Enterprise Vault

Earlier this year we reviewed our strategy for service pack delivery and have stuck to a schedule during 2007 that we want to continue into next year. This means that we are releasing a SP each quarter for the current releases and not so frequent SPs for mature releases. We want to take this approach so that customers are less dependent upon hot fixes, which are by their very nature, created against tight deadlines and can't always be tested to the extent we'd like. With Service Packs we have a more formalised QA process which involves a greater level of integration testing. So the message is, you're better waiting for a Service Pack if you can. This is not to say we won't continue to provide HFs when appropriate but we want to concentrate on providing better SPs rather than frequent HFs. The schedule for the next 6 months is shown below and gives you an idea of the number of releases that we have to support...

What is Information Foundation?

Some of you will have heard about this from our various events or other marketing efforts, but if you’ve not heard about this before, we felt we should explain why Enterprise Vault and Symantec Mail Security are now within the same product group.

Information Foundation is both a Symantec product strategy and a Symantec product suite; in brief it packages our industry leading products to help customers protect themselves against loss, spam, viruses, and other information risks while providing centralized archiving, audit, and E-Discovery for enterprise information. Symantec released Information Foundation 2007 as product suite, under a single, subscription SKU and price, in January of 2007

As a product strategy, information Foundation is focused on consolidating multiple, stand alone Information Risk Management (IRM) products and technologies into a single, integrated...