Information Week highlighted LANDesk Patch Manager as part of their "rolling review" over the weekend.  Being a rolling review, a number of products are selected but it is not a technical shoot out. Rolling reviews is a comprehensive look at the hot technologies.  Later in the year there will be a synopsis after the last product is reviewed.

A couple of paragraphs from the article...

LANDesk also supports a policy-based implementation, where you can define the types of patches you want to install and when. While distributing packages, we could use features like targeted multicast, which minimizes bandwidth consumed, or peer download, which capitalizes on local bandwidth by sharing packages already downloaded by one agent on a given subnet.

Moreover, these features enable pre-staging of patches, allowing for even more flexibility than the usual scheduling options we've seen. LANDesk also impressed us with Patch Manager's inventory scan. In our environment, it provided a surprisingly thorough physical inventory of servers.”

To read the full review: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/reviews/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=WDQ2J3NLSK1HYQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=207600574

If you would like to learn more on LANDesk's Patch Manager solution, please contact us at 877-624-8311. Our team will be happy to help with more technical information, demo, pricing etc.

Have a great week!

-Susie