Altiris Inc. is a subsidiary of
Symantec specializing in service-oriented management software which allows organizations to manage
IT assets. They also provide software for web services, security, and systems management products. Established in 1998, Altiris is headquartered in
Lindon, Utah, United States. Altiris has over 20,000 customers managing more than 3 million servers and 60 million desktops and laptops.
Corporate history
Altiris was started in 1998 when Jan Newman and Kevin Turpin spun off the software arm of KeyLabs. KeyLabs was, and remains, a third party testing facility. The Altiris Software had been created at KeyLabs to manage the computers at KeyLabs and that software became the start of what is now Altiris. Altiris continues to develop software designed to help IT departments manage their networks and computers more efficiently.
In early 2000, Jan Newman who was then President and CEO brought in Greg Butterfield to take over the role of President and CEO. Under Mr. Butterfield's leadership, Altiris acquired Computing Edge in September 2000. Computing Edge's founder, Dwain Kinghorn, had come from
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...
and helped to develop Microsoft's original
Systems Management Server product (SMS). Computing Edge specialized in extending and enhancing with functionality that SMS lacked.
Altiris continued its market expansion by acquiring several other companies:
Acquisitions
*July 2002 - Altiris acquired system backup and recovery technology from Previo (see
Stac Electronics).
*December 2003 - Altiris acquired application deployment specialist
Wise Solutions, Inc.
*February 2004 - Altiris acquired FSLogic. See
Software Virtualization Solution
*September 2004 - Altiris acquired Bridgewater Technologies.
*January 2005 - Altiris acquired Tonic Software Inc.
*March 2005 - Altiris acquired
Pedestal Software, a software company that specializes in
vulnerability assessment
A vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing (or ranking) the vulnerabilities in a system. Examples of systems for which vulnerability assessments are performed include, but are not limited to, informati ...
tools (SecurityExpressions and AuditExpress).
*February 2007 - Altiris to be acquired by Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC)
*April 2007 - Altiris acquisition by Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) completed.
See also
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Systems management
Systems management is enterprise-wide System administration, administration of distributed systems including (and commonly in practice) computer systems. Systems management is strongly influenced by network management initiatives in telecommunic ...
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Network management
Network management is the process of administering and managing computer networks. Services provided by this discipline include fault analysis, performance management, provisioning of networks and maintaining quality of service. Network managem ...
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System administration
An IT administrator, system administrator, sysadmin, or admin is a person who is responsible for the upkeep, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems, especially multi-user computers, such as servers. The system administr ...
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Configuration management
Configuration management (CM) is a management process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life. ...
References
External links
* http://www.altiris.com/ - Old website/domain, now redirects to Broadcom (which bought Symantec)
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Software companies established in 1998
Defunct software companies of the United States
Gen Digital acquisitions
Defunct companies based in Utah
1998 establishments in Utah