vCenter Protect Essentials

If you have desktops and servers you need to manage and protect, you really need to check out the VMware vCenter Protect Essentials family of products.  Here is what it can help you do:

Key Benefits

vCenter Protect Essentials Plus offers the following IT management features:

• Patch management – Continuously scan and deploy all available patches—in particular, critical security patches—for deployed software. vCenter Protect Essentials Plus makes patch management, a core of good security, an automated task that does not consume IT administrators’ time, enabling them to focus on business optimizations.
• Asset inventory – Discover and maintain a current inventory of all hardware and software assets, whether physical or virtual.
• Antivirus – Run and maintain antivirus software across all platforms in an integrated fashion, lowering costs and increasing security; an “antivirus plus patch” approach is a key to network security. 
• Power management – With the wake-on-LAN feature, bring machines online for patching, then power them down, enabling security management during power-off cycles to lower management costs. You can also schedule power settings for savings without business disruption—for example, by shutting a computer down on nights and weekends, businesses save an average of $60 per year in power costs.
• Configuration management – Manage and control all desktop and server software configurations according to company policy and keep computers in a known, secure and stable state. 
• ITScripts – Quickly solve and automate many common workflow process challenges with ITScripts. You can use ITScripts to build unique workflow processes quickly and easily. 
• Snapshot Backup Recovery – Take and manage “snapshots” of virtual machines—immediately before and after patching—while automating the backup process, so that a current and relevant backup copy of the virtual machine is immediately available for rollback or disaster recovery.

So if your tired of spending all your evenings and weekends running from desktop to desktop updating and patching software, give this a try.  Here is a link to a trial http://www.shavlik.com/pDownloadForm4.aspx

If you need more information or pricing let me know, bdorge@proactivesolutions.com