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Don't Wait to Automate: Achieve Immediate Cost, Productivity, and Security Benefits by Automating IT Management
Vendor name: KACE
Product name: KBOX Automation systems for IT management significantly reduce, and in many cases, eliminate these problems.
- Faster response and better service to end users managed nodes.
- Reduced downtime and increased productivity
Availability: Immediate
- Lower labor costs and reduced skill requirements
- Increased security and reduced risk and exposure.
Executive Summary
This 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:
Higher IT operational and resource costs
Slower incident response times and poor service to end users
Manual 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
Reduced control and audit capability
Increased risk of non-compliance to regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA
Security
Alternative approaches, such as remote control, or shipping Manual IT management also adversely affects security, laptop or hard drives, and scripting, are still manual and do especially around applying security patches, virus updates, not solve the problem. Significant travel is still required, and and removing dangerous software such as adware, spyware, shipping hard drives or laptops imposes courier expenses, Trojans, and other so-called malware. An inaccurate inventory increases risk of data loss or corruption, and leaves the end will lead to security patches and updates being applied to the user unproductive for days at a time while their system is in wrong systems, and not being applied where they are needed.
EMA's Perspective
About KACE
Automation reduces the complexity of IT administration, makes administration faster, and lets administrators manage many more systems than they possibly could manually. Systems are more secure, exposure to financial, legal, and compliance risks is reduced, service to end users is improved, and administrators can focus on preventing fires, not just fighting them. EMA's own research clearly supports these outcomes. Initial deployment of automation systems is at worst an inconvenience, compared to the results it delivers, especially with appliance-based solutions that integrate automated IT management disciplines, and are easy to install and to use.
EMA believes that automated IT management is vitally important to any business. Mid-sized enterprises suffering from overloaded resources, slow response, and excess ?fire fighting' should especially evaluate automated IT management solutions, such as KBOX by KACE. It will allow their IT staff to work faster and more efficiently, reduce the number of unexpected problems, improve service to end users, and reduce security and compliance risks.
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