So is marketed by Acronis as a time-saving tool for both IT admins and the users (the faster they can go back to watching Facebook or porn on their company PC. Acronis claims that version 5 is twice as fast as its predecessor and supports Windows 8.1 and Windows Surface. Like other tools of its kind, Snap Deploy is great for any PC administrator responsible for support more than a handful of PCs. Now on its fifth iteration, Snap Deploy is a client imaging tool that eases the burden of replicating a computer’s configuration and content, helping you to get up and about quickly a system crash or failure attributable usually to a corrupt software – accidental or otherwise. Now imaging replicating that process across 10 or 20 or 100 pcs and what you have is an IT admin nightmare – certainly a sure fire recipe for IT burnout or suicide by deployment.įortunately, since the early days of Windows, vendors have been to exploit this nightmare with ways to ease the burden of system deployment with more automated ways including creating mirror images, cloning techniques and in the case of Acronis, its Snap Deploy software. Percent of PCs deployed with a standard image for everyoneĪverage time required to deploy a PC manuallyĪverage time required to deploy a PC Dynamically Percent of PCs deployed by dynamic management systems Percentage of IT labor in Application loading by CDĬost difference per PC between manually managed system vs Applications dynamically installed over the network at the time of the users need or admin choice)

Percentage of IT labor in PC deployment by Imaging Statistic Brain tabulates the figures as below:Īverage cost range of deployment activities per PC In all one machine can take a couple of days to complete. One estimate says as little as 30 minutes (must have a slow watch) but the reality is that other factors need to be considered including driver updates, patches and installing applications and configuring email accounts. Installing a fresh copy of Windows 7 doesn’t take very long.

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