Last week we provided you with insights on the types of businesses that Intel venture capitalists are looking to invest in . This week, Intel Capital Investment Director, Vibhor Rastogi, shares his thoughts on how Intel® Software Partner Program Premier Elite Partners applying for potential funding can create a successful submission. Rastogi, who joined Intel Capital in 2010 and has an extensive management and consulting background, shared some straightforward, practical advice for ISVs going through the process of applying for venture funding. What kind of advice would you give business ventures applying for funding with Intel Capital? Vibhor Rastogi: Provide as much information as possible. I know some of the ISVs are hesitant about providing financial data, but your financials are not disclosed to anyone and we are open to signing an NDA if the applicant wishes. Applicants should also strive to provide a clear and concise description of the product or service offering, and the problem it addresses in their business plan. What are your priorities as you’re reviewing submissions? VR: The ability of the company to generate meaningful revenues in three to five years post-investment is absolutely the top priority. Investors usually like to know that the company is participating in a large, rapidly growing market segment and can generate a meaningful return to the investor via a public offering or a strategic acquisition. We are also looking for clear evidence of a differentiated product or service. If a company has patents pending or granted or has licensed valuable IP, they should include this information as well. How important is the team behind the product/service? VR: This is also very important. Investors need to know who is driving the business. Applicants should include relevant details on the executive team, such as their prior professional successes. Prior entrepreneurial experience adds to the credibility of the management team. Knowing the executive team and their passion for solving big problems that will change the world for the better is important to investors. Should applicants include projected sales numbers? VR: Sales forecasts in early stage companies have quite a bit of uncertainty and most investors understand that. At the end of the day, what makes companies win in the marketplace is a defensible competitive position which is acquired through a combination of a stellar team, unique product or service offering and top notch execution. There is no substitute for market and customer research, so applicants need to know that it’s very easy for any investor to tell if someone has not done their homework. Rastogi added that all applications are subject to the same rigorous review and approval process that all potential Intel Capital investments must go through. While submitting an application doesn’t guarantee your business will receive an investment from Intel Capital, following this advice and other best practices for completing an application could better position your company and technology for investment funding with Intel Capital. Stay tuned for an upcoming live webinar open to all members of the Intel® Software Partner Program . While only Premier Elites can apply to Intel Capital, all Intel Software Partners are able to attend to learn more about venture funding and Intel Capital with Vibhor Rastogi. In the meantime, keep in touch with the latest Intel Capital news by following @ IntelCapital on Twitter.
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How to Get Venture Funding: Practical Advice from an Intel Investment Director
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After many requests, yesterday I finally looked at offering a new fullscreen feature for the web based remote desktop on Meshcentral.com . As many of you already know, Meshcentral’s agents have built-in remote desktop capability on Windows, MacOS and some variants of Linux. The remote desktop is build from the ground up to be web based, so a modern web browser can take control of the display, mouse and keyboard of a remote computer. For a long time, the remote desktop on the web page would scale down the desktop image to fit the smaller width of the 960 pixel web pages Meshcentral uses, if you have a large screen on the local and remote machines, this was not great. Well, today there is a new full screen button on the remote desktop page and you can go into full screen. It’s the same speed as before because it was always sending all of the data anyway, but you now get to see all that extra data. Enjoy! Ylian meshcentral.com
Posted in Software Tools Tags: built-in-remote, Data, desktop, finally-looked, from-the-ground, Management, mesh, meshcentral.com, remote-management, screen-remote, speed-as-before, web, ylian Comments OffVideo: Navigating the MEBx Menus of an Intel® vPro™ technology client (Intel® AMT)
The first thing you may think about after you have purchased an Intel(r) vPro Platform with Intel(r) AMT Technology, is “Where do I start?” Getting to “know” the MEBx* menus is probably one of the first things you might want to do. This video shows you how to get into them and how you can change some of your Intel Active Management Technology’s settings and configurations. Here is a short ~11 minute video that I put together to demonstrate getting into the MEBx menus and navigating through them.
