That's right, the annual subscription fee to access the PartnerAssist program has been waived for any Symantec Specialist or Master Specialist partners who sign up prior to March 31, 2012.  Act now by contacting Symantec_PartnerAssist@Symantec.com  to qualify for this special offer. Symantec partners face high expectations for IT service delivery and increasingly complex projects. We find that customers are demanding more of their partners due to severe budget constraints and cost controls. The Symantec PartnerAssist program gives you expertise to build a solution, expedite a reliable initial deployment and transfer knowledge to our partners.

Symantec PartnerAssist  program provides a shorter time to value, and provides access to the experience, best practices and expertise of Symantec that achieve a faster and successful implementation, resulting in one less challenge for...

You may have heard that Symantec is sponsoring Level Platforms Managed Workplace 2011 Road Show, taking place in 19 cities across North America beginning February 8.  But how much do you know about Symantec’s partnership with Level Platforms?

Symantec and Level Platforms have teamed up to develop policy module for the management and monitoring of Backup Exec, Backup Exec System Recovery and Symantec Endpoint Protection in remote installations.  This combination of the Backup Exec product family and Symantec Endpoint Protection the Level Platforms Managed Workplace solution represents a key opportunity for partners and managed service providers. 

Security and backup and recovery services are a “can’t fail” category for Managed Services Providers. Now partners are...

Much debate has occurred over the priority order of information confidentiality, availability, or integrity.  Which one is more important than the other? It depends. Typical consultative answer right? You cannot blindly say which is more important.  The business situation changes the priorities, albeit minor in altitude.  Not all information is created equal; thus, we cannot blatantly say that it should be treated with the utmost availability, integrity, or confidentiality.

Customer records, intellectual property, financial records, personal identifiable information, patient records, and so forth deserve all three in the infamous triad of confidentiality, integrity, and availability; however, corporate Christmas party logistics, department communication, and the like do not need the same level of protection.  Therefore, it is paramount that organizations understand what is truly of value within the information store of their...

Deduplication is certainly a hot topic! I have seen many great discussions about deduplication in many different forums. Many of the discussions center around technical specifications.  Unfortunately, this is not a new phenomenon.  Technical specifications address the applicability of a particular product to a range of uses, sometimes broad but more often narrow in focus.  Deduplication has grown out of many different needs in the industry.  The greatest of these is cost reduction.  Cost reduction in storage, backup, network, and protection (lumping information security with data loss prevention and the like).

Deduplication is dictated by the requirements of the organization, technical bottlenecks, and operating situations. Ideally, you would deduplicate at the source (at the client) and at the target (...