Altiris management suite is capable of doing most of the 2.8.6 Evaluating and Discussing Altiris: Overall demanding task seen today, a bit of resource hungry and a lack of user state features are a minus, but overall the solutions offers lost of other features that are worth the investment. Remote Control Reliable and secure for remote connectivity, it support mobile workers as well, it Rating: 4 has robust security features such as 128, 192, 256 bit encryption, plus it works in heterogeneous environments Audit & Asset Mgt Tracks software usage as well as hardware, its also designed to provide self help, with an extensive knowledge base to avoid trivial issues and improve efficiency Rating: 4 Monitoring It offers self-remediation task, and organize servers into vital groups, provides Rating: 3 quick monitoring, and status of the health. Lack functionalities and equipment’s flexibility Patch Mgt Supports heterogeneous environments, provides easy to use migration tools, Rating: 4 console is easy to use Backup & Disaster Recovery Because offers Recovery to completely dissimilar hardware, including differences Rating: 4 in RAID types, disk types, processor types, NIC cards, entirely different system manufacturers, which makes more reliable than the competition. Endpoint Security Detects threats in real time, virus database is updated everyday, also is easy to use Rating: 4 and to manage, and it integrates fully with other suites from Altiris. User State Mgt Lacks features, as well as flexibility, there are better suites that provide a better Rating: 2 functionality for a lot less Helpdesk Roust web-reporting capabilities, easy to install implement and deploy, and offer Rating: 4 a complete incident and management resolution processing. Usability Really easy to use, learning curve really narrow compared with the competition, Rating: 4 more cost effective when it comes to training Reliability System is pretty robust, very few crashes have been reported and the ones Rating: 5 reported have been because hardware failure! Performance Very resource hungry, lots of services running in the background, even for simple Rating: 3 configuration, needs a minimum of 1gb and to run a processor of 2 GHz minimum and 10gb of hard-drive storage, so it needs a robust server with lost of memory and processing power. Supportability Even though it supports Linux Mac, and the 2003 server family, it doesn’t Rating: 3 support 2008 server and a big negative since most of the companies are that’s migrating to 2008 server, it would be a waste of capital
2.8.6 Evaluating and Discussing Altiris: Overall Altiris management suite is capable of doing most of the demanding task seen today, a bit of resource hungry and a lack of user state features are a minus, but overall the solutions offers lost of other features that are worth the investment. Remote Control Rating: 4 Reliable and secure for remote connectivity, it support mobile workers as well, it has robust security features such as 128, 192, 256 bit encryption, plus it works in heterogeneous environments Audit & Asset Mgt Rating: 4 Tracks software usage as well as hardware, its also designed to provide self help, with an extensive knowledge base to avoid trivial issues and improve efficiency Monitoring Rating: 3 It offers self-remediation task, and organize servers into vital groups, provides quick monitoring, and status of the equipment’s health. Lack functionalities and flexibility Patch Mgt Rating: 4 Supports heterogeneous environments, provides easy to use migration tools, console is easy to use Backup & Disaster Recovery Rating: 4 Because offers Recovery to completely dissimilar hardware, including differences in RAID types, disk types, processor types, NIC cards, entirely different system manufacturers, which makes more reliable than the competition. Endpoint Security Rating: 4 Detects threats in real time, virus database is updated everyday, also is easy to use and to manage, and it integrates fully with other suites from Altiris. User State Mgt Rating: 2 Lacks features, as well as flexibility, there are better suites that provide a better functionality for a lot less Helpdesk Rating: 4 Roust web-reporting capabilities, easy to install implement and deploy, and offer a complete incident and management resolution processing. Usability Rating: 4 Really easy to use, learning curve really narrow compared with the competition, more cost effective when it comes to training Reliability Rating: 5 System is pretty robust, very few crashes have been reported and the ones reported have been because hardware failure! Performance Rating: 3 Very resource hungry, lots of services running in the background, even for simple configuration, needs a minimum of 1gb and to run a processor of 2 GHz minimum and 10gb of hard-drive storage, so it needs a robust server with lost of memory and processing power. Supportability Rating: 3 Even though it supports Linux Mac, and the 2003 server family, it doesn’t support 2008 server and that’s a big negative since most of the companies are migrating to 2008 server, it would be a waste of capital
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