We learned today that Symantec is a finalist in 8 categories for the SC Magazine 2009 SC Awards U.S. Here's the list of categories and corresponding Symantec products that are listed on the finalists list. 

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Christmas has come a little early for us on the Enterprise Vault team this year. This morning Network World issued the results of their Clear Choice Test for email archiving and e-discovery and the headline reads: "Symantec's Enterprise Vault Wins Top Spot in 10-Vendor Test"

Here are a few of the key points Logan Harbaugh made in his right up:

"The standout among plug-ins is Symantec, not because it offers more orless functionality or an easier interface, but because of the extremelygranular level of control given to the administrator over whichfunctions the user has access to....

Symantec Enterprise Support Services just took home the 2008 Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA) Service Excellence STAR award.  Symantec was recognized by the SSPA, an influential industry association for technology service and support professionals, for its exceptional support partner management capabilities.   The award recognizes organizations that demonstrate an ongoing high-level commitment to delivering world-class software and technical support to its customers and partners.   Symantec was judged by a panel of industry executives in nine different categories including partner training and certification, knowledge sharing, support infrastructure, performance metrics, customer impact, partner incentives, business drivers and creating a partner centric culture.  This award marks Symantec’s fifth SSPA STAR award for service and support excellence.  To recognize this...

Symantec has released Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 Maintenance Release 3 (MR3), which significantly improves the performance of both the client and management server software to help keep organizations secure without slowing business-critical applications.

Internet security software is supposed to run unobtrusively in the background but can eat up CPU cycles and memory. This causes too many organizations – particularly small- and medium-sized businesses using shared servers to run other applications such as email and file sharing systems – to fight performance and memory footprint bottlenecks.

The MR3 update's numerous improvements to address these issues include:

* Reducing the memory footprint to 30 MB while the client is running
* Shortening boot time to 100 seconds on a 256 MB RAM machine and to only 10 seconds on a 2 GB RAM machine
* Optimizing individual SEP server functions by up to 1,000 percent...