{"id":8763,"date":"2007-01-29T13:01:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2007-01-29T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"symantec-acquires-altiris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8763","title":{"rendered":"Symantec Acquires Altiris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Usually when you think of disk cloning you think of Ghost.\u00a0 One company I&#8217;ve been hearing more and more of is Altiris.\u00a0 Apparently, their product set is excellent.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re an Altiris use, I&#8217;ve got some bad news:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><em>Sin<\/em>mantec is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/about\/news\/release\/article.jsp?prid=20070129_02\">acquire Altiris<\/a>.\u00a0 Symantec is\u00a0a company famed for their ability to acquire good products and ruin them.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll hold no punches with that company.\u00a0 I had to endure 3 months of working with SAV 9 and 10 and it was 3 of the worst months in my career.\u00a0 This was a situation where the cure was worse than the disease.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>If you are an Altiris customer then I would highly recommend that you check out the <em>free<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/joeelway.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!2095EAC3772C41DB!307.entry\">Windows Automated Installation Kit <\/a>(WAIK) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highwaycsl.com\/IT\/Whitepapers\/W2003SP2WDS.pdf\">Windows Deployment Services<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><em>Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/web2.minasi.com\/forum\/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21294\">Dave Bisson<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when you think of disk cloning you think of Ghost.\u00a0 One company I&#8217;ve been hearing more and more of is Altiris.\u00a0 Apparently, their product set is excellent.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re an Altiris use, I&#8217;ve got some bad news: \u00a0 Sinmantec is to acquire Altiris.\u00a0 Symantec is\u00a0a company famed for their ability to acquire good products &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Symantec Acquires Altiris&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}