Canonical Landscape vs Tanium Deploy

Canonical Landscape manages and monitors Ubuntu deployments, including desktops, servers, cloud instances and IoT devices. It can install, update and remove software, apply automated update and security-patch policies, and configure users and groups. For monitoring, it can alert on updates, chart temperature, disk, memory and system-load trends, show running processes and collect custom metrics. It also supports patch-compliance reporting, role-based access control, audit logging, APT repository mirroring and custom package management. Landscape can run as multi-tenant SaaS, as a Canonical-managed single-tenant service, or self-hosted on cloud or on-premises infrastructure, including air-gapped environments. One instance can manage up to 40,000 machines, with larger deployments possible. A scriptable API supports customization and integrations with configuration-management, monitoring and ticketing systems. Self-hosted Landscape and SaaS included with Ubuntu Pro are listed at free. Managed options cost $6,861 a year on supported public-cloud or virtualization environments, or $9,470 a year on bare metal, billed per physical machine. Ubuntu Pro offers a 30-day enterprise trial.

Tanium Deploy is a software management module for installing, updating and removing applications across large organisations. Administrators can direct deployments to computer or user groups, departments, locations, or specific computers and users. Runs can be one-time or ongoing, fit maintenance windows, or start automatically when rules are met. Software packages bring together source files, metadata, detection logic and commands for managing software on Tanium Client devices.

A predefined package gallery offers templates for importing and deploying third-party software, and a workbench supports building, maintaining and distributing packages. Administrators can make approved or assigned software available for users to install, update or remove through Self-Service Profiles and Client Applications. Tanium says its architecture can support hundreds of thousands of endpoints from one Tanium server without additional agents or infrastructure for Deploy. Endpoint operating systems include Windows, macOS and Linux, and each endpoint needs at least 2 GB of free disk space. Use requires a Tanium license that includes Deploy, Tanium Core Platform servers and a supported Tanium Client. Pricing is on request.