Seat limits for ANSA are determined by standard network latency measures in the same way an administrator determines concurrent user session limits on a Web site. Multiple ANSA inoculation servers can be deployed and linked through the same Web-based interface, and such a scenario may be beneficial for geographically distributed networks. However, Riley said, "We haven't seen any limitations yet with controller or agent."
ANSA is a cross-platform product, capable of operating across Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, BSD, Linux and Mac OSes, Riley said.
Mike Crawford, a sales engineer at Innovative Solutions, a training consultant and Autonomic Software partner in Sacramento, Calif., said the low price and effectiveness of ANSA has quickly caught on with customers, particularly when taking into account the short time in which his company has had access to ANSA.
"Before we had [ANSA], many of our customers were going machine to machine doing patch updating," Crawford said. "There are more expensive patch management products available, but for its price, ANSA is our go-to solution."
ANSA starts at $35 per agent for networks with less than 100 clients. For networks exceeding 2,500 clients, the per-agent cost drops to $13.50, according to Autonomic Software.
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