Inter-American Development Bank Selects Altiris For Active IT Asset Management

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Altiris, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of IT lifecycle management solutions that help reduce the total cost of owning IT resources, today announced that Altiris® Asset Management Suite™ has been selected by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) to provide active IT asset management that integrates automated hardware and software inventory and usage with asset contracts, licenses, maintenance information and associated costs. IADB selected Altiris active IT asset management to help save costs and efficiently utilize approximately 4000 workstations, servers and associated assets.

IADB is the principal source of multilateral financing for economic, social and institutional development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. With numerous locations spread across two continents, IADB required an integrated IT asset management solution that aligned with established policies and procedures and helped automate the discovery, tracking and control of IT assets.

Poul Nielsen, Altiris VP of marketing and product strategy, said, "Altiris provides IT organizations with unique, real-time, active IT asset management through seamless integration of configuration management functions and IT asset management repositories for a rapid return on investment. Asset Management Suite helps IT organizations control costs, drive profitability, optimize existing infrastructure and investments, and align IT resources to better support corporate initiatives and technology shifts."

Altiris Asset Management Suite helps IT organizations maximize existing IT investments through active IT asset management. Altiris helps eliminate unnecessary software and hardware costs, manage contracts and entitlements, align service resources with IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) standards, and realize reduced asset total cost of ownership.

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