System management network appliance maker Kace plans to launch Kbox to change its production line, and said he would create a truly cross-platform Mac and PC environment management system. These changes will allow IT administrators to manage Windows and Mac OS X machine from a single interface on a single device.

"Apple Kbox support for a while, said:" The post Parobek, vice president of product management for Kace. "However, we do believe that fill the gap in this press release and the treatment of [Mac and Windows] platform, the equivalent of fashion."

Kace is the equipment of the Kbox enterprise software used to arrange, and control the assets, and deal with security patches and software to offer desktop support and other systems management job. With the designed changes it will be launched as next-generation Kbox products, Parobek said Kace provide comprehensive support for Mac.

Specifically, Kbox system management and deployment of equipment will be provided through the Mac computer imaging Kace's K - imaging technology, the company said that the elimination of redundant transfer capture, storage and deployment of a disk image. Update also provides new measures to support the software so that IT administrator’s m Mac applications, as they will be Windows software - a key component of the analysis software is to be used to better manage the licensing fees.

Finally, Kace also introduced an enhanced policy-based configuration management for the Mac, so that administrators can set up to enforce the Desktop button on the network. Script Wizard allows administrators to create a set without having to know a programming language; the help of the drop-down menu, they can handle the task, such as installing a screen saver, so the firewall.

"We are to complete feature set, so that all can be Windows, the Mac you can," Parobek said. Kace is expected to launch a new generation of products in August Kbox. Kbox Systems Management equipment prices started nine dollars Kbox Appliance deployment to start.

Kace will greatly increase its Mac computer products in response to a growing number of Mac computers in the enterprise. The company cited the study in December 2008 the Information Technology Intelligence found that 68 percent of the 700 survey companies plan to allow the deployment of end-users of Mac computers, as their work system in the next 12 months.

Credit Parobek three factors to promote growth, enterprise users of Mac. As consumers of IT, the demand for employees to start working on Mac. "Employees to try out new technology in the country, find their production, and want to use in their work," he said. At the same time, Vista system has been proved to be a trouble to deploy, resulting in a IT administrator looking for alternatives.

Finally, Parobek said: "Apple is the new function, the supplier needs in the enterprise." To Apple's forthcoming Snow Leopard update to OS X, its commitment to, among other functions, add support for Microsoft Exchange.