Customer Case Studies/Success Stories

Recent Success Stories

Coca-Cola Company, The

Founded in 1886, The Coca-Cola Company has operations in over 200 countries and more than 92,000 employees. Nearly 1.6 billion servings of refreshing drinks from The Coca-Cola Company are enjoyed every day. Learn More

Thai Airways International

A Total Operational and Economic Impact (TOEI®) analysis by Alchemy Group, Inc. found that Symantec solutions delivered significant operational and economic benefits to THAI. Learn More

Portugal Telecom

Portugal Telecom backs up two petabytes of data every week, manages approximately10,400 servers. ASymantec Backup Health Check highlighted PT as a beacon for best practice, high performance infrastructure management which reliably meets customer service level agreements and adheres to the highest levels of service availability. And one of the key technologies contributing to this success? NetBackup. Learn More

Cathay Organisation Pte Ltd

Cathay Organisation needed to protect data for its nine cinemas and turned to solutions from Symantec. Results include a 98% backup success rate, 100% file and server recovery success rates, and 24-fold faster server recovery times. Learn More

Dialog Telekom PLC

Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka’s largest mobile carrier, switched from a leading antivirus product to Symantec Endpoint Protection. Security incidents are down very significantly, and IT staff can now manage desktop security at remote locations from a single console—allowing them to cut travel time in half. These efficiencies allowed for rapid growth without hiring additional support staff. Learn More

Slovak Telekom, a. s.

Mention Open Source antispam freeware to Milan Slovák or Róbert Kocúr and you’re likely to be shown the door. These two expert IT security practitioners at Slovak Telecom were relying on this outmoded approach to tackling spam within the company’s ISP services, however, spam was rife, there were too many false-positive complaints, and the performance was lacklustre. By standardizing instead on Symantec BrightmailTM Traffic Shaper and Symantec BrightmailTM Message Filter, Slovak Telekom now has a highly effective spam filter which defends the ISP service against spam, phishing, and other unwanted email. Learn More

First Tech Federal Credit Union

Members of First Tech Federal Credit Union (formerly Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union) are increasingly dependent on online tools. A Symantec two-factor user authentication solution that supports mobile users strengthened its competitive advantage. Learn More

City of Miami Beach

Using Veritas NetBackup and Symantec Enterprise Vault, the City of Miami Beach has spent 50 percent less time administering backups and performing discovery, avoided more than $19,800 in annual storage costs, and reduced its nightly backups from 16 hours to 9. Learn More

Battery Source, The

The Battery Source, a retailer of batteries in Las Vegas, moves thousands of batteries each month. Symantec Silver Partner Kortek Solutions assisted The Battery Source with Symantec security and data protection solutions for a decade. Two-thirds of email is now blocked as spam, saving users 30 to 60 minutes a day. Learn More

24 Hour Fitness

By deploying a suite of Symantec security and endpoint management solutions, 24 Hour Fitness has found actual and projected savings totaling $5.4 million from March 2008 through December 2010. Learn More

ALERT Life Sciences Computing S.A.

ALERT has configured the technology so that the management of data in international offices (Brazil, Singapore, the U.K., and the Netherlands) is centralized through Symantec Backup Exec. Learn More

Eletronorte

To provide a secondary storage tier between high-performance Fibre Channel disk and tape, Eletronorte is in the process of implementing Symantec Enterprise Vault Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Archiving and File System Archiving. Learn More

Alghanim Industries

Alghanim Industries deployed Altiris Client Management Suite from Symantec. The savings have been immense: average endpoint deployment time cut from one day to 40 minutes, service desk calls has shrunk from 1,000 per month to 300 per month, and the firm has introduced fast, efficient hardware independent imaging. Learn More

Her Majesty’s Government (HMG), United Kingdom

Her Majestry’s Government (HMG) is the governing body of the United Kingdom, which makes new laws, holds the power to set taxes, and debates the issues of the day. Learn More

American Equipment

A longstanding relationship with Symantec Partner Wasatch Software and Symantec is helping American Equipment to lift its business to new heights. Learn More

Herefordshire Council

By standardizing on a comprehensive, integrated Symantec infrastructure (which includes NetBackup 7) Herefordshire Council achieved £900,000 ($1.3 million) cost avoidance through virtualization and saved £ 20,000 ($30,000) through deduplication, eliminating procurement of 10 terabytes of storage. Learn More

Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari(APSS)

Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari di Trento (APSS) in Italy, provides healthcare services within the Trento province. A blended Symantec archiving, endpoint security, and data protection solution is helping to reclaim storage (Symantec Enterprise Vault has reduced the size of APSS’ Exchange email archive by 46%), reduce costs, and streamline the management of the IT infrastructure. Learn More

Community Action of Greater Indianapolis

Backup Exec has impacted this non-profit in both time savings and hard cost savings. Learn More

012 Smile.Communications

High-availability labor productivity gains of $1,447,022. Messaging security labor productivity gains and cost avoidance totaling $724,521. And server consolidation cost avoidance of $474,000. All of this and more have been achieved by 012 Smile.Communications―a leading Israeli telecommunications provider―in just over four years. Learn More

Bank Vontobel AG

Bank Vontobel AG an independent Swiss private bank and international asset management specialist with headquarters in Zurich opted for Symantec Enterprise Vault to meet FINMA, the Swiss financial supervisory authority requirements for securities transactions and all related legal information. Learn More

Marcegaglia S.p.a.

Enterprise Vault 9.0 for Microsoft Exchange opened up a wealth of new opportunities for Marcegaglia S.p.a., including deduplication, enhanced discovery, and improved searching. Learn More

Northeastern Illinois University

Northeastern Illinois University leveraged an IT consolidation program to simultaneously break down organizational silos, reduce costs, improve backup and restore processes and tighten messaging security. The consolidation program not only improved IT effectiveness, but sharply reduced its vulnerability to malicious email SPAM exploits. Learn More

Bell America Mortgage, LLC

Bell America Mortgage, LLC was losing time and money due to spam and a cumbersome, ineffective endpoint security solution. The company turned to hosted endpoint security and messaging security solutions from Symantec, reclaiming more than 3,800 hours of staff productivity hours per year1 and increasing threat detection by 35-fold. Learn More

Cbeyond, Inc.

With Symantec NetBackup, Cbeyond has doubled its backup success rate to 90 percent while cutting the amount of time “babysitting” backups by two-thirds. Deduplication has helped Cbeyond avoid spending $250,000 on storage in just six months. Learn More