Blue View Imaging

Manage your devices, your image, your time.

Blue View Imaging captures one machine's disk over the network and writes it to as many others as you need. No agent to preinstall, no USB stick to carry room to room, no per-seat licence.

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The Blue View Imaging dashboard, showing system status, storage group activity and storage node disk usage.

One machine or a thousand

The same five stages, whether it is one laptop or a thousand.

Stage 01

Capture

Boot a reference machine over the network and take its disk as a master image. Nothing is installed on the machine to do it, and nothing is left behind afterwards.

Stage 02

Deploy

Send that image to one machine or a room full of them. Multicast writes the same image to many machines in about the time one would take on its own.

Stage 03

Manage

Register hosts, schedule imaging and maintenance windows, and push software packages to machines once they are up and on the network.

Stage 04

Brand it

The console carries your organization's name, mark, and colors. It is configuration rather than a custom build, so upgrades stay ordinary.

Stage 05

Own it

Your server, your storage, your images. Nothing leaves the building, and the source comes with the software.

How it works

A machine with no operating system on it can still be told what to become. That is the whole trick, and it is older than the cloud.

How network imaging works A client powers on and asks the network how to boot. DHCP points it at the Blue View Imaging server, which sends a boot environment. The client then either uploads its disk as a master image or downloads one to write. Client powers on, no OS DHCP points at the server Imaging server boot menu, images asks boots disk captured up, or an image written down

Why run it yourself

Runs on your network

It is your server, your storage, and your images. Nothing leaves the building, and nothing depends on a vendor's cloud staying up.

Branded as yours

The console carries your organization's name, mark, and colors. Configuration, not a custom build -- so upgrades stay ordinary.

An open foundation

Built on FOG Project and licensed GPLv3. You can read every line, and the source comes with the software.

Works air-gapped

An imaging server often sits on an isolated VLAN. This one expects that, down to documentation that ships alongside it.

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Tell us what you are running today and roughly how many machines. We will tell you honestly whether this fits.

We usually reply within a working day.

Built on FOG Project

Blue View Imaging is a commercial distribution of FOG Project, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3. The engine underneath is open, auditable, and not going anywhere — and anyone we ship software to receives its source. Blue View is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the FOG Project.

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