Altiris, Now Part of Symantec, Ships Configuration Management Database for Mid-Sized Organizations

Altiris, Now Part of Symantec, Ships Configuration Management Database for Mid-Sized Organizations

Altiris, now part of Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) and a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, today announced that it will offer Altiris CMDB Solution as an easy-to-implement CMDB for the mid-sized organizations that helps deliver automated IT operations, improved IT governance, compliance, and asset visibility. This new solution will extend and enhance existing Altiris configuration management capabilities to help lower support costs and provide better IT service to end users.

“A computing environment is most secure when it is well managed,” said Rob Clyde, vice president of technology, Symantec. “Likewise, effective IT service and security management is not possible without an accurate, in-depth understanding of relationships and dependencies within an IT environment. Our customers know that an implemented, well-tuned configuration management database can be a significant business advantage. When done right, the CMDB becomes a central nervous system for aligning IT resources with business objectives for efficient operations. We are unique in providing an easy-to-implement and actionable CMDB solution.”

CMDB Solution is natively built on the Altiris service-oriented architecture to provide tight integration with Altiris execution tools for closed-loop IT service and configuration management. CMDB Solution will deliver a practical alternative to other CMDB offerings by providing a basis for automating configuration management and servicing an IT environment, going above and beyond basic information and relationship tracking.

According to Forrester research, Altiris IT asset management products offer “a full-featured solution around the company’s service management and life-cycle tools. Asset information is natively modeled within a CMDB, rather than simply accessed from a separate data store, and includes contractual information, leases, warranties, SLAs, and SLOs.”*

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