LANDesk
Encyclopedia
LANDesk Software provides systems management
, security management
, service management
, asset management, and process management
solutions to organizations. It is one of the oldest companies providing this type of product.
LANDesk pioneered the desktop management category in 1993. That same year, IDC named LANDesk the category leader. In addition, LANDesk pioneered virtual IT technology in 1999, revolutionizing large-packet distribution with LANDesk Targeted Multicast technology.
In 2002, LANDesk Software became a standalone company with headquarters near Salt Lake City, Utah
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By 2005, the company’s software was being used worldwide. In 2006, Avocent
purchased the company for $416 million. Also in 2006, LANDesk added process management technologies to its product line and extended into the consolidated service desk market with LANDesk Service Desk.
In August 2008 Avocent acquired Touchpaper, ITSM vendor to merge within LANDesk division. In December 2009 Emerson Electric acquired Avocent to merge within its Network Power division. LANDesk split from Avocent to become an independent business unit. In February 2010 Emerson stated its intention to sell LANDesk during first half of 2010.
Emerson announced in the first quarter 2010 report, that the LANDesk business unit of Avocent was not a strategic fit for Emerson and expected it to be sold within six months. Therefore, the results of LANDesk were being reported as discontinued operations.
On the 23rd of August, 2010, Thoma Bravo LLC
announced their intention to acquire LANDesk to establish as independent company.
Recent industry awards include:...
LANDesk software is used to manage over 250 million desktops, servers and mobile devices. Their software is used to manage devices running Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems.
LANDesk sells directly and through partners worldwide and has regional offices and development centers in Brazil, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Britain. The division has employees in 18 countries.
Systems Lifecycle Management
Endpoint Security Management
IT Process Automation
IT Service Management
and CIM initiatives as well as enabling technologies such as Wake on LAN and Alert on LAN.
LANDesk cofounded the Desktop Management Task Force DMTF and spearheaded the Web-based Enterprise Management WBEM initiative.
Systems management
Systems management refers to enterprise-wide administration of distributed systems including computer systems. Systems management is strongly influenced by network management initiatives in telecommunications....
, security management
Security management
Security Management is a broad field of management related to asset management, physical security and human resource safety functions. It entails the identification of an organization's information assets and the development, documentation and implementation of policies, standards, procedures and...
, service management
Service management
Service management is integrated into supply chain management as the joint between the actual sales and the customer. The aim of high performance service management is to optimize the service-intensive supply chains, which are usually more complex than the typical finished-goods supply chain...
, asset management, and process management
Process management (computing)
Process management is an integral part of any modern day operating system . The OS must allocate resources to processes, enable processes to share and exchange information, protect the resources of each process from other processes and enable synchronisation among processes...
solutions to organizations. It is one of the oldest companies providing this type of product.
Corporate history
Originally founded in 1985 as LAN Systems, the company’s software product assets were acquired by Intel in 1991, forming Intel’s LANDesk division.LANDesk pioneered the desktop management category in 1993. That same year, IDC named LANDesk the category leader. In addition, LANDesk pioneered virtual IT technology in 1999, revolutionizing large-packet distribution with LANDesk Targeted Multicast technology.
In 2002, LANDesk Software became a standalone company with headquarters near Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
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By 2005, the company’s software was being used worldwide. In 2006, Avocent
Avocent
Avocent, a business of Emerson Network Power, is an information technology products manufacturer headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. Avocent was formed in 2000 from the merger of the world’s two largest KVM switch manufacturers: Apex and Cybex Computer Products Corporation...
purchased the company for $416 million. Also in 2006, LANDesk added process management technologies to its product line and extended into the consolidated service desk market with LANDesk Service Desk.
In August 2008 Avocent acquired Touchpaper, ITSM vendor to merge within LANDesk division. In December 2009 Emerson Electric acquired Avocent to merge within its Network Power division. LANDesk split from Avocent to become an independent business unit. In February 2010 Emerson stated its intention to sell LANDesk during first half of 2010.
Emerson announced in the first quarter 2010 report, that the LANDesk business unit of Avocent was not a strategic fit for Emerson and expected it to be sold within six months. Therefore, the results of LANDesk were being reported as discontinued operations.
On the 23rd of August, 2010, Thoma Bravo LLC
Thoma Cressey Bravo
Thoma Cressey Bravo, formerly Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, is a private equity and growth capital firm based in Chicago and San Francisco...
announced their intention to acquire LANDesk to establish as independent company.
Recent industry awards include:...
Products
The company's products have asset inventory/discovery, security vulnerability detection and remediation, software distribution, IT compliance reporting, patch management, software license management, security policy enforcement, and endpoint device power consumption management.LANDesk software is used to manage over 250 million desktops, servers and mobile devices. Their software is used to manage devices running Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems.
LANDesk sells directly and through partners worldwide and has regional offices and development centers in Brazil, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Britain. The division has employees in 18 countries.
Systems Lifecycle Management
- LANDesk Management Suite
- LANDesk Inventory Manager
- LANDesk Application Virtualization (Portable application creator)
Endpoint Security Management
- LANDesk Security Suite
- LANDesk Antivirus
- LANDesk Patch Manager
IT Process Automation
- LANDesk Process Manager
IT Service Management
- LANDesk Service Desk
- LANDesk Asset Lifecycle Manager
Sponsorships
LANDesk has worked with technology vendors and industry standards bodies to develop emerging and open standards across the systems and security management landscape, including the DMIDesktop Management Interface
The Desktop Management Interface generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server computer, by abstracting these components from the software that manages them. The development of DMI marked the first move by the Distributed Management Task...
and CIM initiatives as well as enabling technologies such as Wake on LAN and Alert on LAN.
LANDesk cofounded the Desktop Management Task Force DMTF and spearheaded the Web-based Enterprise Management WBEM initiative.
See also
- Systems managementSystems managementSystems management refers to enterprise-wide administration of distributed systems including computer systems. Systems management is strongly influenced by network management initiatives in telecommunications....
- Security managementSecurity managementSecurity Management is a broad field of management related to asset management, physical security and human resource safety functions. It entails the identification of an organization's information assets and the development, documentation and implementation of policies, standards, procedures and...
- Process managementProcess managementProcess management is the ensemble of activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a process. The term usually refers to the management of business processes and manufacturing processes...
- Service desk
- Change managementChange managementChange management is a structured approach to shifting/transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state. It is an organizational process aimed at helping employees to accept and embrace changes in their current business environment....
- Configuration managementConfiguration managementConfiguration management is a field of management that focuses on establishing and maintaining consistency of a system or product's performance and its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.For information assurance, CM...
- List of systems management systems
- Software distribution
- Power managementPower managementPower management is a feature of some electrical appliances, especially copiers, computers and computer peripherals such as monitors and printers, that turns off the power or switches the system to a low-power state when inactive. In computing this is known as PC power management and is built...
- ITILItilItil may mean:*Atil or Itil, the ancient capital of Khazaria*Itil , also Idel, Atil, Atal, the ancient and modern Turkic name of the river Volga.ITIL can stand for:*Information Technology Infrastructure Library...