Altiris, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, today announced it has extended its leadership position in system deployment and migration technologies with the latest release of Altiris® Deployment Solution™ software and Altiris PC Transplant® solution. Altiris is ready to deliver deployment and migration capabilities for the Microsoft Vista* operating system to help companies reduce the cost and complexity of change.
Altiris service-oriented management solutions help automate IT operations to address challenges to end-user productivity and computing availability. With Microsoft Windows Vista on the horizon, IT organizations are looking for solutions to ensure business continuity through the transition. Altiris provides automated and integrated operating system deployment, application packaging and virtualization, and data and settings migration for Windows to help make these changes in an efficient and seamless manner.
“Altiris technologies have been used to deploy and migrate millions of systems to the Windows operating system,” said Steve Morton, Altiris VP of product management and marketing. “Automated deployment and migration technologies will be critical to efficient enterprise adoption of Vista in 2007. Altiris technologies are tested to be Windows certified and logo qualified. Testing, along with close collaboration with key Microsoft Windows component teams, helps Altiris deliver products that are fully functional on future Windows versions such as Vista and Longhorn*.”
According to Gartner research, automating PC deployment will save 65 percent over the cost of manual deployment. “To achieve this, processes, policies and comprehensive configuration management solutions must be fully implemented, and applications required by users must be packaged for deployment. Companies that want to implement a homogeneous client OS…should start now to implement these tools, package their applications and hone their processes.”**
Deployment Solution provides real-time management and deployment of client and server computers, combining features to create packages, operate and manage computers and create automated management and deployment tasks. Deployment Solution includes best-of-breed imaging, migration and deployment technologies. It includes Windows and Web-based components to deploy and provision all types of computer devices, including handhelds, notebooks, thin clients, desktops and servers.
Deployment Solution 6.5 SP1 was recently released and provides improved usability and reliability such as:
- Improved virtual machine deployment
- Enhanced WinPE and Linux* automation during and after installation
- Sample Microsoft SQL 2005 installation jobs
- Enhanced sysprep usability
PC Transplant solution simplifies the deployment and migration of new computers or Windows operating systems by facilitating the migration of data and settings. PC Transplant uses a wizard-based interface to capture a computer’s personality (user accounts; desktop, network, and application settings; files; folders; and personal data) and transplants that personality to another computer. A personality can be transplanted through a self-extracting executable or through a real-time migration.
PC Transplant 6.5 includes a number of major updates and improvements, including:
- Vista ready
- Migration and resolution of security permissions for files and folders across domains and computers to help maintain strong data security
- Native Unicode support for multilingual application requirements
- A new and easy to use GUI for editing and building .A2i files
- Improved logging functionality to streamline data gathering and troubleshooting
Licensing and availability
PC Transplant 6.5 and Deployment Solution 6.5 SP1 are now available. Deployment Solution 6.8, with Vista deployment support, is expected to be available in Q3 2006. For more information, please contact your local Altiris sales representative by visiting www.altiris.com/sales.
About Altiris
Altiris, Inc. is a leading provider of service-oriented management software that enables IT organizations to easily manage, secure and service heterogeneous IT assets. Flexible solutions from Altiris help IT align services to drive business objectives, deliver audit-ready security, automate tasks, and reduce the cost and complexity of management. For more information, visit www.altiris.com.
Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including statements regarding the future availability and functionality of the Deployment Solution 6.5 product and the anticipated benefits of automating PC deployment and the associated market opportunity for Altiris. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including but not limited to, delays or difficulties in bringing the product to market, product bugs or errors, the inaccurate assessment of or changes in the market opportunity; and such other risks as identified in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2006, and from time to time in other reports filed by Altiris with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Altiris is a registered trademark of Altiris, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. PC Transplant is a registered trademark of Altiris, Inc. Deployment Solution is a trademark of Altiris, Inc.
* Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft and/or its affiliates. Vista and Longhorn are trademarks of Microsoft and/or its affiliates. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.
** Gartner, Inc., “Saving Money on PC Deployment,” Michael A. Silver, Dec. 8, 2005. |