Altiris is an American company specializing in Information Technologies (IT) related to web services, security, and system management products. Formed in 1998, Altiris is headquartered in Lindon, Utah.

Brief timeline

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Altiris started in 1998 when it split off from KeyLabs. KeyLabs was, and remains, a third party testing facility. Software was created to manage the computers at KeyLabs and that software became the start of what is now Altiris. Altiris develops software designed to help IT departments manage their networks and computers more efficiently.

Altiris acquired Computing Edge in September of 2000. Computing Edge's founders had come from Microsoft and helped to develop Microsoft's SMS product. Computing Edge specialized in extending and enhancing with functionality that SMS lacked.

In July 2002, Altiris acquired system backup and recovery technology from Previo.

In December 2003 Altiris acquired application deployment specialist Wise Solutions, Inc.

In February 2004 Altiris acquired FSLogic.

In September 2004 Altiris acquired Bridgewater Technologies.

In January 2005 Altiris acquired Tonic Software Inc.

In March 2005 Altiris acquired Pedestal software, a software company that specializes in vulnerability assessment tools (SecurityExpressions and AuditExpress).

External links

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• Altiris Homepage
• NS Experts
• Altiris Expert
• Deployment Guru

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