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Latin America Visionaries
.peter | 02 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

In conjunction with Vision events held throughout Latin America the past couple weeks, Symantec recognized five Latin American 2008 Visionaries. The recipients were selected based on their technology innovation, realization of quantified business value, and their leverage of partners and services. They represent several different industries and technology solution areas. Each of them received their Visionary Awards at the end of each of the keynote addresses at the Symantec Vision events in Mexico City, Mexico, San Paolo, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

Mexico Visionaries

Manuel González
CIO, Grupo Elektra
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Manuel González, Chief Information Officer for Grupo Elektra, led an initiative to standardize IT systems across his...

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Federal, State, and Local Symantec Government Visionaries Recognized
.peter | 02 Mar 2009 | 0 comments
As part of our Symantec Government Symposium 2008, Symantec named three Visionary recipients in each public sector category: Federal, State, and Local. Visionary award winners are selected based on criteria that include technology innovation, tangible business value, and the role of Symantec partners and services. With many public sector IT budgets and staff allocations remaining static, or in many cases, shrinking, it takes new and interesting approaches to be successful in IT management. Ten Visionary Award winners were recognized at the Vision event in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 10, 2008.
The Envelope Please
Each of our three Visionary recipients faced some stiff competition. Their use of technology, ability to tie the business to technology initiatives, and interest in driving business value across various constituents are just a few of the compelling factors that led to their selection. Without further ado, please join us in congratulating...
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New Document: Symantec Security Information Manager 4.5 Reporting Guide
Roblee | 02 Mar 2009 | 0 comments
One of our fine authors, Jeremy Geiger, has just finished up a document that details the reporting and querying features that are available when you first install Security Information Manager. You can find this document on the Symantec Support Web site at:
 
 
This document provides the following information:
  • An overview of the querying and reporting features
  • Steps for creating and managing queries and reports
  • A reference of all default queries

So give it a read if it interests you, and post any feedback that you have on it as a reply to this post.

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Protecting the “Crown Jewels”
CTO Mark_Bregman | 02 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

Office of the CTO Guest Blogger:   
Hi,I’m Steve Trilling, vice president of Symantec Research Labs (SRL), thecompany’s technology research division. It’s been an exciting week for me, seeing the announcement of our newSymantec Database Security 3.0.  This isthe newest version of our product that protects the critical data in corporateand government databases from insider and hacking attacks.  I had no direct involvement in thisrelease but an important part of my organization, our Advanced Conceptsteam, literally came to life through Symantec Database Security.  

Backin 2004, I was running a much smaller Symantec Research Labs team and one ofour key researchers, Carey Nachenberg, now a Symantec Fellow, had beeninvestigating the database protection space. Carey built some working prototypes and we pitched the idea ofcommercializing a new database...

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SMASH Data Center Complexity
CTO Mark_Bregman | 02 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

Office of the CTO Guest Blogger:

Gary Phillips, Senior Director, Standards and Open Source

 

At Symantec we take an independent and open approach to the market.  It’s a primary goal to provide our customers with solutions that are interoperable across any operating system, storage platform, application stack, file system or backup strategy.

To this end, actively working with various industry standard groups is a key part of my charter as senior director of standards and open source at Symantec.  Today, The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF, http://www.dmtf.org), announced Version 2.0 of the Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware - better known as "SMASH" - that is critical for reducing data center complexity.

SMASH (...

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Trying Something New
Roblee | 02 Mar 2009 | 0 comments
One piece of feedback that I've gotten pretty consistently is that it's too hard for folks to find our documentation. So we're trying a little experiment with the documentation for the Storage Foundation manuals. We've put links to the product documentation right at the top of their STN support forum. Hopefully, folks who are looking for answers can find them there. Further folks who know the answers can more easily point people to the product documentation and save themselves some typing.
 
Here's what it looks like:

The links appear under the Announcements section, and just above the forum posts.

Please let us know if you like the idea. If it's a hit, we'll do this for more products pronto!

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The iPhone
CTO Mark_Bregman | 02 Mar 2009 | 3 comments

At our Vision conference a few weeks ago I gave a keynote on the future of technology.  I highlighted three trends that I see: the evolution of the data center, the collapse of the boundary between enterprises and the consumerization of IT.  This past weekend illustrated the last trend in Technicolor.  What I’m referring to is the launch of the much anticipated iPhone by Apple.  For the record, I did not wait in line over night on Thursday but I was able to get my very own iPhone on Saturday.

I’m sure our IT folks are nervous now that I have one in my possession.  They are probably waiting by the phone for me to call to have them ‘activate’ corporate email on it.  Seriously, the iPhone is a great consumer device.  It is one of the slickest and easiest to use smart phones I’ve seen.  While Apple is aiming this at consumers, there are a few hints that it will make it into the corporate IT world sooner rather than...

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Get the Picture?
Roblee | 02 Mar 2009 | 0 comments
A lot of folks ask why technical writers don't include more screenshots in their work. Some readers really find it helpful to see images of the screen that they're working with. In fact many folks have suggested that we have a screenshot for every step in a procedure. One person commented that adding more screenshots should make our work easier. He said "After all, a picture is worth a 1000 words, right? So you guys can do less writing then!"
 
The truth is that it's just not that simple. There are many problems that must be overcome to include screenshots.
 
The most common problem with screenshots is related to translation costs. If the software and documentation are localized, screenshots that were captured in the US English version of a program will have to be reshot for each language. Given that many products are often translated into over 30 languages, this represents a huge effort. This is especially true when you...
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Vision Conference Provides Key Linkage for Customers
CTO Mark_Bregman | 02 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

This week I attended our annual Vision conference that brought in a record setting 3,500 attendees.  It was my fifth time at the event, and this year I think we successfully extended beyond its historical storage and availability focus to include security and compliance.  
 
This is a sentiment I heard several customers mention.  One customer in particular appreciated how the traditional storage product news tied into the need to look at security differently. Others noted that the breadth of our solutions really came into focus.  
 
In fact I think we captured two important areas of linkage - the link between storage and security, and the link between consumers and our enterprise customers.
 
Looking at the first, the presentations emphasized the need to look at all facets of IT risk, including the risks to security, to availability, to performance and to compliance.
 
The...

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Fostering Our Global Innovation Strategy
CTO Mark_Bregman | 02 Mar 2009 | 0 comments


Mark Bregman,
Chief Technology Officer, Symantec Corporation

Starting off a blog is not much different than a birthday card…suddenly you aren’t sure what to write.  So let me start off with the goal of this technology blog.  As the name captures, this is a chance to muse about technology.   But before I launch into a diatribe about technology I want to look at the step before – the spark of an idea – that, if developed properly, leads to technology innovation.

This week I’m at Symantec’s Vision 2007 conference.  A place where our enterprise customers meet to learn the latest on our products, and to describe the innovations they’d like to see in the future.

Fostering our global innovation strategy is one of my top priorities at Symantec.  Our broader strategy of open...

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