecting their network from viral attacks. Using Symantec End Point Protection, Altiris and the Intel vPro technology, they work to ensure that the viral attack and subsequent virus attempts fall ineffective.Mighty Modern Marketing HQ - Boston, MassachusettsThe commuter rail stretched out across the Charles River, but Jessica Langley didn't notice. Her eyes remained fixed upon the screen of her smartphone, scrolling through the emails that continued to pour in. The subject lines all contained the same word. Her shoulders hunched, feeling like a tremendous weight settled on them. She closed her eyes briefly, rubbing at them with her left hand, the PDA held forlornly in the right.When she opened her eyes the word jumped up at her.Virus.This wasn't the first time this had happened at Mighty Modern Marketing. Viruses routinely showed up as email links or attachments, and it didn't matter how often she or Tevita sent out stern emails reminding people to leave email attachments and links alone unless they were expecting them. People continued to click that link to see the latest movie trailer, or to run the fun and exciting application their aunt or long-lost friend mysteriously sent them from out of the blue.This time was worse.

Ethernet has been around a long time. It is a highly reliable and trusted means for interconnecting computing nodes, and above that, it has generally been the most commoditize (read: lowest cost) form of interconnect for quite some time. Broad deployment, administrator trust, and low cost have kept Ethernet as the mainstream fabric for LAN traffic for a long time. However, despite Ethernet's strong connectivity credentials, it still comes up short in certain applications. Ethernet is what is referred to as a ‘best effort' network. This simply means that in the real world, you will generally get pretty good performance (throughput, latency, lack of dropped packets, etc), but from time to time when there is congestion, packet drops and performance degradation can be quite a nuisance. For many applications, this doesn't matter. If you are using email, browsing the web, or transferring files to a shared drive, the only thing you will notice is a decrease in performance, but everything will still ‘work', and transfer properly. For some applications like storage though, this non-deterministic performance is unacceptable. If packets are dropped, or arrive out of order, storage applications have a nasty tendency to hang or crash.Because of this limitation of the standard, there have been separate fabrics used for Storage Area Networks (SANs) for quite a while. One of the main fabrics developed and used for high performance SANs is known as Fiber Channel. In order to create a Fiber Channel network, a server and storage target need to support a Fiber Channel Host Bus Adapter (FC HBA) to communicate via the Fiber Channel protocol. In addition, the switches that connect the Fiber Channel infrastructure must also be dedicated Fiber Channel switches; a standard Ethernet router cannot be used.

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The ability to power and cool data centers is becoming a top concern of data center operators. The awareness and focus on server energy efficiency has dramatically increased the last few years and it's importance is growing. This short video provides some insight on 1) what is energy efficiency? 2) how to measure it? and 3) some examples of what Intel is doing to improve it. This is part 1 of a 2 part series.>

It is vitally important to give data consumers an indicator of the quality of your information. This helps to build a trust in the completeness and review state related to what they are consuming. What we have implemented is real-time, includes embedded business rules and a pretty little display.So what did we do?Created a Five tiered rating system Data Quality(DQ) StateMoving through each tier means that data completeness and audited quality checks are performedAs the software application moves through its life cycle, additional data elements become mandatory, which effects the dynamically calculated ratingDQ State value exposed for interfaced consumptionShown on-screen with graphical representationWhat is involved in each DQ State tier level?DQ State 0: does not meet minimum required dataDQ State 1: Name, Business Description, Status, Manufacturer, Owner (Group/Contact)DQ State 2: State 1 plus - Host, Software Type, User (count/location), Data Classification, Technology categoriesDQ State 3: State 2 plus - Cost AssessmentDQ State 4: State 3 plus - Capability categories, Network communication details, Business Continuity detailsThis tiered approach begins to define higher quality for the data completeness as it moves up the defined levels. Not only having the blanks filled in, but the application of embedded business rules-based analysis to validate content, drives the state calculation. These are updated based on any change to any of the evaluated content.What do you do in your organization? How do you ensure that the data "freshness" is preserved?Previous topics include Application inventory, what do you capture?, Application inventory starts with a definition, Application inventory as a cost savings initiative and Application Inventory, the start of data sustainability?.>

Uma das m??tricas para chips de dispositivos m??veis ?? a performance per watt. Dispositivos que consomem pouca energia e n??o possuem ventoinhas s??o requisitos b??sicos no desenvolvimento. A Intel tenta prover a maior economia de energia poss??vel para seus chips....>

