Novell ZENworks Configuration Management

The satellite site appliances deployed at the NHS are very smart boxes that can be centrally customized to meet the standard needs of the organization. Better yet, just about anyone at the organization's remote locations can physically build them into low-touch servers that are easily managed from a central location, regardless of bandwidth constraints.

With the release of Service Pack 1, Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management is more powerful and flexible and even easier to use.

With Novell ZENworks Configuration Management, and the fully integrated ZENworks Asset Management, you get a lot more value for your management efforts. What that means is you have a single, fully automated system for identifying and categorizing all the IP devices on your network, distributing the ZENworks Adaptive Agent to all managed devices, and collecting details of all the hardware and software installed on managed devices.

There's Jack Sparrow, and then there's the guy in the office next door. While Captain Jack may seem to be more of the swashbuckling type than your typical coworker, most modern pirates are more likely to be found in a cubicle than in the Caribbean. Traditional piracy, not nearly the problem it used to be 2 or 3 centuries ago, has nevertheless given way to various other, more bloodless forms of piracy not requiring a sword or a talking parrot. In a May 2008 study, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) reported the software global piracy rate at 38 percent, resulting in nearly US$48 billion in total packaged PC software losses in 2007.