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First iPhone Systems Management Solution for the Enterprise
Published 26th August 2008
Reading UK – August 26, 2008 – KACE, the systems management appliance company, today announced the industry’s first systems management solution for Apple’s iPhone. The new technology allows IT administrators and business users to provision, configure, and control policies for the iPhone as they would with any other managed device. The iPhone technology complements KACE’s already comprehensive support for Mac systems...
KACE's award-winning KBOX family of appliances offers total systems management support across Mac, Linux, and Windows operating systems. This is especially important as a large number of IT departments have to increasingly manage heterogeneous environments.
KACE offers a unique appliance-based approach that allows IT administrators to cost-effectively manage multiple operating systems from the ease of a single interface. KACE’s new iPhone support complements Apple’s iPhone Configuration Utility, providing centralised and easy management of multiple configuration profiles and tools to apply them - based on policies across the enterprise.
New KBOX Systems Management appliances capabilities include assigning iPhone profiles across user groups to meet different access needs, for example, by function or geography. Other capabilities include the distribution of profiles by e-mail and self service profile downloads available from the KBOX user portal.
The new iPhone support complements existing KBOX management capabilities, including hardware and software inventory, patching, software distribution, remote administration, help desk, and asset management. KBOX fulfils all of the systems management needs from initial computer deployment to on-going management and withdrawal in a mixed computing environment, allowing IT departments to save considerable time and money.
“Apple is quickly carving out its place in the enterprise. The business world is recognising the benefits of Mac OS X, and now the powerful iPhone technology,” said Marty Kacin, CTO and co-founder of KACE. “IT administrators need to adapt to this new ‘multiple OS world’ and be ready to manage heterogeneous environments on a dime. KACE systems management appliances give administrators the tools they need to seamlessly and easily manage a range of enterprise platforms.”
Dan Power, General Manager for KACE EMEA said, “As the fastest growing systems management vendor in the market, this is an exciting time for KACE. Our expansion into UK and Europe offers mid-market organisations an alternative to the current software-driven systems management solutions – that are both expensive and hard to implement. The release of the iPhone management is a great example of KACE’s innovative approach to solving new technology management problems.”