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If the technology and industry pundits are correct, IT organizations around the world are fired up for a Windows 7 migration, with many not even waiting for SP1. Are you ready? Want to know what your peers are doing and how you stack up? Want to see a demonstration of ways to get to Windows 7 more quickly and easily? View this on-demand web event and learn how KACE tools can help make your migration a success.

Compares the KBOX™ family of appliances from KACE with leading competitors Altiris, LANDesk, and Microsoft. It explains key best practices in lifecycle management, uses these as a framework for functional comparison, and includes a cost comparison to determine overall solution value.

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.

If the technology and industry pundits are correct, IT organizations around the world are fired up for a Windows 7 migration, with many not even waiting for SP1. Are you ready? Want to know what your peers are doing and how you stack up? Want to see a demonstration of ways to get to Windows 7 more quickly and easily? View this on-demand web event and learn how KACE tools can help make your migration a success.

In this CTO Edge Corner podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Marty Kacin, the CTO for KACE, explains why automating the migration process, especially around Windows 7, is the only way most IT organizations will be able to cope with the increasing complexity of systems management.

Patching clients effectively and reliably is becoming a non-stop process for most organizations, demanding a robust, dynamic and automated infrastructure to ensure delivery. In this webinar, experts Paul Henry from leading IT security vendor Lumension and Ken Ross from KACE and will demonstrate how a broad, reliable and easy-to-use implementation of patching can quickly and cost-effectively secure your organization.

Compares the KBOX™ family of appliances from KACE with leading competitors Altiris, LANDesk, and Microsoft. It explains key best practices in lifecycle management, uses these as a framework for functional comparison, and includes a cost comparison to determine overall solution value.

This Dimensional Research report is based on a survey of 923 IT professionals conducted in January 2010. The goal of the survey was to gather data about current plans and attitudes within corporate IT organizations in their adoption of Windows 7 for desktops and laptops.

The Essentials Series by industry expert Greg Shields will assist you in understanding those activities and enabling technologies that are available for planning and executing a Windows 7 migration. You’ll learn seven key activities required for success, read about the free tools that are available from Microsoft, as well as see alternative approaches to enabling a more automated and integrated migration.

The realities of security and compliance have changed considerably since patch management faced its first big paradigm shift some years ago. Today's best patch management tools and techniques are significantly different from their predecessors. In this whitepaper, we give an historical perspective on how this evolution unfolded, and why it is important for organizations to evolve their patch management technology in order to remain on top of increasing security attacks.

Application virtualization makes application deployment a simple and cost effective process. This architectural overview of KACE Virtual Kontainers details how the easy-to-use, affordable KACE approach to application virtualization allows software to be configured, deployed, managed and removed much more reliably and silently across the network, without time consuming repackaging or tedious regression testing.

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 next 12 months. This paper covers best practices and important considerations for supporting Mac as an enterprise platform alongside Windows.

The package knowledge base is a community contributed database of "how to" information regarding the deployment of specific applications. Command lines, related links and notes from the field are just some of the topics covered in this unique and expanding resource.

There are many sites that link to downloads, but none focuses on the needs of the desktop administrator like this directory of over 250 focused tools. There have been over thirty five thousand downloads from this contributed list of helpful tools covering such areas as software deployment, inventory, installers, scripting and more.

AppDeploy offers several active forums for the discussion of related topics-the most active of which is the Package Development forum. Here experts from around the world help each other through problems and share war stories. If you don't see the information you are looking for in the Package Knowledge Base, this is the place to request help from some of the sharpest people in the field.

KBOX appliances are guaranteed to make it easy and affordable for IT professionals to comprehensively manage networked computers including desktops, servers, notebooks, switches, routers and more.

The KBOX 1000 Series Systems Management Appliances offer all-inclusive, secure appliances that makes it easy and affordable for IT professionals to manage networked computers including desktops, servers, notebooks, switches, routers and more.

The KBOX 2000 Series offers a plug-and-play, secure line of appliances that saves systems administrators time and money by remotely deploying desktops, laptops and servers via a web-based console.