Virtualization Management

The trend towards virtualized applications and servers continues as organizations realize the benefits of this groundbreaking technology. At the same time, the proliferation of virtualized technology throughout the enterprise increases the cost and complexity associated with discovering, assessing and maintaining these systems.

IT Operations and Security Challenges

Specifically, these challenges include:

  • Visibility and discovery. You can’t manage what you can’t see.
  • Security configuration and patching. How do you secure the environment without curtailing the benefits of virtualization?
  • Licensing and compliance. Virtualization lends itself to changing license models and requirements.
  • Management complexity. How easily can an IT manager stay on top of an environment where the asset lifecycle might start and end in less than a day?

The BigFix Approach

BigFix enables the IT organization to enjoy up-to-the-minute visibility and control of the most granular properties and processes across tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of computing assets, both physical and virtualized. In the BigFix model of endpoint-centric distributed intelligence, information is returned in real time.

In virtualized environments, BigFix helps organizations achieve IT security compliance by detecting and enforcing security configuration policies—again on both physical and virtual machines. This enables the organization to consolidate and unify the compliance lifecycle, reducing endpoint configuration and remediation times from days and weeks to minutes and hours. For patching, BigFix provides capabilities for the updating of offline and online VMs.

By managing the entire asset lifecycle, BigFix brings cost savings and operational excellence to key IT operations management functions, including asset discovery or inventory, software license management, power management, software distribution, and patch management. Consolidating and streamlining the most common IT operational tasks, BigFix delivers the highest levels of automation combined with fine-grained accuracy, enabling IT departments to maintain service levels, focus on critical issues, and ensure overall operating efficiency.