Altiris Launches Altiris Education Scholarship for Teachers and Academic IT Managers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2002 Lakeville, Minnesota Lakeville is a suburb 23 miles (37 km) south of downtown Minneapolis in the U.S. state of Minnesota in Dakota County. On the south metro fringe, Lakeville is one of the fastest growing cities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Public School District first recipient of Altiris Altiris Inc. is a subsidiary of Symantec specializing in service-oriented management software which allows organizations to manage IT assets. They also provide software for web services, security, and systems management products. Education Scholarship Altiris(R) Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS ATRS Arkansas Teacher Retirement System ATRS Automated Transport and Retrieval System ATRS Aerial Targets Squadron ATRS Automated Trouble Reporting System ATRS Arkansas Therapeutic Recreation Society ATRS Automatic Turbine Run-up System ), a leader in systems management solutions that reduce the total cost of owning information technology, Thursday Thursday: see week. awarded the first Altiris Education Scholarship to Lakeville, Minnesota Public School District for their ability to express and demonstrate how Altiris education technology solutions help deliver efficient and enhanced classroom learning. Altiris will award one Altiris Academic Scholarship per month to qualified applicants. The Altiris Education Scholarship has been established to ensure that limited academic IT budgets do not keep IT managers and teachers from realizing the full functionality of Altiris products and solutions. With the Altiris Education Scholarship, IT managers and teachers may receive either three or five days of complimentary Altiris product training valued at $1,295 and $1,995, respectively. Training for Deployment Solution(TM) (a three-day class on system deployment The deployment of a mechanical device, electrical system, computer program, etc., is its assembly or transformation from a packaged form to an operational working state. Deployment implies moving a product from a temporary or development state to a permanent or desired state. and software management) or Altiris Education Mgmt Suite(TM) (a five-day class on Deployment Solution, Inventory Solution(TM), Carbon Copy(TM), Application Metering Solution(TM) and Helpdesk Solution(TM)) is available. Altiris training helps teachers and administrators improve the classroom learning environment by drilling down into the latest functionality of Altiris technology thereby making the most of an Altiris software investment. "Altiris software is so feature-rich I feel I have only scratched the surface in capitalizing on its full capabilities," said Tracy Benson, Lakeville Public School District PC desktop technician See PC technician and software technician. . "Altiris training will help me add even greater value to what is already an indispensable IT management solution for our district computer network. "It is a difficult job to manage district-wide student and teacher needs. With Altiris software we can move away from continuous and tedious technical support to the essence of academic IT, teaching, training and curriculum integration." While working with the South St. Paul, Minnesota South St. Paul is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, approximately 10km south-southeast of the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is also southeast of West St. Paul, Minnesota. The population was 20,167 at the 2000 census. School District, Benson used Deployment Solution to remotely provide help desk services to the entire district, rapidly deploy the latest virus protection upgrades, image damaged computer hard drives and remotely install applications. Benson is in the process of implementing 1,000 nodes of Deployment Solution and Altiris Vision(TM) at her new position with the Lakeville Public School District. "With Altiris Deployment Solution in place, we were able to minimize student and teacher downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. with just a simple click of a button. When a computer lab machine went down I was able to repair it remotely in about 20 minutes. This is so much better than the alternative of driving 10 miles to do an onsite fix," said Benson. "I believe Altiris offers one of the most useful IT management products available. I would recommend this product wholeheartedly whole·heart·ed adj. Marked by unconditional commitment, unstinting devotion, or unreserved enthusiasm: wholehearted approval. whole to any organization, academic or otherwise." Sue Fahnert, Altiris strategic alliance training manager, went on to say, "The taxpayer dollar tagged for education spending has to go a long way. Therefore, our academic customers must receive as much value from their investment in Altiris software as possible. We are constantly looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. innovative ways to help teachers effectively do their jobs while being sensitive to budgets. "The Altiris Education Scholarship provides the means for educators to become more fully educated on Altiris product functionality." For more information about the Altiris Education Scholarship, or to apply for the scholarship, please visit http://www.altiris.com/products/education/scholarship/. About Altiris Altiris Inc. offers a full line of Web-enabled solutions that empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems organizations to easily manage desktops, notebooks, handhelds and servers throughout the IT lifecycle. Altiris provides fully integrated, complete systems management solutions including deployment and migration, software operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. , inventory and asset management, and help desk management. Altiris' core technologies greatly reduce the cost and complexity of owning IT resources. For more information, visit www.altiris.com. Altiris is registered trademark of Altiris Inc. Deployment Solution, Altiris Vision, Inventory Solution, Carbon Copy, Application Metering Solution, Education Mgmt Suite and Helpdesk Solution are trademarks of Altiris Inc. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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