KACE, a management appliance company we covered earlier this year, today announced the industry’s first virtual remote appliance to deliver remote operating system (OS) provisioning. As part of its KBOX family of appliances, the new KBOX Virtual Remote Appliance allows a central KBOX to extend full systems provisioning to remote offices, helping organizations to eliminate the cost and time associated with manual imaging approaches.
Consisting of an easy-to-deploy virtual appliance that resides in an organization’s remote offices, Virtual Remote Appliances work in conjunction with a central KBOX Systems Deployment Appliance to push out entire OS deployments to offices outside of a corporate network, oftentimes hundreds, or even thousands, of miles away.
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Provision from a centralized deployment library of operating systems, disk images, drivers, and applications;
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Perform hardware independent network OS installation (scripted installation);
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Deploy disk images;
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Utilize a GUI-based pre-installation environment for the recovery of corrupted systems;
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Deliver full reporting capabilities for system history, installation, and images.
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