Safe Frontier is the pioneer of out-of-band management cloud. The company has introduced the Active Management Cloud (AMC), which it claims as the industry’s first Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for management for Intel (News - Alert) vPro computers.
As part of this out-of-band management service, Safe Frontier provides the Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT (News - Alert)) over the Internet-as-a-service, helping support the mobility initiatives in small and large organizations.
The Active Management Cloud extends the Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT) into the cloud and onto the Internet devices, outside of corporate networks. It will help large and small businesses to fully benefit from Intel AMT, company officials said.
Intel AMT provides out-of-band remote management of desktops, kiosks, vending, medical and other equipment with Intel vPro processors, independent of operating system.
Some of the key capabilities of the remote management solution include Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM) remote control, booting device over network, remote power on/off/reboot, remote access to BIOS settings, system defense, and others.
"The new delivery model has potential to significantly broaden the application of Intel AMT within and outside the IT security and management space. It should also help medium and small businesses adopt Intel vPro," said Gary Schulman, CEO of Safe Frontier, in a statement.
The solution is geo-independent and optimized for mobility and globally distributed cloud infrastructure-as-a-service. The multi-tenant out-of-band channel allows service providers to connect to a single device. With infrastructure and device level access control, administrators can individually manage connections through a Web-based interface.
The solution supports Intel AMT 7+ and offers limited support for older versions. The solution can be deployed as an either private or public cloud model.
AMC is currently in beta and available to Safe Frontier OEM Partners. It is expected to be released soon. Please contact Safe Frontier for details about its Early Adopter Program.
Edited by Rory J. Thompson