Don't Wait to Automate: Achieve Immediate Cost, Productivity,
and Security Benefits by Automating IT Management
"If you're serious about TCO, then it just makes Highlights sense." - Senior Analyst, Manufacturing Company Vendor name: KACE
Product name: KBOX Automation systems for IT management significantly reduce, and in many cases, eliminate these problems. EMA research Product function: KBOX provides an appliance-based data shows that businesses with automated solutions spend IT management solution with full and deep hardware substantially less time and effort on patch management, and software inventory; distribution and updating of Operating System (OS) provisioning, application deployment, applications; patch management; remote control; report- security and policy management, and virus and spyware detec-ing; scripting; security vulnerability auditing; security/IT tion - reducing time and effort by over 50%. Examples of policy creation and enforcement; and help desk ticket these reductions are seen in recent case studies from 3 different management. medium-sized businesses, which have all experienced significant benefits, including:Vendor contact information: Website: www.kace.com . Doing more with existing headcount (FTE) Email: info@kace.com Phone: 888-522-3638 . Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of managed systemsPricing information: Starts at $7500 for 100 managed nodes. . Faster response and better service to end users
. Reduced downtime and increased productivityAvailability: Immediate . Lower labor costs and reduced skill requirements
. Increased security and reduced risk and exposure.Executive SummaryThis Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) whitepaper EMA strongly believes that automation of inventory, asset takes a close look at automated IT management, especially for management, software deployment, and patch distribution medium-sized businesses. Examining the problems surrounding is in the best interests of all organizations, including small software and hardware inventory, asset management, software and medium-sized businesses. Automation systems are vitally deployment, and patch distribution, EMA has found that manual important to any business, and mid-sized enterprises suffering IT management causes significant problems, including: from IT resourcing, response, or 'fire-fighting' issues should especially look at IT automation solutions such as KBOXT . H igher IT operational and resource costs by KACE.. Slower incident response times and poor service to end users IntroductionManual IT management - including hardware and software . Lower productivity and increased downtime for both IT inventory, asset management, software deployment, and patch and end users distribution - is a significant burden on IT, and on the busi-. Reduced control and audit capability ness users it supports. Yet, organizations are often hesitant to consider automation solutions to this problem because of . Increased risk of non-compliance to regulations like misconceptions around automation.Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA Compiling an IT inventory - detailing all the hardware and . Increased risk of unauthorized access, data loss, or software that exists in the business, on servers, desktops, and system penetration. laptops - and managing those assets is important for account-
EMA Product View? 2006 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Page ing, compliance, security, and timely problem resolution. An maintain. For example, manually deploying a new version of accurate hardware and software inventory, for example, enables Microsoft Office in a business with around 1,600 desktops, support personnel to diagnose and correct IT problems much can cost $56 or more per desktop in labor costs alone (not faster. However, collecting this inventory is a difficult and including productivity loss, travel expenses, courier costs, etc.). time-consuming process to conduct manually. Administrators By contrast, automating this deployment can reduce this cost waste time on travel, or develop one-off processes which to as low as $17 per desktop. SMBs especially cannot afford require significant skills, yet are prone to failures. As soon as the not to implement automation systems.inventory is complete, it is out of date, as both administrators and users install new devices, components, software, patches, and updates. Do the numbers - You c... [download for more]
