For many years we were using Ghost for saving time in our deployments. Almost 15 year later this product is still on the way. Ease of use, faster and useful.
Symantec Ghost Solution Suite is an industry leading and award winning solution for imaging and deploying desktops, laptops, tablets, and servers. From a single management console, you can quickly and easily migrate to the latest operating systems, inventory machines, deploy software, and perform custom configurations across multiple hardware platforms and OS types including Windows, Mac, and Linux. Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 3.1 includes the Altiris Deployment Solution 6.9 console and its core capabilities while adding key functionality from Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 including Ghost Cast Server, DeployAnywhere, Recovery Kit, and a streamlined no-cost database installation.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Symantec Ghost Solution Suite | 17.2% |
| Microsoft Configuration Manager | 21.5% |
| Sonatype Nexus Repository | 20.3% |
| Other | 41.0% |
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Manager of Infrastructure at a tech company with 10,001+ employees | No summary available | |
| Engineer with 501-1,000 employees | No summary available | |
| Network Engineer at a university with 51-200 employees | 4.0 | I find Norton Ghost efficient for imaging, supporting incremental backups, and offering a friendly interface for disaster recovery. However, I note its high resource consumption and lack of disk management or scripting utilities. |
| IT Administrator at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees | 3.0 | I found this tool easy to set up for efficient backup and OS restoration to various sources. However, I noted its inability to perform differential backups, slow speeds with large drives, and failures when backing up to DVDs on older Windows systems. |
| Network Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees | 3.0 | I find Norton Ghost a great tool for disk imaging and backup, offering unique features like automatic and incremental backups. However, its recovery CD is slow, it lacks partition management, and it's expensive compared to alternatives. |
| Network Manager at a local government with 51-200 employees | 4.0 | I find this a great, easy-to-use personal backup and imaging solution with good value and simple restores. However, it lacks advanced features like scripting and drive-spanning, and remote restores aren't always successful for me. |
