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- Live Webcast: Haunted by Symantec Ghost? Learn About a New and Superior Approach
- Retro fashion might be in style, but old-fashioned point-imaging solutions such as Symantec Ghost lack important capabilities and cannot save you the time and money of more contemporary solutions. Join this live TechRepublic Webcast featuring Chris Blake, Systems Technician with Benchmark Group. Chris will share...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Symantec Ghost, Webcast, Kace, Security
- Webcasts 2009-10-16
- Windows 7: Tips and Best Practices for Simplified Migration
- This white paper outlines best practices for systems administration and IT professionals in healthcare environments. Based on real-life experiences of IT professionals in the medical field, it outlines best practices for IT professionals fighting to keep IT systems healthy—just as they want their patients to be.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, IT Professional, Microsoft Windows, Kace, Best Practice
- White papers 2009-10-12
- Why Free Patch Management Tools Could Cost You More
- As organizations look to keep operating expenses down, "free" technology solutions start to look more attractive. However, when choosing a solution for patching your systems and servers, it is important to consider the total cost of ownership TCO and the difference in key capabilities between point patching products and comprehensive...
- Tags: Patch Management, TCO, Kace, Patches, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2009-10-12
- Top 10 Ways to Increase IT ROI Without Adding Staff
- Tough economic times are upon us, and no one knows how long they may last. Today, IT managers are looking for alternative strategies to increase their IT ROI. The first principle is: Simplify operations. This white paper outlines 10 specific strategies for increasing IT ROI.
- Tags: Information Technology, Kace, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-10-12
- Live Webcast: 7 Steps to Windows 7 Migration Success - A Tutorial
- With the Windows 7 release now a reality, the question for many organizations is no longer whether to migrate, but how. But what compatibility challenges accompany this new operating system? What tools are available to help? Industry expert Nelson Ruest and systems management appliance provider KACE provide the necessary steps...
- Tags: Webcast, Kace, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Webcasts 2009-10-09
- Most businesses still paying lip service to power management
- A new survey from KACE, which makes various systems management appliances, finds that even though 93 percent of businesses acknowledge that power management can help reduce energy costs, only about half are using some sort of power management policies or technologies today. Fewer than 10 percent use...
- Tags: Power Management, Kace, Systems Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- ITIL - One Step at a Time: A Worry Free Approach to Implementing a Pragmatic ITIL Solution
- The Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL is the most popularly adopted best practice implementation available today and includes an IT management framework emphasizing management from the perspectives of both the business and IT service consumers. By utilizing a pragmatic approach to implementing ITIL, significant improvements to an IT infrastructure can...
- Tags: Information Technology, Kace, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2009-09-01
- Live Webcast: Best Practices for Windows 7 Migration
- Migration to Windows 7 is a future reality for most. With XP approaching its end of life and many organizations simply choosing to skip Vista, the new Windows 7 release holds the promise of new features and benefits that include added security, improved manageability and enhanced ease of use. Still,...
- Tags: Webcast, Migration, Kace, Best Practice, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Webcasts 2009-07-28
- Macs in the Enterprise: Are you ready?
- Increasingly, employees are demanding the flexibility to use Macs in the enterprise and many organizations are responding by supporting Macs for the first time. In fact a recent ITIC survey showed that 68% of respondents will allow their end users to deploy Macs as their corporate enterprise desktops in the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Kace, Desktops, Hardware
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Systems Management in Healthcare Top 12 Best Practices
- This white paper outlines best practices for systems administration and IT professionals in healthcare environments. Based on real-life experiences of IT professionals in the medical field, it outlines best practices for IT professionals fighting to keep IT systems healthy—just as they want their patients to be.
- Tags: IT Professional, Health Care, Kace, Best Practice, Systems Management
- White papers 2009-07-01
- KACE Kontainers - another take on application virtualization
- KACE has chosen a set of target markets that are often quite demanding and have little money to spend. This means the company faces quite a circus act - balancing on the back of a prancing pony. These markets expect high levels of service and often "go public" when they're...
- Tags: Application Virtualization, Kace, Kusnetzky, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Systems Management Buyers Guide For Medium Enterprises
- Medium enterprises continue to struggle in their efforts to find and deploy an effective systems management solution scaled to their needs. KACE has developed this guide to help articulate that buyer's criteria via a comprehensive feature/function checklist, and to pose additional considerations that should be made when making a decision...
- Tags: Kace, Systems Management, It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Systems Management in Education: A Best Practice Guide
- This white paper outlines best practices for IT professionals in K-12 schools and higher education environments. Based on real-life experiences at school districts and colleges, it outlines a series of best practices for IT professionals from IT professionals who have not only overcome these varied obstacles but have thrived, using...
- Tags: Education, IT Professional, Kace, Best Practice, Systems Management
- White papers 2008-11-04
- Taking the Leg-Work out of Systems Provisioning: Best Practices for Reducing Deployment Costs
- This white paper examines the current provisioning challenges facing organizations, and how traditional approaches using disk imaging and scripts are unable to significantly reduce deployment costs and complexity. Then, current provisioning best practices and their benefits are discussed. Finally, this paper illustrates how KACE KBOX appliances can be used to...
- Tags: Provisioning, Kace, Best Practice
- White papers 2008-11-04
- Lifecycle Management Best Practices: Comparing KACE, Altiris, LANDesk, and Microsoft SCCM
- Systems Management involves a number of key disciplines aimed at achieving efficiency, productivity, and cost reduction. This white paper explains key best practices and uses these as a framework for a functional comparison to determine an overall solution value. Evaluate vendor offerings applying such criteria as comprehensive functionality, ease of...
- Tags: LANDesk Software, Lifecycle Management, Microsoft Corp., Kace, Systems Management, Altiris Inc., It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista
- Sixty percent of IT administrators have no plans to deploy Vista despite service pack 1, which fixed the operating systems problems, according to a survey of 1,100 IT managers. The survey, conducted by KACE, which makes systems management appliances, found that there are 10 percent more holdouts...
- Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Kace, Survey, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Cool Vendors in IT Support, 2008
- In this research note, Gartner analyzes three "cool" vendors for PC support and configuration management. According to the research firm, management is the most important factor in lowering client total cost of ownership TCO, and organizations that have failed with automation in the past should consider addressing IT support issues...
- Tags: Information Technology, TCO, Kace, Roi/Tco, Software As A Service (SaaS), Strategy, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Emerging Technologies, Management
- White papers 2008-04-01
- The EMA All-Stars in Enterprise Systems Management for 2008
- This Enterprise Management Associates® research report highlights what it considers to be the best available software solutions in a number of specific disciplines, in order to form a 'Systems Management All-Star' team, and further highlights the 'best of the best' with selection to the All-Star First Team. It is designed...
- Tags: Enterprise Systems Management, Kace, It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Best Practices in Virtualization: Integrated Management
- This whitepaper examines the value of virtualization, the challenges of managing mixed environments, and a case study of a company moving to integrated management of virtualized and physical machines.
- Tags: Kace, Best Practice, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-12-01
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