Ivanti, the company
that unifies IT to better manage and secure the digital workplace, today
announced the release of Ivanti Cloud. The new cloud-based platform unifies IT
operations and security data and processes so organizations can quickly assess
their environment and gain insights. Providing a real-time view into device
analytics, the new cloud-based solution also offers prescriptive
recommendations through Ivanti Smart Advisors, which provide prioritized,
data-driven guidance for what to do next to help analysts be more effective.
"Complexity and risk are standing in IT's way,
preventing them from delivering on new strategic initiatives,"said Duane Newman, Vice President, Product
Management, Ivanti."We are all about helping organizations discover, gain
insights and take action in their environments. The new Ivanti Cloud
establishes a foundation that we will continue to build on to help siloed IT
teams improve processes, communication and response times, ultimately allowing
them to takeprioritized action to improve security and user productivity."
Ivanti Cloud is a cloud-hosted solution that
collects and manages data across an enterprise's servers and endpoints and serves as a central hub for security
and operations teams. Key components include:
- Real-Time
Intelligence. Now IT has a fast,
single view intothe real-time state of the environment, including contextual
user activity, security and device health. By collecting diverse data,
such as real-time security health, software license usage, hardware
warranties, and much more, it delivers rapid visibility into systems that
require attention or security remediation. For example, one Ivanti Cloud
beta customer has already achieved real value and cost avoidance by
identifying failing batteries on laptops, allowing them to replace them
before the warranty period was up. With Ivanti Real-Time, users no longer
need to wait for scans to complete or use data that may be weeks old.
Featuring natural language search, it's also easy to identify troubled
systems, or vulnerabilities such as inactive Windows firewalls or disabled
encryption, and take rapid action with a click of a button.
- Smart
Advisors.Working
to remove barriers between siloed IT teams, Ivanti Smart Advisors offer
prescriptive advice to improve enterprise health and reduce complexity.
With Smart Advisors, Ivanti Cloud details recommended best practices and prioritizes
the necessary actions IT operations and security teams can take to
minimize risk and improve availability and performance. Device
reconciliation is a great example of the intelligence Smart Advisors can
provide. Large organizations often struggle to know if the devices they
acquire are being used and who has them. One Ivanti Cloud beta customer
was able to use this capability to quickly identify over 30,000 devices
that they had "lost track of" across their enterprise. Ivanti normalizes
the data and reconciles it across Active Directory, purchase data, and
endpoint management systems to give an accurate picture of the status of
their hardware assets as well as their reliability.
- Data
Services and Connectors.To support broad data services and system discovery,
Ivanti Cloud offers system connectors for both Ivanti and third-party
system management solutions. Data services uses connectors and cloud
agents to aggregate data, then normalizes and reconciles the data so that
it can be leveraged by multiple systems, including Smart Advisors,
dashboards, other cloud services and on-prem solutions.
- Automation
Fabric.Ivanti
Cloud also features automated actions that are built or scripted in the
cloud. Used to trigger processes or point to actions both in the cloud or
on-prem, this automation fabric is a flexible framework upon which
additional automation of actions and processes can be built.
"With the release of Ivanti Cloud, Ivanti is
transforming IT operations and security. It's a great add on for existing
customers with the added speed and efficiency it delivers through Real-Time
intelligence coupled with unified data and actions," said Bryan Boam, CEO,
Network Consulting Services, Inc. (NCSI). "However, it also works great in
environments without Ivanti's traditional products, or for companies using a
mix of IT technologies from a variety of vendors. Ivanti Cloud is delivering
the comprehensive platform organizations need to innovate within IT, so they
can deliver a better experience, added security and solid reliability to their
global enterprise."
Ivanti
Cloud is included in Ivanti enterprise license agreements (ELA) or is available
as a per-node subscription. For more information visit: https://www.ivanti.com/products/ivanti-cloud.