Symantec Ghost 8.0 Provides Customers Comprehensive PC Management Solution
Symantec Ghost Reduces IT Costs By Accelerating Windows Migration And
Streamlining Configuration Management Tasks
SYDNEY --NSW - October 21, 2003 -- Symantec, the world leader in
Internet security, today announced Symantec Ghost 8.0 Corporate Edition, a
PC management solution that now offers inventory and local cloning
enhancements to save IT administrators valuable time. Symantec Ghost 8.0
Corporate Edition assists in reducing IT costs by providing customers an
effective solution for operating system deployment, software distribution
and back-up and disaster recovery.
Ghost 8.0 Corporate Edition introduces a new hardware and software inventory
feature that allows customers to manage hardware and software inventories
within their networks from a central location. IT administrators are able
to ease OS migration tasks by creating "Dynamic Folders" to manage a group
of target PCs based upon hardware or software attributes. Symantec Ghost 8.0
Corporate Edition also now provides a client staging area that enables
customers to reduce network bandwidth by keeping a local backup and recovery
image, thereby eliminating the need to repeatedly push images over the
network.
"Symantec's Ghost 8.0 Corporate Edition provides customers with a
comprehensive PC management solution, which reduces the costs of deploying
and managing servers, desktops and laptops within the enterprise
environment," said Thom Bailey, group product manager, Symantec Corp. "It
introduces new features and capabilities that strengthen Symantec's market
and technological leadership in enterprise technology."
Symantec Ghost 8.0 Corporate Edition is an easy-to-use, integrated solution
that provides operating system deployment, configuration, computer migration
and software deployment across hardware platforms and operating system
types. The solution offers IT administrators the ability to deploy or
restore an OS image or application onto a PC in minutes and easily migrate
individual user settings and profiles to customise the PC.
Symantec Ghost 8.0 includes several new features designed to enhance PC
deployment and configuration management functionality in enterprise
environments:
- Hardware/Software Inventory - Customers can manage hardware
and software inventory from a centralised console and create detailed
reports from customisable views. Enables IT administrators to design
provisioning tasks based on specific client attributes.
- Client Staging Area - A designated repository that can be
dynamically created on managed PCs which provides the ability to launch and
execute contents locally, store whole disk images, software "hot fixes" and
user profiles. Contents may be preserved during a cloning or restore
procedure to ensure an "onboard" recovery solution for every PC.
- Multicast File Transfer - Allows an IT administrator to send
and execute individual files or critical security-related "hot fixes" to
multiple recipients simultaneously.
- Microsoft Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) Support -
Includes a 32-bit version of Ghost and GhostCast Server designed and
certified for the Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) as
well as for Windows 200 and Windows XP.
- External Media Support - Provides support for direct cloning
to supported USB, Firewire and recordable DVD external drives and devices.
- Enhanced File System Support - Includes the ability to read
and write images to and from NTFS partitions. Ghost 8.0 also provides full
LILO and GRUB support for the EXT2 and EXT3 Linux file systems.
Availability
Symantec Ghost 8.0 Corporate Edition will be available in Asia Pacific late
November 2003 through Symantec's network of distributors and resellers. For
additional product information, please visit www.symantec.com. To obtain
licensing information or to locate a reseller, visit
http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/license on the World Wide Web.
About Symantec
Symantec, the world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad
range of content and network security software and appliance solutions to
individuals, enterprises and service providers. The company is a leading
provider of client, gateway and server security solutions for virus
protection, firewall and virtual private network, vulnerability management,
intrusion detection, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote
management technologies and security services to enterprises and service
providers around the world. Symantec's Norton brand of consumer security
products is a leader in worldwide retail sales and industry awards.
Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has worldwide operations in 36
countries. For more information, please visit www.symantec.com.au
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