Believe it or not, these days IT departments are still deploying new PCs and rolling out applications by physically running to each desktop and installing the operating system and applications one by one. Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition 7.0 is a robust utility that can make any IT staff's job a lot easier. Its central Ghost Console can remotely clone drives, install software, create incremental snapshot backups, and transfer user desktop settings and data from PC to PC.

Ghost 7.0 will be of most value to organizations that relocate users and deploy new PCs, applications, software updates, and patches daily. And with its ability to schedule centralized backups of hard drives or folders, you get peace-of-mind disaster recovery if a user's PC crashes. For environments upgrading Windows NT clients to 2000 or XP, Ghost 7.0 can automate the rollout.