HP Unfurls Mobile Device Management Service in the Cloud

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Michael Vizard.

Now that it’s become fairly routine for IT organizations to manage smartphones and tablets via the cloud, starting this week Hewlett-Packard is looking to apply that concept more broadly via the new HP Touchpoint Manager service that can manage workstations, tablets, PCs and smartphones running Android, iOS or Windows.

Aimed at small to medium businesses, a subscription to the HP Touchpoint Manager service is available for free for the next six months to any organization that signs up for a basic server agreement. A professional version of the service with additional functionality is available for $5 per user, per month for the first six months…

Michael Park, vice president and general manager of HP’s Mobility and Software Business Personal Systems group, says organizations that use HP PC devices can also use HP Touchpoint Manager to gain deeper insight into the hardware health, device warranty information, and some special features in certain models, such as “Always On” out-of-band find and lock-and-wipe capabilities that can be employed when a PC is lost or stolen…

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