Device42 vs ITRS Capacity Planner

Device42 provides agentless discovery, asset management, and dependency mapping for data center, cloud, and hybrid IT environments. Its scope includes CMDB, DCIM, ITAM, IPAM, password management, and application dependency mapping, in a self-hosted deployment. It can discover network devices through SNMP and cloud resources across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and OpenStack.

For data centers, its visual models cover buildings, rooms, racks, cabling, and patch panels, with power and temperature heat maps. Core includes discovery, inventory and asset management, integrations, REST APIs and webhooks, warranty and SSL certificate management, cable and password management, and IPAM. Device42 also tracks software licenses, contracts, and barcodes, and lists more than 30 integrations. Licenses count devices with IP addresses; non-IP assets do not count, and user seats are unlimited. If the device limit is exceeded, the software keeps running but stops collecting additional information until the license is increased. Pricing is available on request, and a free trial is offered.

ITRS Capacity Planner is a SaaS platform for planning and managing IT infrastructure capacity. It uses machine learning and predictive analytics to assess future needs across physical servers, virtual workloads, and cloud workloads, and can identify application tiers constrained by capacity. Baseline View summarizes resource utilization; Forward Thinking lets users simulate changes and plan scenario stages over time. Reports can cover utilization over a selected period, metric relationships, server activity, and storage. Cloud cost tools compare Azure and AWS and provide right-size, right-buy, and optimization capabilities. The service integrates and normalizes data from multiple sources, including Geneos; documented collection types include AWS CloudWatch, Gateway Hub, vCenter, and file uploads. AWS collection can include instance properties, metrics, and costs. ITRS describes AWS data as segregated by customer and project and encrypted with AES. The software is chargeable, and a 30-day trial is listed, but no price is stated. Projects are configured during implementation by an ITRS account representative, who users must contact to change project settings.