LANDesk 9 Update - Enterprise extended

The integrated, intelligent path to painless Microsoft® Windows® 7 migration, comprehensive software asset management, and robust endpoint security

Successfully Migrate to Windows 7

Preserve productivity, ensure application compatibility, and safely migrate data with truly comprehensive integration.

You know you’ll eventually switch to the most significant new OS in a decade. And when you do, you’ll want LANDesk® Management Suite 9 on your side. This comprehensive integration tool has everything you need to preserve employee productivity, ensure application compatibility, and safely migrate data.

All the excitement about Microsoft’s latest operating system shows that forward-thinking companies everywhere will likely be making the move sooner or later. Which means IT folks will be planning mass system upgrades, pushing a gazillion applications, and migrating untold terabytes of data to the new OS sooner rather than later.

Luckily, LANDesk Management Suite 9 is the perfect tool for the task, because it manages all aspects of Windows 7 migration, from planning to implementation, migration, and validation. In addition, it also:

• Includes system readiness reports—Planning a successful Windows 7 migration depends on a lot more than application compatibility. These reports detail how target systems could experience hiccups along the way.
• Reduces costs—LANDesk Management Suite 9 decreases costs and simplifies migration with hardware-independent imaging and provisioning that minimizes the core server resources required for imaging hardware configurations.
• Supports heterogeneous environments—Don’t rush into an across-the-board Windows 7 implementation, only to discover after the fact that some employees’ most crucial apps no longer work.
• Checks application compatibility—Obtain the information you need to manage licenses more wisely and reduce license costs. Additional reports help decrease the likelihood of being audited—as well as avoid being stuck with major fees in the event you are.
• Maintains existing user data—Avoid torpedoing user productivity during the migration process. Thanks to the application virtualization in LANDesk Management Suite 9, as soon as Windows 7 is installed, users can resume work with all their same preferences and settings.

Hardened Endpoint Security

Safeguard every system in your enterprise with a new personal firewall, world-class data protection, remote device management, and cutting-edge antivirus capabilities.

Worried about remote and unmanaged devices? Now you can breathe easy. LANDesk Security Suite 9 is a powerful ally in your 24/7 network vigil. In addition to its hardened, layered endpoint security—which helps you secure enterprise data and meet industry compliance standards—it makes your security measures process-oriented so nothing falls through the cracks.

LANDesk Security Suite 9 safeguards user systems with:

• Layered security that includes a personal firewall—Ensure increased system protection and dramatically reduce the potential for effective system attacks.
• Industry-leading antivirus solutions—Get amazingly fast response time to new threats, as well as a high level of detection and proactive protection.
• Unparalleled remediation using a single agent—Simply and efficiently manage new devices currently not managed by the system.
• Location-aware policies—Preserve productivity and reduce the chance of data loss and infection with dynamic policies that adjust security settings—including application control, anti-malware configuration, and removable storage restrictions—based on the environment a selected machine is in.
• The ability to view all security activities in a single console—Increase productivity and reduce the amount of effort required to monitor all security activities on the network.
• USB encryption policies—Create flexible policies that control usage of mass storage devices and make them read-only, block them entirely, or force encryption.
• Compliance standards assessments—Assess and enforce alignment with compliance standards such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), SANS, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and more.

Software Asset Management

Lessen the likelihood of audits and reduce license costs with ROI reports and software normalization and inventory data improvements.

LANDesk® Management Suite 9 maintains its position as one of the most detailed, meticulous software asset management solutions money can buy. Its advanced discovery features let you see the applications in your enterprise and drastically reduce both the likelihood of being audited and across-the-board software license expenditures.

Among its new features, LANDesk Management Suite 9 includes:

• An all-new interface—Users can now see and manage data in ways that meet their singular needs: IT administrators can view the network from a product perspective, license administrators can view it from a license perspective, and managers can take an organizational or group perspective.
• Software normalization and inventory data improvements—Filter inventory data through a system with information on thousands of products and manufacturers. Obtain more accurate product and file recognition with normalized data that can be leveraged by LANDesk® Asset Lifecycle Manager.
• Dynamic products—Simplify asset management with version wildcarding that lets you merge multiple product versions into a single, dynamic product.
• Return on investment (ROI) reports—Obtain the information you need to manage licenses more wisely and reduce license costs. Additional reports help decrease the likelihood of being audited—as well as avoid being stuck with major fees in the event you are.