Does DELL Beat HP at Delivering Simplified IT Management?

Dell, powered by Altiris technologies from Symantec, wants to illustrate in published claims how Dell's management solutions will simplify IT management operations in contrast to HP's solutions. Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC (PNA) was commissioned to validate the accuracy of these claims. To start the validation process, they defined their case study environment as a mid-sized business with 3000 managed physical nodes spread across three sites. They choose a subset of management activities and routines that many IT administrators perform frequently. Next, they examined the functionality required to achieve a basic level of competence. They worked with independent service consultants to define the configuration of competing solutions for their case study environment.