Businesses can dramatically slash desktop computer set-up and configuration times from hours to minutes with the new Universal Imaging Utility 3.0 (UIU) created by Big Bang LLC and distributed exclusively by Binary Research International Inc. (BRI). The software provides a solution for those who typically spend an unprofitable amount of company time maintaining, upgrading, cloning and deploying hundreds or thousands of computers within an organization.

The new UIU 3.0 builds on the success of the earlier versions and includes enhanced features for greater efficiency, quicker and more accurate hardware detection and improved update functions.

The UIU, introduced in 2004 by Big Bang, was designed to work with leading hard drive cloning and data back-up solutions such as Symantec Ghost, Altiris Migration Suite, Novell ZENworks, Acronis True Image and others.

The UIU makes it possible for these programs to create a single hard disk copy or image that will work with a wide range of computer platforms and configurations. Loading in this clean hard drive image can be the fastest and best way to clean up computers compromised by viruses, spyware, bad drivers and bad data.

The UIU application is used immediately prior to creating a base image file of a Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Microsoft Tablet PC operating system and provides the user with a single image that can be deployed, via cloning software, to any computer regardless of the manufacturer make, model or configuration set-up. Using the UIU to prepare the source PC greatly simplifies the cloning process and eliminates error messages, 'blue screens' on the target machines and missing plug-and-play IDs.

Benefits

• software updates, security patches, service packs and bug fixes can be deployed sooner;
• machines can be cloned more often and at a lower cost than ever before;
• new system migrations and rollouts are completed in a fraction of the time with no need to keep track of multiple image files; • storage space is used more efficiently;
• IT staff time is freed to focus on more critical projects.

According to John T. Prescott, Network Manager/Administrator for the City of Melbourne, Florida, “My technicians used to take six hours to load and patch a new system. With the UIU it now takes six minutes.”

“The new Universal Imaging Utility 3.0 makes it possible to create a single clone Image that will work for all of an organization’s Windows XP, 2000 and Tablet PC computers, regardless of hardware configuration,” said Jim Szopinski, Executive Vice President of BRI. “The UIU 3.0 enables IT departments to drastically reduce the time and money spent on image creation and deployment by streamlining the cloning process. The UIU works with virtually all brands and models of motherboards, graphics and audio cards, IDE, ATA, and SATA hard drives and optical devices," Szopinski added.

The Universal Imaging Utility is licensed on a Per Seat basis. That is, each and every unique computer which will receive an Image prepared with UIU must be covered by your License. Please note - the minimum License available is for UIU is for 50 seats. Price for 50 to 199 machines: $20.14.