Major Retailer Reduces Time to Patch 27,000 Endpoints from Weeks to Hours

A major retailer needed to streamline management of its 27,000 Virtual Store Architecture servers. By deploying IBM Endpoint Manager, the retailer has drastically reduced provisioning and reporting time as well as labor costs, and has the insight to avoid many endpoint performance issues.

Click HERE to read the case study. (.pdf File)

ATTENTION: IBM Endpoint Manager for MDM Clients............. Your Mobility Tools Just Got Better

With the recent acquisition of Fiberlink and the MaaS360 solution, Gartner has just announced IBM as a leader for Enterprise Mobility Management. And the good news is you are entitled to the market-leading MaaS360 solution for FREE.

No longer are we talking about just MDM, we are now talking about a much broader suite of Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) tools that enable businesses like yours to manage, secure and enable your mobile initiatives. As of June 13th you are now entitled to our new Advanced Mobile Management Suite, which contains: Mobile Device Management, Mobile Application Management (Enterprise App Catalog) and Mobile Expense Management. Simply log into your Passport Advantage account and search for "IBM MaaS360".

Also, we have many ways for you to try MaaS360 for yourself. You can be up and running with the cloud based MaaS360 solution in just minutes. Simply go to the free trail page - HERE. Or one our specialists would be more than happy to do an interactive live demo.

For more details on were EMM is headed and why IBM is a leader, download your own complimentary copy of the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for EMM - HERE.

Contact me today to schedule a mutually convenient time for us to discuss your options for converting your existing MDM solution to the MaaS360 Suite at no charge.

Protect your data, endpoints, and enterprise with always-on security. Live Webinar on June 3rd @ 1pm EDT.

There's no such thing as bad publicity. 

Actually, there is; it doesn't take more than a quick web search to see that several organizations have been splashed across the headlines for IT security breaches and have lost millions in sales and damaged brand equity.

With attacks becoming increasingly sophisticated and more financially motivated, you must not only protect against such attacks but be able to remediate them on-demand. You also have to contend with a complex mix of corporate and employee-owned devices - smart phones, tablets, servers, ATMs, kiosks, PCs, Macs and more that operate both on and off your corporate network.

Join this discussion with senior security experts and find out how you can mitigate risks by securely managing any device, at any location, any time.

Register now to join us for this event:  https://www.brighttalk.com/r/mkd

Free, Two-Day IBM Endpoint Manager for Data Centers Proof of Technology in Columbus, OH or Indianapolis, IN

• How do you manage the thousands of multiple-platform endpoints in your environment? 
• Do you even know how many assets you have? 
• Can you ensure that your servers and workstations have the latest software patches and are secure? 
• How do you distribute new software packages to your endpoints?
• What if you could manage all of these things from a single server using a lightweight agent with a single security port?

IBM Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix® technology, provides a single console and lightweight agent solution for managing your endpoints. It combines endpoint and security management into a single solution. Using IBM Endpoint Manager, you can manage physical and virtual endpoints. Assets that you can manage include servers, desktops, notebooks, mobile devices, and specialized devices such as kiosks and ATMs. These assets can be located in virtually any location, from a server in the data center to a notebook at a coffee shop.

What you'll learn at this Proof of Technology:
This class provides an overview of the IBM Endpoint Manager solutions. After you complete this course, you'll be able to perform the following tasks:

• Discover assets, view inventory, and configure remote control
• Distribute and manage software and licenses
• Deploy a patch and track its status & success, resulting in potentially significant labor cost savings!
• Examine security configuration with reports and other information
• Create roles and assign rights on both Active Directory and LDAP servers
• Create and deploy automation plans
• Create, manage, and delete virtual machines

Where?  When?

