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Shmuel can be found at the Testing Laboratory validating internal Intel® Active Management Technology features. On his browser's favorites folder he stores anything funny, pages related to Software Testing, Open Source, script languages and also movies, harmonica playing or graphic design.

The software bundled with Intel AMT: Part 1

By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (8 posts) on July 20, 2008 at 8:43 am
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Intel AMT is basically a hardware/firmware solution where everything happens on the insides of the computer, in hardware and embedded software. The main interface is the network card - you control Intel AMT remotely. However, many utilities are available for controlling or receiving data from a local interface - on the computer in which Intel AMT [...]

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Category: Manageability

Feature Advantages - Intel AMT and ASF part 5 (final)

By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (8 posts) on January 10, 2008 at 4:33 pm
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It's been a long time... :) There are many excuses I can come up for the time without posts, but not one is good enough... For example, I could 'blame' the birth of my new son, but Joey used the same situation as a writing subject, so that would make a lousy excuse now ;) . Pretexts aside, here [...]

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Category: Manageability, Software Engineering

Between Intel AMT and ASF, part 4

By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (8 posts) on October 11, 2007 at 1:49 pm
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Hello all. In the previous three posts of this series (1, 2, 3), we talked about differences between the manageability two solutions, covering from the kind of network protocol used to the options available for security. This will be (for now) the last post about distinctions between them, and in the next one I'll focus on the [...]

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Category: Manageability, Software Engineering

Eating our own dog food - Intel AMT on our IT network

By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (8 posts) on September 20, 2007 at 1:30 pm
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Intel's IT department is about to implement Intel AMT as an OOB manageability solution in the IT base. Gradually computers are being replaced, and the new computers we are getting are Intel vPro platforms with Intel AMT capabilities. This is great news for the Intel IT department, for the Intel Engineering departments, for the customers and [...]

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More technology distinctions - Intel AMT vs. ASF, part 3

By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (8 posts) on September 18, 2007 at 9:43 pm
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Hi :) (Please refer to the "part 1" and "part 2" posts of this series, in order to learn the evolution line of manageability solutions and the differences of Intel AMT). In this post, we'll continue comparing ASF and Intel AMT features, following the principles presented in the previous two posts. Part Three: Technology Differences (cont.) Alert Subscription: PET and logs Intel AMT [...]

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Category: Manageability, Software Engineering

ASF vs. Intel AMT part 2 - Technology differences

By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (8 posts) on September 10, 2007 at 6:51 am
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Hi :) (Please refer to the "part 1" post of this series, in order to learn the evolution line of manageability solutions and the origins of Intel AMT). In the previous part, we talked about the (summarized) history of manageability. Now we will actually start comparing ASF and Intel AMT. It is somewhat hard to compare Intel AMT [...]

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Category: Manageability, Software Engineering

ASF and Intel AMT - Spot the differences (part 1)

By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (8 posts) on September 4, 2007 at 3:02 pm
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Hello again! After my suggestion of a "comparison between different manageability products" in my previous post, I was actually asked to do so - it seems to answer a widespread question. We'll start by focusing in the differences/similarities between ASF and Intel AMT, trying to explain features as well as technical differences. First, my very own ASF background: [...]

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Category: Manageability, Software Engineering

Testing in the Intel AMT development process

By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (8 posts) on August 19, 2007 at 3:00 pm
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Hi! My name is Shmuel Gershon. I am a Software Tester at the team developing the core functionality of Intel AMT. I have been asked to join the blogging community and am honored to be part of our software network. Hopefully it will help our development process to be closer to the users and to developers outside Intel. I [...]

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Category: Manageability, Software Engineering