What's the difference between MIGRATING and IMAGING, CLONING or DEPLOYING?

Since 1997, when we released Ghost, the world's first software cloning utility, Binary Research has been in the business of helping our Customers move data from Point A to Point B. 

BRI understands the subtle and not-so-subtle differences between these distinct computer operations.  Experienced Technicians know that each has its own place in the IT field, and they know that which one is employed relies entirely on the desired outcome.

MIGRATING is the process of systematically moving some of the contents and/or settings from one computer to a different one.  Think of it as an exercise in precision, where certain items are carved out and relocated to a new destination.

IMAGING, CLONING or DEPLOYING are terms that refer to the wholesale copying of the entire contents of a hard disk drive or a partition of that drive to one or more drives or partitions.  Most often associated with the process of rolling out a batch of new computers or re-setting computers to an established configuration, hard-drive imaging copies everything that is on the source drive to the destination drive(s), completely overwriting their contents.