• Two dates and locations
• Columbus, OH Metro
• June 9th and 10th, 9:00am - 4:30pm (Both Days)
• IBM TEC Center @ 4600 Lakehurst Ct., Dublin, OH 43016
• (914) 499-1900
• Indianapolis, IN Metro
• June 11th and 12th, 9:00am - 4:30pm (Both Days)
• IBM TEC Center @ 8888 Keystone Xing, STE 925, Indy, IN 46240
• (914) 499-1900 
• Times
• 8:30am Registration and continental breakfast
• 9:00am-4:30pm Sessions per the agenda below

Agenda

• Day 1 - IBM Endpoint Manager for Operations/Security
• Welcome and Introduction
• Overview and Architecture, Lecture and Exercises
• Systems Lifecycle Management, Lecture and Exercises
• Patch Management, Lecture and Exercises
• Day 2 - IBM Endpoint Manager for Security/Server Automation
• Security & Compliance, Lecture and Exercises
• Server Automation, Lecture and Exercises

Cost
This session is offered free of charge. Complimentary refreshments including continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. However, participants are responsible for their own business travel expenses.

Who should attend?
This class is designed for IT administrators who are responsible for maintaining assets, providing security, keeping software current, and controlling IT power costs.

Seating is limited, so don't delay - we look forward to hosting you!

Register today!

For the Columbus POT, click here.

For the Indianapolis POT, click here.
Questions?  Contact me.

Join us for Pizza and Patch Management on June 4th!

Yes... The pizza is on us! Register for the live BigFix demo and enjoy a pizza while you watch!          

Champion Solutions Group has added BigFix Systems Management / IBM Endpoint Manager to its portfolio and wants to introduce you to what Gartner called, "the leader in System Management for Desktops, Laptops, Physical & Virtual Servers for automation & control with One Management Console.”

Learn and see how the “intelligent” BigFix agent can throttle, report & remediate in minutes.  The endpoint can discover a deviation from a policy and execute remediation, rather than waiting for an inventory scan and subsequent reports to tell administrators to take an action.

Highlights...

• Understand the difference of patching with BigFix/IBM Endpoint Manager
• See real-time patching scenarios for Unix, Linux, AIX, Suse, Microsoft, etc.
• See how BigFix can automate your patching processes
• Wow! Visibility into your entire network assets & security reporting

To register for this special event, please contact me and I will provide you with registration instructions. Registration closes 48 hours in advance (June 2).  Pizza Delivery Time on the day of the Webinar is 11:30 am. (Delivery contact and direct phone numbers will be mandatory - no corporate phone numbers.)

   

WEBCAST: Do your WinXP devices have an XPiration date?

If you are contemplating whether to continue running your devices on Win XP or to migrate to a different operating system in a secure and a simple way, I would like to invite you to attend an upcoming BrightTalk event to see how IBM Endpoint Manager can help you.

Live Webinar

Do your WinXP devices have an XPiration date?

May 29 at 2 pm ET 

The time has finally come for Microsoft to cut the cord on supporting WinXP leaving organizations who do not upgrade as open targets to hackers who could exploit vulnerabilities in expired devices. Recent studies indicate that IT downtime not only has serious security implications but can also cost $1M per hour.  Now imagine a world where you have immediate visibility into the status of every device connected to your corporate data and can apply patches and security fixes before problems arise. If you work on the front lines of managing laptops, desktops, and servers, you know a real-time solution that could tell you the state of endpoints in seconds--instead of days or weeks--while reducing downtime is critical. The good news is you don't have to imagine anymore--that day is here. Your endpoints don't need to have an XPiration date!

Join IBM's endpoint management specialist Ashwin Manekar to learn how IT can tell you the status of your endpoints in seconds while securely managing any device, at any location, any time.
Sound interesting?

Register now to join us for this event:  https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/9443/111719

ATTN: Western Michigan - Upcoming Endpoint Manager and Maas360 Lunch 'n' Learn in Grand Rapids

You’re Invited! 