Posted in Software Tools Tags: amt, configuration, first-thing, intel amt, intel sw partner program, intel-active, Management, mebx, might-want, minute-video, probably-one, put-together Comments OffVideo: Taking a look at the IMSS software on an Intel® vPro™ technology client (Intel® AMT)
If you have either a Notebook or a Desktop equipped with Intel(R) vPro Technology and you are also working with one of it’s components, Intel(R) Active Management Technology, chances are you have the ” Intel Management and Security Status ” software installed on your system. In this video, we start this software and take a closer look at all the information that it provides. The video is almost 13 minutes: Still have questions? Please go to our Developer’s Forum and ask away!
Posted in Software Tools Tags: closer-look, desktop, intel, intel sw partner program, Management, Security, security-status, Software Tools, technology, Video Comments Off01.2012: Intel(r) AMT Developer’s Most Wanted
What is the Heci and LMS – this is the rolling question week after week. Reseting the ME password. Intel VT-d and how is Intel AMT enabled? Here are the most popular Forum threads and blogs during the last few weeks. Top 15 Forum Threads HP DC7700 (2007) Intel Management Engine Password Reset (2007) AMT Error Message “[UNS] Failed to subscribe to local Intel(R) AMT” (2008) how to install AMT SOL/LMS and HECI drivers silently (2008) lms service cannot connect to heci driver (2009) “Me is in recovery state” (2008) Intel AMT status is disabled (2007) Need to Enable or Disable AMT on your system? (2008) problem with HECI and network connection? (2008) intel management engine interface device cannot start code 10 on HP 8200 elite (2011) Intel Active Management Technology Status: Disable (2008) AMT is disabled (2009) Enabling AMT on system (2008) AMT status error message (2007) Intel motherboard monitoring (voltage/fan/temperature/CI status) programming documentation (2009) Forum posts can be great for finding answers to your questions, but it is even better if the question has been blogged. Here are Top Blogs that our developers have been reading: Top 20 Blogs (pretty much the same list as from last month with a couple of exceptions.) Let us talk about HECI and LMS (2007) Understanding VT-d: Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (2009) Intel AMT software: LMS, HECI, MEI… why do I need those? Part 10 in the series (2009) I forgot my “ME” Password! (2008) All about System Power States (S0-S5) (2007) Tips & Tricks for Setting up & Accessing an Intel AMT Client (2008) Step by Step Guide on How to Enable VT-d and Perform Direct Device Assignment (2009) Intel Management and Security Status (IMSS), advanced configurations. Part 9 (2009) To VT-d or Not to VT-d? A guide on whether to Utilize Direct Device Attach in your Virtualized System? (2010) UNS “Failed to subscribe to local Intel AMT” Error Messages and how to fix them (Intel AMT SW, 7th part) (2009) Instructions to disable the Intel AMT privacy notification popup (2007) Meshcentral.com – New Mobile Application (New in Jan 2012!) How about a Security Layer? (2011) Dual Boot Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (2008) More configurations (disabling) of the Intel AMT icon. Part 4 in the Intel AMT software series (2008) And the Lenovo T400 said: “Beep.Beep-Beep-Beep.Beep-Beep-Beep.Beep! (2009) Wake On LAN and the Magic Packet (2007) Sharing Virtual Disks Among VMs using VMware* ESX Server (2009) The Keys to Intel vPro Technology: HECI-MEI-LMS-SOL-UNS (2011) Intel® AMT User Notification Service (2009)
Posted in Software Tools Tags: amt, amt disable, Guide, heci driver, intel management engine, lenovo beep, Management, open source, Security, security-status, Sharing, technology, utilize-direct, virtual, Windows Comments OffA Step Forward? Bertelsmann & Others Back $100 Million Venture Fund For Innovative Education
Just as (mobile) technology is bringing some exciting changes to the health industry, it’s simultaneously over in the classroom trying to save education before it’s too late. I’m not sure we’re even close to “too late”, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that, like the health industry, the educational system (and I don’t limit that to the U.S.) is broken. Millions of young people are entering a system that just isn’t built to handle the diversity of learning styles — or the speed of innovation. Peter Thiel is right: Higher education is in a bubble . I’m not sure dropping/stopping out is the always the best answer, but the point remains. The truth is that, while higher education may be in a bubble, most institutions are starved for cash. Whether they’re subject to the consequences of their own poor decisions or victims of an unkind global economy, (generally speaking) institutions are strapped for cash. California, for one has been struggling mightily, with funding for