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Altiris Takes Software Virtualization on the Road; Altiris, with Sponsor HP, to Provide Complimentary Half-Day Seminars on the Latest Virtualization Technologies.


SALT LAKE CITY -- Altiris Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS ATRS Arkansas Teacher Retirement System
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), a pioneer of IT lifecycle management solutions that reduce the total cost of owning IT resources, today announced a software virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used.

Hardware Virtualization
Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer.
 seminar series, with sponsor HP, to provide customers with a first-hand look at the latest in virtualization and innovative software management technologies.

The complimentary seminars will take place in 12 North American North American

named after North America.


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 locations from Feb. 21 - Feb. 24, including Denver, Dallas, Baltimore, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Atlanta, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, 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. , Chicago, Boston, Orange County, Minneapolis and Toronto. VMware will present in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County and Denver. For additional details and registration information, please visit: www.altiris.com/Campaigns/SVSTour.aspx.

Altiris technology experts, industry analysts, customers and partners will demonstrate how virtualization technologies can simplify software management, reduce end-user downtime, help maximize IT investments and lower help desk costs by:

--Eliminating application conflicts

--Instantly repairing damaged applications

--Reducing testing time for application rollouts

--Levering the additive benefits of system and application virtualization A smaller umbrella term within the larger umbrella term of "virtualization." It refers to several techniques that make running applications more protected, more flexible or easier to manage. See virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization.  

--Managing virtual and physical assets using Altiris solutions

Altiris will showcase Altiris(R) Software Virtualization Solution Wikipedia is not the place for advertisement or self-advertising.

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(TM) (SVS SVS - OS/VS2 ), the technology that PC Magazine said, "could reshape the PC landscape at the IT level,"* while Computer Reseller News claimed that, "SVS has the potential to rewrite the rules."**

Unlike existing hardware and system virtualization products, SVS abstracts the installation of an application's files and registry settings to allow the application to be deployed and used without altering the host operating system operating system (OS)

Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs.
 or conflicting with other applications. SVS also enables same-system, conflict-free hosting of multiple versions of the same application. For more information about SVS, please visit www.altiris.com/juice/svs.

About Altiris

Altiris Inc. is a pioneer of IT lifecycle management software that allows IT organizations to easily manage, secure and service desktops, notebooks, thin clients, handhelds, industry-standard servers, and heterogeneous software including Windows, Linux and UNIX UNIX

Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics).
. Altiris automates and simplifies IT projects throughout the life of an asset to reduce the cost and complexity of management. Altiris client and mobile, server, security and IT asset management solutions natively integrate via a common Web-based console and repository. For more information, visit www.altiris.com.

Note on Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including statements regarding the future availability of a commercialized version of SVS, statements that SVS revolutionizes software management, and statements by PC Magazine regarding SVS reshaping the PC landscape at the IT level. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially differ from those in the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, risks associated with delays or difficulties in developing products or bringing commercialized versions of products to market, our inability to continue to meet the changing needs of customers in a rapidly changing IT market, our inaccurate assessment of market demand or IT technology trends, errors or bugs in commercialized versions of our products, and such other risks as identified in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q

See 10-Q.
 for the period ended September 30, 2005, and from time to time in other reports filed by Altiris with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Altiris is a registered trademark of Altiris Inc. in the United States and in other countries. Software Virtualization Solution is a trademark of Altiris Inc. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.

* PC Magazine, "22nd Annual Awards for Technical Excellence - Software & Dev Tools," Cade Metz, Jan. 10, 2006, http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1903598,00.asp

** Computer Reseller News, "A Virtual Solution to a Real Problem," Frank Ohlhorst, Feb. 6, 2006, http://www.crn.com/sections/software/software.jhtml?articleId= 179100643
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