A network administrator's life is not an easy one!

They are forced to forever chase the ever changing information technology goal posts: Tasks such as information archiving /retrieval, application deployment, security patching and OS system refreshes. And where a disaster strikes amongst these tasks they need the ability to recovery quickly and effectively. Here are a selection of network control management tools for backup, archiving, configuration, deployment and network administration to aid such tasks.

Alert Logic's Log Manager solution offers the easiest way to comply with regulations and enhance the security and availability of your network. This is an outsourced service.

Threat Manager combines intrusion protection and vulnerability management technology into a single integrated solution that offers both proactive and reactive protection from the latest threats. This is an outsourced service.

Altiris Client Management Suite tightly integrates industry-leading technologies to reduce the total cost of owning client systems.

Altiris Server Management Suite provides IT administrators with a comprehensive solution for managing physical and virtual servers.

Altiris is the family name of a suite of solutions that can manage, analyse and report on just about any part of the network.

BackUp Systems are a fully automatic and managed service allowing piece of mind that backups have taken place. The system is fully monitoring 24 hours a day so that in the event of a disaster or accidental file deletion your important data can be retrieved quickly and easily.

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery helps IT administrators overcome today's system and data disaster recovery challenges by providing a rapid, reliable approach to recovery and a non-intrusive method for backups on mission-critical servers.

Symantec Backup Exec Windows Servers is an industry-leading Windows data protection solution designed for disk. It provides comprehensive, cost-effective, and certified backup and recovery-including continuous data protection.

Symantec DeepSight Alert Services provide early warning of potential security threats. Delivered via email, SMS, voice, fax, and a secure website, these alerts are designed to help your enterprise maintain business continuity and improve adherence to emerging security regulations.

Symantec Enterprise Security Manager automates the discovery of vulnerabilities and deviations in the security policies of mission critical e-business applications and servers across the enterprise from a single location.

Symantec Enterprise Vault.cloud (formerly Email Archiving.cloud) enables you to confidently address the challenges of email storage management, legal discovery, and regulatory compliance, with the ease and efficiency of a cloud-based service.

Symantec Enterprise Vault provides a software-based intelligent archiving platform that stores, manages, and enables discovery of corporate data from email systems, file server environments, instant messaging platforms, and content management and collaboration systems.

The industry's most widely-used enterprise imaging and deployment solution. Its OS deployment, software distribution, and PC migration and retirement features allow enterprise IT staff to easily manage the entire PC lifecycle while reducing support costs.