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Techweb > News > Symantec Goes 8.0 With Ghost > Symantec Goes 8.0 With Ghost > October 20, 2003: "Symantec Goes 8.0 With Ghost
October 20, 2003 (1:06 p.m. EST)
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Symantec rolled out Monday Ghost 8.0 Corporate Edition, software that will make it easier for IT administrators to, among other things, deploy critical security fixes en mass to an organization's desktops and laptops.
New features that Symantec touted in Ghost 8.0 include a multicast file transfer tool that allows IT managers to send and execute individual files, including security patches such as those released by Microsoft for Windows, to multiple machines simultaneously.
Other new tools in the cloning software include a Client Staging Area -- a repository for storing and deploying whole disk images, user profiles, and hot fixes -- for one-time roll-out to client PCs, enhanced support for NTFS partitions, and a centrally-managed inventory of all hardware and software for easier provisioning of operating systems, applications, or in the case of a disaster, disk images to rebuild crashed machines.
Symantec Ghost 8.0 Corporate Edition is available now. "





Of course the question now is: how many more releases of Ghost will we see, now that Symantec has swallowed PowerQuest? We all know that Drive Image has the user interface comparison all sewn up. I doubt if you could find anyone who would be willing to admit it was a contest, much less give the cup to Ghost. Most likely would be a melding of the products.

I only hope that someone notices that Ghost has no way of verifying the validity of the images that it produces and gets someone on the Drive Image team to help.


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