Systems Management in the Enterprise

For years, IT departments have struggled with managing their servers and client systems, and hundreds of companies had arisen to provide tools for patching computer systems, imaging workstations, pushing out new software, monitoring servers and network devices, and backing up systems. However, over the years, organizations have found that each individual product would require a separate server, a separate set of policies or rules set up, a separate agent to be installed on the computer system, and a separate set of tasks to inventory the systems all doing similar things. With several different products installed on a system and no real sharing of information between the management agents and tools, enterprise ...

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