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Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite Version 2.0

Proven, trusted, and affordable solution for imaging and management of systems

Key Points

  • Easy to implement and use
  • Install and get up and running in most cases in less than 30 minutes
  • Intuitive design together with built-in tutorials results in a minimal learning curve
  • Built-in software tutorials provide comprehensive explanation and animated demonstration of software steps and product features
  • Centralized management console provides the ability to rapidly crate tasks that can be deployed in minutes
  • Simplifies the migration to Windows VistaTM and management of desktop systems
  • Specifically designed with Microsoft Windows Vista in mind, providing full support for managing machines running the Windows Vista operating system, and migrating end users from previous operating systems to Windows Vista.
  • Centralized management console increases IT productivity and helps lower the total costs of ownership (TCO) for networked PCs and workstations.
  • User migration is fully integrated into the management console, allowing full systems upgrades from one operating system to another with a single click of the mouse.
  • Stand-alone User Migration component allows administrators to migrate user personalities even when the desktop machines are not connected to a network
  • Reduces deployment costs, complexity, and time
  • Symantec ghost optimized imaging provides significantly faster creation and restoration of images compared with standard tools included with the operating system
  • Multicasting minimizes bandwidth usage and speeds up the deployment of images or individual files, such as a critical security-related hot fixes.
  • Simultaneously deploy hundreds of Windows or Linux® operating systems across the enterprise in a matter of minutes, including the new Windows vista operating system.
  • Configure and schedule repetitive IT tasks from a centralized console.
  • Simplifies and speeds PC and user migration
  • Perform fast and easy broad-scale or 1:1 user migration of user data, settings, and profiles via console-driven tasks or peer-to-peer migration.
  • Administrators can restrict users from migrating unauthorized files such as MP3. Auto Install helps reduce the time and costs of managing software distribution across a network by providing an efficient means of creating application packages and updates.
  • Access rights and transport encryption prevent unauthorized access, helping to provide secure transfer and storage of user data.
  • A Client Staging Area minimizes network storage and bandwidth issues by allowing files and folders to be preserved locally on a system during an image deployment.
  • Facilitates secure OPC retirement
  • Reduces the risk and liability associated with PC retirement and data disposal by implementing the industry’s best-practice strategies.
  • Helps ensure that confidential data cannot be recovered from recycled, retired, or leased PCs.
  • Meets the highest industry standards fro secure data disposal, including Department of Defense (DoD) standard DOD 5220.22-M.
  • GDisk 32 provides secure disk wiping from Windows PE.

25 Words

Easy to sell, deploy, and support, the Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite provides licensing sales and services opportunities for imaging, deploying, and managing mixed Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® systems.

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The Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite provides licensing sales opportunities for imaging, image deployment, software distribution, migration, and management of Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® systems. It also provides services opportunities such as inventory reporting, secure system retirement and data disposal, system refreshes, and user migrations to new PCs or operating systems.

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The Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite provides licensing sales opportunities for imaging, deploying, migrating, and management of Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® systems. It also provides services opportunities such as inventory reporting, secure system retirement, system refreshes, and user migrations to new PCs or operating systems. It can be sold as a stand-alone solution for small to mid-size organizations, or added to an existing systems management solution for enterprise customers to provide industry-leading and market-proven imaging and configuration management tools.

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With more than 10 years of industry-leading expertise, theSymantec Ghost™ Solution Suite is a proven, trusted, and affordable solution. It provides significant licensing sales opportunities for imaging, deployment, migration, software distribution, and management of mixed Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® systems Sell the suite as a stand-alone solution for management of systems in small to mid-size organizations, or addto an existing enterprise systems management solution to provide enhancedindustry-leadingimaging and configuration management tools.

Ghost Solution Suite enables new services opportunities such as detailed hardware and software inventory reporting, secure system retirement and disposal of confidential or sensitive data, system refreshes, and user migrations to new PCs or operating systems.

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With more than 10 years of industry-leading expertise, theSymantec Ghost™ Solution Suite is a proven, trusted, and affordable solution. It provides significant licensing sales opportunities for imaging, deployment, migration, software distribution,and management of mixed Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® systems. Sell the suite as a stand-alone solution for management of systems in small to mid-size organizations, or add to an existing enterprise systems management solution to provide enhanced industry-leading imaging and configuration management tools.

The Ghost Solution Suite can also be combined with additional Symantec products such as Backup Exec™ System Recovery and/or Symantec AntiVirus™ to create a comprehensive Windows protection solution.

The Ghost Solution Suite also provides service opportunities such as detailed hardware and software inventory reporting, secure system retirement and disposal of confidential or sensitive data, system refreshes, user migrations to new PCs or operating systems and overall IT administration of desktops and servers..

Before starting a migration project, leverage Ghost toensure each system meets the appropriate hardware requirements. Ghost offers a built-in filter to identify machines that meet the minimum specifications for Windows Vista™ and allows for fast and easy deployment of a single customized Vista image to multiple machine types. Additionally, by using the hardware and software inventory functionality, it is easy to identify machines that have had the latest hot fixes installed, and those that have not. These machines can then be targeted and the hot fix can be deployed to help ensure a well-managed and secure environment.

For government, banking, and other secure industries:

The Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite helps reduce the risk and liability associated with PC retirement and data disposal. Ghost implements best-practice strategies that meet the highest levels of secure data disposal as defined by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD 5220.22-M). This helps ensure that confidential or sensitive data cannot be recovered from recycled, retired, or leased PCs. In addition, access rights and transport encryption prevents unauthorized access providing secure transfer and storage of user data during a system migration project.

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Symantec Ghost Solution Suite

The Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite gives your customers a proven, trusted, affordable solution for imaging, deploying, migrating, and managing Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® systems. Because of its versatility and proven track record, the suite provides significant licensing sales opportunities.

You can:

•Sell Ghost Solution Suite as a stand-alone solution for managing systems in small to mid-size organizations.

•Add it to an existing enterprise systems management solution to provide enhanced, industry-leading imaging and configuration management tools.

•Combine it with additional Symantec products such as Backup Exec™ System Recovery and/or Symantec AntiVirus™ to provide a comprehensive Windows protection solution.

The Ghost Solution Suite also provides significant service opportunities such as:

•Detailed hardware and software inventory reporting

•Secure system retirement and disposal of confidential or sensitive data

•System refreshes

•OS migrations

PC User migrations

•Overall IT administration of desktops and servers

With the upcoming release of the Windows Vista™ operating system, Symantec Ghost makes an ideal tool for rapid and reliable migration of your customers’ systems to Windows Vista and ongoing management. It offers a built-in inventory filter allowing easy identification of machines that meet the minimum specifications for Vista, and helping administrators quickly determine which machines require upgrade. Ghost allows for fast and easy deployment of a single customized Vista image to multiple machine types simultaneously. Whether your organization offers migration services to customers, or sells them the tools to do it themselves, Ghost Solution Suite is an affordable, reliable, and easy-to-use solution for Windows Vista migration and ongoing management of these Windows systems.

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