SPI, a South African-based provider of software utility products, today announced the latest release, version 4, of its locally developed PowerDesk software.
PowerDesk is a suite of monitoring, management, recovery and security software designed for use in mission-critical Unix/Linux systems to ensure system integrity and security is maintained and that operability and availability services levels are met.
PowerDesk is an innovative and modular system that reduces the workload of the system administrator and help-desk through the automation of routine tasks and easy-to-use procedures.
Operational issues are dealt with proactively, thus enhancing systems management and control. Using PowerDesk within a Unix/Linux system is fully transparent to the system, applications and users.
The five modules of PowerDesk are the Delegator Module, Access Control Module, Password Control Module, Systems Monitor Module and Remove Module.
"The latest version of PowerDesk focuses particularly on enhancing the software from an 'ease-of-use' perspective, from a GUI perspective and in the way that reporting structures are handled," commented Gil Bauman, Technical Director of SPI. "Initial reactions from our client base have already been positive and this latest version of the software was exhibited at LinuxWorld (IT 360^0 Canada) in Toronto a few weeks ago."
PowerDesk was developed by SPI in its Cape Town office and already has a large base of local users.
For further information, please contact Chris Anderson at telephone +27 11 234 1560; fax +27 11 234 1387; e-mail chris@spi.co.za.
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SPI is a company that provides utility software products and services to the open systems segment of the IT industry. It is the sole sub-Saharan Africa distributor for US-based FacetCorp, US-based Innovative Routines, UK-based-Open Systems Management, US-based Optio Software and UK-based Xi Software. SPI is also the sales agent for UK-based Metron and develops some of its own software utilities to complement the overseas products that it distributes.
SPI has a wide and varied customer base that includes organisations such as Aspen Pharmacare, Johannesburg Municipality, Johannesburg University, Metropolitan Health Group, Nampak, National Brands, Stellenbosch University, UCT and Unisa.
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