The Shavlik NetChk Platform features “Patch Plus” to stretch your budget dollars, conserve valuable resources, and change “do more with less” from an annoying phrase to a reality. Patch Plus, delivers enterprise IT management features without the enterprise cost or complexity. In 30 minutes or less, you’ll start managing your physical and virtual assets, software, patches, configurations, energy costs, and antivirus protection.
The “Patch” in Patch Plus is the key to keeping systems properly managed. Many “free” patch tools only patch Microsoft products. But vulnerabilities don’t only attack Microsoft products. Shavlik is the most trusted name in patch management and patches Microsoft products and third party applications from vendors like Adobe, Apple, Mozilla, and Sun JAVA.
Patch Plus bundles Shavlik NetChk Protect and 3rd party application patching with other key IT operations in an easy-to-use console to simplify and automate the IT management challenges faced by thousands of growing mid-sized businesses, departments, and business units.
You can’t manage what you can’t see and in today’s rapidly-changing and mobile workforce, those blind spots are not just dangerous, they’re expensive. With our innovative agentless discovery, you’ll find physical and virtual machines you didn’t know you had and software applications you didn’t know were installed.
Shavlik can get your physical servers ready to migrate to virtual machines and keep your virtual machines in an “ever ready” production state. Shavlik is tightly integrated with VMware’s virtual infrastructure layer (ESX or vSphere) so you can easily identify and track VMs regardless of power state to control VM sprawl and patch VMs that are offline without bringing them back online. Plus you’ll have a centralized console that seamlessly provides management for both physical and virtual machines.
For less money than you spend on antivirus protection and less time than you spend patching with WSUS, Patch Plus Antivirus addresses the top four security threats faced by businesses today: operating system patching, application-level patching, virtual machine patching, and antivirus + antispyware.
The desire for Greener IT conflicts with the need for to deploy critical security updates. But you don’t need to sacrifice protection or reduced energy bills. Shavlik seamlessly integrates patch management and power management to minimize energy costs while maximizing computer coverage during patch maintenance windows.