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NOMAD™ Software Distribution Re-engineered
NOMAD is the smartest, most cost-effective way to distribute software across the enterprise.
NOMAD’S bandwidth throttling removes the competition between IT and business traffic, and its
What’s stopping you transforming
peer-to-peer delivery eliminates servers and complexity from the network.
your IT landscape? Conventional methods of software distribution are costly, complex and manual. With 1E you can achieve huge savings across your SCCM infrastructure while actively improving your business’s performance.
With NOMAD you can treat complex, distributed networks as simple and local, delivering transformative cost savings across the enterprise. It’s not magic…it’s just clever
“Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and 1E’s suite of tools create a powerful way to manage the complexities and expense of today’s IT environment. Together they give IT managers the tools they need to derive higher value and efficiency from their IT infrastructure.” Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President Windows Server and System Center, Microsoft Corporation
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NOMAD™ Software Distribution Re-engineered
Key Features Reverse QoS™ Only Uses Spare Network Capacity Intelligent bandwidth throttling ensures that Nomad only utilizes the network’s available capacity, so business traffic is never compromised.
Single Site Download (SSD) Automated discovery of network topography enables administrators to treat complex, distributed networks as simple and local ensuring content is only ever downloaded once to a site regardless of the number of PCs.
Enhanced OSD Capabilities With Nomad Task Sequence steps available directly in the SCCM console, it is simple to integrate all of Nomad’s intelligence, even in the most complex OS build process.
PXE Everywhere Removes the Need for Dedicated PXE Servers Bare metal build capability from peer systems enables the installation of an Operating System without needing servers, network configuration or administrative effort.
Accelerated Peer-to-Peer Software Distribution with FanOut™
Peer Backup to Preserve and Restore User Data and Personal Settings
FanOut™ significantly accelerates the distribution of SCCM content between Nomad peers. From rapidly deploying software updates to delivering enterprise wide OS migrations in record time, distributing content with an automated many-to-many model ensures software distribution is achieved within hours rather than days.
Ensures automated, safe and reliable user-state migrations between Nomad peers during OS rebuilds and migrations, without requiring servers.
Tight Integration With SCCM The solution seamlessly integrates with and builds on the inherent security provided by SCCM, introducing no additional risk to PCs or the network. Its reliable automation means immediate distribution of software packages, system updates or OS upgrades to any number of PCs at any location at any time.
App-V Support Optimized for All Clients Nomad has built-in intelligence to optimize App-V delivery to all SCCM clients whether they are on fast or slow networks.
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Full WinPE Support Nomad’s full capabilities are supported in WinPE to ensure OS images and drivers can be sourced from local Nomad peers, protecting the network and ensuring rapid OS migration.
NOMAD™ Software Distribution Re-engineered
Business Benefits Case study
Benefits Efficient and rapid distribution of security patches and upgrades to Saint-Gobain’s entire PC estate
Transformative Cost Savings Nomad eliminates the need for 95%+ of servers from SCCM architectures, significantly reducing the cost of supporting new physical locations by removing the need for site-specific distribution points. Its automated process dramatically decreases the cost of distributing systems management content.
Fully Automated and Resilient
Reduction in expected branch server investment
Nomad delivers fully automated systems management for everything from day-to-day patching and application deployment to enterprise-wide Windows migrations. Its intelligent bandwidth throttling and usage management optimizes IT and business traffic, eliminating the need for scheduling IT tasks, or waiting until close of business.
6000 to 200
Agile, Scalable and Secure
Server reduction
Nomad’s perfect scalability provides the enterprise with a fast and efficient way to distribute software across the organization. It enables systems management to extend easily across locations, ensuring that the enterprise can react and respond to opportunity wherever it occurs. Nomad’s peer-to-peer model eliminates the risks around a distributed server structure, creating a fail-safe IT environment for the enterprise.
97%
Saint-Gobain reduces expected server investment by 97% with Nomad Nomad enabled Saint-Gobain to make significant cost savings, first, by avoiding investment in thousands of servers (and their ongoing support and management costs) and second through effective systems management and reduced disruption to users’ working day. “Nomad is a solution that has responded to our requirements and works very successfully for us,” says Guillaume Chuet, Desktop Solution Manager, Saint-Gobain.
Customers NOMAD is deployed across more than 11 million seats worldwide. Customers include: ALLSTATE INSURANCE ATKINS BANCO POPULAR PARKER HANNIFIN
SAINT-GOBAIN SYNGENTA US DEPARTMENT OF STATE VERIZON WIRELESS
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