Endpoint Manager and Maas360 Lunch 'n' Learn 

Hosted by IBM and Mainline Information Systems

When:  Wednesday, April 23rd from 11:30am-2:00pm

Where:  The JW Marriott (Salon C)
              235 Louis Street NW, Grand Rapids MI 49503

Attend this briefing to see why MaaS360 mobile device management (MDM) and IBM Endpoint Manager are the fastest and most comprehensive way to configure devices for enterprise access and secure corporate data on smart phones, tablets, servers, desktops — all from a single screen.

Meeting Your MDM & Endpoint Challenges

• Increase security & compliance enforcement
• Reduce the cost of supporting mobile assets
• Secure enterprise applications & performance management
• Ensure business continuity by managing mobile content

Speakers: 

• John Golembiewski
• North American East Technical Leader, Mobile & Endpoint Management - IBM
• Jim Jakary
• Regional Director, Fiberlink – an IBM Company

RSVP TODAY to Jasmine Injejikian (jainjeji@us.ibm.com) and tell her you heard about it here!

Streamline Processes, Reduce Costs and Ensure Continuous Compliance with IBM Endpoint Manager

IBM can help your organization deliver greater value back to your business.  We do this by compressing processes from months to minutes, by reducing infrastructure costs by the millions, and by insuring continuous compliance of operational, security, and regulatory mandates.

To accomplish this, we provide for a unified management platform comprised of a single resource-efficient agent and a single unified management console that provides operators the ability to have real-time visibility and control over any endpoint - servers, laptops, PCs, Macs, ATMs, Kiosks, you name it.  To do all this, we need a single management server to support over 250,000 endpoints.

Using this unique solution, our clients are quickly and cost-effectively finding and fixing problems in minutes across any endpoint - whether it's on their corporate network or off, whether it's virtual or it's physical.

We call this solution IBM Enpoint Manager and, simply, it just works.

Contact me today to learn more and to set up an online presentation and demonstration.

IBM Endpoint Manager - Built on BigFix Technology

Traditional endpoint management remains complex....and primarily for PCs only.  It requires lots of:  Agents, Policies, Management Servers, Databases, Admins / Skills, Reports, Ports

Adding servers, Macs, and smartphones exacerbates the complexity and cost.  It requires MORE servers, MORE agents, MORE consoles, MORE reports, MORE policies, and MORE admins!

With IBM Endpoint Manager (IEM) you get real-time visibility across ALL endpoints.

IEM requires an agent on each endpoint that averages less that 2% of CPU utilization, requires less than 10 Mb of memory, and consumes only 50 to 100 Kbps in network bandwidth per day!  And, with IEM, one management sever and database can managae up to 250,000 endpoints, using a single port (52311 by default)! IEM also provides multi-platform compliance reports.

• Find and fix problems in minutes
• Continous compliance
• Consistent policies, processes across all endpoints
• Reduced infrastructure cost
• Same skill to manage any endpoint
• More time for IT to address higher value projects

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Learn more.  Contact me today via my IBM page at http://www.ibm.com/myrep/jagaeta.

You're invited! IBM Endpoint Manager Proof of Technology. Columbus, OH. Jul 31 - Aug 1

You're invited to an IBM Endpoint Manager Proof of Technology! Columbus, OH (Dublin) - Jul 31 & Aug 1.

How do you manage the thousands of multiple-platform endpoints in your environment? Do you even know how many assets you have? Can you ensure that your servers and workstations have the latest software patches and are secure? How do you distribute new software packages to your endpoints? What if you could manage all of these things from a single server using a lightweight agent with a single security port?

IBM Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix® technology, provides a single console and lightweight agent solution for managing your endpoints. It combines endpoint and security management into a single solution. Using IBM Endpoint Manager, you can manage physical and virtual endpoints. Assets that you can manage include servers, desktops, notebooks, mobile devices, and specialized devices such as kiosks and Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). These assets can be located in virtually any location, from a server in the data center to a notebook at a coffee shop. With this unified endpoint management solution, you have a centralized view of your environment and increased control. As threats arise, IBM Endpoint Manager provides quick remediation and protection. You can report the health and status of thousands of endpoints in real-time.

