Altiris, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of IT lifecycle management solutions that reduce the total cost of owning IT resources, today announced a new asset management module called SmartManage, a co-developed management solution for high-end Philips LCD monitors. Altiris helps corporate customers reduce monitor ownership costs by automating remote support and inventory management while enabling anti-theft policies and optimal energy savings.
Many previously non-discoverable devices are now connected to the network and manageable, helping to increase IT control and reduce ownership costs. Altiris provides active IT asset management software for a wide-range of devices including new automated management for Philips LCD monitors.
According to IDC, total LCD panel market revenue will grow by 56 percent to $37 billion in 2004. SmartManage, based on Altiris® active IT asset management solutions, is the first monitor management software built on and integrated with full-featured IT asset management software.
Ryan Yeh, Philips multimedia flat displays senior product manager, said, “Philips SmartManage is the first built-in monitor management software that can seamlessly integrate with a full-featured IT asset management solution to help IT staff optimize monitor assets. Although PC and server administrators have taken advantage of Altiris® IT asset management features for quite some time, SmartManage now enables this cost-saving functionality to be extended to monitors. Altiris has a proven track record of working with the world’s leading hardware vendors, including HP, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Intel, to reduce the cost of IT asset ownership.”
SmartManage provides centralized, network-based management for typically manual tasks like costly desk-side support calls and inventory audits. From the Web-based management console, IT administrators can adjust settings, power on/off, reset factory display settings, verify monitor location, communicate with end users and provide technical support.
Helping to further control monitor asset costs, IT organizations can use SmartManage to set security policies that warn IT administrators of monitor removal while preventing monitor use at unspecified locations. In addition, while LCD monitors typically use about 60 percent less energy than CRT monitors, SmartManage helps implement additional energy saving features across the enterprise for increased cost reduction.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, enabling monitor power management could save large organizations approximately 200,000 kWh per year for every 1,000 monitors. This amounts to savings of approximately $17,000 per year or enough energy to power 230 households for one month.
Tyler Smith, Altiris VP of business development, said, “Every IT asset has an associated cost of ownership and management during its lifetime. Monitors are no exception. Philips has a strong history of display technology innovation with an eye toward providing customers with value, quality and cost reduction. SmartManage is the latest in asset management innovation and provides unprecedented productivity for business customers while introducing Philips customers to the benefits and cost savings of active IT asset management.”
Licensing and availability
SmartManage will be available later this quarter at www.altiris.com/philips. For SmartManage pricing and licenses, contact your local Philips sales representative. For more information or to contact your local Altiris sales representative, please visit www.altiris.com/sales.
About Altiris
Altiris, Inc. is a pioneer of IT lifecycle management software that allows IT organizations to easily manage desktops, notebooks, thin clients, handhelds, industry-standard servers, and heterogeneous software including Windows, Linux and UNIX. Altiris automates and simplifies IT projects throughout the life of an asset to reduce the cost and complexity of management. Altiris client and mobile, server, and asset management solutions natively integrate via a common Web-based console and repository. 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 United States Securities Act of 1933, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the expected availability of the Philips SmartManage product and the projected power and cost savings from monitor power management. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including, but not limited to, difficulties and delays in bringing the SmartManage product to market; errors in the product; the inaccurate assessment of power and cost savings to be gained from power monitor management; and such other risks as identified in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2004, and from time to time in other reports filed by Altiris with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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