Induction to Symantec Altiris Solutions

Altiris Inc. is a subsidiary of Symantec specializing in service-oriented management software which allows organizations to manage IT assets. They also provide software for web services, security, and systems management products. Established in 1998, Altiris is headquartered in Lindon, Utah, United States. Altiris has over 20,000 customers managing more than 3 million servers and 60 million desktops and laptops.

On January 29, 2007, Symantec announced plans to acquire Altiris and on April 6, 2007 the acquisition was completed.

  
Until recently 7.1 version was released these solutions had no support of 64-bit systems. So, it was not very popular as a new implementation to a new infrastructure.

But on March 7, 2011 Altiris 7.1 Suites and Solutions were release to general availability.
Not it can only be installed on Windows Server 2008 R2(except Core Editiion) and have no support of Windows 2000 as a client and server support system. I'd like to mention that it's announced that this solution supports all Apple Mac OS X computers from 10.2 to 10.6.


The whole list of supported configurations can be found here.
Documentation for all components and solutions can be found here.
Altiris blog.