Centrino Vpro 2

I just went for the official launching from Intel today regarding their 2nd generation of VPro 2 for Mobile and Desktop. They had shown some impressive features and enhancement compare with the version 1 which launch 2 years back. It really does show that the sys admin will have more productivity and easier life to troubleshoot and manage the mobile and desktop environment without travel to the desk or branches office to further investigate for each of the incident reported by the users.

Most of you guys may had already known the benefit of this product, if not, you can go to www.intel.com to check this out. I would like to share my opinion here about the disadvantages about this products. The biggest concern's is privacy and security.

Let's imagine, as today, we had shut down our machine before we left the office most of the time. With Vpro2, the sys admin will able to remote power up your machine when you are not aware off, and perform the patch activity and any type of the administration job require. sys admin point of view of course is life easier, but what about business users cross different organization with data sensitivity? had we really think detail about this? many of the users are store thier document locally on the machine, although they have the share drive to be encrypted or protected. this could be big potential for someone to access to the machine without user notification.
As sysadmin will always have the administration rights on most of the desktop or laptop. Without Vpro, they may not do this without user agree with the remote access, because you will see the screen moving or been log on by someone else.

Again, I will say that the security is something Intel has to think about to enhance their products. Cool solution but it may not cool for everyone or every environment.