DANVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004--Autonomic Software, a start-up venture pioneering a new class of patch and asset management system used to eliminate the devastating impact of unpatched software vulnerabilities, today announced the launch and commercial availability of its Autonomic Network & Security Administration (ANSA) system...
The ANSA system is distinguished by five core components:
1. Asset Discovery Engine: ANSA is equipped with a robust scanning engine that performs network-wide discovery of an enterprise's servers, desktops and laptops. Operating system and application versions are determined prior to patch installations and periodic asset audits can be manually or automatically scheduled as required.
2. Global Update Repository (GUR): A hosted, centralized database of continually updated patches maintained by Autonomic Software's technical customer service organization. The GUR completely offloads systems administrators from the headache of tracking, identifying, and distributing appropriate patches to specified servers and clients. Every patch can be pre-tested prior to deployment at the customer site, in some cases within 12 hours of a new patch announcement/release.
3. Inoculation Server: Requiring only a .NET framework and Windows 2000 server software, this customer-premise server accepts patch and update files from the GUR and deploys them across a customer's network in accordance with pre-defined policies, such as "time of day," "grouping" or "download and wait."
4. Inoculation Clients: Any ANSA-defined network device (servers, desktops and laptops) deploying the system's ultra-lightweight server/client side agents which are each under 5 kilobytes in size, resulting in little to no processing overhead.
5. System Administration Management Console: Single console with full-reporting GUI for patch management tracking, deployment and asset discovery.
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