Articles, HP | Altiris

Bob Taylor from HP and Brad Winston from Symantec talk about bringing together multiple virtualization technologies -- presentation, application and system-level -- mixing in some streaming and blades for good measure. Find out how combining technologies under a unified management umbrella can reduce costs and increase business agility at the same time, by optimally servicing the needs of different users: from warm-seat knowledge workers, to the mobile workforce and power-hungry technical workers.

A prerequisite to imaging thin clients is that PXE server needs to be installed and configured. Also the client's BIOS needs to be set as Network Boot as First in the Boot Order in order to be managed by a PXE Server.

A prerequisite to imaging thin clients is that PXE server needs to be installed and configured. Also the client's BIOS needs to be set for Network Boot as the First Boot Option in order to be managed by your PXE Server.

In our district we have a 5 year "end of life cycle" on HP Client workstations. We need to be very diligent to keep an up to-date inventory of all hardware in order to know where this equipment is and when it is time to replace it. It can be very difficult (not to mention time consuming) to keep our inventory error free with the old "paper and pencil" method of inventory.

At our school district we basically breath HP. Our computers, printers, switches and servers are all HP because we want to be the best, and to be the best you have to have the best. We do all of our computer imaging and software deployment through Altiris Deployment Server. We have been using Altiris Deployment Server for the past five years and have had such good success with it. Like most places, we have an understaffed IT department, so it is crucial to have a software package like Deployment Server in place.

As if application virtualization and streaming weren't already interesting enough when used on traditional "Wintel" fat clients... ! When combined with presentation virtualization, system virtualization, and/or blade PC's, app virtualization gives you incredible flexibility in how you meet the needs of different types of end users. Now you can chose the client technology that meets each use case in the most manageable and cost effective manner.