Autonomic Software Announces Major Upgrade to ANSA Suite; Asset Management Enhancements Provide State of the Art Compliance Solution.DANVILLE, Calif. -- Autonomic Software, Inc., a provider of automated vulnerability management solutions, today announced upgrades to its asset management features to improve compliance reporting across the enterprise. These new features are offered as part of the company's 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. , Autonomic Network Security Administrator (ANSA ANSA - Advanced Network Systems Architecture ) Suite. ANSA Suite also includes patch management The installation of patches from a software vendor onto an organization's computers. Patching thousands of PCs and servers is a major issue. A patch should be applied to test machines first before deployment, and the testing environments must represent all the users' PCs with their unique and software deployment Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use. The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. features. Compliance management is the number one issue facing IT management during 2006 and 2007. ANSA Suite provides critical management information for automating and addressing the onerous reporting requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory mandates. Significant enhancements to the asset management functions include the ability to scan any device on the network and report back relevant data about the device. The new version scans diverse computer platforms, software applications, printers, switches, routers -- virtually anything connected to the network either locally or remote -- at a speed of up to 450 devices a second. ANSA Suite's asset management solution combines a patented micro agent and sophisticated network scanning algorithm to detect and report on software applications and hardware. For example, a CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. report produces the name of the vendor, CPU speed See MHz. , type, and other pertinent information. Software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. are tracked listing the publisher, product and license number. System board firmware data provides the name of the manufacturer and serial number. The solution provides an alert if something is added or removed. Collected data can be formatted to generate a complete and accurate asset report for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPPA Hip´pa n. 1. (Zool.) A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; - called also bait bug ltname>. See Illust. under Anomura. regulations. Reports are also graphical and detailed enough to be used by IT professionals to plan system changes, upgrades and deletions. "If a device has an IP address or an Ethernet cable The most common form of Ethernet cable is the telephone-like RJ-45 cable (see Ethernet). Using a "crossover cable," two machines can be plugged together using their Ethernet ports. The crossover cable is designed for direct connection between two Ethernet devices (PCs, peripherals, etc. , it is detected," said Tony Gigliotti, President, Autonomic Software. "Our goal is to streamline asset management as a comprehensive, accurate and highly cost effective compliance reporting tool for IT and corporate management." ANSA Suite deploys in minutes, whether installed by a large IT department or a single manager. The user interface is web-based, making it easy to inventory IT assets locally or remotely. With the lightest footprint in the industry, the suite incorporates a Patented Micro Agent, N-Tier Architecture and NET framework, for a robust, cross platform application that is highly scalable. Patch management, software deployment and asset management applications run in the background and are completely transparent to end users. About Autonomic Software Autonomic Software is a provider of automated vulnerability solutions. Founded in 2003, the company is located in Danville, California. ANSA is the company's flagship product and combines patch management, asset Management and software deployment. The company sells the suite both direct to enterprise customers and through a nationwide reseller program. For more information on Autonomic Software's products and services, call 925-820-8209 or visit the company's website at www.autonomic-software.com All company and product names referenced are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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