The January issue of CIO Digest kicks off an exciting editorial calendar for 2009. In the cover story, "Getting to One Click: An IT Transformation the Size of the Australian Outbook," Telstra Sr. Vice President of Transformation Tom Lamming discusses the five-year journey the media communications embarked upon in 2005 and how it will deliver an unrivaled customer experience: a simple, integrated, intuitive one-click, one-command, any-screen, real-time interaction.

The industry feature discusses the IT challenges associated with IP convergence in the telecommunications sector. The solutions...

The Symantec Data Loss Prevention team recently received their first patent for technology that helps customers to better discover and protect sensitive data. The patent was granted for "Method And Apparatus To Define The Scope Of A Search For Information From A Tabular Data Source."  In non-engineering-speak, the issued patent refers to the policy language needed to specify and configure Exact Data Match (EDM) searches. Exact Data Matching (EDM) accurately detects a company's structured data; that is, data stored in databases and other tabular formats. Structured data generally includes customer, employee, patient or pricing information. EDM allows policy authors to manage fingerprints of protected data to be matched against information that is copied, stored, or sent. The detection algorithm can find entire records (rows), partial rows, or individual cells of data that are inappropriately exposed. Congratulations to Kevin T. Rowney, Michael R....

TechTarget’s SearchDataBackup.com published an article this week comparing backup software and their integration with VMware.  Symantec's market leading data protection solutions NetBackup 6.5 and Backup Exec 12.5 were both included, along with four other solutions from multiple vendors.  The article highlights NetBackup, “Of the products, Symantec's NetBackup seems to have the best integration with VMware and provides many advanced features.”

Here are a few key points from the coverage:

• "Quick tip: Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.5 integrates very tightly with VMware to improve efficiency and has advanced...

When most people think about granola, they probably don’t think of cutting edge technology, but at Golden Temple of Oregon, a producer of wholesale natural foods, they are combining the two to create a successful, secure and well managed company.

One area where Golden Temple is leading the way with its use technology is with its virtualization strategy. Golden Temple is using Symantec Backup Exec 12 and VMware’s Virtual Consolidated Backup function to perform complete backups of its two VMware ESX servers. It is also beta testing Backup Exec 12.5 which will have a virtual agent to facilitate VMware backups...