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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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Overview

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

• Fast and reliable deployment and migration of user data

and settings to the latest OS, including Windows 7

• Enables administrators to keep images from becoming

“stale” by using hot imaging on a continually updated

base machine, and flexible image management options

• Simultaneously deploys hundreds of Windows® or Linux®

client systems across the enterprise in minutes

• 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

• Provides image multicasting to minimize bandwidth

usage and speed the deployment of new images

• Enables the use of the Microsoft® Windows

Preinstallation Environment, 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, and reduces

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

• Meets the highest industry standards for secure data

disposal, including Department of Defense (DoD)

standards

Summary of content (4 pages)

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Data Sheet: Endpoint Management Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite Powerful, versatile, and efficient PC and lifecycle management Overview 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.
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Data Sheet: Endpoint Management Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite Features Industry leading hardware independent imaging Windows and PC migration • Symantec™ AutoInstall reduces the time and cost of • DeployAnywhere™ technology inserts hardware drivers managing software distribution across a network by at the appropriate time during imaging to support a providing an efficient means of installing application large variety of hardware configurations packages and updates • Creates file-based images of an
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Data Sheet: Endpoint Management Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite Systems management - continued • A centralized management console increases IT productivity and helps lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for networked PCs and workstations • New recovery kit allows VARs and system integrators to provision an onboard boot environment— eliminating System requirements Following represents minimum hardware and software requirements to run all Symantec Ghost Solution Suite components, which may vary by compone
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Data Sheet: Endpoint Management Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite Symantec Ghost Imaging Tools -continued Visit Our Web Site • Hardware RAID only supported with Ghost32.exe in http://enterprise.symantec.com Pre-OS environment (MS WinPE or similar) • Support for FAT, FAT32. NTFS, non-boot GPT partitions, native Linux ExT2 and ExT3 Contact Us Today Call toll-free 1 (800) 745 6054 To speak with a Product Specialist outside the U.S. For specific country offices and contact numbers, please visit our website.