While this isn’t exactly an education-related story about the iPhone, we know that a lot of our readers spend a fair amount of their time administering systems — servers, network storage, clusters, secret nefarious research labs… So we were excited to see the news about new startup Inco and its forthcoming system-administration application.

Started by Virginia Tech sysadmin Josh Eckstein following a weekend vacation “he couldn’t refuse” (which is way better than other incarnations of that line), Inco seeks to make all of your common administrative chores available straight from your iPhone, including the ability to access (and control access to) server files, use SSH to talk to and control server actions and monitor and kill processes. While Josh and his pals are “still polishing Inco up to be shiniest, easiest-to-use mobile administration tool on the block” (meaning it ain’t released yet), it ought to be available soon for a reported price of $39, which shouldn’t break anybody’s bank.

Our friends over at TUAW have a nice interview with Josh that’s worth checking out, and we’ll look forward to hearing about anybody’s experience with this (or other) remote administraton applications for our favorite little converged mobile media device…