Managing endpoints is one of the basic IT tasks and should not consume extensive resources. Adaptiva explains how modern endpoint management helps to free up budgets and staff for important digitization projects.
In many companies, administrators spend hours every day updating the computers of a distributed workforce with patches and new security policies. They operate large update infrastructures in order to distribute the updates reliably, and yet their WAN and VPN connections groan under the data loads. Modern endpoint management with P2P technology, cloud integration and a high degree of automation would solve many of these problems. Adaptiva, provider of endpoint management and security solutions, explains how the solutions do this:
Endpoint: Low bandwidth requirements
Distributing software updates to thousands of computers puts enormous strain on infrastructures, especially when the majority of devices are outside the corporate network. Even minor updates can then quickly clog the WAN and VPN connections. Modern solutions for endpoint management therefore provide the updates via the cloud, where individual clients download them via encrypted connections and then share them with other systems via P2P. This saves enormous WAN and VPN resources. In addition, the solutions within the P2P network only use bandwidth that is not required and dynamically adjust the path of the data packets so as not to impede other data traffic.
Hardly any local update server necessary
Due to the initial provision of updates via the cloud and further distribution via P2P, companies hardly need any local update servers. Individual update servers may still make sense for rolling out software within larger locations, but even there most of the data traffic runs over the P2P network. Large, hierarchical update infrastructures that cause high costs are a thing of the past.
Reduced complexity
If most of the update servers are gone, this relieves the administrators of the time-consuming maintenance of these systems. In addition, modern endpoint management relieves IT specialists through extensive automation functions. You don't have to manually check computers for their update status, you don't need to trigger updates individually and you can be sure that all packages are successfully downloaded and installed. Unlike traditional solutions, which require a lot of manual work and often do not provide any information as to whether all end devices have really been updated.
Low cloud and CDN costs
When distributing software via the cloud, there are costs – not only for the storage space, but usually also for the data traffic. Endpoint management with P2P technology can keep these costs within limits because only a few downloads actually take place from the cloud and most computers get their updates from other devices in their vicinity. However, good solutions bring their own cloud storage space and are already integrated into a content delivery network (CDN), so that companies do not have to book these services separately or configure them in a time-consuming manner.
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About Adaptiva
Adaptiva provides serverless endpoint management that eliminates the need for extensive IT infrastructure. The system monitors itself by automating previously manual tasks. Leveraging innovative peer-to-peer protocols, the Adaptiva Edge Platform utilizes the excess capacity of devices already on the network - in the office or when working from home. This enables the IT department to continuously deliver software, configurations and patches to endpoints, regardless of where they are located.