KACE Speeds Systems Management for Computer Administrators with Acquisition of Global Online Community and Launch of AppDeploy Live™
KACE Acquires AppDeploy.com, Combining the Leading Online Community for Systems Administrators with its Award-Winning KBOX Systems Management Appliances
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – June 25, 2007 – KACE, the leading provider of systems management appliances, today announced launch of AppDeploy Live, a new feature of the KBOX family of appliances, allowing seamless access to AppDeploy.com, the global online community that speeds day-to-day tasks for computer administrators.
Through the acquisition of AppDeploy.com, KACE has integrated information from the Internet’s largest community of application and computer administrators with data from the global community of KBOX Systems Management Appliances, creating the world’s most powerful systems management knowledge base. This knowledge base catalogues application management information, techniques, and best-practices for over 60,000 software applications which will save systems management professionals’ significant time. KBOX Systems Management Appliance users can access this powerful information directly from their KBOX Management Console. The knowledgebase is also available free to the public at AppDeploy.com.
“AppDeploy saves my team a half days work a week by offering an easy-to-find knowledge center that has answers to our complex deployment questions,” said David Hauser, co-founder & CTO for GotVMail Communications. “The community serves as the number one watering hole for information on application deployment issues and we are able to learn from our peers’ experiences. The community is a great way to stay on top of innovative solutions to the deployment challenges we face every day with new and changing applications.”
AppDeploy Live builds off the popular AppDeploy.com community that boasts over 100,000 monthly visitors and offers a broad knowledge base continually updated by over 16,000 contributing professionals to give computer system managers safe and reliable access to data on over 60,000 applications and processes. Eliminating the frustrating search for answers through vendor sites, discussion boards, Google, and technical publications, AppDeploy.com offers computer administrators a free and easy way to search for answers and best practices to a range of complex issues, such as application deployment techniques, configuration settings, and transform files.
KACE is advancing the existing AppDeploy.com website by dedicating resources to continually update and improve the community knowledge base and automatically updating the application library through its network of KBOX appliances that are now managing hundreds of thousands of endpoint computers globally. In addition, present and future KBOX Systems Management Appliance customers now have the ability to leverage AppDeploy Live, which provides this community expertise contextually within the KBOX Management Console, dramatically saving time on common computer administration tasks.
“Together, KACE and AppDeploy have raised the bar in terms of easing systems management complexity. Now, computer administrators, whether they use KBOX or not, can quickly, freely, and reliably access information on how to effectively manage all kinds of endpoint applications,” said Rob Meinhardt, co-founder and CEO of KACE. “By way of analogy, TiVO revolutionized video recording by marrying an easy-to-use, intuitive solution with comprehensive, context-sensitive programming information. For KBOX users, AppDeploy Live offers the same breadth of benefits to IT professionals by providing them TiVo-like simplicity and contextual, community-based help so that they can find answers to the tough questions they face everyday.”
The award-winning KBOX family of appliances delivers easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management that is affordable. The KBOX 1000 Series Systems Management Appliances automate routine and complex IT maintenance tasks for end-point nodes on a network, while the KBOX 2000 Series Systems Deployment Appliances provide centralized provisioning and remote system recovery. AppDeploy Live and AppDeploy.com empower both KBOX users and the universe of other systems administrators with the power to quickly find the answers to complicated systems management tasks in minutes by leveraging the experience of an online community website.
With this announcement, KACE is revolutionizing how systems administrators can access and act upon information that can help speed and simplify their jobs. Any systems administrator, regardless of what tool they may use, can access this information through AppDeploy.com (www.appdeploy.com). KBOX customers can access the same information directly through the interface of their KBOX Systems Management Appliances.
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 at one third the cost of 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 1-888-522-3638.
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