HP and Altiris on tour in the Arabian Gulf
- Egypt: Saturday, July 26 - 2003 at 09:16
- PRESS RELEASE
HP and software developer Altiris have joined forces to educate customers on their new product suites comprising successful solutions, during a Region-wide Roadshow, which kicked off last week in Cairo.
HP and Altiris specialists are demonstrating how the new portfolio of Altiris-created solutions offers users improved return on IT investment and enhanced business efficiency models. The regional Roadshow has continued throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
"HP and Altiris have a long-standing alliance that combines HP's strengths in PC and server management, with Altiris' forte as a recognised pioneer in delivering cost-reducing management solutions with full-fledged adaptable, efficient and scalable systems," said Badea Esbai, Business Development Manager, Personal Systems Group, HP Middle East.
HP's strategic alliance with Altiris simplifies the cost of ownership of both desktops and mobile computing products, allowing professionals enhanced business efficiency. In a fast-paced changing world, this new suite of solutions, available through HP's distribution channels in the Middle East, is set to improve and optimize productivity of users across a range of industries.
"We have received tremendous interest from our customers across the region. Our Roadshow with HP is paving the path for customers to get hands-on knowledge and experience of front and back-end solutions," said Sevag Kalaydjian, Regional Manager, Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Altiris SARL. "Altiris is confident that through our strong partnership with HP, our customers can have access to a one-stop-shop for their end-to-end solutions."
Enterprise customers in oil and gas, banks, manufacturing, education as well as those in other public sectors are interested in these solutions, especially when they project significant savings thanks to Altiris solutions. "It is common for our customers to achieve 200%+ Return On Investment in the first year of using Altiris solutions" added Sevag Kalaydjian.
HP's regional Roadshow with Altiris touched down in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the week, continuing throughout the United Arab Emirates and ending today in Dubai.
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Please find below a product overview of 6 key solutions:
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
ALTIRIS Connector for hp OpenView
The new Altiris Connector for HP OpenView offers customers significant value at no additional charge while enhancing HP OpenView and Altiris environments. This connector has the ability to extend HP OpenView Network Node Manager, Operations and Service Desk to Altiris managed solutions on desktops, handhelds and servers. The complementary functionality of HP Openview and Altiris solutions provides customers significant value by importing Altiris inventory into Service Desk and extending HP Openview's monitoring capabilities to new devices and management functions. This connector is available to HP and Altiris customers at no additional cost.
Altiris Client Management Suite
Client Management Suite™ is an easy-to-use systems management solution that helps reduce the total cost of ownership for desktops, notebooks, and handheld devices. Developed for IT professionals who manage computing devices on a regular basis, the suite enables administrators to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot systems from virtually anywhere. The Client Mgmt Suite includes: Deployment Solution™, Inventory Solution, Application Metering Solution™, Application Management, Solution™, > Software Delivery Solution™, > Carbon Copy® Solution.
Altiris Asset Management Suite
Asset Management Suite is designed to help organizations maximize existing IT investments through active asset management. This is achieved by actively eliminating unnecessary software and hardware costs, managing contracts and entitlements, aligning service resources with IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards and realizing asset total cost of ownership (TCO). Asset Management Suite includes Application Metering, Asset Control Solution, Contract Management Solution, Inventory Solution and TCO Solution.
Altiris Recovery Solution
Recovery solution is a powerful problem resolution and disaster recovery system, that is highly effective in minimizing user downtime and extending help desk and IT resources. By taking a perfect snapshot pf a user's system, your organization's help desk can quickly restore a user's computer to any saved working state while preserving current data files.
Deployment Solution
Deployment Solution offers industry leading provisioning and OS migration capabilities designed to meet the stringent demands of today's enterprise customers. The highlights of the latest release are improved performance and enhanced security.
Deployment Solution for Linux has entered into its first beta cycle. This product runs natively on Linux (Red Hat and United Linux) and is focused on managing Linux systems. This product supports PXE, Wake-on-LAN, multicast and all other advanced deployment server technologies. Business Management is done through a browser and allows administrators to provision, install applications and scripts and change
configurations for deployed Red Hat 7.X, 8.X, Advanced Server, Enterprise Linux, SuSE 8.X, Enterprise Server 8, or United Linux.
Inventory Solution
Inventory Solution offers industry leading software and hardware discovery, reporting and management and is designed to meet the demands of today's enterprise customers. Inventory Solution now provides support for Windows, Macintosh, UNIX/Linux, Palm and Pocket PC devices. The key advantages of this programme is that it supports Windows Server 2003, has enhanced support for non-English systems and the ability to exclude a particular drive from a software scan.
About HP
HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company's solutions span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium business. For the last four quarters, HP revenue totaled $70.4 billion. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com.
About HP Middle East
HP is the largest IT company in the Middle East employing about 500 people in the region. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968, and opened its first regional office in 1994 and has offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah and Khobar servicing the GCC, the Levant and Egypt. For more information about HP in the Middle East, please visit www.hp.com/me
About Altiris
Altiris, Inc. offers a full line of Web-enabled solutions that empower organizations to easily manage desktops, notebooks, handhelds, and Windows, Linux and UNIX servers throughout the IT lifecycle. Altiris provides fully integrated, complete systems management solutions for client and mobile, server, and asset management. Altiris' vision is to automate, simplify, and reduce the cost and complexity of IT lifecycle management with a rapid return on investment. For more information, visit www.altiris.com
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