IBM SmartCloud Patch Management

Automatic patch assessment and management

• Provides continuous, automatic patch assessment and remediation of physical and virtual systems including both online and offline virtual machines
• Using a single server and console, can manage over 200,000 endpoints, including desktops, laptops, servers and mobile devices.
• Provides full visibility of endpoints and their configurations.
• Reduces remediation cycles from weeks to hours.
• Provides rich analytics, image versioning and federated image library features.

Reduced complexity

• Supports third-party software deployments and custom pattern creation to help you build once and deploy across private and public clouds.
• Offers feature and content updates through automated subscription services.
• Provides nonstop cloud computing, which can automatically tolerate and recover from software and hardware failures.
• Automates provisioning operations, and provides a self-service interface to reduce IT complexity and costs.

Enterprise scalability and security

• Provide rapid, scalable deployment with near-instant parallel provisioning of hundreds of virtual machines.
• Allow your organization to become cloud-enabled within hours.
• Serve as a foundation for adding advanced cloud capabilities as business needs evolve.