It has been a busy end of 2012 indeed. Last November and December, a few of my colleagues and I represented the Storage and Availability Management team at the back-to-back NetApp Insight conferences in Las Vegas, Dublin and Macau. At this technically-oriented conference,we promoted our latest product partnership with NetApp, specifically for:

(1) Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware (vDMP)- provides performance, availability and visibility for block-attached storage for VMware ESX.

(2) Symantec Data Insight- helps customers improve data governance through data owner identification and visibility into data usage and access permissions.

Through conversations with NetApp's partners and product management employees from around the world, it is evident that there is a big opportunity for vDMP and Data Insight integrated with NetApp storage systems.

Besides from discussions about recent product launches at NetApp and key partnerships formed, some keynote speakers also spoke about the importance of Big Data and explosion of data.

 For more information of Symantec and NetApp's partnership and latest joint solutions, log on to our partner portal, NetApp.Symantec.com.