Intel's decision to Spin Off its LANDesk desktop-management suite and the product's related software properties into a separate company isn't necessarily bad for customers, even though the Intel brand denoted stability. But Microsoft is certain to make it difficult for the new LANDesk company to thrive.
Over the past year, Intel added some useful features to LANDesk, including the zero-footprint inventory scanner and inventory service.
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Meet the New LANDesk Acquisition Corp.
Expected number of employees: 150
Number of products: 5 CEO: Joe Wang (recently VP of Symantec's Enterprise Administration Division)
Headquarters: Salt Lake City Source: Intel |
So the new company (called LANDesk Acquisition Corp., formed by Intel, Vector Capital and vSpring Capital) isn't just getting five-year-old technology and a customer base.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
