In this on-demand webcast, you’ll get a feel for looming changes in the endpoint management landscape over the course of the next six months to five years.

1. @TechTrainerTim techtrainertim.com
AUTHOR/TECH EVANGELIST, PLURALSIGHT
Tim Warner
Predicting the Future of Endpoint
Management in a Mobile World

2. Define our terms
Review endpoint systems management trends
Present an endpoint management “wish list”
Overview

3. Relevant vocabulary

4. An Internet-capable computer hardware device on a
TCP/IP network.
Endpoint device
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5. Endpoint Examples
Server and desktop PCs (Windows, Linux, macOS)
Laptop PC
Thin-client devices (Chromebooks)
Tablet
Smartphone
Printers
POS systems
IoT devices (smart meters)

6. Bring Your Own Device. The policy of permitting employees
to bring personally owned devices to their workplace, and to
to use those devices to access privileged company
information and applications.
BYOD
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7. Customer Owned, Personally Enabled. A policy in which the
company purchases the devices to provide to their
employees; the functionality of a private device is enabled to
to allow personal usage.
COPE
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8. Endpoint systems management trends

9. Mobile Workforce Trends
“Road
warrior”
salespeople
Broadband
home office
workers
BYOD

10. Endpoint Device Confetti
One user, multiple devices Fragmentation
Open-source components 0-day vulnerabilities

11. Endpoint Device Confetti
This situation is made worse with non-integrated management
systems

12. Lack of Enforcement
How can you detect and
remediate compromised
systems?
Lack of Policy
How well documented is
your inventory?
Compliance reports?
Lack of Visibility
Can you view all
endpoints, in all their
forms, through a “single
pane of glass”?
Security Hazards

13. Endpoint management “wish list”

14. Service desk/support
Application
deployment
Patch management
Compliance
evaluation
OSD (and licensing)Asset management
Elements of Endpoint Management

15. An Umbrella (Appliance) Solution

16. Support
What is the vendor’s
policy?
Integration
How does the solution
“play”?
Feature Set
Is it an “umbrella”
solution?
Scalability
Can the solution grow
with your business?
Complexity
Does the solution match
your business needs?
Considerations in Choosing an Endpoint
Management Solution

17. KACE Endpoint Systems
Management for growing
organizations

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Endpoint systems management lifecycle
• Image capture
• Zero touch OS
deployment
• Multicasting
• User state migration
• Remote site support
• Service desk
• User portal & self
service
• Monitoring & alerting
• Remote control
• Mobile access
• Patch management
• Configuration
management
• Policy enforcement
• Vulnerability scanning
• Discovery & inventory
• Asset management
• Software distribution
• Reporting &
compliance

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• Reduce infrastructure costs
• Expedite time to value
• Automate asset inventory
and patching
• Save time on asset
discovery and inventory
using consolidated
reporting
• Improve control, security,
response time and user
productivity
• Cut downtime and risk
• Ensure license compliance
• Perform application updates
in minutes
• Upgrade suites in days, not
weeks
Optimize
application
experience
Modernize
infrastructure
for the cloud
Automate
complex
processes
Enable a
data-driven
business
• Reduce IT time and
resources for system
provisioning, deployments,
patching and service request
responses
KACE can help

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Optimize
application
experience
Modernize
infrastructure
for the cloud
Automate
complex
processes
Enable a
data-driven
business
Customer validation
• 68% of surveyed IT
organizations have more
accurate hardware and
software inventory to better
inform purchasing and
maximize use of existing
assets as a result of
purchasing KACE K1000.
• 50% of surveyed IT
organizations have simplified
application distribution and
maintenance to ensure
applications are up to date and
secure as a result of purchasing
KACE.
• 53% of IT organizations chose
the KACE Systems
Management Deployment
Appliance because they were
overwhelmed by the amount of
manual chores to simply keep
operating systems up to date
and running.
• 70% of customers
implemented KACE in less
than 2 weeks.

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KACE Systems Management Appliance
The KACE Systems
Management Appliance
is the most
comprehensive systems
management solution
that streamlines asset
management, better
secures all network
connected devices, and
more efficiently services
end user systems –
giving resource
constrained IT
organizations more time
to innovate.
Inventory & IT asset
management
Software distribution
Transform insight into action with
turnkey reporting.
Keep your organization safe with set-it-and-
forget-it patching.
Deliver the right software to the right
person at the right time.
Make delivering a great help desk user
experience look easy.
Patch management
& security
Software distribution
Service desk

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KACE Systems Deployment Appliance
The KACE Systems
Deployment
Appliance offers a
multi-platform
solution that provides
initial provisioning
and ongoing
administration of
master system
images and driver
updates faster and
easier, ensuring
connected systems
remain up to date and
secure.
Plan
Configure
Deploy
Centralized
Administration
Remote site
Management and
administration
• Mobile interface for the Systems Management Appliance
• Enhanced mobile productivity for systems administrators
• Ability to cut through email noise and identify critical issues
• Task engine
• Pre- and post-install tasks
• User state migration
• Remote systems recovery
• Disk imaging
• Centralized deployment library
• Multicasting
• Network OS install

23. Thank you so much for your time today!
Twitter: @TechTrainerTim
Website: techtrainertim.com
Email: tim-warner@pluralsight.com
On demand webcast:
http://ow.ly/pOwW30eF1ys
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