- Altiris
Infobox_Company
company_name = Altiris Inc.
company_
company_type =Subsidiary
foundation = 1998
location = Lindon,Utah ,United States
key_people = Gregory S. ButterfieldChairman andCEO , Stephen C. EricksonCFO
industry = enterprise management software, IT asset management lifecycle management, service-orientated software management, systems configuration management
products = Helpdesk Solutions, Carbon Copy Solutions, Barcode solution, Inventory Solution Wise Package Studio
revenue = No longer disclosed
operating_income = No longer disclosed
net_income = No longer disclosed
num_employees = No longer disclosed
homepage = [http://www.altiris.com/ www.altiris.com]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 inLindon, Utah , United States. Altiris has over 20,000 customers managing more than 3 million servers and 60 million desktops and laptops.On
January 29 ,2007 ,Symantec announced plans to acquire Altiris and on April 6th, 2007 the acquisition was completed.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.Altiris continued to grow. 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 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:
*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 tools (SecurityExpressions and AuditExpress).
*February 2007 Altiris to be acquired by Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) [ [http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20070129_02 Symantec to Acquire Altiris ] ]
*April 2007 Altiris acquisition by Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) completed.
Main products and services
ee also
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Systems management
*Network management
*System administration
*Configuration management References
External links
* [http://www.altiris.com/ Altiris Homepage]
* [http://forums.altiris.com/ Altiris Forums]
* [http://www.altirigos.com Altiris Forums - User Run]
* [http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20070129_02 Symantec Press Release Regarding Altiris]
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