public education at an all time low last year. Because of these funding limitations, institutions struggle to take big steps forward, with STEM initiatives, technology in the classroom, etc. It’s not just because they don’t want to change, but certainly fear does play a role. As this is the case, there’s been some blurring of lines between for-profit and non-profit institutions over the last few years, as universities and colleges try to figure out how to move forward. Patrick Gibbons advises startups to take their innovative products to entrepreneurial schools, like private schools, virtual schools, charter schools, home school networks or even directly to the students — essentially, for profit schools, hungry for enrollment. In light of all this, I was intrigued by the news yesterday that some education veterans have launched something called the University Ventures Fund , a $100 million fund, which is essentially endeavoring to bring private capital to help colleges and universities push forward. Interestingly, while the fund has a whole mess of investors, German media giant Bertelsmann and the University of Texas Investment Management Company are the two largest investors. The fund, which will make investments in about six projects, is looking to approach innovation from within rather than from the outside, partnering with “rather than competing against” (in their words) traditional institutions. The fund is partnering with a host of the top 30 colleges and universities to direct private capital into programs “that address major economic and social needs”, and University Ventures Fund Partner David Figuli told Inside Highered that all of these projects will look to take advantage of “technology-enabled innovations”. And judging by one of its projects, Higher Education Online, part of that focus will be on distance learning, as the organization will be partnering with top European universities to bring undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs online (and market them) both in Europe and abroad. Again, this is only part of the answer, but these public-private partnerships can certainly make some waves. Check out University Venture Funds’ announcement here . What do you think?
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What do you do when you are ready to get started working with Intel Active Management Technology and you are excited about the recent inclusion of a software based (AMT) KVM feature and you can’t get it to work? A while back I wrote a blog –> HERE SCSDiscovery.exe /Output file test.xml SystemDiscovery /NoRegistry test.xml will be a debug file – look for another file named as follows: FQDN.domainname. 2. Is Intel AMT Enabled? Open the xml file from running the Discovery tool an look for the following lines: 7.1.4 7.0.0.1144 7.1.4.1068 true You want to make sure the system’s version of Intel AMT supports KVM and it has a valid MEI (HECI) Driver/Firmware and that Intel AMT has been enabled/configured. (Check! Check/Check! Check!) All version numbers should match up for the major number (7 here.) If your system is passing all the tests so far, you can move down to the next step of verifying that KVM is enabled and supported. 3. Is your system KVM capable? Take another look at that XML file. Look for the following entries: true true (IDER must be enabled ) false true false (Not a reliable indicator!!) True if the KVM redirection interface is supported in the Intel AMT Firmware. IDE-Redirection must be enabled in the bios in order to use the KVM feature using the Redirection ports. True if the Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM) redirection interface is enabled in Intel AMT (This refers to the listener and if you have enabled Intel AMT but have not yet configured your KVM connections, this will show up as false .) True if KVM redirection is enabled in the MEBx of the Intel AMT device True if the BIOS of the platform supports KVM redirection. This entry is not always reported correctly – as you can see on my system it indicates false . But my system is KVM capable. It is important to note that the Discovery tool may indicate that your system can do KVM even if you do not have the right graphics card – that’s why you check for that first. 4. Configuration Follow the guides in the SDK documentation . Search for the following topic: (Setting Up the Integrated Viewer Application) Note that you need to configure the listener/ports/password. Port 5900 is the IANA port reserved for Virtual Network Computing (VNC). By enabling port 5900, all traffic to this port is routed to Intel AMT for KVM processing. The RFB protocol requires a password, so the first time an application enables port 5900, it should also set the RFB password (which must be 8 characters exactly.) KVM can also use the Redirection Port. If, after all of this, you are still having problems, post your question on our forum .
