Hands off my assets: 6 asset management packages tested

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RMIT IT Test Labs RMIT IT Test Labs is an independent testing institution based in Melbourne, Victoria, performing IT product testing for clients such as IBM, Coles-Myer, and a wide variety of government bodies. In the Labs' testing for T&B, they are in direct contact with the clients supplying products and the magazine is responsible for the full cost of the testing. The findings are the Labs' own--only the specifications of the products to be tested are provided by the magazine. For more information on RMIT, please contact the Lab Manager, Steven Turvey.
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    Geez you guys, do you think yo ...Anonymous -- 15/04/04

    Geez you guys, do you think you could have included appropriate candidates for this topic? Where is Marimba, Landesk, Paradigm, Tivoli?
    The fact that these were not included make this inaccurate!

    Guess Mike in previous comment ...Anonymous -- 18/08/04

    Guess Mike in previous comment does not see the difference in IT asset management and device management. Bigger issue in the items listed is these are all legacy software solutions. Difficult to integrate, upgrade headaches and very intrusive to your environment. Look at products that will grow and support you in the future and link easily to enterprise systems. Look at incontroltechnology.com

    other options Stuart McDonell -- 10/11/05

    Some others to think about include Centennial and Opsware. This doesn't end the list by any means. BMC-Marimba and Tivoli do ITAM also. The Opsware solution ATE (originating in Tangram) was the leader for desktop inventory. It supports all major platforms and allows Lifecycle management. Ask vendors to do a proof of concept, some won't. A proven track record of integrating to similar systems to your own is also important. Regards.

    Sofware Asset Management Review Petar -- 15/03/07

    We have 2 software packages BAM (Biomedical Asset Management) and NAMES (naval asset management ).
    We would like to be reviewed. How can we have you review our software?

    New Player 250 nodes per second Trevor Smith -- 16/04/09

    We are just releasing a competing product that is agentless ie requires no deployment. In appearance is similar to Altiris, does what most of the others do and some things that none do and analyses nodes at the rate of 250 per second and returns data at 2000-3000 nodes per minute. Installation takes 5 minutes and 1 minute later you have the results from 2000-3000 nodes and its cheaper than the rest. 1.5% hit on 10 base network, fragmented data so hi security. Functions from a wireless laptop and over VPNs. You can scan global networks from a single wireless acces point and send the data in real time to a server at another location. Picks up all remote users and anything that connects to the network even internet enabled mobile phones. an extreme example : provided that you have a wireless connection and the relevant access rights you can sit in a restaurant in the UK, scan a distributed enterprise across America and stream the data to a server in Rusia in real time; while eating your lunch and by dessert you will have scanned approximately 100,000 - 150,000 nodes .

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