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KACE™ Makes It Easier to Save Time and Money with New Appliance Bundle

KBOX™ Complete Appliance Bundle Provides Full Systems Management Lifecycle at Affordable Price

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – May 12, 2009 – KACE™, the leading systems management appliance company, today announced the immediate availability of a new bundle of its award-winning KBOX™ family of systems management and deployment appliances and modules. Making it even easier for IT organizations to reap the time and money saving benefits that customers have come to expect from KACE, the KBOX Complete Appliance Bundle satisfies all customer PC and server management needs, at a much lower price and complexity level than software-only solutions.

“IT is under mountains of pressure to cut costs, yet continue to provide top-notch business services,” said Rob Meinhardt, CEO for KACE. “Moreover, IT departments today have limited funds to purchase new technologies that could actually help make them more efficient in delivering services. The KBOX Complete Appliance Bundle allows cash-strapped organizations to purchase a full PC and server lifecycle solution at a very affordable price. Most of our customers achieve a positive ROI in less than three months.”

The KBOX Appliance Bundle includes a wide range of systems management functionality and automates a myriad of day-to-day IT maintenance, management and imaging duties. The bundle offers two complete KBOX appliances, along with six of its most popular modules, and at a much lower cost than if sold separately, making it particularly attractive to customers in today’s tough economic environment.

The products included in the new cost-saving KBOX Appliance Bundle are:

  • KBOX Systems Deployment Appliance – delivers a fully integrated systems provisioning solution including automated gold master creation, disk imaging and recovery;
  • KBOX Systems Management Appliance – delivers a fully integrated systems management solution including device discovery and inventory, software distribution, patching, configuration management, remote control and alerts;
  • Virtual Kontainers Module – provides a dramatically faster and less expensive means for distributing and managing applications using groundbreaking application virtualization technology;
  • Asset Management Module – unifies and automates non-computer and computer inventory and asset management processes from deployment to retirement;
  • Help Desk Module – provides easy-to-use, configurable and integrated functionality for incident and problem management;
  • iPhone Management Module – allows IT organizations to effectively deploy, manage and track iPhones, seamlessly and securely;
  • Security Audit and Enforcement Module – provides advanced scripts and utilities that automatically find and remediate security vulnerabilities and enforce security policies.

“Organizations of all sizes seek comprehensive desktop and server management solutions that can help them cut costs and reduce complexity,” says Steve Brasen, analyst at Enterprise Management Associates. “KACE has made a smart move by offering customers a complete product set where they can purchase an entire suite of products for a very low price. This will broaden the appeal of KACE’s appliance solutions for organizations seeking a robust, yet affordable enterprise-wide IT management solution.”

KACE saves its customers both time and money. Systems managers are increasingly forced to wear many hats throughout the day to work on a myriad of IT functions. KACE helps consolidate these functions by providing a single appliance for all projects, while delivering easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management that is affordable. The KBOX family of appliances fulfills all of an organization’s systems management needs, from initial computer deployment to ongoing management and retirement.

Pricing
Pricing of the KBOX Appliance Bundle starts at $23,000 and includes the KBOX Systems Deployment Appliance, KBOX Systems Management Appliance, Virtual Kontainers Module, Asset Management Module, Help Desk Module, iPhone Management Module and Security Audit & Enforcement Module.

About KACE™
KACE™ is the leading systems management appliance company. The award-winning KBOX™ family of appliances delivers easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management capabilities. KACE customers usually install in one day and enjoy the lowest total cost compared to software alternatives.
 
KACE is headquartered in Mountain View, California. To learn more about KACE and its product offerings, please visit http://www.kace.com or call 1-877-MGMT-DONE.

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Kulesa Faul, Inc.
650-340-1985
cathy@kulesafaul.com