Norton Ghost 2003 and Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition 7.5
The Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition 7.5 has even more features including:
“Remote Boot” Technology. By scanning the network, an IT administrator can use the Ghost Console to browse for and locate PCs on the network in order to deploy the Ghost client. Once installed, the Ghost client can on demand create a “virtual partition” which contains a fully functional Ghost boot environment thereby eliminating the need to visit the host PC with a boot diskette or deploy a physical boot partition.
Client initiated Tasks. These provide an optional secure method to perform console tasks at a workstation, which eliminates the need for an IT Administrator to return to the Ghost Server Console to perform a task, saves time, and enables an end user to “help themselves” by initiating cloning, application pull tasks, as well as user migrations from the workstation.
GhostCast Server. Provides three methods of Ghost image deployment, allowing an IT administrator to choose the method that best meets their bandwidth requirements:
• Multicast: The simultaneous deployment of one image to many computers
• Unicast: The deployment to a single client
• Subnet Targeted broadcast: Selective deployment based upon subnet grouping
GhostCast Throttle. Allows you to “throttle down” the multicast speed so you can reduce the amount of network bandwidth consumed during multicasting for improved network performance.
Ghost provides support for Windows 2000 Professional and Server, Windows XP Pro and Linux EXT2/3 file systems.
Ghost is very easy to use and is excellent for software deployment from five machines up to many thousand.
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