KACE announces KBOX evaluation programme.Worldwide Computer Products News-14 October 2009-KACE announces KBOX evaluation programme(C)1995-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http://www.m2.com Systems management appliance company KACE KACE Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange Ltd. (Nairobi, Kenya) KACE Ka-Band Communication Experiment announced on Tuesday a new programme allowing systems administrators to evaluate the KBOX Systems Management Appliance for up to 30 days at no cost. The company said the trial KBOX can be rapidly installed, runs on a variety of VMware products, including VMware Player A free runtime engine that enables virtual machines created in VMware software to run in a Windows machine. The Player enables users and technicians to test various virtual appliances before deciding on virtualizing their hardware with VMware. See VMware and virtual appliance. , and can accommodate the management of up to 25 computers. During the evaluation period Evaluation period The time interval over which funds assess a money manager's performance. , users will have access to all KBOX network management capabilities, including inventory management, software distribution, 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 , asset management and help desk. Users can register for the free download at http://www.kace.com/trial. In addition, KACE announced new VMware Ready Certification status for its Virtual KBOX technology. To achieve the designation, the technology passed a detailed valuation and testing process managed by VMware. Virtual KBOX is now listed on the VMware Partner Product Catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. and can be found at http://wwwa.vmware.com/partnercatalog/catalog/. ((Comments on this story may be sent to info@m2.com)) |
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