Intel (INTC) is in the news lately mainly for its work with acquired company McAfee (MFE) on securing data stored in public or hybrid cloud environments. The process is done: firstly, by securing the cloud datacenters, secondly, by securing the connections, and thirdly by securing the devices used, all of which are highly challenging. However, I feel that Intel is more than up to the challenge, and that these are the kinds of innovations that make it one of the best stocks to have in your portfolio.

Intel merged with McAfee in order to have access to the company’s security expertise and the move is proving to be a very good one indeed. The companies have begun to make their plans known to the general public. After a long period of silence relating to just why Intel acquired McAfee in the first place, the company is ready to reveal its plans. The idea behind the company’s current project is to find a way to provide IT managers with a better understanding of the security of their cloud networks. In short, Intel wants to make cloud computing a lot safer for everyone.

McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) management console can be used with Intel Trusted Execution Technology [TXT] in TXT-enabled Intel servers. This will give users a sense of security when doing things such as transferring workloads from one server to another. The technology essentially defines each server as being either “trusted” or “untrusted”.To continue reading, click here.