Handheld Manager: Wireless integration with IT environments
Salt Lake City, USA: LANDesk Software, a leading provider of integrated desktop, server and mobile device management solutions, has announced enhancements to LANDesk Handheld Manager.

Based on a scalable, industry-standards-based architecture, LANDesk Handheld Manager 8, version 8.15, now enables wireless, untethered manageability. The most popular handheld devices now can be integrated into existing IT environments while bypassing desktop docking stations.

Organizations deploy LANDesk Handheld Manager in part to respond to individual employees incorporating private handheld devices into their work. Handheld devices offer increased functionality, convenience and stability, and as their use broadens, IT departments must address the associated security and management issues. Increasingly, businesses are replacing individuals' handhelds with corporate devices and deploying solutions to ensure the computing resources of mobile work forces are kept online and secure.

LANDesk Handheld Manager enables organizations to deploy, manage and protect the handheld devices of mobile work forces from the LANDesk Management Suite console, helping employees realize increased productivity and use mobile devices more effectively.

According to a Gartner report titled "Handheld Device Management in the Enterprise: An Overview," "Handheld device popularity among enterprise users is growing, but so is the challenge to manage, control and secure them. Companies need to consider how they will handle the proliferation of handheld devices in their corporate enterprises because lack of preparedness only opens them up to inefficient use of the technology, security risks and increased management costs in the long run."

LANDesk Handheld Manager builds on the proven inventory and distribution capabilities of LANDesk Management Suite. The LANDesk Software core suite and add-on modules for patch management and asset management were built on a common architecture to provide a cohesive suite of management solutions. With the launch of LANDesk Handheld Manager 8, version 8.15, LANDesk offers a handheld management solution built on the unique LANDesk architecture.

LANDesk Handheld Manager is fully integrated into the LANDesk Management Suite console, enabling customers to easily manage handheld devices from the interface and console they are already familiar with.

LANDesk Software is an industry-leading provider of unified desktop, server and mobile device management software. LANDesk Software enables thousands of organizations to easily deploy and use end-to-end management solutions.
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Embedded Wi-Fi market undergoing major shift
Scottsdale, USA: One of the hottest technology markets, Wireless LAN (WLAN), or Wi-Fi, is undergoing a fundamental shift, according to In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com). The high-tech market research firm reports that in 2003 removable Wi-Fi PC card adapters were displaced as the most popular Wi-Fi adapter by embedded Mini PCI card adapters.

According to the firms report, "The Wi-Fi Mini PCI card represented 49.1 per cent of the Wi-Fi adapters shipped, and enabled most of the Wi-Fi mobile PCs (e.g., notebook and tablet PCs) in 2003."

"Conversely, PC cards held a quickly eroding 38.8 per cent market share in 2003 after dominating the market with a 58.3 per ent market share in 2002." In-Stat/MDR expects that the Wi-Fi Mini PCI card will continue to capture an increasing percentage of the total Wi-Fi adapter market over the next five years.

A recent report from In-Stat/MDR also reveals the following:

• The market for embedded Wi-Fi clients (including mobile PCs, PDAs and phones) will grow at a 66.2 per cent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) to 226.0 million units shipped in 2008.
• After five years of healthy growth since its mainstream commercialization, the worldwide Wi-Fi hardware market (i.e., network infrastructure and adapters) finally surpassed $1.0 billion in (4Q 2003) quarterly revenues.
• There has been a significant growth in Wi-Fi-enabled notebook PCs, as 55.0 per cent of the 32.1 million notebook PCs shipped in 2003 contained embedded Wi-Fi adapters.

The report, "Wi-Fi Inside: The Embedded Wi-Fi Paradigm" contains analysis and forecasts of the worldwide Wi-Fi market from 2003-2008. The report also includes analysis of products and strategies of major vendors.

In-Stat/MDR offers a broad range of information resources and analytical assets to technology vendors, service providers, technology professionals, and market specialists worldwide.
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