RF Code CenterScape vs Symantec IT Management Suite [EOL] comparison

With features not found in any other data center management software, CenterScape is a complete, end-to-end solution for real-time asset management and environmental monitoring, combining powerful functionality with an intuitive, easy-to-use console to drive data center efficiency, reliability, and savings. When deployed with RF Code’s IoT instrumentation layer, CenterScape continuously tracks physical asset locations and environmental conditions in real-time, allowing you to easily locate and manage equipment, identify and troubleshoot power and cooling inefficiencies, and avoid costly downtime. Automated alerts and reports can be configured for immediate notification of asset location or environmental condition changes. Reporting, graphing and 3D visualization are available at the touch of a button. And CenterScape’s database schema can be easily edited and customized, ensuring that your data is specifically suited to the needs of your business. With complete, automated lifecycle management, CenterScape makes it simple to manage your assets from arrival through deployment to decommissioning. By managing current and historical asset attributes such as financial data, physical location, and environmental conditions, CenterScape eliminates costly and inaccurate manual processes and reduces your total cost of ownership.

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