Stories about: Altiris

Software agents -- long seen as a necessary evil by those securing and managing servers, desktops and other endpoint devices -- have proliferated to the point of polluting enterprise environments.

Using technology as a drawcard to attract enrolments, Melbourne-based Luther College has implemented a state of the art wireless network managing more than 1000 PCs with only two support staff.

Software vendors this week at TechEd are taking the opportunity to update their application virtualization products to support Microsoft environments including Vista.

Boy, do Cobol, Cold Fusion and C have lots of fans.

Some industry watchers may still question why Symantec moved to acquire storage software maker Veritas for US$10.2 billion in 2004, but the fruits of the companies' combined labors are already proving the deal as a winner, according to executives with the massive security firm.

The Australian security software market is set to rise a staggering 53 percent by 2010, as vendors continue to binge on acquisitions to provide more bundled offerings, and users beef-up security infrastructure to combat new threats.

ScriptLogic this week joined the slew of desktop management vendors looking to help enterprise IT shops more easily upgrade their client machines to Microsoft's Vista operating system.

One of the most common stupid user tricks is to leave a company laptop in a cab or in some mugger's blood-stained fist. Maybe someday there'll be a guy known as Putz Ventura, Laptop Detective, but right now I just don't see it. Sure, folks keep losing laptops faster than third-world countries are losing cute children to Hollywood adoption agencies, but is that really such an irreversible trend? A dab of common sense will do you.

Altiris Wednesday announced new software and features to help IT managers smooth migrations to Microsoft's Vista operating system.

Road warriors have never been a perfect fit for Citrix Systems' server-based applications because they require continuous connectivity. But in a software upgrade to be announced next week, Citrix is adding application streaming capabilities designed to help cut the umbilical cord between users and servers.

Rob Clyde, Symantec vice president of technology, believes the purchase of Altiris will enable the combined company to make better in-roads into winning business from small to medium enterprise firms.