Altiris, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, today announced that Gartner placed Altiris in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for PC Configuration Life Cycle Management, 2006.1
Altiris® Client Management Suite™ software helps IT organizations provide better IT service to end users and a more efficient and secure computing experience overall. Altiris service-oriented management offers automated operations, lifecycle management integration and enforceable security through a single, centralized management console for simplified systems management.
IT organizations often use purchasing criteria outlined in Gartner Magic Quadrants to guide the selection process for IT purchases. According to the report, “Although there are leaders in this year's Magic Quadrant, it is important to understand what has made this change occur. This year's leaders have moved for three reasons: Attention on vision for what clients will need next for managing the life cycle (for example, broader security functionality); focus on application streaming or virtualization; and continued visibility and success in a more-crowded and competitive market.”1
Gartner research further states, “A leader's ability to execute will be proved by its high market share and its appearance on numerous shortlists. That ability is bolstered by industry-leading overall fiscal health, broad geographic presence and a superior track record for market responsiveness and customer service. A leader will have vision scores that reflect feature-complete products, and show leadership in providing some life cycle management functions that users have just started requesting. Often, leaders are innovative in adding functions not yet being requested, but add capability to enhance the PC life cycle configuration experience.”1
Carine Clark, Altiris VP of marketing, said, “Altiris set the standard for IT lifecycle management with a depth and breadth of solutions that are unmatched in the industry. We are now focused on helping customers deliver predictable, repeatable and automated operations with our established lifecycle management technology. This enables a service-oriented management approach that aligns IT with business objectives while reducing costs and complexity.”
Altiris provides unique, integrated client manageability including enforceable security, IT asset management, software lifecycle management including virtualization, packaging, patch, Windows Vista2 and 2007 Microsoft Office2 deployment and migration, software metering and backup and recovery. These capabilities are built on a standards-based platform and leverage work flow logic to automate IT lifecycle management.
Please visit www.altiris.com/tei for more information on how Altiris software helps reduce the cost and complexity of IT ownership.
About Altiris
Altiris, Inc. is a leading provider of service-oriented management software that enables IT organizations to easily manage, secure and service heterogeneous IT assets. Flexible solutions from Altiris help IT align services to drive business objectives, deliver audit-ready security, automate tasks, and reduce the cost and complexity of management. For more information, visit www.altiris.com.
Magic Quadrant Disclaimer
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted Dec. 4, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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Altiris is a registered trademark of Altiris, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. Client Management Suite is a trademark of Altiris, Inc.
1 Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for PC Configuration Life Cycle Management, 2006,” R. Colville, M. Silver and T. Cosgrove, Dec. 4, 2006.
2 The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners. |