2010 BES Technology Training Offerings

The BES Technology Training Guide describes the various training program tracks that are available for the BigFix Enterprise Suite (BES) from BigFix®, Inc. It includes a complete description of the individual classes, as well as program layout to determine what type of IT Administrator should be taking with program tracks.  This guide doesn’t, however, discuss the installation of the software. For that information, see the BES Administrator’s Guide or the BES Evaluation Guide. 

G4 Technology Partner’s mission is to provide the knowledge and skills needed to use BigFix effectively and efficiently.

We are now 100% Virtual Training! Take the same classes from the comfort of your office or home-office with all the same fun and interaction with out incurring high expenses for travel!

 For optimal results, we employ instructor-led presentations and hands-on laboratory exercises.  We offer both private and public training.

 There are currently four generalized curriculums regarding BigFix Bes Technology.  Click HERE to download the new schedule.  Each class registration fee is just $500 per person per class and includes all your printed materials mailed right to your doorstep. Discounts are available to multiple students of a single company.

 INTRODUCTION TO BIGFIX (BigFix-101)
February 25th ; May 20th
1 Day Technical Training; Hands-on Lab Environment
Prerequisites: None

The BigFix Enterprise Suite platform provides a robust and powerful framework for managing large, heterogeneous groups of computers. Day to day operations tasks utilizing the BigFix Enterprise Suite are carried out by Console Operators. Generally, these duties revolve around using BES to manage and report on specific groups of computers within an enterprise. The BigFix Enterprise Suite Basic Training Course trains new Console Operators with little or no prior exposure to BES. . Through a combination of instructorled lectures and hands-on exercises, students will gain exposure to tools, skills, and techniques that will help them to effectively perform these day to day tasks using the BES Console

1. Advanced Solution Development (BES202: July 1st)

To really meet business imperatives IT has to operate effectively in 3D – across data centers, desktops, and mobile devices. With the BigFix Unified Platform, organizations can see, change, and continuously enforce critical IT policies and processes globally, or on individual endpoints, with a single agent and console. Other vendors can operate in one or two dimensions, but no other technology in the market delivers what BigFix does!

IT staff continue to be forced to do more with less. BigFix rises to the challenge of IT budget crunches by offering high

performance security and systems management designed for rapid time-to-value, low overhead, and optimized operations.

Speci­fically, the BigFix Unifi­ed Management Platform delivers the following cost-saving benefi­ts: real-time visibility, unprecedented

scalability, infrastructure consolidation, power management, software asset management, patch management, and security

con­figuration management.

Green IT

BigFix provides a scalable and flexible approach to computer power management, ensuring that IT can do its job and business

operations are not disrupted. BigFix Wake-on-LAN and flexible opt-in capabilities allows organizations to meet the needs of IT

staff and end users while still reducing overall energy usage by as much as 40%. Additionally, using BigFix reporting, you can get

accurate data on your energy usage, costs, and savings.

ITIL Enablement

The BigFix ITIL solution gives you a pervasive view of all assets and delivers continuous real-time assessment, remediation, and

reporting throughout the asset lifecycle. The program scales as your assets grow and provides automated policy enforcement for

both ­fixed and remote devices, allowing organizations to maintain con­figurations on the endpoint and track changes as soon as

they are made. BigFix’s unique combination of key features is vital to ensuring the success of an ITIL program.

Regulatory and Policy Compliance

Organizations can eliminate the challenges and reduce the costs associated with managing compliance by leveraging the BigFix

Uni­ed Management Platform to help increase visibility, centrally manage all endpoints, and remediate issues identifi­ed on any

managed asset. IT Operations and IT Security can leverage a unified assessment, remediation, and reporting tool to foster

communication and ensure accuracy of reporting against compliance initiatives.

Infrastructure Consolidation

For any organization, security and systems management consolidation can provide huge cost-saving rewards. Thanks to its

distributed intelligence architecture, BigFix’s Unifi­ed Management Platform is scalable from 1,000 to 250,000 endpoints with

minimal dedicated hardware requirements—one server manages up to 250,000 endpoints. BigFix administrators enjoy full

control of the computing assets at their ­fingertips, and they are typically capable of handling the work of several administrators

using traditional solutions. Regardless of the number of managed devices, with BigFix, a single FTE can manage the entire

systems and security management lifecycle.

Virtualization Management

In virtualized environments, BigFix helps organizations achieve IT security compliance by detecting and enforcing security

con­figuration policies—on both physical and virtual machines. This enables the organization to consolidate and unify the

compliance lifecycle, reducing endpoint con­figuration and remediation times from days and weeks to minutes and hours. For

patching, BigFix provides capabilities for real-time discovery, scanning, and updating of offline and online VMs.

Government

BigFix has a proven track record in providing security and IT operation solutions to government agencies. Whether it’s for a

federal civilian agency, the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community or state and local governments, BigFix has a

proven real-time situational awareness and remediation platform for all IT assets regardless of OS, location or network

connectivity status. The BigFix Unifi­ed Management Console delivers over 18 solutions for critical IT initiatives using a single

agent and console for mandates and programs

To maximize your return on investment in BigFix high-performance enterprise systems and security management solutions, we offer robust professional services.  Our professional services dramatically accelerate your success by utilizing the experience and know-how of talented technical professionals with vast capabilities in platform engineering, custom development, integration, remote and on-site training, and full lifecycle project management.

Field-tested professionals are skilled in harnessing the massively saleable architecture of our solutions. Highly experienced Fixlet and application developers deliver custom development to provide unparalleled outside the box innovation. World-class project managers employ the most efficient project toolsets and technical business analysis methodologies.

A majority of our professional services are delivered remotely via WebEx and VPN , which allows us to assign the right expert to your project and help lower your costs.

· BigFix Technology Training (view training curriculum) (view schedule) (sign-up for class)

· BigFix Unified Platform Sales

· BES License Renewals

· BES License Add-On Sales

· Implementation Services

· Deployment Services

· Optimization services.

· Upgrade Services

· BES Technology Proof of Concept Services

· Custom Content Development (Fixlet / Tasks/ Baselines…etc)

· BES Training

· Power Management Energy Study

· Digital Inventory Analysis (Hardware / Software Utilization)

· Security Risk Analysis

· Best Practices Generalized Consulting

· BES Implementation Health Check Consulting