Opsware has been very helpful to us with the NAS product. Its been doing everything we need and then some. The reporting is excellent as well. We are going to present the solution soon to the rest of network engineering and architecture.
Alterpoint was supposed to start over a week ago, but they had to push it off due to concerns they were having with the deal. I think their product is excellent, and I'd like to get it in the hands of the folks who use these tools day to day and get an honest opinion of it.
Alterpoint has a great reputation, and I'm looking forward to evaluating the solution.
We all are well aware of the Microsoft patches and windows update. Same goes for those of us who use itunes and iOS devices, we know Apple Software Update. Some of us may even patch our Adobe products, which we should since they have been the largest attack vector (http://goo.gl/bOQ3D) for the past 2 years hands down. This is just at home.... How do you expect the security experts to keep on top of all of these patches in a corporate environment. The number of patches for Oracle alone is daunting to understand and analyze. There are ways to do this, you can use some clever software which I will outline below, or you can read ~25 RSS feeds and analyze vendor security bulletins. I do enjoy doing some of this, but I don't have time to keep on top of all the releases. Here is some software for home and corporate use to help manage this. Corporate Patch Management: Microsoft WSUS and SCCM - This is free and a no brainer for patchi...
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