Posted in Software Tools Tags: amt, bios, display, driver, Graphics, integrated, integrated graphics, intel, intel amt, intel sw partner program, intel-active, Management, Tool Comments OffMeshcentral.com – Remote WMI support added
Well, here is an interesting new feature… I just added remote Windows Management Interface (WMI) support in Meshcentral.com . This allows a web developer to execute WMI queries from Javascript to a mesh Windows computer on any private network over the Internet. Right now, support is quite bare bones, but this capability can be used in the future to support lots of interesting usages. First, by default this feature is off, so you need to enable in by using MeshConnector and adding the “Remote Management” permission flag to your mesh policy. Once on, you can go to the main device page of any windows computer and you will see a “WMI” link at the bottom. When you click this link, it allows you to manually type in any WMI query and get the response back from this computer. You can query anything from the version of the operating system, free space on disks to the IRQ of each hardware device. In the future, I expect to use this feature to create much richer web applications that can manage different aspects of a Windows computer, all from the web. For now, I just put or a raw interface so I could test the feature out. I am also working on a new Javascript API for Meshcentral. It’s basically a Javascript library called ” meshcentral.js ” that allows web developers to build rich management applications all from a web page. I am just getting started with it, but it seems like it’s going to be amazingly powerful. No to mention there are many Javascript developers now, and serving that community is going to be great. I am writing documentation of this API for future release. Ylian meshcentral.com
Posted in Software Tools Tags: library-called, Management, mesh, mobility, p2p, Response, Windows, wmi Comments OffThe Keys to Intel vPro Technology: HECI-MEI-LMS-SOL-UNS
It seems that our Developers are spending a lot of time looking for information about HECI drivers. Wi th vPro being around for many years now (we are on our 7 th revision going on 
I was wondering if this piece of Active Management Technology is still a puzzle to developers. In the spirit of figuring out what vPro Developers need, I went through our blogs and put together a collection of blogs that might be helpful. Note that I added all of Shmuel’s 11 part series below. His blogs range across most of our releases of Intel AMT and so there will be some information that may be dated, but still applicable to the older releases of Intel AMT. If you are looking for information on this topic and the blogs below do not answer your questions, please post a comment and let us know what information you need. First, are you here because you simply want updated Linux drivers? You can download them here (SLED 11). If not, read on. Let us talk about HECI and LMS (Ajay Mungara ) High level overview of why and when Intel AMT requires the HECI/MEI driver and the LMS service. Note that this blog is circa 2007 and Intel AMT has gone through some architectural changes since then but this blogs provides a nice overview of the interaction of the driver and associated service that is required to be running. When the vPro Universe Collides wi th Other People and goes “Fractal” (Gael Hofemeier ) You’ve read all the blogs about why you need the HECI/MEI driver and you get it. Your Intel vPro system has the HECI driver installed but you are getting an error message that makes it sound like your system doesn’t actually have the required software. Here is a handful of Shmuel Gerson’s blogs about Intel AMT focused around the User Notification and the HECI/MEI/LMS/SOL components. The software bundled with Intel AMT: Part 1 Intel AMT SW, part 2: The notification area icon – understanding the pop-up Configuring the notification area icon & app. Intel AMT SW Part 3 More configurations (disabling) of the Intel AMT icon. Part 4 in the Intel AMT software series Part 5: Detailed information to the user with the User Notification Service How the UNS works. Part 6 in the Intel AMT software series. UNS “Failed to subscribe to local Intel AMT” Error Messages and how to fix them (Intel AMT SW, 7th part) Intel AMT SW Part 8: Newfangled Intel Management and Security Status Intel Management and Security Status (IMSS), advanced configurations. Part 9 Intel AMT software: LMS, HECI, MEI… why do I need those? Part 10 in the series Wrapping all Intel AMT software together – AMT SW, part 11
Posted in Software Tools Tags: Developers, driver, heci, intel sw partner program, Management, mei, notification, open source, Security, security-status, sol, technology, universe, user, vpro Comments OffAtom Mashing Radio: Episode#15 airs October 28th. Tune in!
Don’t miss the upcoming episode of Atom Mashing Radio ‘Developers and Mobile Device Management’ Join Peter Biddle and Ahmed Datoo of Zenprise as they explore the future of mobile device management. Tune in here at 12:00pm PT Friday, Oct. 28. As the BYOD (bring your own device) trend grows in organizations, what also comes with it is the challenge to manage a variety of powerful and affordable personal mobile devices. read more
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