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The complexity of managing and supporting end-user systems has opened doors for cool vendors to add value where others have fallen short. We discuss three cool vendors in the PC support and configuration management space.

Compares the KBOX™ family of appliances from KACE with leading competitors Altiris, LANDesk, and Microsoft. It explains key best practices in lifecycle management, uses these as a framework for functional comparison, and includes a cost comparison to determine overall solution value.

Application virtualization offers huge potential benefits to systems administrators faced with traditional desktop lifecycle management challenges. This Impact Brief from Analyst EMA discusses the hot application virtualization market, the KACE acquisition of Computers In Motion, and its ramifications in the world of systems management.

Does your IT group support Mac or Linux as well as Windows? Join Marty Kacin, CTO, KACE and Lubos Parobek, Director of Product Management, KACE for a dynamic presentation on managing systems in a mixed OS environment.

Join leading EMA industry analyst Steve Brasen and KACE Senior Director of Product Management Lubos Parobek for an informative webinar to explore techniques and best practices for addressing and resolving the challenges that accompany systems deployment and configuration management.

Join Diane Hagglund of King Research to learn what you need to know to get in compliance with your software licensing agreements. Next, learn how Portland Community College automates software license compliance in a vast and complex setting. The webinar also features a real time demonstration showing first hand how to use system management tools to streamline and automate license compliance in your organization.

The complexity of managing and supporting end-user systems has opened doors for cool vendors to add value where others have fallen short. We discuss three cool vendors in the PC support and configuration management space.

Compares the KBOX family of appliances from KACE with leading competitors Altiris, LANDesk, and Microsoft. It explains key best practices in lifecycle management, uses these as a framework for functional comparison, and includes a cost comparison to determine overall solution value.

How an IT department addresses infrastructure changes has a direct impact on the overall value it brings to the business. In this white paper, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) examines how organizations can develop effective deployment strategies and implement automated deployment solutions to ensure IT successfully meets business goals.

Medium enterprises continue to struggle in their efforts to find and deploy an effective systems management solution scaled to their needs. KACE has developed this guide to help articulate that buyer's criteria via a comprehensive feature/function checklist, and to pose additional considerations that should be made when making a decision regarding a systems management solution.

The FDCC specifies some 200 settings for PCs running Windows XP or Vista, reducing federal deployment options to just two configurations. The goals: Greater security and cheaper management, deployment and acquisition costs. This white paper outlines best practices for complying with FDCC and then maintaining compliance.

This white paper outlines best practices for IT professionals in K-12 schools and higher education environments. Based on real-life experiences at school districts and colleges, it outlines a series of best practices for IT professionals from IT professionals who have not only overcome these varied obstacles but have thrived, using IT as an enabler of their personal and their students’ success.

The package knowledge base is a community contributed database of "how to" information regarding the deployment of specific applications. Command lines, related links and notes from the field are just some of the topics covered in this unique and expanding resource.

There are many sites that link to downloads, but none focuses on the needs of the desktop administrator like this directory of over 250 focused tools. There have been over thirty five thousand downloads from this contributed list of helpful tools covering such areas as software deployment, inventory, installers, scripting and more.

AppDeploy offers several active forums for the discussion of related topics-the most active of which is the Package Development forum. Here experts from around the world help each other through problems and share war stories. If you don't see the information you are looking for in the Package Knowledge Base, this is the place to request help from some of the sharpest people in the field.

KBOX appliances are guaranteed to make it easy and affordable for IT professionals to comprehensively manage networked computers including desktops, servers, notebooks, switches, routers and more.

The KBOX 1000 Series Systems Management Appliances offer all-inclusive, secure appliances that makes it easy and affordable for IT professionals to manage networked computers including desktops, servers, notebooks, switches, routers and more.

The KBOX 2000 Series offers a plug-and-play, secure line of appliances that saves systems administrators time and money by remotely deploying desktops, laptops and servers via a web-based console.