Indigo Mountain Customers Increase Efficiency and Maximize Savings with Quest KACE

Provision, manage, secure and service all network connected devices

Replace your manual processes, non-integrated point solutions, or overly complex software suite with the industry’s most comprehensive endpoint systems management solution and give your IT team more time to innovate. KACE fast-to-implement, easy-to-use systems management and deployment solutions provision, manage, secure, and service your growing organization’s network-connected devices, including Windows PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, tablets, Linux, UNIX, and Windows Servers, printers, storage and the internet of things (IoT), while delivering rapid return on investment and, to add more value to your endpoint systems management solution.

KACE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT APPLIANCE (SMA)

Manage, secure, and service all of your network-connected devices with the KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA). Inventory all hardware and software, painlessly patch mission-critical applications and operating systems, and assure software license compliance.

KACE SYSTEMS DEPLOYMENT APPLIANCE (SDA)

Accelerate the initial provisioning and ongoing administration of system images and driver updates with the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA). This easy-to-use, OS-agnostic systems provisioning appliance ensures your connected systems remain up to date and secure.

KACE CLOUD MOBILE DEVICE MANAGER

Inventory, manage and secure the mobile devices on your network with KACE Cloud Mobile Device Manager, a simple, straightforward, cloud-based solution for mobile device management. Plus, get single-pane-of-glass management for both mobile and traditional devices when combined with the KACE SMA.

KEY FEATURES

KACE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT APPLIANCE (SMA) KACE SYSTEMS DEPLOYMENT APPLIANCE (SDA)

From computers and servers to mobile devices, routers, printers and more, the KACE SMA keeps you on top of all the hardware and software installed across your network. KACE SMA discovers all hardware and software on your network, and provides you with ongoing IT Inventory management, IT Asset management & Software asset management, with robust reporting and alerting for most platforms.

Experience robust security with the KACE SMA, Automate patch management and deploy patches from one of the largest patch libraries in the industry – including patches for Windows & Mac OS and leading third-party vendors, such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla & Symantec. Conduct IT security audits and identify vulnerabilities with OVAL and SCAP scanning. Benefit from in-depth, easy-to-use security capabilities using an intuitive interface, plus powerful scripting, customizable reporting and routine task automation.

Make software license optimization and compliance an easy-to-obtain reality with the KACE Systems Management Appliance’s inventory, asset management and reporting capabilities. The KACE SMA can save your organization money through pragmatic software asset management (SAM) with optimal utilization of purchased licenses and license harvesting, while addressing the need for proof of compliance through comprehensive reporting. It allows the assignment and reconciliation of software licenses against auto-discovered software, to ensure your organization stays within license agreement terms.

The KACE Systems Management Appliance reduces the burden on your IT staff by automatically carrying out software distributions and software upgrades to Windows, Mac and Linux computers and servers across multiple locations. Available as a physical, virtual or hosted appliance, the KACE SMA easily integrates with Active Directory and/or LDAP to efficiently align software deployment with your organization’s structure and user schedules. It comes with many additional features that help you save resources and costs, such as targeting of deployments based on dynamic groups, remote site replication and wake-on LAN.

KACE SMA can help you provide your end users with a high quality help desk that tightly integrated with the KACE SMA’s IT asset management, configuration management, reporting & alert capabilities. Advanced functionality to automate repetitve tasks, along with robust incident management (e.g. ticketing) capabilities. The integration of the service desk with other SMA processes enables you to deplo a single solution for IT asset management, endpoint security and end user support.

Simplify Windows® and Mac® disk imaging and image deployment. Eliminate manual processes for building and maintaining gold master images for multi-platform OS imaging and deployments, saving you time for more strategic IT projects. Make automated deployment, image storage and management easier with access to a centralized deployment library — the repository of all system and software deployment assets, such as images, scripted installations, drivers, applications and scripts. Enhance provisioning consistency and reliability by ensuring the correct image or setup is always deployed to the appropriate system. All images are captured and stored to give you an accurate, comprehensive view.

Streamline your large-scale systems imaging projects with the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance’s powerful multicasting capabilities. You’ll save time, improve speed and reliability, and lighten the load on network resources and bandwidth.

Extend the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance to reduce the time it takes to manage systems at multiple off-site locations with the remote administration and management capabilities of the virtual KACE SDA Remote Site Appliance (KACE SDA RSA). The KACE SDA RSA provides the ability to network boot devices for local deployment at the remote site, instead of across Extend the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance to reduce the time it takes to manage systems at multiple off-site locations with the remote administration and management capabilities of the virtual KACE SDA Remote Site Appliance (KACE SDA RSA). The KACE SDA RSA provides the ability to network boot devices for local deployment at the remote site, instead of across your WAN, saving network bandwidth, time and speed, eliminating costly travel and shipping of media and systems.

Get true lights-off automated deployment with the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance’s powerful automated deployment tools. Unlike traditional image deployment tools, the KACE SDA enables you to easily control the order of your deployment tasks so you can ensure that your deployments go smoothly and reboots are graceful. You stay in control because the KACE SDA server is updated in real time with the status of the target devices. For example, you can schedule an entire computer lab to be reimaged at 2 a.m., return the next morning, and determine at a glance which deployments were successful, which failed and why.

KACE SDA links perfectly with the SMA. You are able to export packages from the SMA to the SDA for Installation Tasks, Push the Agent for the SMA to new machines and patch seemlesly through KACE SMA once a new build had been deployed.

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