Intel has strategic partnerships with Citrix and VMware and plans to introduce client native hypervisors in the first half of 2010, Dunlop announced. "We've been waiting a long time to transition to this sort of model where we can provide those virtual machines or containers directly on top of the hypervisors layer without a host OS," he said.

Dynamic Virtual Client (DVC) and vPro have historically been different, but complimentary, ways of managing clients, Dunlop explained. "You can look at it like vPro is managing the hardware and DVC is managing the software," he said.

Today, we are seeing more DVC capabilities taking advantage of vPro technology, but going forward, vPro is going to evolve and provide more DVC capabilities "or at least that framework where those hypervisors can run in a consistent way," he said.

The focus is on moving from clients to containers. "We've been working to try to provide a more containerized solution, even though it is based on the hardware model in those areas, so we can start focusing on the manageability and getting IT to learn new tricks," he said.

Results include a reduction in the footprint IT has to manage by separating a user's personal persona from their corporate persona, as well as a reduction in footprint by managing fewer images, he explained.