I have replaced my Symantec Server/Client/Notification Management Suite and HP Insight Control with Solarwinds and have begun replacing Altiris with Acronis. I would love to bring back some of the features I had and add a few key ones from DevOps in a more simple - manage provisioning mostly homogeneous Win/RHEL environment.
First place to start would be a self-service front end for operations/engineering that allows request of resources be it IP, switchports, imaging bare metal, deploy VM, add to monitoring (duh), and finally all that in reverse for decommission requests.
Easy to drive all VM environment when I can lock down the IP range, switchport needs and everything is managed by one system. I need something to handle it for bare metal as well - without costing me the last estimate I received - $7k per server!!!!