Reality Check

Everyone knows that enterprises today are awash in data, which has created a staggering storage growth problem. That, in turn, has spawned some serious backup and recovery challenges. So far, efforts to tackle these challenges have fallen short.

This Tech Brief looks at how Symantec’s approach to data duplication enables organizations to reduce backup storage while providing rapid recovery in the event of a disaster.

Shrinking the footprint

Although deduplication technology has existed for some time now, many organizations have yet to fully realize the operational and storage efficiencies to be gained through it.

Deduplication is a method of retaining only one unique instance of backup data on storage media. Redundant data is replaced with a pointer to the unique data copy. Deduplication occurs on both a file level and a file segment level. When two or...

New technology from Symantec that harnesses the “wisdom of crowds” is fundamentally changing how spyware, viruses, and worms are detected.This reputation-based technology leverages the anonymous software usage patterns of millions of Symantec users to automatically identify new threats.

Continue reading to learn how this technology could change the rules of the malware game, shifting the odds in favor of users.

Coming to terms with a new threat landscape

Seismic changes in the threat landscape over the last few years have dramatically altered the typical distribution profile for new malware. Today, instead of a single malware strain infecting millions of machines, it’s much more common to see many millions of malware strains, each targeting only a handful of machines. In 2008, Symantec discovered more than 120 million distinct malware variants. In such an...