BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Adaptiva, a
leading provider of add-ons for Microsoft's System Center
Configuration Manager (SCCM), today announced that Babcock
International Group PLC (LSE: BAB) has selected Adaptiva
OneSite software for global deployment. Babcock, the UK's leading
engineering support services organization with revenue of over
£3.5bn in 2014, will deploy OneSite on over 20,000 computer systems
at over 250 operating facilities worldwide.
Babcock anticipates numerous benefits from the OneSite
deployment, and identifies the biggest gain as coming from
Adaptiva's predictive bandwidth harvesting WAN technology.
Previously, Babcock sent systems content, such as 8GB images, after
hours to avoid impacting critical business traffic on the WAN. Now,
it can safely send any size data packages during peak business
hours.
"OneSite changes the way we think about content delivery," said
Rob Cann, SCCM & Packaging Team
Leader, Babcock. "We can now distribute extremely large payloads on
the WAN in the middle of a weekday with absolutely no worry about
hammering the network or upsetting our network team."
In addition to improving WAN performance, Babcock chose OneSite
for its peer-to-peer storage technology, which aggregates unused
disk space from peer computer systems into a self-managing virtual
SAN at each facility. Administrators can spend a great deal of time
isolating and resolving content delivery failures when caused by a
server issue such as hard disk full on one of Babcock's 120
distribution points. With OneSite, Babcock now has serverless
storage that self-organizes, maintains multiple copies, and
pre-stages large content intelligently.
"With OneSite, we instantly get redundant storage measured in
petabytes, and that number is growing all the time," said Mat
Luscombe, Client Technical Architect, Babcock. "It takes no space
away from peer systems and has virtually zero impact. The users
don't even notice it."
Babcock sees OneSite as a stage-setter for an easier migration
from its current SCCM 2007 implementation to SCCM 2012, a
time-consuming undertaking in a traditional architecture. The
London-based firm also welcomes
OneSite's enterprise operating system deployment (OSD)
capabilities. OneSite removes the need to configure PXE servers at
each site, one of the largest impediments to performing
large-scale, unattended Windows migrations.
"Babcock performed an impressive evaluation, completing an
extremely thorough proof of concept," said Deepak Kumar, founder and CTO, Adaptiva. "Their
selection of Adaptiva proves that even if a company has a worldwide
server infrastructure in place, OneSite still offers tremendous
benefits in easier administration, better WAN traffic management,
and a host of other enhancements to SCCM."
About Adaptiva
Founded in 2004 by the lead architect
of Microsoft SMS 2003, Adaptiva has grown into a leading, global
provider of IT systems management solutions for Microsoft System
Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). Adaptiva extends SCCM to run
with no infrastructure and provide faster worldwide content
delivery—without impacting WAN traffic or end-user systems.
Adaptiva's suite of SCCM add-ins automatically diagnoses and
repairs problems with clients and servers, and intelligently
reduces IT power consumption. Adaptiva software is deployed on
millions of devices in over 100 countries, and is sold directly and
through a network of partners and channel resellers. Learn more at
www.adaptiva.com.
About Babcock International Group
Babcock
International Group is the UK's leading engineering support
services company, delivering complex and critical projects, both in
the UK and overseas. With revenue of circa £3.5 billion in 2014, we
support vital assets within a number of industry sectors including
defence, emergency services, energy, transport and training.
The unparalleled expertise of our 29,000 global employees means
that – whether designing, building, operating, managing, or
maintaining vital assets - Babcock is a partner that can be trusted
to deliver.
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