Upon testing Intel's new AMT Reflector tool I was greeted with a cryptic error message. When attempting to connect to the server, the client failed with error code -4 (The AMT device is unprovisioned or provisioned in Enterprise Mode). But first, my setup. My test configuration consists of two Intel whitebox machines, each with Windows XP SP2 installed, AMT configured and provisioned in small-medium business mode running AMT 3.0. The entire network is isolated (no outside internet) and is administered by a DHCP server running on Windows Server 2003.The left machine (hostname: gbit-vpro-01) is running the server application and the right machine (hostname: gbit-vpro-02) is attempting to run the client application (although both machines should be able to run either component). The right machine is provisioned in SMB mode, which is confirmed by accessing it through SyAM Provisioning ServerThis is further confirmed by remoting into the client machine's BIOS:No LuckThe listen and communication ports have been configured correctly. The server app is started, and begins listening. When I attempt to start the client application, I receive a notification:I'm at a loss, because all other signs indicate that I am correctly provisioned in SMB mode. I tried unprovisioning and resetting to factory defaults and then setting up the ME from scratch.And now it gets stranger...When I attempt to run the reflector client on the same machine as the server (after reconfiguring the ports for localhost listening), I get some strange behavior.The server is run, configured, and startedThe client program is started. At this point, there is no response (no windows opens, no error, etc). But when the server is stopped, the same error message as before appears (and if the client was started multiple times while the server was running, the messages will stack.)Lastly, the server reports that multiple connections have been made.

IntroductionI wanted to try something different with this article series. Since I'm an amateur author I thought I'd put that skill to use. Here's the attempt!What would you do if highly skilled hackers hired by a competitor infiltrated your environment, planting information siphoning viruses? What would you do if those same hackers began systematically bringing down vital computers used by executives and other high-profile workers. What can you do?

Part 2: Subscriber Economics 101 Year 1988, Cost of electronic communications/information = approx ($60 to $80+) Phone line: $20/mo, + long distance: $10-$30/mo, + cable: $30/mo Year 2008 - Without WiMAX, Cost of electronic communications/information = approx ($150 to $450+)...

Na audi??ncia da Intel Embedded Conference cerca de 10% das pessoas j?? trabalham com SSD (Solid State Drives). Atualmente o mercado NAND ?? o que mais cresce, de praticamente zero em 1999 para cerca de 15 bilh??es de d??lares em...

Awhile back I picked up on an article around the first eco certified computers from Lenovo. First ECO Certified Computer - Interesting ArticleWell the machine was ordered, arrived & hooked up in the lab. The next question is, how can we take this ECO-certified computer & match up a Power Management solution to show that we can save $$'s in the "Managed Power" space. This is our next step in the lab.>

Na ??rea de MID (Mobile Internet Devices), a tecnologia usada ?? o Intel Atom. O interessante ?? que o Sadek Absi, que fez a palestra deste segmento, chegou a perguntar quantas pessoas da plat??ia conheciam o Atom. Pouco mais de...

Here's the 5th follow-up post in my 10 Habits of Great Server Performance Tuners series. This one focuses on the fifth habit: Know Your Workload. Spend some time getting to know your workload. The idea of a "workload" is integral to the concept of performance. The workload is the set of software and tests that you run on the server in order to measure its performance. Also part of the workload is the is concept of the "metric", which means, the number you will use to quantify performance. You should understand as much as you can about your workload in order to characterize and interpret your system's execution. Let's look at the real-life example of a car's fuel economy. The EPA measures fuel economy using 2 workloads: city and highway. Each workload tests different aspects of the car's performance, and the metric used to quantify that performance is miles per gallon (MPG). Like the EPA's fuel economy test, a good workload for server performance tuning should have the following three characteristics: Measurable - There is a quantifiable metric.Reproducible - Measurements are repeatable and consistent.Representative - The workload should be typical of normal operating conditions and should stress the parts of the system (including code) where performance is most critical.Depending on the usage model for the server(s) you are tuning, some example appropriate workloads might be: loading websites , processing XML, encoding/decoding MP3s, responding to database queries, rendering frames, etc. Metrics could be time to run, number of users serviced, transactions processed per second, etc. If your metric is time, take special care that you are measuring it accurately. After choosing or creating a suitable workload, spend some time getting to know it. Measure the variance between runs. Use O/S and processor-level tools (to be discussed in the blog for habit #8) to sample the workload's characteristics at various points during its execution.

Para todos n??s Intel sempre foi sin??nimo de chips para nossos computadores. Sim, a Intel ?? isso e muito mais. A Embedded Conference 2008 mostra exatamente isso. Aqui as solu????es para produtos embarcados tomam forma. Coisas que s??o transparentes para...

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