Micah Development announces Full Armor Zero Administration "FAZAM" to help reduce PC Total Cost of Ownership.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 1997-- FAZAM provides administrators with an easy way to keep their PCs up and running and prevent downtime caused by user error Micah Development Corp. today announced Full Armor Zero Administration (FAZAM) for Windows 95 to help administrators keep their PCs up and running. FAZAM is the first protection package focused on providing administrators with an easy way to lock-down client PCs while allowing users to maintain their existing Windows 95 interface The user interface first introduced in Windows 95 and then in subsequent versions (98, ME, NT 4, 2000). See Windows 95 and Windows. . Unlike packaged interfaces, FAZAM provides administrators with the ability to maintain the status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. of their desktop interfaces while incrementally increasing the protection to reduce costs caused by end-user errors. Administrators are given the flexibility of protecting such items from Control Panel applets to the erasure ERASURE, contracts, evidence. The obliteration of a writing; it will render it void or not under the same circumstances as an interlineation. (q.v.) Vide 5 Pet. S. C. R. 560; 11 Co. 88; 4 Cruise, Dig. 368; 13 Vin. Ab. 41; Fitzg. 207; 5 Bing. R. 183; 3 C. & P. 65; 2 Wend. R. 555; 11 Conn. of files and directories. Reduces the Total Cost of Ownership According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. study, the five-year total cost of owning a PC is $41,536. FAZAM is designed to help administrators reduce this cost by preventing users from making unwanted changes to their PCs. Administrators have the ability to define which areas of the PC users have access. This greatly reduces the potential of damaging changes to a PC's configuration and, as a result, the number of calls to the corporate help desk. "The Total Cost of Ownership issue is terrifying ter·ri·fy tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies 1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten. 2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. to computer administrators. They know that they need to do something yet all of the current solutions demand a complete overhaul of the PC infrastructure. FAZAM allows administrators to slowly introduce and incrementally increase the protection to reduce employee downtime," said Richard Farrell, President of Micah Development. "And, it is fully manageable. With FAZAM you have a managed PC. With the other solutions on the market, you have a dumb terminal A display terminal without processing capability. It is entirely dependent on the main computer for processing. Although mainframe and minicomputer terminals (3270, 5150, etc.) are technically smart terminals, because they have a certain amount of built-in screen display capabilities, - no one wants to go there." Save Administrators Time Fixing PC Software Problems FAZAM saves administrators time by both protecting the PC configuration and implementing its new Undo95(tm) technology. Undo95 gives the administrator the ability to quickly restore the PC settings to where they were when the PC was given to the employee or to a pre-defined date assigned by the administrator. Undo95 can also assist the administrator in determining if a problem is due to a faulty hardware or software configuration. FAZAM Keeps Mobile Users Up and Running FAZAM keeps mobile users up and running by allowing administrators to ensure that the configuration of the mobile PC remains the same. This is especially critical for corporations where their salespeople are on the road and who have programs that are needed to perform their job function. FAZAM ensures that the PC files and configuration that were setup before the laptop was issued to the salesperson remain static. Supports Industry Standards and Desktop Management Software FAZAM supports the industry standard DMI (Desktop Management Interface) The first desktop management standard from the DMTF. Enabling PCs to be monitored from a central console, it was superseded by the DMTF's Common Information Model (see CIM). 2.0 specification and leading desktop management packages. Administrators can manage FAZAM remotely and perform functions such as disabling dis·a·ble tr.v. dis·a·bled, dis·a·bling, dis·a·bles 1. To deprive of capability or effectiveness, especially to impair the physical abilities of. 2. Law To render legally disqualified. or enabling floppy and CD-ROM drives CD-ROM drives, which today typically means a CD-RW drive that is a combo CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW drive, come in a variety of speeds. The original drive (1x) transferred data at 150KB per second. on-the-fly. With FAZAM's Network Configurator (sold separately), administrators can assign and manage the client PCs based on user, group, or computer. FAZAM integrates with Microsoft's policies for distribution so that it will work with the existing network and tie into leading desktop management packages. For instance, FAZAM is integrated with Intel's LANDesk software to allow LANDesk administrators to work through the same interface in managing their network of PCs. Pricing and Availability FAZAM prices range from $25 per node for 100 nodes to $15 per node for 1,000 nodes. There are two support plans which include updates and technical support. Educational pricing includes a $200 buy-in and $15 per copy license. Company Background Founded in 1987, Micah Development's mission is to keep PCs up and running. Its customers include large and small business, educational institutions, OEMs such as AST (AST Computer, Irvine, CA) A PC manufacturer founded in 1980 by Albert Wong, Safi Quershey and Tom Yuen (A, S and T). It offered a complete line of PCs that sold through its dealer channel. , Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Toshiba, and retailers such as Circuit City, Computer City, Future Shop, PriceCostco, Sam's Clubs, and Wal-Mart. Micah Development is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. and can be reached by phone at (781) 641-1500 or by fax at (781) 641-1973. Micah's web site is http://www.fullarmor.com CONTACT: Micah Development (781) 641-1500 http://www.fullarmor.com |
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