SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, and the southern African distributor for Centennial, a leading network auditing and asset management specialist, today announced the introduction of Centennial Discovery 4.5, a major new release.
This new release introduces Unix and Linux software and hardware auditing capabilities within its leading inventory management solution. Additionally, a powerful new Web Edition is also launched, extending the Web browser capabilities of Discovery to enable audits to be requested as well as viewed from any remote terminal.
"Following these additions, Centennial Discovery now caters for the majority of enterprise desktop systems including Windows, Terminal Server, Citrix, DOS, Linux and Unix," commented Jan Coetzee, Director of SecureData. "The adoption of Linux has gained real momentum in the past 12 months and has become a vital component for this latest version of Centennial Discovery.
"Integration between inventory tracking software and other support tools, such as software deployment and helpdesk systems, is increasingly important as IT systems become more powerful and more complicated," continued Coetzee.
"Many companies are in the process of integrating their support applications operate from numerous locations and across a range of Windows, Terminal Server and Unix/Linux environments. Companies in this situation need a tool capable of managing software and hardware assets from anywhere, and across all their platforms, to expel the risk of expanding beyond licence compliance agreements with software and hardware vendors. Centennial Discovery is designed to cater specifically for these requirements."
Centennial Discovery provides IT managers with a complete up-to-the-minute picture of their organisation's IT inventory, including the status and whereabouts of every piece of hardware, software and accompanying software licences," said Coetzee. "It collects critical data about the dynamics of an organisation's IT infrastructure, and the insight gleaned from this data collection can bolster the effectiveness of internal IT security, systems migration, IT helpdesk support and software licence negotiation."
For further information, please contact Jan Coetzee at telephone (011) 258 7800; fax (011) 258 7888; e-mail janc@sd.co.za
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Centennial is a leading supplier of technology inventory management solutions to major organisations around the world, helping to reduce total cost of ownership. Centennial has provided award-winning products for over five years and has a proven track record for providing leading-edge solutions.
Based in Swindon, England, the company was formed in 1997 by a team of highly skilled software engineers with many years experience in developing operating systems and network applications. Working together initially at Digital Research, the team was responsible for the award-winning DR-DOS operating system, and following the acquisition by Novell, developed components of the industry standard Novell NetWare product.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, network security, intrusion detection software and network asset management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Cell-ID and Trend Micro, SecureData is the southern African distributor for US-based BorderWare, UK-based Centennial and US-based Network Privacy. For more information, visit SecureData at www.sd.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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