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KBOX Doubles Up on Performance
April 14, 2008 —  KACE announced today that it has updated its systems management and deployment appliances doubling performance and allowing users to handle up to 20,000 end nodes on a single appliance.

KACE unveiled its new client-server communications protocol, the KBOX Agent Messaging Protocol, as well as extended KBOX Remote Replication support for remote office management. This new technology means users can manage multiple remote offices from a single appliance and console without having dedicated hardware at remote sites.

Marty Kacin, CTO and co-founder of KACE, said this new release addresses many of the issues that KACE’s mid-market customers are facing, including stringent regulatory compliance, an increasing number of zero-day security vulnerability attacks and an expanding number of nodes that need to be managed.

"A lot of our customers are medium-sized companies where people wear a lot of hats,” said Wynn White, KACE’s vice president of marketing. “They’re looking for something that has a broad breadth and that they can get up and running quickly. We provide cradle-to-grave life-cycle management. It’s a true appliance architecture.”

KACE differentiates itself from software-only solutions, such as Altiris, LANDesk and Microsoft SMS, by offering a unique, complete management solution. According to White, KACE appliances can be installed in one day at one-third the cost of software alternatives.

“Our competitors have traditionally rolled out more servers when more functionality is needed,” said Kacin. “Multiplying servers for functionality and scalability is not what we do. KBOX can expand without additional equipment or additional administration.”

According to Kacin, the KBOX meets its customers’ need for a single appliance for their IT functions. The KBOX performs the same systems management tasks on one appliance that take software-only solutions five to 10 servers to handle. One customer, Jason Cummins, services manager of Jordan's Furniture, described the KBOX as the “Swiss Army Knife of systems management."

In addition to increased performance and scalability, the new KBOX capabilities include a real-time reporting engine that offers better visibility into the compliance and security posture of systems; extended KBOX Configuration and policy enforcement capabilities (including Apple Macintosh, Red Hat and Solaris); and Windows 64 Bit and Mac 10.5 support.

“Systems management is all about compliance, control, security policy and automation administration,” said Kacin. “We offer one spot that authenticates you, gives you the knowledge to design a task and securely deploys that task from a central authority. When you look at our competitors and their fungus-like, spread-of-servers approach, we’re the opposite of that—clean, succinct and secure from a central point of management.”







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