LANDesk said that one customer it declined to identify plans to increase the number of Macs used internally from about 400 now to 4,000 by year's end because of the new management capabilities. He added that LANDesk Management Suite 'can do OS deployment, data settings migration, software distribution, inventory and remote control for Mac machines.' analyst, said via e-mail that among management tools vendors, LANDesk is furthest along in supporting Macs.
The South Jordan, Utah-based company said its software now lets IT administrators remotely control Macs from a PC running Windows Vista, and take more detailed inventories of their Macintosh systems and the software residing on them.Īccording to LANDesk, its Management Suite is used to manage more than a half-million Macs, in addition to a far greater number of PCs. on Tuesday rolled out Version 8.8 of its namesake suite of management tools. Switching to Intel chips has made the Mac more competitive with PCs on price/performance measurements, while virtualization and the shift toward Web-based applications are rendering software incompatibility issues largely moot.Īnd in response to increased Mac sales overall as well as among some business users, management tools vendors are boosting their cross-platform capabilities and bringing their Mac administration features closer to par with their Windows capabilities.įor instance, LANDesk Software Ltd. But fast forward to today, and the picture is different.
