SOUTHFIELD ? CA announced Monday two new products that will help companies better manage the constant flow of security patches and software updates over a variety of equipment to save businesses money.
CA’s Desktop and Server Management r11 deliver on CA?s mission to simplify and unify the management of Information Technology.
CA Desktop Management Suite for Windows ? a fully integrated solution with desktop management and backup capabilities that enables the management of PCs throughout their life cycle, from acquisition to retirement. Its automated features reduce the time required to distribute software, maintain hardware and software inventories, configure machines, protect local data and manage remote systems.
Unicenter Patch Management ? which addresses complex patch management challenges by proactively managing the software patch life cycle. It is backed by a 24×7 global online patch management content research team that monitors, validates, researches, publishes and distributes all relevant patch information. Unicenter Patch Management works in conjunction with CA Asset Management and Unicenter Software Delivery, or the CA Desktop Management Suite for Windows.
?With a reduced IT budget, it is crucial to justify our IT investments and make cost-sensitive decisions regarding our assets,? said Jason Bullock, systems administrator, Colorado Springs School District 11. ?CA Desktop and Server Management has given us detailed, real-time insight into our IT environment, enabling us to strategically manage our PCs and make more informed IT decisions in order to reduce costs and better support our overall organization goals.?
CA Desktop and Server Management r11 lets customers use life cycle management to define the policies that govern delivery of patces and updates on desktops and servers. The new CA solution also offers:
A common architecture, based on CA?s Integration Platform, that integrates across core desktop and server management products to unify and simply installation deployment and operations;
Comprehensive utilization reporting and software detection to the software patch level;
Event-based discovery that can trigger software distributions to ensure policy compliance and reconciliation of owned versus discovered assets;
The ability to run on Linux servers, while also providing remote control of Linux servers and desktops from Windows PCs;
?With a complex and distributed IT environment, we found it increasingly difficult to manage our users at the desktop level,? said Harry Butler, solutions center manager at EFW, a full-service electronics supplier for the defense and aerospace industries. ?By automating critical IT operational processes, CA Desktop and Server Management simplifies the management of our desktop environment?enabling our IT staff to achieve maximum efficiency and higher service levels across the enterprise.?
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