Altiris Products Empower Futurestep's Desktop Management and Inventory.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LINDON, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2001 Altiris eXpress and Inventory Solution Aids Futurestep in Improving End User Satisfaction and Controlling Computer Assets While Simultaneously Lowering Its Total Cost of Ownership Altiris Inc. -- a leading developer of software solutions that reduce the total cost of owning PCs and workstations -- Wednesday announced an agreement that allows Futurestep to use two Altiris products. Futurestep, the online middle-management recruitment service of Korn/Ferry International, is currently using Altiris eXpress 5.0 and Altiris Inventory Solution for a variety of mission-critical IT tasks. Futurestep uses Altiris eXpress for remote support, PC imaging and cloning cloning: see clone. To make a product that functions like another. See clone. See also cloning software. , and PC personality transplant transplant or graft Partial or complete organ or other body part removed from one site and attached at another. It may come from the same or a different person or an animal. One from the same person—most often a skin graft—is not rejected. on more than 200 desktops spread across 10 sites in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The company plans to deploy eXpress to all 500 desktops worldwide within the next quarter as a method of streamlining costs. Altiris Inventory Solution is already deployed on all desktops throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. "Futurestep prides itself on being a very technologically forward-thinking company both to our clients and internally," said Louis Contreras, IT manager North America/Asia-Pacific at Futurestep. "By using Altiris eXpress, we support our end user community with greater efficiency and pay more attention to what their needs are. In addition, the Inventory Solution allows me to immediately provide upper management with information that was previously impossible to gather." "Altiris is pleased to provide Futurestep with desktop management solutions that help them work better," said Greg Butterfield, president and chief executive officer of Altiris Inc. "Futurestep's unique and demanding requirements -- hundreds of users spread across dozens of widely distributed Adj. 1. widely distributed - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" cosmopolitan bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms sites -- are a perfect match for the Web-enabled desktop management capabilities that Altiris excels at. Altiris eXpress and Inventory Solution provide capabilities that many never thought were possible." Altiris eXpress Altiris eXpress 5.0 is the latest version of the popular PC deployment and management suite. It remotely and automatically completes functions that would ordinarily or·di·nar·i·ly adv. 1. As a general rule; usually: ordinarily home by six. 2. In the commonplace or usual manner: ordinarily dressed pedestrians on the street. require a visit from an IT professional. Altiris eXpress allows IT staff to remotely clone clone, group of organisms, all of which are descended from a single individual through asexual reproduction, as in a pure cell culture of bacteria. Except for changes in the hereditary material that come about by mutation, all members of a clone are genetically , configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. , install software, and migrate PC personalities (the data and settings that make each PC unique). It also provides an effective tool for day-to-day PC management, disaster recovery, and large-scale technology transitions. Altiris Inventory Solution Altiris Inventory Solution allows users to perform comprehensive hardware and software inventory of any Win32 PC regardless of whether it is an SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. client. Inventory Solution can run automatically in a number of dial-up and standard connectivity scenarios. It includes comprehensive pre-packaged and customizable reports that allow managers to drill down to individual machines. Additionally, Inventory Solution data can automatically be forwarded to Microsoft SMS. About Altiris Altiris Inc., develops, markets, and supports 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 IT professionals to easily manage corporate information technology resources throughout the IT lifecycle. Altiris' flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Altiris eXpress, is unique in its ability to provide full systems management, including deployment and migration, software management, asset tracking and management, help desk, and health monitoring. Altiris solutions greatly reduce the cost and complexity of owning and managing IT resources. Headquartered in Lindon, Altiris enjoys a worldwide development, service, and sales presence. For information about Altiris and its products, visit http://www.altiris.com. About Futurestep Headquartered in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Futurestep was created through a strategic alliance between Korn/Ferry International and The Wall Street Journal. Futurestep combines the speed and reach of the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the with Korn/Ferry's executive search expertise to fill positions at the $75,000 to $180,000 compensation levels. Futurestep is ranked amongst Forbes' "Best of the Web" 2001 and the IDC Bulletin on Top 10 Worldwide eRecruiting Providers. Currently there are more than 900,000 candidate registrations in the Futurestep database. For further information, visit www.futurestep.com. NOTE: Altiris, Altiris eXpress, and Inventory Solution are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Altiris Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. Futurestep and the Futurestep logo are trademarks of Korn/Ferry International, Futurestep Inc. and are protected in the United States and other countries. The names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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