Toshiba Smart Client Manager 2.0 brings new features

IRVINE, USA: Toshiba's Digital Products Division announced Toshiba Smart Client Manager (TSCM) 2.0. Developed with IBM Endpoint Manager, TSCM 2.0 enables IT professionals to protect user data from HDD failure, cut down on energy consumption, reduce business risk and complexity, and control access from a single console with enhanced security. Scalable to 2,50,000 endpoints per server with the new Mobile Device Manager (MDM) plug-in, TSCM 2.0 is a unified management platform that helps IT administrators manage business pressures and end-point complexity.

TSCM 2.0 offers a new HDD Health Status feature that protects user data from HDD failure and minimizes down time. The tool checks the HDD and reports any detected failure risk to the TSCM server, allowing IT managers to identify a PC at risk of HDD failure and ensure that the user's data is backed up.

The Toshiba MDM plug-in for TSCM 2.0 works across multiple vendors and operating systems to allow organizations to manage mobile devices. By creating user profile permissions and deploying security measures, IT administrators are able to manage the complexity of multiple end-points and business apps can be contained on a user's own device.

With TSCM 2.0, PC power management settings can be distributed and optimized down to each endpoint device, including settings for peak electricity pricing hours of consumption. Each laptop's BIOS measures and reports on power consumption, providing greater detail and control. TSCM 2.0 provides the ability to monitor consumption and adjust accordingly, resulting in better energy efficiency gains and, in many cases, qualifies for local electric utility rebates.

The patch management feature of TSCM 2.0 provides a streamlined solution for patch compliance that reduces business risks and complexity. From a single management console, a system administrator can easily provide up-to-date patch visibility, control and verify the deployment of patches within hours of release, as well as resolve problems from previously applied patches either globally or selectively down to individual endpoint devices.

TSCM 2.0's new security management solution combined with unique Toshiba system capabilities enable system administrators to control access by preventing a PC from starting up, any user logging on and the PC being unlocked unless the PC is authenticated by the management server. Enhanced security features also allow administrators to restrict access to a number of external and network devices, including printers, removable drives and network drives.