Intel debuts virtualization support for desktop chip

09 Dec 2005 00:00 IST

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Delivering the industry's first hardware virtualization
support for desktop PCs, Intel Corporation debuted new processors that offer
businesses improved manageability and bolstered security.

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Virtualization allows a platform to run multiple operating
systems or applications in independent partitions or "containers" that
can be tailored for specific needs such as IT management services and protecting
networked assets.

"With innovations such as Intel Virtualization
Technology built-in, Intel is at the forefront of tackling some of the biggest
IT challenges facing businesses today," said Robert B Crooke, VP and GM of
Intel's Business Client Group. "Analysts believe virtualization is one of
the most disruptive technologies to the PC in a decade, and our technology
combined with our industry enabling efforts are going to help bring this into
the mainstream."

Intel Virtualization Technology

Improves PC security, productivity, control and ultimately decrease
TCO:

Enable productivity throughout with full management control over
networked PCs though a virtualized IT services partition while end users work
uninterrupted in their own dedicated partition.
Capitalize on infrastructure investments by enabling users to run
multiple operating systems on a single PC, taking advantage of both newer
commercial productivity software and older proprietary applications.
Protect end-user systems and virtualize a PC's network card to filter
network traffic through the firewall in the IT services partition before any
malicious code reaches the user partition.
Stay in control of managed PCs by installing system management agents in a
virtualized environment to keep users from disabling them - keeping you in
control.

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With virtualization support, businesses can maintain full
control of a portion of a PC to run security or management services without
interrupting the end-user or allowing them to easily tamper with critical
applications. Businesses can better protect themselves from malicious code or
viruses by filtering network traffic through a separate IT partition before it
reaches the user.

Configuring multiple partitions on a PC improves
manageability by providing support for legacy applications while testing and
adopting new operating

environments.

Intel Pentium 4 processor-based desktop PCs are being offered by Acer,
Founder, Lenovo and TongFang. Lenovo is now offering Intel Virtualization
Technology-based pilot systems to select customers, and broad support for
desktop PC solutions from several other system manufacturers is expected in the
first quarter of 2006.

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