Toshiba will integrate IBM’s software into its new line of enterprise laptop PCs, providing energy management and advanced endpoint security protection.
Toshiba’s new line of enterprise laptop PCs will combine IBM software based on its Tivoli Endpoint Manager and Toshiba’s BIOS feature to allow IT managers to apply company’s policies for energy controls and security across PCs within an organisation.
The new application will allow accurate readings of power consumption whose design will allow the IT staff to remotely apply each group of PCs into specific power saving modes or make management changes as needed to deliver enhanced energy efficiency gains.
Toshiba laptop PC with the IBM software provides patch management capability that automatically adapts necessary patches with minimum impact for network bandwidth and IT staff’s workload.
It also provides Access Control to data, which prevents PCs from starting up, being logged on and being screen-unlocked unless the PCs are authenticated by the management server.
Organisations can secure and manage their IT assets and gain visibility, control and automation into their time-intensive IT tasks, such as patch management and asset inventory.
IBM Tivoli Software general manager Daniel Sabbah said as endpoint devices such as laptops proliferate inside and outside an organisation, it’s important that the right security and management policies are in place no matter where the device is located.
"IBM software embedded into Toshiba laptops allows organizations to easily oversee these devices to help manage energy efficiency and security of the data that resides on them," said Sabbah.