What you'll learn

This class provides an overview of the IBM Endpoint Manager solutions. After you complete this course, you'll be able to perform the following tasks:

• Describe and navigate the IBM Endpoint Manager solutions and architecture, including Lifecycle Management, Security and Compliance, Patch Management, Power Management, Core Protection, Mobile Device Management and Server Automation
• Discover assets, view inventory, and configure remote control
• Distribute and manage software and licenses 
• Deploy a patch and track its status & success, resulting in potentially significant labor cost savings!
• Examine security configuration with reports and other information 
• Manage, create, and deploy policies and tools to prevent data loss
• Manage/reduce IT power consumption resulting in potentially significant energy cost savings!
• Create roles and assign rights on both Active Directory and LDAP servers
• Manage security for mobile devices 

Who should attend?

This class is designed for IT administrators who are responsible for maintaining assets, providing security, keeping software current, and controlling IT power costs.

Agenda

Day 1 IBM Endpoint Manager/BigFix for OPERATIONS

• Welcome and Introduction
• Overview and Architecture, Lecture and Exercises
• Systems Lifecycle Management, Lecture and Exercises 
• Software Use Analysis, Lecture and Exercises
• IT Power Management, Lecture and Exercises

You're welcomed to join us after class on July 31st at a local area establishment to relax and socialize with your instructors and fellow classmates.

Day 2 IBM Endpoint Manager/BigFix for SECURITY

• Core Protection, Lecture and Exercises
• Patch Management, Lecture and Exercises
• Security & Compliance, Lecture and Exercises
• Mobile Device Management & Security, Lecture and Exercises

Cost

This session is offered free of charge.  Complimentary refreshments including continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.  However, participants are responsible for their own business travel expenses.

SAVE YOUR SEAT AND REGISTER TODAY!

When and Where

Wednesday, July 31 and Thursday, August 1, 2013

IBM Offices
4600 Lakehurst Court
Building One
Dublin, Ohio 43016

Time

8:30am       Registration and continental breakfast
9:00am-4:30pm       Sessions per the agendas above

Seating is limited, so don't delay!

We look forward to hosting you!

You're invited to a FREE IBM Endpoint Manager Proof of Technology! April 10th and 11th in Waltham, MA.

How do you manage the thousands of multiple-platform endpoints in your environment? Do you even know how many assets you have? Can you ensure that your servers and workstations have the latest software patches and are secure? How do you distribute new software packages to your endpoints? What if you could manage all of these things from a single console?

IBM Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix® technology, provides a single console and lightweight agent solution for managing your endpoints. It combines endpoint and security management into a single solution. Using IBM Endpoint Manager, you can manage physical and virtual endpoints. Assets that you can manage include servers, desktops, notebooks, mobile devices, and specialized devices such as kiosks and Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). These assets can be located in virtually any location from a server in the data center to a notebook at a coffee shop. With this unified endpoint management solution, you have a centralized view of your environment and increased control. As threats arise, IBM Endpoint Manager provides quick remediation and protection. You can report the health and status of thousands of endpoints in real time.

What you'll learn
This class provides an overview of the IBM Endpoint Manager solutions. After you complete this course, you'll be able to perform the following tasks:

• Describe and navigate the IBM Endpoint Manager solutions and architecture, including IBM Endpoint Manager for Lifecycle Management, IBM Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance, IBM Endpoint Manager for Patch Management, and IBM Endpoint Manager for Power Management, IBM Endpoint Manager for Core Protection, IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Device Management 
• Discover assets, view inventory, and configure remote control
• Distribute and manage software and licenses resulting in potentially significant cost savings! 
• Examine security configuration with reports and other information 
• Manage, create, and deploy policies and tools to prevent data loss
• Deploy a patch and track its status & success,  resulting in potentially significant labor cost savings!
• Manage/reduce IT power consumption  resulting in potentially significant cost savings!
• Create roles and assign rights on both Active Directory and LDAP servers
• Manage security for mobile devices 

Who should attend
This class is designed for IT administrators who are responsible for maintaining assets, providing security, keeping software current, and controlling IT power costs.

