Amplify Your Value – A Seismic Shift Forward
Did you feel it? Did you feel the shifting of the earth? Did you hear it? Did you hear the rumble so loud you could feel it in your bones? What? You missed it? What were you doing on Saturday night...
View ArticleTo Get Where You Are Going…Amplify Your Value
To get where you are going...you have to know where you are! Sounds pretty obvious doesn’t it. To arrive at any destination, you have to leave where you are and move toward that destination. At the...
View ArticleParty Like It’s 2016 and Amplify Your Value!
Party like it’s 2016!! OK, sitting here on April 1st, 2015 that doesn't sound very prophetic, perhaps a tad premature, but certainly not prophetic. But, think about celebrating New Year’s Eve 2015,...
View ArticleArchitecture: Amplify Your Value by Thinking Beyond IT!
“Wait, wait, wait...before we talk about all these projects, shouldn’t we talk about our operating model? Are we really as diversified as we think?” I couldn’t believe my ears! I looked across the...
View ArticleTHAT Project is a REAL Cluster! Amplify Your Value: Avoid CF Projects!
SNAFU, FUBAR, CF...if you have been in IT longer than five minutes you have been involved in a project that has been described as a real cluster. (If you are confused, look it up in the Urban...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Draw Your Own Map!
The day was blistering hot! The air did not move. It was stifling hot. The crowd gathering in this Kansas field struggled to find shade, several people stood in the shadows of the tall grasses...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Reap the Rewards!
Amplify Your Value and you can Reap the Rewards...that’s kind of the theme of this entire series...how you can amplify the value of your IT department and how your company can reap the rewards. But...
View ArticleVMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Sets New Record
VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 All NVMe Flash Array with Intel® SSD P3520 Sets New Record At VMworld last year, we demonstrated the World’s First 64 node All Flash Virtual SAN with NVMe and SATA SSDs. The...
View ArticleManagement Engine Interface (MEI) and Serial over LAN (SOL) Device Driver...
Updated August 2009 These instructions are for Windows 7 builds 7077 and beyond. Several Intel based platforms contain Management Engine Interface (MEI) and Serial over LAN (SOL) devices. Windows 7...
View ArticleUpgrade to Intel AMT 6.2 for Host Based Configuration
If you have Dell or Lenovo client systems with Intel AMT version 6, firmware updates are available to make these systems host based configuration capable. If you are new to the Host Based...
View ArticleUsing Intel vPro and upgrading from Intel SCS 7.1 to 8?
If you have been using Intel SCS 7.1, the upgrade path to version 8 in non-database mode is really simple. Shown below is an Intel SCS 7.1 instance with 2 profiles present. After downloading Intel SCS...
View ArticleTurning a Geek into a Butterfly…a Social Butterfly, That Is!
Social Media is part of the Third Platform* (Cloud, Mobile and Big Data being the other parts). Like the other confluences of change rushing toward the CIO, Social Media has the potential to disrupt...
View ArticleIT’s Year in Review
New Year’s Day 2015 As I sat watching the Rose Bowl (not that I am a big follower of college football, I’m more of a pro football/college basketball kind of fan), but it is an annual tradition to watch...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Just Another Spoke in the Wheel
One of the most dramatic steps we took to becoming a Value-add revenue generating partner was to completely throw out our existing network. Wow! As I write that it sounds a little “harsh”. Let me...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: The Final Step
The Final Step on our journey to Amplify Our Value was also the most uneventful: we moved our entire production, test, and development environments to the cloud. What?!!? You moved your entire data...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: From Rock ‘n Roll to CIO
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Me? I was going to be a rock star! From the moment I first heard the Beatles...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: It All Started with (an) Operation!
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! For Will Lassalle his dream of being a surgeon started with a game...a game of...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Black Belt CIO
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! All Paul Chapman knew was that he wanted to work in an office. As child...
View ArticleIntel Setup and Configuration Service 7.2: Designed for Linux
This post is the first in a series about configuring Intel vPro with the Linux operating system. The motivation for this series is that Intel vPro has been adopted for embedded systems such as...
View ArticleGame Over! Gamification and the CIO
Congratulations to the winner of the CIO Superhero Game! The first to complete the challenge and become “Super CIO” was Brad Ton of Reindeer Auto Relocation. He was presented with an AWESOME Trophy to...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: A Tale of Two Recoveries
Monday, January 6, 2014: Not since the blizzard of ‘78 had a day started in this way. After receiving close to 18” of snow on Sunday, temperatures plunged to windchills of 40 and 50 below. My phone...
View ArticlePreparing for Wi-Fi 6: Three Ways to Optimize the Wi-Fi Experience
When it comes to Wi-Fi, it’s essential to get everyone on the same wavelength. Wi-Fi Alliance defines the testing and certifications used by the entire Wi-Fi ecosystem and plays a role in making Wi-Fi...
View ArticleWindows 7 – A Must or a Bust?
Windows 7 Coming out October 2009…What are we getting ourselves into this time?Read this fresh young perspective on my experience with Windows 7*…*Note that this is from the use of Build Version 7077...
View ArticleThere’s an App for that!
The Appification of IT The App. Another word we can thank Steve Jobs for bringing into our lexicon, along with i-anything. Before the launch of the iPhone in 2007 about the only time you would hear the...
