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If you manage a large corporate network, you’ve faced the dilemma: how can your company achieve maximum server uptime and user productivity without breaking the budget?

You need a way to automate the management of server content and configuration—a way to eliminate redundant tasks, ensure consistency and reduce costs. KIS provides the solution by building around 2 main Products.


Manufacturers used by KIS to create solutions in this Practice Area:

  • Novell- ZENworks for servers (currently shipping version 7.0, actual 4th generation)
  • Microsoft – SMS/MOM (Currently shipping SMS 2003, actual 3rd generation)

Features (not necessarily of both Product offerings):

  • Distribution reporting
  • Versioning notification
  • System management monitoring
  • Traffic analysis
  • Network discovery
  • Web-based health reporting
  • Linux management & monitoring
  • Directory management & monitoring

Business Benefits:

  • Consistent management and continual network health monitoring ensures the reliability, predictability and stability of network servers
  • Distribution of server content/applications to multiple servers in multiple locations can be automated via the internet
  • Remote management reduces the need for dedicated IT staff at branch offices
  • Secure encryption during transit protects mission-critical information and applications
  • Standard server procedures can be schedules in groups to improve efficiency
  • Directory-based policies ensure network availability and responsiveness by prioritizing and scheduling distribution
  • Lower-cost, off-peak WAN hours can be uses to distribute and synchronize data and software, keeping peak-time productivity high
  • When combined with Desktop Management, your customer can realize payback in as little as three months, with a three-year ROI of up to 2,000%
  • Distributing ZENworks Desktop Management applications to users in remote offices is just as efficient as distributing to local users
  • New Servers can “self-configure” with appropriate OS, configuration settings and software
  • Server content, configuration, policies, and inventory can be managed from a single point across these platforms: Windows Server 2000 and 2003, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Sever, Novell NetWare and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.0.

Consultants/ Principal Experts: Sean Canevaro, Allan Hurst, Craig Miller