MagiCure voor Trainingen en openbare PC's

The Business Reality.

Managing PCs that are shared within an organization or that are used in a public setting, presents a number of challenges. these range from overall risk management to providing consistent PC systems availability.

Protecting users identities, as wall as preventing unauthorized access to personal information that may have been entered during a session, are key concerns from both a security, and risk a mitigation perspective. Delivering a system that is consistently available is critical - especially in a PC rental or kiosk environment. A “clean” environment is always expected, by the user and is considered a best-practice in the industry.

Whether it is a training center, public kiosk in an internet cafe, school, library, or a shared corporate PC, these challenges and their associated business risks - cannot be underestimated. In today’s world, the most common approach to solving this problem is to re-image the hard drive, which is a time-consuming process that requires technically-skilled personnel.

Re-imaging also requires that a PC be taken off-line for a period of time. Unfortunately, this negatively impacts utilization rates and frequently causes scheduling problems or excessive wait times. The fact is that operational efficiency, protection of user identities and privacy, and cost containment are critical to business success and achieving these goals must never be at the expense of customer satisfaction.

The MAGICURE Solution

MAGICURE™ for Training Centers and Public PCs enables organizations to immediately reconfigure their PCs to any one of many predefined states (MAGICURE snapshots) with a speed and simplicity that is unmatched in the marketplace today. In addition, several of these snapshots can be locked, thus establishing them as “core” configurations.

When a user session ends, the system can be reset to one of these configurations, thereby re-establishing a clean system for the next user. Any data or activity generated during the previous session is no longer present and the cache is clean.

In a Public PC setting, this system reset eliminates the ability of criminals to engage in electronic commerce fraud or identity theft. In a training environment, this instant reconfiguration minimizes the time between classes as wall as technical failures due to improper configurations.

IT managers, system administrators and training managers can reconfigure the system either directly at the computer, or remotely through a management console. This enables organizations to use the system according to their own processes.

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KEY BENEFITS

• Optimizes image and application management by deploying and managing multiple configurations
• Minimizes transition time between users by rapidly restoring appropriate “clean” configurations
• Mitigates risk of identity theft and protects user privacy by restoring the system to a “clean” environment between user sessions
• Manages the Common Operating Environment (COE) with speed and simplicity
• Provides an instant baseline (Gold Disk) configuration by restoring the installation snapshot within a boot cycle
• Reduces IT support costs and increase user satisfaction