America West Airlines Completes Successful Pilot Program Using Altiris Desktop Management Solutions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LINDON
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Lindon is the land beyond the Ered Luin (Blue Mountains) in the northwest of Middle-earth. It is the westernmost land of the continent. , Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2002 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. (R) Software Saves Time and Money on PC Deployment and Inventory Management Altiris Inc., a leader in systems management solutions that reduce the total cost of owning information technology, Thursday announced that America West Airlines America West Airlines was one of the United States' ten major airlines. The airline was based in Tempe, Arizona, and is now a part of US Airways Group. At the time of its integration into US Airways, the airline maintained two hubs, one at Phoenix Sky Harbor International has selected and recently completed a successful pilot program using Altiris Deployment Server(TM) and Altiris Inventory Solution(TM) to manage PC deployment. America West tested Altiris solutions in two installation projects in the airline's user environment. "We upgraded a financial application on more than 100 desktops in several locations, including Mexico," said Joe Beery beer·y adj. beer·i·er, beer·i·est 1. Smelling or tasting of beer: beery breath. 2. Affected or produced by beer: beery humor. , chief information officer and vice president, America West Airlines. "We were able to complete the upgrade overnight without an IT staff person on site. Without Altiris it would have taken at least six people several days with a great deal of travel to accomplish the installation." The airline also remotely installed a new application for all of its maintenance facilities in several locations around 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. . The installation was completed in minutes using PC 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. (TM) imaging technology (included in Deployment Server), which saved the time and expense of sending IT personnel to each location. About America West Airlines America West Airlines is a leading low-cost, full-service airline with 2000 sales of more than $2.3 billion. America West provides service to 88 destinations in the United States, Canada and Mexico. For more information visit www.americawest.com. 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 is uniquely positioned to provide 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 a registered trademark of Altiris Inc. Altiris Deployment Server, Inventory Solution, PC Transplant 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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