Agenda

Day 1:  IBM Endpoint Manager/BigFix for OPERATIONS

• Welcome and Introduction
• Overview and Architecture, Lecture and Exercises
• Systems Lifecycle Management, Lecture and Exercises 
• Software Use Analysis, Lecture and Exercises
• IT Power Management, Lecture and Exercises
• Please join us for dinner at Naked Fish (optional)

Day 2:  IBM Endpoint Manager/BigFix for SECURITY

• Welcome and Introduction
• Overview and Architecture, Lecture and Exercises
• Ccross platform and 3rd party Patch Management, Lecture and Exercises
• Security & Compliance, Lecture and Exercises
• Mobile Device Management & security

Cost
This session is offered free of charge.  Complimentary refreshments including continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.  However, participants are responsible for their own business travel expenses.

SAVE YOUR SEAT AND REGISTER TODAY!  

Where and When 
April 10 & 11, 2013
IBM TEC (Technology Exploration Center)
404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA

Agenda
8:30am:  Registration and continental breakfast
9:00am-4:30pm:  Sessions per the agendas above

Seating is limited, so don't delay - we look forward to hosting you!

IBM Endpoint Manager / Worklight / Desktop Virtualization Lunch Briefings - Jacksonville and Tampa

Won't you take a break from your day and join us for lunch?

You'll enjoy a delicious meal and learn about how IBM is addressing the Mobile Enterprise and Desktop Virtualization.

The explosive growth of mobile devices means organizations need mobile solutions that deliver value quickly, leveraging their current investments in technology and skills, while still retaining high levels of security and manageability.

At this lunch briefing, you'll hear about IBM's application development solution, Worklight, which allows you to quickly build and manage mobile applications across the breadth of mobile platforms. You'll also learn about  "Smarter, Faster Endpoint Management" featuring IBM Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix technology.

IBM Endpoint Manager combines endpoint and security management into a single solution that enables your team to see and manage physical and virtual endpoints—servers, desktops, roaming laptops, ATMs. self-service kiosks and more. In fact, IBM is currently running this solution internally on over 600,000 endpoints. And now, IBM Endpoint Manager provides end-to-end security and management of mobile devices within your enterprise!

Worklight and IBM Endpoint Manager allow you to seamlessly manage the full mobile application lifecycle - from secure, cross-platform application development to deployment, to maintenance and deprovisioning of applications for employee- and corporate-owned mobile devices.

Additionally, the IBM Virtual Desktop was recently announced. The benefits of desktop virtualization are undeniable: centralized management, improved security, increased business efficiency and agility, and reduced costs. With more organizations embracing cloud computing and BYOD business models, it's practically become a necessity.

Intriguing, yes?

If you'd like to hear more about these hot topics, please register to join us at one of two locations...

Times

11:30 am:  Arrivals and registration

Noon:  Lunch seating and briefing

Dates and Locations

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - Jacksonville, FL

Capital Grille - Jacksonville

St. Johns Town Center

5197 Big Island Drive

Jacksonville, FL  32246

Phone: 904-997-9233

Click here to register for Jacksonville

Thursday, March 21, 2013 - Tampa, FL

Capital Grille - Tampa

2223 N. Westshore Blvd

Tampa, FL 33607

Phone: 813-830-9433

Click here to register for Tampa

Seating is limited so your RSVP kindly requested. 

If you have questions, please contact me, or email Elizabeth Hollow at ehollow@us.ibm.com

We look forward to hosting you!