The management of computer assets is tough at the best times. In today's business world, more and more companies are providing their employees with the technology to be more mobile and work more effectively.
This is clearly seen in the large increase in the purchasing of laptops by not only major companies, but the individual consumer as well.
With the increasing mobility of employees it is extremely difficult to track and trace and manage an organisation's computer assets effectively without the use of a product that is able to monitor these assets not only when they are logged into a network, but also when they are mobile through all the new flavours of the new connectivity technologies.
Unfortunately, along with the increasing number of laptops in the market and the high asset risk aspect, the theft rates have increased as well. How does a company manage this and put deterrence measures into place?
NetTrace, the South African service provider of the Computrace products, is able to provide an organisation with a holistic service which covers not only the management of the asset (software, location, inventory, etc) but is also able to track stolen computers with the highly intelligent Computrace software. The Computrace technology resides low level on a computer and in the past year and a half, Absolute Software, Canada (NetTrace's principal) has entered into partnerships with the major OEMs, namely, Dell, HP, IBM and others, to have the Computrace product embedded in the BIOS of all its latest notebooks.
With this new feature, the end-user/customer now has the assurance that the product is not only stealthy (not detectable), but persistent at the same time. The notebook can be stolen and re-formatted and the active agent on the notebook will still be able to call into the monitoring centre through any form of connectivity, a network or Internet connection (this includes the newly introduced 3G and iBurst technology).
NetTrace is currently tracking over 25 000 computer assets throughout South Africa. The services utilised by these customers range from managing their leased assets, to a complete computer asset inventory management solution.
Please see http://www.itweb.co.za/office/ilayo/.
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