Organizations, regardless of size or industry, roll out business applications to the workforce. These applications and their supporting operating systems are regularly updated and managed by limited teams of IT professionals. These same limited teams support a wider range of hardware platforms than ever before. In response to these challenges, some organizations turned to traditional, 
enterprise software IT deployment and management solutions. However, the cost and complexity of deploying and maintaining these solutions often puts them out of reach. Traditional enterprise software solutions require hardware procurement and configuration, as well as software installation, integration and customization. In fact, they are so complex that most traditional software vendors recommend weeks or months of expensive professional services to deploy their solutions. Additionally, hidden software and hardware prerequisites can drive up the true ownership cost of traditional solutions.
Due to this cost and complexity, many organizations turn to point imaging solutions that offer lower price points at the expense of functionality. For instance, they cannot automate the build-out of reference systems (gold masters), nor do they offer remote provisioning. While point disk imaging tools offer improved efficiency, they do not fully automate deployment or save organizations the time and effort that full systems deployment tools can provide.
The Dell™ KACE™ K2000 Deployment Appliance (K2000) breaks down these cost and complexity barriers and brings affordable, end-to-end systems provisioning to organizations of all sizes by utilizing an appliance-based architecture. Appliances deliver a complete, pre-integrated bundle of operating environment and application software via a dedicated server appliance. They can be plugged into an existing network and immediately begin functioning. Appliance-based architectures eliminate many of the complexities and costs of traditional software solutions such as hardware procurement, and software installation and integration. At the same time, 
appliances provide exceptional performance, reliability, and control through a purpose built solution that is pre-tuned, hardened and self-healing.
This paper describes how the K2000 appliance-based architecture provides a centralized, network-centric deployment solution that is both extremely robust and highly affordable. Download the Dell KACE K2000 Series Deployment Appliance Architecture whitepaper and learn how the K2000 appliance can help you eliminate many of the complexities and costs of traditional enterprise software solutions.
