ITAM Tools Day Presentation - Snow Software. Presented by Andy Ridgers.

1. Belarc
Company,
Markets
and
Products

2. Belarc company
● Over 1,700 customers world wide
! US Marine Corps, US FAA, Kindred Healthcare, AIG Asia, Catholic
Relief, eBay, NASA, Sungard, Travelers India, US Air Force, US Army,
US Navy
! Many long term >10 years
! Located in 42 countries
● Eight US and Worldwide Patents
● Founded 1997, privately owned
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3. Markets addressed
● Software asset management
! Software license management (SLM)
● Configuration management
● IT security
● Belarc is frequently purchased for SAM benefits
! Then also used for configuration management & IT security
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4. Software license management market
● Market is fairly new
● Seems simple
! Match purchase records, discovery data, license rules
● Many vendors focus on the purchase records
! For discovery data use Microsoft SCCM, BMC ADDM, etc.
● Discovery data is often
! Incomplete – does not cover servers, VMs, other OSs, custom
! Inaccurate – CPU cores, hyper-threads
! Out of date – missing VMs = $s
! Not readily available – requires IT operations personnel
! Not enterprise wide – requires IT operations personnel
! No usage data
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5. Belarc’s approach to SLM
● Belarc started with the best enterprise wide discovery
! Automated, current, central repository of all host configurations
! Desktops, laptops, tablets, servers, VMs, labs, remote
! Windows, Linux, Solaris, OSX, Android
! Application usage data
! Scales to large world wide enterprises – 100K+ hosts
● Added purchase records & licensing rules.
! Based on QlikView’s BI toolset
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6. Belarc’s SLM capabilities
● Purchase records
! Central repository with Web based access
! Ability to link to other repositories, Oracle Peoplesoft, SAP
● Licensing reports include metrics
! Microsoft desktop and server products, SQL Server
! Oracle database, options & packs
! IBM server products
! Cloud products – Office 365, Adobe CC
! CAD – Autodesk, GIS - ESRI
! Coming: SAP, VMware
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7. Belarc’s SAM capabilities
● Best enterprise wide discovery
! Windows, Linux, Solaris, OSX, Android
! Desktops, laptops, tablets, servers, VMs, labs, remote
! Application usage data
! Scales to large world wide enterprises – 100K+ hosts
● Automatically creates a Software Catalog
! Based on discovered COTS, GOTS & custom software
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8. Belarc & IT security
● Most successful attacks target end users & servers
! Unpatched applications & OS (IE, Flash, Java, Windows OS)
! Out of date software (ActiveX, OpenSSL)
! Anti-virus and network defenses are ineffective in these cases
● From: Cisco Annual Security Report 2015
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9. Belarc’s IT security capabilities
● Belarc will provide a current enterprise wide view
! Missing security patches (Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle Java)
! Out of date software versions (Open SSL)
! Users logged in (local and domain)
! USB storage device usage
! Encryption status (laptops, desktops, servers)
! Anti-virus status
! US Government Configuration Benchmarks (USGCB)
! File integrity verification using hashes
! Discovery of all network attached devices.
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10. Belarc’s configuration management capabilities
● Software compliance reports
! Out of compliance versions of all software
● Automatic Change History reports
! Software and hardware changes by host machine.
! Desktops, laptops, servers, VMs.
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11. Belarc, Inc. 11
Belarc’s Customers
● Agfa Healthcare UK
● AIG Asia*
● Catholic Relief Services*
● eBay Enterprise
● Kindred Healthcare*
● NASA
● Sungard
● Travelers
● U. S. Air Force 844th CG*
● U.S. Army
● U.S. Dept. of State (DS)
● U.S. EPA
● U.S. FAA*
● U.S. Marine Corps*
● U.S. Navy
● U.S. BLM*
* Enterprise-wide deployment

12. Belarc, Inc. 12
Why Belarc?
● Best performance
! U.S. Marine Corps (USMC)
■ Worldwide - 120,000 profiles automatically updated daily
■ 110,000 NIPRNet, 10,000 SIPRNet
■ Integrated with USMC purchasing & lifecycle systems
■ Used for SLM, NGEN management, IA
● Best ROI
! USAF 844th CG, formerly AFPCA
■ Pentagon, Andrews and Boling (NIPR and SIPR)
■ 25,000 host machines.

13. Belarc, Inc. 13
Why Belarc?
● Easiest to deploy and maintain
! Kindred Healthcare
■ 26,000 hosts, over 300 hospitals, 28 states
■ No dedicated admins required.
● Best Software License Management
! US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
■ 57,000 desktops, servers, VMs, laptops
■ Microsoft EA, Oracle, ESRI enterprise licensing
■ Major savings on IBM license true-up.

14. Belarc cloud architecture for discovery
Intranet, Cloud or
Internet
Web browser
Access Belarc client
BelManage Web
server
BelManage
Database (CMDB)

15. Data Analytics architecture
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Data Analytics - Software License
management reports for device, user,
floating, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM
Purchase
records
Additional data – SAP,
PeopleSoft
BelManage – Discovery &
Purchase records