NxTop makes laptop management easy and secure while providing end users with the full desktop experience that they are used to. With NxTop, there's no need for multiple agents, walking desk to desk, tracking down laptops that are on the road or forcing a rigid desktop configuration on end users.
NxTop does this by using advanced virtualization techniques to separate hardware, operating systems, user data and appplications. NxTop offers centralized management, distributed execution, full security and is an excellent complement to server-based VDI.
Challenges of Laptop Management
Mobile computing present a number of difficult IT challenges. Laptops are insecure. Lost laptops pose a serious risk in lost data, data leakage presents serious compliance issues, unmanaged PCs (employee home PCs, contractors and other third parties), exposure to malware and viruses (exposes sensitive corporate data).
With traditional desktop management solutions, laptop management is difficult with high upgrade and maintenance costs. Laptop backup and recovery solutions are haphazard, laptop management takes a large chunk of time and patch management for various operating systems and multiple applications is cumbersome and slow.
NxTop gives IT management the tools they need to maintain control and manageability:
- Centralized management and control
- Fewer platforms, fewer images and less customization needed on the part of the IT administrator
- Reliable and secure
- Easy to support
Laptop Management With NxTop
Laptop users want the familiarity and usability of any other PC, which often creates complications for IT administrators looking to effectively manage these systems.
NxTop provides safe and secure PC management without tying down any laptop or mobile users and providing flexibility in which platform is used.
End users have the ability to completely customize their laptop to enjoy the personal computing experience they want and are used to. Of course, the NxTop Center allows for any part of a system to be locked down as necessary (for example, disabling access to a DVD writer or USB port which could be used to copy sensitive data).
NxTop allows for quick and easy recovery in the event of any problem, such as:
- System crash or failure: Restore a recent NxTop backup to get the user up and running in no time
- Stolen latop: Using the NxTop Management Console, simply turn off the NxTop on the stolen laptop and restore the user's NxTop to new hardware
- New hardware: Port user data from on old machine to a new machine with ease
- Employee termination or departure: Disallow access to all data on a user's PC without needed the physical machine
