Patch Management

Most patch management solutions require too much time and too many resources to maintain machines - preventing organizations from meeting their service level agreements and regulatory compliance requirements. Patch deployment can consume a significant amount of network bandwidth, sometimes up to 90% of the pipe — essentially shutting out access to critical business applications. And users are often forced to accept an update at the moment it is received—often with a mandatory reboot—causing even more disruption to productivity.

When it comes to reporting, most products show where patches are needed and where they have been sent, but not whether the patch has been “taken” by the machine. Worse, the reporting doesn't show why a needed fix failed to execute. Many solutions also don't allow administrators to deploy a patch or update when a computer is off the network—a situation that is increasingly common as more and more users work remotely.

BigFix Patch Management overcomes these obstacles through its high performance, distributed intelligence architecture, broad platform coverage, and bandwidth throttling capabilities. With BigFix, a single server can meet all of your patch management needs—faster, more successfully, and more cost-effectively than any other solution.

What is BigFix Patch Management?

BigFix Patch Management is a comprehensive solution for delivering Microsoft, Unix, Linux, and Mac patches through a single console. It supports over 250,000 endpoints - regardless of their location or connection type or status. And with a single management server and bandwidth and delivery controls, BigFix Patch Management offers the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry. First-pass success rates and integration with BigFix's asset discovery, configuration management, endpoint protection, and systems management capabilities make it the most comprehensive solution.

Features and Benefits

• Scalability—manage over 250,000 endpoints from a single server
• No loss of functionality over low-bandwidth or globally-distributed networks
• Ability to manage computers on or off the network
• Increase in first-pass success rates from 60–75% to 95–99+%
• Patch capabilities for multiple platforms: Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac
• Coverage for a variety of software vendors, such as Adobe, Mozilla, RealNetworks, Apple, and Java
• Real-time reporting that provides information on which patches were deployed, when they were deployed, who deployed them, and to which endpoints