Acer adds TPM and Wave to their PCs
Posted by Ken Y-N on October 20th, 2008 at 02:01pm
As a happy home user of a mini Acer Aspire desktop, I was rather interested to see a recent press release on how Acer are adding Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips to their motherboards in their Veriton 670 business desktop computer, and bundling an OEM version of Wave System’s EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) for managing said TPM. The TPM is on Intel motherboards and is branded by them as an iTPM. (I heard an interesting discussion about TPMs and trademarks, but that’s for another entry…)
The iTPM and ETS enables lots of nice things such as strong authentication, data protection, and password management, all of which may be neatly managed via Wave’s EMBASSY Remote Adminstration Server for full corporate integration of the TPM.
Wave will also be bundling ETS on non-TPM-equipped small business-targeted platforms for password management and data encryption.
Maybe I should ask for a review copy?
The full press release was found on EarthTimes’ web site here.
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