Faronics Celebrates 10 Years of Deep Freeze at NECC 2009

SAN RAMON, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Faronics is proud to announce that
a new version of Deep Freeze is now available --just in time to showcase to
attendees of NECC 2009 and to mark the 10th birthday of Deep Freeze! Over the
years Faronics' flagship system consistency software has gained a number of
innovative features that have enhanced the bulletproof reboot-to-restore
protection it has offered since day one. Ten years later, Deep Freeze is
deployed on eight million computers and continues to help organizations do
more with less by maximizing the value of their existing IT investment.

Deep Freeze's ability to lower IT costs by increasing computer uptime is key.
One of Deep Freeze's greatest strengths is that its benefits are immediately
felt--users get a fully functional computer to work on while IT is liberated
from tedious and time- consuming helpdesk requests. Organizations are also
able to increase the number of computers their IT team can support without
increasing employee headcount. For example, Paul Glenn, Student Lab System
Administrator at the University of Kentucky, says "ever since we installed
Deep Freeze the number of trouble calls we receive has dropped by 90%."

Newly released Deep Freeze v6.5 introduces several exciting features such as
the ability to create multiple spaces where data can be retained over
restarts. These spaces--known as ThawSpaces--can be optionally hidden to
deter end-user access and tampering. A new events scheduler now provides
greater flexibility in scheduling software updates, while the Enterprise
Console can now remotely deploy, execute, and control software on
workstations. Faronics is also happy to announce that the highly requested
ability to display customizable warning messages prior to workstation
maintenance events has also been added. Users can optionally be allowed to
cancel any events to prevent their computing session from being disrupted.

IT departments across the country have come to rely on Deep Freeze. "We
recently became infected with the Conficker virus, and while many school
districts around us took weeks to recover we managed to clean five schools in
less than one week," says Jayson Casavant, Technical Integrator at Rutland
South Supervisory Union in North Clarendon, VT. "Our only infected machines
were the ones that did not have Deep Freeze installed on them."

In fact, this year's National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) is using
Deep Freeze--just like they did last year--to ensure that any changes made to
the public-access computers are never permanent. Christopher Angerame is the
Director of Technology Solutions at techIT Solutions, the company responsible
for setting up and maintaining the massive IT technology infrastructure at the
annual NECC events. Mr. Angerame remarks, "We've used Faronics Deep Freeze on
all PC and Mac systems used in the conference for several years. The ease of
deployment and ability to 'roll back' polluted systems is a huge asset to the
IT support of the conference."

Customers with an active maintenance package for Deep Freeze can login to
Faronics Labs at www.faronicslabs.com to gain instant access to the latest
version. Customers who would like to reactivate their maintenance package or
purchase new licenses should call the Faronics sales team at 800-943-6422.
Free 30 day evaluations of all Faronics products are available at
www.faronics.com. Attendees of NECC 2009 can also see Deep Freeze in action
by visiting Faronics at Booth # 1528.

About Faronics

With a well-established record of helping businesses manage, simplify, and
secure their IT infrastructure, Faronics makes it possible to do more with
less by maximizing the value of existing technology. Our solutions suite
delivers total workstation reliability to IT, complete classroom control to
educators, and non-disruptive energy management to organizations.
Incorporated in 1996, Faronics has an office in the USA and Canada, as well as
a global network of channel partners. Our solutions are deployed in over 150
countries worldwide, and are helping more than 30,000 customers.
MEDIA CONTACT
Dheeraj Mahtani(Communications Manager, Faronics)
800-943-6422 x 4495
dmahtani@faronics.com

SOURCE Faronics

Dheeraj Mahtani, Communications Manager of Faronics, 1-800-943-6422, ext.
4495, dmahtani@faronics.com