Symantec Launches Norton Ghost for NetWare

-Reduces total cost of ownership on NetWare servers-

MUMBAI -- January 27, 2000 -- Symantec India announced the launch of Norton Ghost for NetWare 2.0, the fastest NetWare deployment solution for hardware migration and PC recovery. Norton Ghost for NetWare is a superior server imaging, copying and maintenance tool that reduces total cost of ownership by minimising the time administrators spend setting-up, rolling out, upgrading and restoring NetWare servers.

Manual installation of a NetWare server often takes several hours, with manual installation of multiple NetWare servers often taking days and weeks. Norton Ghost for NetWare enables administrators to set-up a single NetWare server, image the drive and populate the image across a networked environment. With Norton Ghost for NetWare, system administrators can install a single server in 15 minutes and multiple servers within a day.

Fast Facts Norton Ghost for NetWare: is a superior server imaging, copying and maintenance tool; reduces TCO by minimising administrators' time and server downtime; allows the drive of a single NetWare server to be imaged and populated across a networked environment; allows a single server to be installed in 15 minutes and multiple servers within a day; circumvents the complete reloading of NetWare on new hardware; restores a NetWare server in just 30 minutes.

"The Launch of Norton Ghost for NetWare from Symantec is not only an alternative for corporations looking at solutions to reduce network downtime but will also save valuable time and money," said Joy Gosh, Country Manager, Symantec India. "Ghost for NetWare is a powerful and unique tool that enables administrators to install, add and recover NetWare servers across a network, in a fraction of the time it has traditionally taken."

Norton Ghost for NetWare is also an efficient disaster recovery tool. Traditionally, when a NetWare server goes down, Information Systems must reinstall NetWare, load a tape backup utility and associated drivers, then restore the server from tape. This process can take up to 15 hours. Ghost for NetWare can restore a NetWare server in just 30 minutes by pulling the original image and configuration of the server from a safe media such as another server, CD-ROM, JAZ drive, SCSI tape or ZIP drive.

According to reports from GartnerGroup and Forrester Research in the U.S, MIS departments spend 50 per cent of their time installing software and performing upgrades, accounting for a significant portion of the total cost of PC/server ownership. Corporations spend approximately US$9,000-12,000 per user per year on installing, configuring and tuning new servers as well as regularly adjusting existing servers and network infrastructure. Norton Ghost for NetWare can help system administrators significantly reduce network-related costs by providing an efficient tool that clones entire NetWare disks, partitions, volumes, volume segments and files.

Using Norton Ghost for NetWare for hardware migration results in even more dramatic savings. Because NetWare cannot recognise when additional drives are placed in a server, manual methods of upgrading typically involve a multi-step process requiring between two and three days per server. Costs also multiply exponentially when upgrades involve more than a single server. Manually upgrading 20 servers, for example, can take up to 50 hours per server. With its unique ability to resize NetWare partitions and expand NetWare volumes, Norton Ghost for NetWare circumvents the complete reloading of NetWare on the new hardware, thereby reducing the effort to hours rather than days.

Pricing and availability
Norton Ghost for NetWare is now available and pricing is based on site licenses. The product is priced at Rs 3800 for a license of 3-10 users. A list of authorised resellers is available from Symantec's Website at www.symantec.com/india

About Symantec
Symantec India has a fully operational management team, comprising sales and technical support, based in Mumbai. The company has an exclusive distribution tie-up with Pacific

Technologies India Limited to market its products in India. This tie-up is part of Symantec Asia Pacific's marketing and distribution strategy for the South East Asia region.

Symantec is a world leader in Internet security technology and technology solutions that help companies manage and support workforces that use laptop computers and other mobile devices.

The company is a leading provider of software products for the consumer market and is rapidly growing its presence as a provider of solutions to enterprise organizations.