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Desktop Management Transformation

Desktop Management Transformation. Gary Shoemaker. May be exempt from public release under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552), Exemption 5 - Privileged Information. Department of Energy review required before public release Date:6/20/09 Guidance (if applicable)      .

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Desktop Management Transformation

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  1. Desktop Management Transformation Gary Shoemaker May be exempt from public release under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552), Exemption 5 - Privileged Information. Department of Energy review required before public release Date:6/20/09 Guidance (if applicable)       Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company,for the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.

  2. ChallengesDMS Existing Environment

  3. NWIS Numbers Total 31,646

  4. Product Evaluation Criteria • Team Rating of features evaluated • Rated 1-5 not important = 1 important = 5

  5. Product Evaluation Criteria • Integration with NWIS • SAMS • Current DMS processes • Future projects (Patch Status viewed in NWIS) • Product capabilities possibly of interest to others • Security Appliance • Scanning • Policy Management • License metering • OS and imaging capabilities • Configuration Management

  6. DMS Products Evaluated • LANDesk • Altiris • LANRev • Quest Extensions for SMS • KACE/Kbox • SMS 2003

  7. Evaluation Process • Critria • Silver Bullet • Manage all OS • Manage remote sites • Scalable • Patching • Inventory • Reasonable Price

  8. Evaluation Process • Web demo • Onsite demo • Eval licenses • NLIT • SNL testing with onsite support

  9. DMS Product Score Card • Appeared to be no silver bullet. • Demonstrations revealed areas that did not meet our requirements on one platform or the other. • Cost had to become a consideration as well. • Several products provided more functionality than any of our current products, including SMS

  10. Recommendation is Kace Kbox 1200 • It is an appliance -- – And it just simply worked… As close to the “silver bullet” as we can get • Free BSD OS with a mySql database • Met most of SNL’s criteria for all platforms • Met CSUSP criteria for management and backup and recovery of the box • Technical support demonstrated quick response to meet SNL requirements • DBAs will provide support for NWIS integration with Kbox

  11. Kace/Kbox Business Info • Founded February 2003 Headquarters in Mountain View CA • Co-founders: • Rob Meinhardt, Chief Executive Officer • Marty Kacin, President and Chief Technology Officer • Investors include • Sigma Partners – Pete Solvik, former Cisco CIO • Norwest Venture Partners – Bob Abbott, Initial Investor in Tivoli

  12. Kace Business Info • Winner of “Most Innovative Product” at Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2007 • Not on Gartner’s matrix • Gartner article “A Complement of Solutions for PC Life Cycle Configuration Management” mentions Kace Kbox as a PC Configuration Suite • Primarily sales are to small and medium sized businesses (SMB) • Compete on pricing and ease of installation/use

  13. Kbox and SNL • Scalability • Kace QA performed load testing on 20,000 nodes successfully • Can not test the load at SNL. Will communicate with companies of similar size • Virtual Severs • Allow report roll ups

  14. Kace Supporting Documentation • http://www.kace.com/ • http://www.kace.com/resources/FDCC-Locking-Down-the-Desktop • http://www.kace.com/resource-center/white-papers.php

  15. DMS Product Evaluation Recommendation Kace Kbox 1200 • Questions? • Commets!

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