Altiris, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of IT lifecycle management solutions that reduce the total cost of owning IT resources, today announced that the ManageFusion™ .05 Orlando systems management user conference will be extended to three full days and include 70 percent new content. ManageFusion sponsors decided to extend the conference, from October 11 – 13, after participants requested more time to attend sessions and hands-on labs, as well as network with colleagues and leading IT vendors. Altiris is working with founding partner HP, and platinum sponsors, Broadcom, Dell, and Philips, to deliver ManageFusion conferences worldwide.
Security expert, Laura Chappell, will be the keynote speaker for ManageFusion .05 Orlando. Her industry event presentations are consistently the most highly rated and attended. Chappell has consulted with the FBI, US Navy, IBM, HP, Cisco Systems and Microsoft.
The conference will showcase vendor technologies working together to reduce the total cost of owning, operating and supporting heterogeneous IT environments. Attendees receive a first-hand look at the latest hardware including monitors, thin clients, server blades, state-of-the-art mobile devices, and network and storage infrastructure. On the final day of the conference, Altiris is offering direct access to the experts who develop and build the solutions our customers implement.
ManageFusion .05 Orlando offers 70 percent all new content, such as:
- Introductory, advanced and training lab sessions
- Emerging systems management technologies
- Best practice guidance, tips and tricks
- More customer, alliance and partner-led presentations
- IT lifecycle management topics including:
- Client and mobile management
- Security audit, compliance and remediation
- Server and infrastructure deployment and operations management
- Service and asset management
- Software packaging
- Software virtualization
- Sarbanes Oxley and ITIL
“With our partners, we have consistently produced unique user conferences that have evolved with growing customer demand,” said Carine Clark, Altiris VP of marketing. “ManageFusion showcases the latest integrated hardware and software management solutions to help keep attendees at the forefront of IT innovation. This is made possible through an invaluable offering of the best training, face-to-face dialog and demos of integrated technologies.”
Media sponsors this year include Network Computing, IT Architect, Windows IT Pro, TechTarget and ECP Web.
About ManageFusion
ManageFusion brings together industry-leading vendors, luminaries, practitioners, products and IT customers to share and learn about the latest developments and best practices in IT lifecycle management. Every year, ManageFusion conferences in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific deliver hands-on, IT management content including live demonstrations that help IT organizations reduce costs through implementation of cutting-edge technology and industry best practices. For more information about ManageFusion, please visit www.managefusion.com.
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 Securities Act of 1933, including statements regarding future ManageFusion user conferences. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including but not limited to, our inaccurate assessment of or adverse changes to market demand and opportunity for such conferences; and such other risks as identified in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2005, and from time to time in other reports filed by Altiris with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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