Altiris, Inc. provides service-oriented management software products and services. It offers various solutions to deploy, migrate, patch, restore, and audit security settings; manage servers; track performance and diagnostic metrics for hardware and software; take inventory of information technology assets; access security compliance; remediate vulnerabilities; protect sensitive data; and automate service support processes. The company’s products include Total Management suite, which helps information technology (IT) organizations manage, secure, and support the IT assets; Client Management suite that integrates lifecycle management deployment and configuration management for client and mobile devices; Server Management suite, which offers integrated and heterogeneous deployment, management, and monitoring functions from a centralized console; Service and Asset Management suite that automates operations and enterprise asset and service management based on a Web-based architecture, repository, and console; Client Security Management suite, which offers configuration assurance, data protection, and threat prevention; License Compliance suite that automates the management of software licenses through software inventory, application metering, and license agreement management; Migration suite, which is a migration solution; and Handheld Management suite that manages and secures handheld assets. It serves communications, energy, financial/consulting services, healthcare/pharmaceuticals, information technology, insurance, and manufacturing/retail industries. It has strategic relationships with Intel, Microsoft, Fujitsu Siemens, Cisco, CSC, Dell Consulting Services, EDS, Getronics, HP, IBM Global Services, Northrop Grumman, and Unisys. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Lindon, Utah. As of April 6, 2007, Altiris Inc. is a subsidiary of Symantec Corp.