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We are relatively small, with about 400 workstations and 40 servers or so on the network. I will check out Ninja One and Action1. I hadn't heard of either of those.
Sadly as for that other bit of advice, Solarwinds sales staff already have our info and it's true they are quite persistent. It wasn't Solarwinds, but I once contacted another vendor using a generic email account we created for that purpose and they used the domain to track down info on myself and other senior IT staff in the department and message us directly. I asked him straight up how he got our info and he told me about a service they subscribe to that specializes in providing private email addresses of staff in organizations like ours. It was pretty off putting and made me want to never do business with the company. Some sales people are really too much.
Check out Ivanti Security Controls (née Shavlik Patch Manager) as well. Or PDQ Inventory/Deploy. Both are better options.
Ivanti Security Controls is another I hadn't heard of, but we are actually using PDQ Deploy and it has proven to be a great value for us. I didn't realize Inventory included a patch management component. I will definitely check that out! Thanks.
I don't have to manage Ivanti, but using it is great! The GUI is a bit all over the place but you get used to it.