Marketing description

It doesn't matter where your systems are located. They can be at your headquarters, in an office across town, or on the other side of the world you can easily manage them with the LANDesk Cloud Services Appliance, without punching a hole in your firewall.
With its patent-pending technology, you can use any existing Internet connection to securely manage any user anywhere in the world as though they are sitting next to you. And the best part? You can do it without a VPN or leased line, and without purchasing, installing, configuring, or managing a server.

Key selling points

• Gathers hardware and software inventory from up to 4,000 active connections simultaneously
• Performs on-demand remote control
• Monitors software licenses
• Accesses policy-based software distribution
• Performs patch management
• Executes anti-spyware management
• Carries out antivirus enforcement and management
• Manages security threats
• Blocks applications
• Enables bidirectional management traffic for
• Inventory and software license monitoring
• Software distribution and application policy
• Vulnerability detection
• Configuration security maintenance and patch management

Product features

• Cost-effective, pain-free remote systems management
  The LANDesk Cloud Services Appliance lets you securely manage remote users without buying or maintaining a VPN or leased line. And without purchasing, installing, configuring or maintaining a server. Simply plug in the appliance for a hassle-free way to manage and secure systems anytime, anywhere. Automatic updates keep your appliance up-to-date. And built-in system backup and recovery ensures your configuration and log information is always available. Choose to run a backup weekly or monthly. The appliance automatically backs itself up to not one, but two redundant internal disks to ensure you always have what you need.
• Enabling secure, anytime anywhere management
  The appliance acts as a meeting place for the remote client and your core server, even if servers are behind firewalls or rely on a proxy to access the Internet. The functionality is similar to an email Web portal where users communicate through the machine's firewall to connect to the portal and then connect through the corporate perimeter firewall to the backend email server. The LANDesk Cloud Services Appliance brokers a secure socket-layer (SSL) connection between the managed system and the backend LANDesk core server where LANDesk Management Suite and/or LANDesk Security Suite are installed. A certificate issued from the core server secures a pipeline and establishes a trusted relationship. All data is SSL encoded. Management agents on remote systems authenticate to and obtain a client certificate from the core server, authorizing the management agents on the client systems to communicate with the management services on the core server through the appliance.