New KACE Appliances Deliver Enterprise-Class Systems Management Capabilities at a Mid-Market Price.Latest KBOX Releases Empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems Mid-Sized Companies to Achieve the Security, Control, and Scale Previously Only Reserved for Large Enterprises MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- KACE KACE Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange Ltd. (Nairobi, Kenya) KACE Ka-Band Communication Experiment , the leading systems management appliance company, today announced the latest release of the KBOX Systems Management and KBOX Systems Deployment Appliances, the industry's first appliances to provide "enterprise-class" functionality at an affordable price. The new features of KACE's award-winning KBOX family of appliances provide medium enterprises the scalability, security, and control previously only known by large enterprises. Focused on saving customers time and money, KACE has added new functionality and several key features to its appliances to meet the needs of the largest medium enterprises. Also today, KACE announced a partnership with Lumension Security[TM], formerly PatchLink Corporation([R]), to provide customers with enterprise-ready patching and remediation capabilities seamlessly integrated into the KBOX appliance. (Editor's note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : please see "KACE and Lumension Security Forge Partnership to Deliver Comprehensive 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 for the Medium Enterprise" press release at http://www.kace.com/about/releases/10_15_07_lumension.php) "KACE's new vision for its systems management and deployment appliances truly brings enterprise-class functionality at a medium enterprise price point," said Marty Kacin, KACE president, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , and co-founder. "The pain points of the mid-market grow as the size of the enterprise grows. The largest medium enterprises require similar support and scale as any large enterprise would and now KACE can help them to achieve true, enterprise-class security, control, and scale." Medium enterprises have the same systems management and deployment challenges as the largest enterprises, but usually with more constraints CONSTRAINTS - A language for solving constraints using value inference. ["CONSTRAINTS: A Language for Expressing Almost-Hierarchical Descriptions", G.J. Sussman et al, Artif Intell 14(1):1-39 (Aug 1980)]. -- smaller teams, limited budgets, and an IT staff required to wear many hats throughout the day. With the release of the latest versions of the KBOX Systems Management and KBOX Systems Deployment Appliances (1200 and 2200 Series), medium enterprises can now achieve the same security, control, and scale as Fortune 1000 companies by leveraging "enterprise-class" features such as higher security through robust role-based permissions, industry leading patch management, and the ability to scale to manage thousands of nodes on a single appliance. Highlighted new capabilities of the KBOX Systems Management Appliance (1200 Series) include: * Industry-leading patch management technology through a new partnership with Lumension Security, seamlessly embedding 1. (mathematics) embedding - One instance of some mathematical object contained with in another instance, e.g. a group which is a subgroup. 2. (theory) embedding - (domain theory) A complete partial order F in [X -> Y] is an embedding if PatchLink's assessment and remediation engine to provide enterprise-level patch management, as well as access to the world's largest vulnerability metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. database, alongside the full range of KBOX systems management capabilities from a single appliance, and single agent, significantly improving security and ease-of-use. * Policy-based Help Desk functionality complete with queues, ticket workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. rules, and email-based ticket management, significantly improving administrators control and management over the help desk process. * Role-based permissions and change auditing, significantly improving the control and security systems administrators have over systems management activities. Among the new features of the KBOX Systems Deployment Appliance (2200 Series) are: * State Management, which allows system administrators to manage both physical and virtual computer "states" across thousands of nodes from a single appliance and UI. The technology uniquely allows customers to re-provision or reconfigure To change the status of something. both virtual and physical machines based on a centrally defined system manifest manifest 1) adj., adv. completely obvious or evident. 2) n. a written list of goods in a shipment. MANIFEST, com. law. A written instrument containing a true account of the cargo of a ship or commercial vessel. 2. , saving valuable time and money when managing large numbers of mixed-environment workstations. * Improved Image Editing Changing or improving graphics images. It typically refers to bitmapped images rather than vector graphics drawings. Using an image editor, images can be modified by an artist using pen, brush, airbrush and other "painting" tools. capabilities, significantly improving the control system administrators have over the deployment process. * iSCSCi support, enabling higher scalability by allowing the KBOX Deployment Library to be deployed off-board to any iSCSI SAN. "Our IT infrastructure is complex and requires a variety of toolsets to manage it," said Jason Cummins, I.S. Services Manager of Jordan's Furniture  This article in sections 2 through 5 is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , Inc. "KACE provides us with everything we need through one easy-to-use interface. We'll no doubt be able to provide immediate value to our organization by leveraging the enhanced Help Desk, role-based permissions, and change auditing capabilities of this latest KBOX systems management appliance release. Additionally, we'll harness the power of the new, intuitive interface for patch management, based on the strength of the Lumension platform--The KBOX truly is our Swiss Army Knife of systems management." KACE's KBOX Family of Appliances saves customers both time and money. Systems managers from medium enterprises are often forced to wear many hats throughout the day to work on a myriad Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10 000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity. The term myriad is a progression in the commonly used system of describing numbers using tens and hundreds. of IT functions. KACE helps consolidate these functions providing a single appliance for all of their projects, while delivering easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management that is affordable. KBOX Systems Management Appliances fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. all of the systems management needs of a medium enterprise, including initial discovery, distribution, patching, configuration, security, asset management, helpdesk, and reporting. KBOX Systems Deployment Appliances fulfill all of the systems provisioning needs of a medium enterprise, including inventory assessment, OS deployment, application distribution, configuration, and recovery. About KACE[TM] KACE[TM] is the leading systems management appliance company. The award winning KBOX[TM] family of appliances delivers easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management capabilities. KACE customers usually install in one day at one third the cost of software alternatives. KACE is headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . To learn more about KACE and its product offerings, please visit http://www.kace.com or call 1-877-MGMT-DONE. Helpful Links: * KBOX 1000 Series Systems Management Appliances (http://www.kace.com/products/kbox1000.php) * KBOX 2000 Series Systems Deployment Appliances (http://www.kace.com/products/kbox2000.php) |
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