Modern IT environments are more complex than ever. This is partly due to the sophistication of today’s devices. But it’s also because of how these environments operate now. Shared workstations, student lab computers and hospital kiosks all have multiple users every day, and companies with hybrid and remote work setups have their own particular IT challenges. These environments require a powerful solution to manage effectively.
Unfortunately, traditional siloed management tools create inefficiencies, security gaps and configuration drift. Deep Freeze Cloud is the solution. It offers a unified, web-based console that brings all these disparate environments under centralized control.
The Challenge of a Mixed Environment
A managed environment is any IT infrastructure that combines two or more different systems, such as on-premises servers with public and private clouds, or multiple operating systems and vendors. As you can imagine, this covers a great number of businesses, organizations and institutions out there. Let’s look at some examples:
- High-turnover terminals: Servers in dormitories and school labs all experience high turnover — many students using the same workstations and/or connecting their own devices to the network.
- Mission-critical infrastructure: Data centers and servers require high-powered computerization and they support countless functions, networks and devices.
- Public access PCs: Any public-facing kiosk has dozens, if not hundreds, of different people using it every day.
Devices in these environments require IT administrators to wage a continuing battle against configuration changes, malware and frequent helpdesk tickets. The need for stability and controlled updates cannot be overstated, but there’s also a non-negotiable requirement for rapid rollback in case of error. Such diversity demands a single, flexible solution, not a hodgepodge of separate tools.
Reboot-to-Restore — Powered by the Cloud
What these environments really need is some sort of instant, 100% recovery to a pristine baseline. If only such a solution existed.
Actually, it does. Deep Freeze Cloud by Faronics has many features beneficial to IT administrators, but perhaps none more so than Reboot-to-Restore. This patented technology allows you to restore any workstation to a pre-set pristine state at any time, simply by restarting the device.
Did a student accidentally make an unauthorized configuration change to a lab computer?
Was there a breach of a mission-critical device?
Did a customer do … who knows what to a public kiosk?
In each case, Reboot-to-Restore can be the answer. Turn the device off, turn it back on and it resets to a pristine state. By moving Deep Freeze management from a local silo to a global, web-based platform, administrators can deploy, configure and manage policies for endpoints anywhere in the world from a single browser window.
One Console To Rule Them All
With a web-based management console as your central hub, you can guarantee cybersecurity and IT management efficiently. Whether you’re responsible for managing a high-traffic environment, such as a college dorm, or devices with many daily users, such as an airport kiosk, Deep Freeze Cloud can deliver the protection your devices need.
Deep Freeze Cloud doesn’t only strengthen security standards; it makes the jobs of IT professionals easier. Deep Freeze helps reduce IT helpdesk tickets by a remarkable 63%, increasing the productivity of staff within the IT department and without. If an employee knows they just have to reset a device to get it working properly again, they’ve no need to contact IT. This means the staff can get back to their work quicker, while IT professionals can focus on more important tasks.
Deep Freeze also facilitates the use of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and hybrid desktops by ensuring consistent, non-persistent VDI images across large fleets. Furthermore, organizations can leverage Reboot-to-Restore for testing, staging environments and reliable rollback protection for less-critical servers.
Intelligent Exceptions: Security and Data Retention
It’s important to stress that Deep Freeze doesn’t erase user work. By partitioning a device into a “Frozen” drive and a “Thawed” drive, organizations and individuals can choose which applications and files remain unchangeable and which are malleable. This allows staff to save progress on their work while protecting critical data and functions, enabling the protection of work and the instant elimination of threats, without disrupting workflows. Since Reboot-to-Restore reverses all system changes, Deep Freeze acts as an eraser of malicious alterations, including zero-day threats.
Total Control, Total Resilience
Deep Freeze Cloud delivers unmatched consistency and resilience across your entire ecosystem, from the lightest terminals to the most complex virtual environments. It’s the only platform you need to stop managing environments and start managing an effortless, unified IT estate.
Please reach out to our experts today to learn more about the security and efficiency benefits of Deep Freeze Cloud.
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