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    Toshiba Taps IBM software to Deliver Secure Energy-Efficient Laptops

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    Darryl K. Taft
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    March 6, 2012
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      LAS VEGAS €” IBM and Toshiba announced that Toshiba€™s new line of enterprise laptop PCs will be integrated with IBM software, providing energy management and advanced endpoint security protection.

      Toshiba plans to sell the new lines of enterprise PCs and its integrated solution globally in mid-2012, the company said at the IBM Pulse 2012 conference here.

      €œAll of the business PCs we are planning will have this,€ said Norimasa Nakamura, senior manager of the Products Management Division at Toshiba, who spoke at a press conference on the news.

      €œThis new partnership is taking a new generation of PCs and infusing them with endpoint-management capabilities right down to the BIOS,€ said Scott Hebner, vice president of marketing for IBM€™s Tivoli brand.

      IBM officials said with the growing use of laptops by organizations, there are several important factors to consider, including the emerging 24/7 work environment that requires many users to keep laptops running around the clock€”not always in power-saving modes. Stolen laptops are also one of the biggest causes of data breaches to organizations in 2011, the company said. This directly relates to laptops that contain confidential data requiring higher security measures to protect them if stolen or misplaced. Multiply these behaviors across all employees in an organization, and the security risks, energy costs and environmental impacts rise.

      To address this, Toshiba and IBM jointly developed a better way to manage energy use and secure data in laptops. Toshiba€™s new line of enterprise laptop PCs will combine IBM software based on its Tivoli Endpoint Manager and Toshiba€™s enhanced BIOS feature to allow IT managers to apply a company€™s specific policies for energy controls and security across PCs within an organization.

      With this solution, energy usage data is measured by the PC hardware, which allows more accurate readings of power consumption. This design allows the IT staff to remotely apply each group of PCs into specific power-saving modes or make peak-shift management changes as needed to deliver better energy-efficiency gains.

      Nakamura said the new PCs can use up to 47 percent less energy than other PCs.

      To provide better security, the Toshiba laptop PC with the IBM software provides a patch-management capability that automatically adapts necessary patches with minimum impact for network bandwidth and IT staff€™s workload. A single patch-management server can support up to 250,000 PCs, shortening patch times and updates without losing PC functionality, even over low-bandwidth or globally distributed networks.

      In addition, the new PCs equipped with the endpoint-management solution provide 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. When a PC has no connection to the server, the USB portable memory with the signature file can be used to authenticate the PC instead of the server. And IT staff can protect the stored data by preventing a third party from operating a laptop when it is lost or stolen. In addition, IT staff can define the policy to prohibit writing to external storage and printing when the PC is not authenticated against the management server.

      €œIBM€™s endpoint-management capabilities combined with Toshiba€™s BIOS and power-saving technologies allow for superior energy and security controls,€ Taro Hiyama, chief marketing executive for the Digital Products & Services Company at Toshiba, said in a statement. €œStarting with these controls, Toshiba€™s goal is to continually integrate value-added device-management functions in its enterprise laptop PCs used in the IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager solution. IBM software helps us accomplish this goal.€

      IBM combines endpoint and security management into a single solution with the Tivoli Endpoint Manager to allow IT managers to visualize and manage physical and virtual endpoints. Organizations can better secure and manage their IT assets and gain visibility, control and automation into their most time-intensive IT tasks, such as patch management and asset inventory, IBM said.

      €œAs endpoint devices, such as laptops, proliferate inside and outside an organization, it€™s important that the right security and management policies are in place, no matter where the device is located,€ Daniel Sabbah, general manager of IBM Tivoli Software, said in a statement. €œIBM 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.€

      Darryl K. Taft
      Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.

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