Symantec Ready To Haunt Vista Migrations

November 6th, 2006: With the launch of Windows Vista officially set now, a lot of companies are starting to roll out their next generation apps to smooth the way for those immediately migrating to the new platform. And that is exactly what Symantec is promising with Ghost Suite 2.0, ease of transition.

Targeting SMBs, Symantec has updated its imaging solution to support Microsoft Vista and x64-bit Windows. Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 provides rapid and reliable Windows deployment, migration, and software distribution and is recognized around the globe as a proven, trusted, and affordable solution for provisioning and management of Windows systems.

According to IDC Research Manager, Fred Broussard, it will behove organisations to automate as much Vista migration as possible. “Windows Vista migration presents a tremendous challenge for most organisations,” said Broussard. “Organisations will require the ability to customise the Vista OS to include their company's corporate applications and security configuration settings, so newly provisioned machines will comply with corporate standards and make it easier for IT departments to manage their Windows environment.”

The company says that among a range of improvements, Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 boasts a number of speed improvements, a central management console, and administration tools to enable administrators to deploy or restore a base state of an operating image or application onto a PC in minutes.

It also features new user migration capabilities to boost data and application settings transfers between machines and disk images.

“We expect our customers in the public sector to be especially pleased with the speed enhancements in the new Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.0,” said Rick Marcotte, president and CEO, DLT Solutions, Inc. “Single-step imaging and the reduced need for large baseline images during a migration will drive faster recovery tasks and speedier data migration projects. This feature combined with the broader choice of drivers and multiple OS platforms, and topped off with support for Windows Vista, should prove to be a very compelling proposition.”

Symantec says Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 will be available in December, 2006. Just in time to satisfy early adopters who pick up Vista on its November 30 release.

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