Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) today announced devices to escape Apple Remote Desktop 2, an outlay government, software carrying and help-desk patronage software dais enclosed by favour of managing Macintosh and other platform.
Apple Remote Desktop, which add ended 50 topical features from its erstwhile edition, become unclaimed in July through Apple and its resellers for a retail price marker of US$299 for managing in the air to 10 system and $499 for managing an ceaseless figure of systems.
The software let administrator grab out desktop management tasks, such via finances of install operating systems, application and other software packages; and running asset management reports by beyond 200 hardware and software arrangement attribute.
Remote Desktop also include real-time desktop blind giving out for support tasks, which allow technicians the talent to access a user's desktop remotely for troubleshooting and normalize Linux and Windows systems that be group up for virtual-network compute (VNC).
According to Tom Goguen, control of servers and storage software for Apple, the new Apple Remote Desktop software, if install on an OS X server, will continuously update the inventory of desktops and notebook computer while the systems are on a area network.
"We've incorporated an recommended server agent for administering OS X server , next to Xserve," he said. "We've dramatically enhanced screen sharing, including tools for dealing with low-bandwidth environment," Goguen added.
Goguen said the screen-sharing feature in Apple Remote Desktop be base on the having mass appeal VNC software and allows for the screen sharing, examination or control of Mac and non-Mac systems alike, such as Windows and Linux .
"It is based on VNC, and several average open-source clients are available for non-Macintosh platforms for pay out with Remote Desktop," he said.
