Symantec Ghost Solution Suite - ( v. 2.5 ) - media - DVD - Win - French 13890749 Data Sheet
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13890749
Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite
Powerful, versatile, and efficient PC and lifecycle management
Data Sheet: Endpoint Management
Confidence in a connected world.
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The Symantec Ghost Solution Suite is the industry’s
most widely used enterprise imaging and deployment
solution with ease-of-use for managing the entire PC
lifecycle, including OS deployment with
hardware-independent imaging, software distribution,
easy migration of user settings and profiles, and secure
PC retirement.
Benefits
Reduces deployment costs, complexity, and time
• Helps ensure that workstations remain consistent and
compliant with corporate standards from acquisition
to disposal
• Simplifies image management and reduces the
number of images needed for deployment by using
DeployAnywhere™ technology to deploy hardware-
independent images
• Enables administrators to keep images from becoming
“stale” by using hot imaging on a continually updated
base machine and by using flexible image
management options
• Simultaneously deploys hundreds of Windows® or
Linux® client systems across the enterprise in a matter
of minutes
• Provides image multicasting to minimize bandwidth
usage and speed the deployment of new images
• Allows administrators to configure and schedule tasks
from a centralized console, including rolling out
software, upgrading operating systems, executing
commands remotely, and targeting computers based
on specific hardware and software attributes
• Enables the use of the Microsoft® Windows
Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) and Linux
to accelerate and automate Windows and Linux
deployments
• Provides administrators with flexible image options by
the ability to deploy VMware (VMDK), Symantec
Backup Exec™ System Recovery (V2I), and PowerQuest
(PQI) hard disk images
Decreases downtime, risk, and cost of user migrations
• Allows administrators to perform fully managed
client-driven migrations, simplifying implementation,
maintenance, and user-based operations, as well as
reducing the cost and risk associated with client
migration
• Preserves user data and personality settings,
minimizing post-migration support costs, disruptions,
and end-user downtime
• Allows administrators to set policies that restrict users
from adding unauthorized files to the migration
package
Facilitates secure PC retirement
• Reduces the risk and liability associated with PC
retirement and data disposal by implementing best
practice strategies for PC retirement and data disposal
• Ensures that confidential data cannot be recovered
from recycled, retired, or leased PCs