View ArticleMore Wireless Enterprise Use Cases with Wi-Fi 6
Throughout our long careers at Intel, my colleague, Omri Barkay, and I have watched the workforce become highly mobile, both on and off campus, inside and outside, within a single building or across a...
View ArticleIntel AMT 6.0 New Features
Hello everyone! I’m a bit new here, well new to blogging, not new to Intel (I’m coming up on 13 years). I’ve spent the last year working with Intel AMT 6.0 and I wanted to write up a quick article on...
View ArticleIntel AMT 7 introduces Host Based Configuration
Configuring Intel AMT via a software delivery job, over wireless or VPN, or even when the system is not physically connected is now possible with Intel AMT 7. The new capability - Host Based...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: From Mining Gold to Developing People
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! For Tracy Kemp, CIO of Allegion, the Path to CIO started in the Big Sky...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Series Finale
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! So, how did we all end up there? Over the past year, I have asked a...
View ArticleWhy upgrade your hardware when migrating to SAP ERP 6.0?
Why upgrade your hardware when migrating to SAP ERP 6.0? Because it makes simple, practical, business sense that is all. SAP has identified several key reasons why customers are concerned about...
View ArticleUnified Provisioning with Intel SCS 7
With the release of Intel AMT 7 comes an updated version of Intel SCS. Intel SCS 7 is sometimes referred to as "Unified Provisioning" since all Intel AMT configuration models are supported within a...
View ArticleIDC Editorial: Planning for the Windows 7 EOL
Nobody wants to be that person: The one who, during a generally positive IT staff meeting, feels the need to point out that the end-of-life for Windows is coming down the pike. Well, I'm going to be...
View Article“Yes we can!” – SCS 6.0 now reaches the SMBs!
“Yes we can!” - SCS 6.0 now reaches the SMBs Overview When we first got back to the drawing board and thought about new SCS Architecture, for SCS6.0, we had several things in mind. It was clear that...
View ArticleAmplify Your Value: Take a Journey to the Cloud!
“Hello, my name is Jeff Ton and it has been one thousand, two hundred and seventy two days since I last opened Outlook.” February 6, 2012, an historic date in Indianapolis, Indiana. Yeah, there was...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Connecting the Dots
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO,” said no child...ever! Fire fighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Engineering was the only path that made sense to Intel Security...
View ArticleWindows 7 and vPro – anything I should be aware of?
If you are one of the many organisations that is planning on adopting Windows 7 and are wondering whether there are any implications for your vPro systems, then this blog is for you... The implications...
View ArticleRemediating Applications When Migrating from Microsoft Windows XP* to...
Take a company with more than 80,000 users who are administrators on their machines, mix in thousands of known applications, countless unknown ones, then just for kicks add in a move to 64 bit...
View ArticleMission Critical RAS Meets Volume Economics: New Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6...
Today, Red Hat launched its new OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, which unleashes a whole new set of scalable performance and reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities in the Intel...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: From Paris to the Sierra Nevadas
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! CIO of Brain Balance Achievement Centers, Stephane Bourles’ Path to...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: The Building Blocks of a CIO
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Isaac Sacolick wanted to build...bridges, buildings, trains. His love for...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Riding the Wave to the Public Sector
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! As a child Aleta Jeffress, CIO for the City of Aurora, Colorado,...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: We will always have Paris
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO,” said no child ever. Fireman, policeman, doctor, just about anything but CIO. As a young girl growing up in Michigan, Ginny Davis loved animals. Growing up, she...
View ArticleANGA COM Insights: How Wi-Fi 6, 10 Gig and AI Transform Cable
This year’s ANGA COM in Cologne was rich with new insights for cable operators preparing to accommodate greater demands on hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) networks. As operators are working to make their...
View ArticleThe Path to CIO: Play That Funky Music Tech Boy
“When I grow up, I want to be a CIO”, said no child...ever! Firefighter, police officer, doctor, just about anything...but not CIO! Steve Ginsberg’s Path to CIO included stops in Hollywood, the...
View ArticleNETGEAR Nighthawk AX4 Brings Affordable Wi-Fi 6 to More Homes
Industry’s first dual-band 4-stream Wi-Fi 6 router powered by Intel® technology If your home is like mine, you’re connecting more devices of all different types to your network — and you might have...
View ArticleIntroduction to Out of Band Management 7.0
The release of the Notification Server 7.0 platform will provide a new design and infrastructure. Out of Band Management will also provide a new release with this platform. First I’ll provide a brief...
View ArticleBlazingly Fast Wi-Fi 6 for the Home Lights up CES
Fast, responsive, more secure connectivity that makes premium, engaging experiences possible—it’s all part of the promise of the next generation of Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi 6—based on the 802.11ax standard—is the...
View ArticleWi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™ Program launches: Intel products are ready
A new era of Wi-Fi is here and ready for certification. In support of the biggest leap forward in wireless technology in more than a decade, the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) today announced the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED...
View ArticleThe Best Time to Deploy Wi-Fi 6 Is Right Now
It’s time once again for Mobile World Congress, our chance to get up to speed on everything happening in mobile and wireless connectivity. This year, it’s all about the gigabit experience. While there...
View ArticleBrief insights on SCS migration for Altiris OOBM 6.x to 7.x
The migration and upgrade process is fairly simple and straightforward. However, do to a number of inquiries on the topic, I posted a summary on Symantec Connect. See...
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