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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.

Increasing IT complexity continues to challenge organizations to streamline operations in order to achieve maximum value out of their IT investments. This EMA impact brief analyzes the benefits of deploying a virtual systems management appliance for managing your IT environment, which can lead to greater efficiency and significant cost savings.

Do you have confidence in the way your organization is managing software license compliance today? Join Diane Hagglund of King Research to delve into the survey results and 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.

In this webinar we explain what constitutes a virtual appliance and discuss the value of deploying applications via a virtual appliance versus traditional software.  Further, we explain what to look for in a virtual appliance, provide an overview of solutions delivered via virtual appliances, and compare and contrast the benefits of physical and virtual appliances.

A recent King Research survey of over 900 IT professionals found that the majority of IT organizations are not planning to upgrade to Vista, and that a significant number of IT organizations have actually considered moving to non-Windows operating systems to avoid the upgrade. Delve into the survey results and learn what you need to know to get ready to migrate, or not, to Vista.

Boyd County Public Library offers many free services to residents of Boyd County, as well as neighboring Greenup and Lawrence counties in Kentucky, Lawrence County in Ohio, and Wayne and Cabell Counties in West Virginia. Over 300,000 residents of this metropolitan area are given access to research tools, genealogy resources, and a full online catalog of library materials.

Established in 1889, Battle Ground Academy (BGA) is one of the oldest kindergarten through 12th grade institutions in Tennessee. BGA's small IT department found itself in a daily skirmish with time and budget issues while managing the hundreds of computer end-points spread across the campus.

Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group (NMPG) is a multi-site practice of primary care physicians affiliated with Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Like many successful medical group practices, NMPG was seeing tremendous growth in a relatively short period of time. This posed challenges for the small IT team, as they were having trouble keeping up with the organization’s growth.

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.

This King Research report is based on a survey of 961 IT professionals. The goal of this report is to evaluate changes in attitude towards Windows Vista now that Service Pack 1 has been released. Findings include that the number of IT departments not planning to deploy Vista has increased and that more IT managers are switching to an alternative operating system.

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 whitepaper examines the value of virtualization, the challenges of managing mixed environments, and a case study of a company moving to integrated management of virtualized and physical machines.

While everyone is talking about the need for CMDBs, one solution does not fit all. This paper examines the why, what and who of CMDB solutions, looks at some evaluation criteria, and discusses options available to Fortune 100,000 organizations as they seek to implement an effective CMDB.

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.