Intel demonstrated their Active Management Technology, IAMT. With this technology it is possible for system administrators to perform the maintenance of the computers remotely, including turning them on, running anything needed, and then turning them off. This maintenance can be even entering the BIOS setup, as it was demonstrated.

So, with this technology administrators can save a lot of time because they don’t need to physically go to where the faulty computer is located.

Also, with Intel’s virtualization technology, which allows the same computer to be divided into several different partitions as if it were several computers, this remote maintenance can be done even with the computer being used by the user while he is doing something else.

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Figure 5: Video monitor of the computer being remotely controlled.

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Figure 6: Video monitor of the system administrator computer, as you can see it is controlling the BIOS setup of the computer on Figure 5.