Symantec IT Management Suite [EOL] vs iQuate iQSonar comparison

iQSonar is a world-leading discovery solution
that drives operational excellence and bestin-class
inventory management in the data
center. It puts you in control of all your assets,
seeing through the complexity to help ensure
they are always optimized.
A revolution is taking place in the data
center that demands a new kind of discovery
solution. The way IT services are delivered
and consumed is changing rapidly, and you
need to understand quickly and accurately
what’s happening with the supporting
infrastructure to maximize the
opportunity.
You want the physical, virtual,
clustered and cloud-based assets
that give businesses a new scale
and agility, but you have to be ready
for the complexity that comes with
them.
iQSonar is a groundbreaking discovery
and dependency mapping solution
that gives unprecedented visibility of
relationships related to virtual and clustered
assets, and application dependencies across
ever-changing infrastructure. The depth and
breadth of iQSonar data will inform multiple
stakeholders and empower them to make
the right business decisions. 

Symantec IT Management Suite enables IT administrators to securely manage the entire lifecycle of desktops, laptops, and servers across Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, and virtual environments including deployment, asset management, and patch management to reduce costs and increase productivity. IT Management Suite 8.0 brings significant new functionality and enhancements to this already feature rich solution. Before covering what’s new in version 8.0, here’s a quick overview of some of the key capabilities of IT Management Suite:

• Reduce the cost of deploying and managing servers, desktops, and laptops from a centralized location in your environment 
• Discovers, inventories, and tracks all the hardware and software assets in your IT infrastructure and manages the relationships between them in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
• Centralizes and simplifies patch management. With this solution you can detect and repair security vulnerabilities for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems as well as Microsoft and over 50 non-Microsoft applications