managing it assets

Managing IT Assets

Greg Giles,

Product Marketing Manager, Service and Asset Management

© Altiris Inc. DISCOVER. CONTROL. COMPLY.

CIO Priorities: Aligning Business and IT

• Enabled Business Growth through IT

• Link IT and Business Strategies and Plans

• Governance and Compliance

• Reduce Cost and Complexity of IT Resources

Source: Gartner Growing IT Contribution: 2006 CIO Agenda January 2006


Opportunity

• Aligning IT with the business means:1. Changing rapidly to support new business

opportunities

2. Driving out wasted time and inefficiency

3. Driving out hidden costs

4. Avoiding unnecessary complexity

• Altiris solutions save time, cut costs and eliminate waste


Applying These Concepts to IT

• Configuration Management Database (CMDB)• IT Service Management• IT Asset Management


Service-Oriented Management Solutions

Business and IT Alignment

• Modular, open and future-proof approach• For diverse and widely distributed IT infrastructure• Reduce total cost of management by up to 60%*

Extensible Management Architecturebased on SOA principles

VisibilityHolistic view of IT infrastructure

Lifecycle Management

ComplianceMaximize security, control risks

Enforceable SecurityAutomated Operations

IT SavingsRepeatable, predictable, invisible


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Automation Leads to Supporting Business Needs

Gain Visibility & Control

Standardize IT Infrastructure

Automate Manual Processes

Increase SystemSecurity Posture

MeetCompliance

Demands

Extensible Management Architecturebased on SOA Principles


Typical IT Groups


Active Asset Management


Altiris Architecture: Extend & Enhance


Forrester Wave™: IT Asset Management

Source: August 2006, Tech Choices “The Forrester Wave™: IT Asset Management”


Forrester Wave™: Service Desk Management


Altiris is a midsized player in the NGAM (New Generation Asset Management) market, but you’d never know it from its product – a full-featured CMDB that will run rings around some of its larger, well-funded competitors.

Source: “Asset Management: From Niche to Keystone in Enterprise Management,” EMA, Dennis Drogseth 8/31/06


Altiris Market Share – US

Source: Gartner Market Share: Enterprise Management, Worldwide, 2004: Laurie Wurster – June 2005

Vendor 2002 2003 2004

Market Share 2002

Market Share 2003

Market Share 2004

Growth 2002-2003

Growth 2003-2004

Configuration Management

1 IBM 84.5 94.0 90.9 24.3% 24.6% 21.7% 11.3% -3.3%

2 Microsoft 73.7 85.8 82.2 21.2% 22.5% 19.6% 16.4% -4.2%

3 Altiris 26.5 32.1 48.4 7.6% 8.4% 11.6% 21.0% 51.0%

4 Symantec 35.9 34.4 46.1 10.3% 9.0% 11.0% -4.3% 34.0%

5 Computer Associates 20.5 20.5 20.2 5.9% 5.4% 4.8% -0.1% -1.3%

6 Novell 25.1 20.8 19.8 7.2% 5.4% 4.7% -17.2% -4.6%

7 LANDesk 11.2 13.8 15.3 3.2% 3.6% 3.7% 23.6% 10.7%

8 Other Vendors 69.8 80.2 75.8 20.1% 21.0% 18.1% 14.8% -5.5%

Asset Management

1 Computer Associates 22.2 24.9 27.8 38.0% 35.4% 28.5% 12.1% 11.5%

2 Altiris 3.0 8.6 14.8 5.2% 12.2% 15.2% 180.6% 73.0%

3 Peregrine Systems 13.3 14.2 12.6 22.8% 20.2% 12.9% 6.4% -11.5%

4 BMC 7.5 5.8 11.7 12.8% 8.2% 12.0% -23.4% 102.8%

5 LANDesk 0.0 0.0 1.9 0.0% 0.0% 2.0% #DIV/0! #DIV/0!

6 Other Vendors 12.4 16.9 28.7 21.2% 24.0% 29.5% 36.0% 69.8%


Service & Asset Management Suite

Service Management

Asset RepositoryContract ManagementBarcodeConnector

Hardware & Software InventoryApplication Usage 1

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CMDB


Altiris Advantages

• Unified asset repository & CMDB• Integrated inventory tools • Visibility & accountability• Dynamic reporting • Contract management • Integrated with Service Management • Enhances current Altiris investment• Extensible data model


Product Demonstration


Questions and Answers

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