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GFI Software launches free asset tracking for SMBs

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Harmeet
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LONDON, UK: GFI Software announced a new initiative to help small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) manage their servers and workstations at no cost.

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Free Asset Tracking Forever is a no-charge component of the GFI Cloud suite of cloud-based IT management services that enables organisations to audit and asset manage servers and workstations across the organisation, as well as identify and manage units running legacy operating systems with minimal effort, all from a single management console.

As businesses grow, auditing and inventory of the increasing volume of computer and other IT assets becomes a major consideration for the business as a whole, as well as for IT personnel. SMBs frequently struggle with deploying and using asset tracking solutions, most of which are often expensive to purchase and to maintain support contracts, time consuming to deploy and use and limited in their ability to ‘see' beyond the perimeter of the core physical network.

Offering fully-featured asset tracking, the Free Asset Tracking Forever solution enables SMBs to deploy the service using a simple one-time lightweight agent installation on each target server and workstation that handles tasks such as monitoring the network, running services and assessing the health and status of each of your computers.

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For the many SMBs still running Microsoft's legacy operating systems such as Windows XP, Free Asset Tracking Forever will identify these systems and help IT staff implement additional security, management and decommissioning measures as needed, helping to ensure that legacy and discontinued systems are not overlooked, do not become a security risk or a productivity obstacle.

Once deployed, IT staff can get a real-time view of hardware and key software status using the GFI Cloud browser-based management console. The cloud-based nature of the service also means that mobile users working at home and in the field become far easier to include in asset tracking activities, as well as being included in the same single view as on-premise devices.

GFI Cloud and the Free Asset Tracking Forever service are completely secure, so devices can be monitored from any location using a normal web browser, all without having to leave additional ports open that could create a security risk. All communications are done over the standard web port 80 that is monitored by firewalls and antimalware software.