Back to the future
“We believe ‘MacOps’ is emerging within enterprise IT, signifying a profound shift in the management of Apple devices – a systematic application of DevOps principles to the end-to-end lifecycle of the entire Apple ecosystem, including macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and visionOS,” Tacelli said.“A MacOps framework is designed to manage Apple devices at scale with automation, consistency, security, and speed. It moves beyond the traditional, reactive model of IT support to a proactive, code-driven paradigm where the entire Apple fleet is treated as a managed, version-controlled component of the enterprise infrastructure.”
The advantage of this emerging approach is that it helps resolve the staffing challenges of Apple support. “IT admins well-versed in Microsoft are widely available, but knowledgeable Apple administrators are harder to come by,” Tacelli said.
The idea is that an effective MacOps framework should make it much easier to deploy Apple hardware and software across any business. There’s some substance to those claims; the survey shows 69% of CIOs would be even more willing to deploy Macs if an enterprise-ready solution for managing them as infrastructure were available.
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
