Symantec (Altiris) and Dell, Better Together?

At Symantec's Vision conference in Las Vegas held June 9 to 12, Symantec Chairman and CEO John Thompson said in his keynote address that "Dell is adopting and building on the Altiris platform and will be releasing the Dell Management Console as part of their OpenManage strategy later this fall, based on our technology. The Dell management tools also integrate with our systems recovery and endpoint protection solutions, enabling you to install and manage them from a centralized location." When desktop managers consider Lenovo systems, they are also getting a healthy dose of the venerable LANDesk Management Suite along with the ThinkVantage technologies that come with their systems. Just because a hardware maker such as Dell or Lenovo has a close connection to a particular management vendor doesn't mean that desktop managers don't have good choices when it comes to the management tools they can use. At the end of...