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Why settle for good when you can build great products? VMware and Symantec partnership on application-aware high availability
saveen pakala | 16 Aug 2010 | 0 comments

Building great products is never an accident. Often the difference between good and great products is not the coolest technology or the meanest performing gadget. It is its laser focus on addressing a pressing customer challenge as quickly as possible with the best of breed technologies.

VMware and Symantec have been working feverishly as one team in doing just that over the past few months in addressing a significant customer challenge around application-aware high availability.

Both companies had individually heard from their respective (and often overlapping) customers about the need for application level visibility, control, and high availability in VMware ecosystem. Lack of a good solution that addresses this need had been preventing customers from bringing virtualization benefits to business critical tier1 application – a significant challenge impacting customers’ virtualization initiatives.

It just took one 30 minute conference call between...

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Make your storage solution fit into your Desktop Virtualization Strategy
DLamorena | 26 Aug 2010 | 4 comments

Server virtualization and storage virtualization is a vehicle that many companies have adopted as the leading strategy to help them accomplish more with less resources. At the endpoints, desktop virtualization is also turning corners now and CIOs are building strategies around centralizing data, applications and desktop operating systems, while realizing that the savings span across multiple lines of business. However, there are many challenges associated with virtual desktop environments, which is why today we are announcing Symantec VirtualStore.

No one will argue that desktop virtualization comes with a significant upfront investment, but the clear goal is to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) per employee.
With a centrally hosted desktop solution, IT administrators can:

  • Reduce data loss due to downtime or lost disks.
  • Reduce administrative overhead of maintaining 1000s of desktops.
  • Reduce OPEX helpdesk costs
  • Increase...
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Make your storage solution cost effective for the VMware ecosystem
Fahima | 26 Aug 2010 | 1 comment

In an attempt to meet the rapid changes and  quick growth of IT environments, many organizations have responded by consolidating data centers and infrastructure. A major focus is to create a more agile and efficient data center by closely aligning infrastructure and the applications they support in a way that provides significant ROI. Server virtualization is one way of doing this with its ability to enable organizations to reduce capital expenses and operating costs while providing higher service levels. That is why today we are announcing Symantec VirtualStore.

Server virtualizations come its own challenges, most notably storage management for ESX environments. While a majority of VMware ESX servers connect to their datastores using either Fiber Channel or iSCSI, NFS for VMware has squashed many associated myths related to performance and scalability and is now a very popular protocol for ESX servers.

To solve the storage challenges associated with server...

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Storage Trends from the Execs
yuechang | 17 Jun 2010 | 0 comments

On May 27, 2010 at the financial analyst day, the Symantec Storage and Availability Group Senior Vice President, Anil Chakravarthy and the Information Management Group Senior Vice President Deepak Mohan, teamed up to discuss the trends in storage.  Slides of the Storage Trends Panel are available here.  The recording and full analyst day session transcripts are available here.

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Breakout Session Videos from Vision on Connect
Mike Reynolds PMM | 29 Jun 2010 | 0 comments

Hello Connect Users,
 
If you attended the Vision Conference last month, you learned about the latest in storage management and high availability / disaster recovery (HA/DR) technologies that Symantec is offering.  Of course, if you were on-site it is difficult to make it to all of the sessions, so we have videos available from several of the presentations that you may watch on-demand.  If you were not able to make it to Vegas, now is a great chance to see these sessions at your fingertips.  Here is a listing of the available videos:

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New Release: Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) 3.0
Fahima | 18 May 2010 | 5 comments

Veritas Operations Manager centralizes visibility and control, ensures availability , scales operations, optimizes storage and maintains compliance across your server and storage assets.

Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) 3.0 release includes:

  • Central Management Server on Solaris, Linux & Windows
  • Managed Hosts for Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86, Redhat Linux, Linux on pSeries, HP 11.11, HP 11.23, HP 11.31, Windows, AIX which support all SFHA versions from 4.0+ (Including supporting HP 3.5 read-only)
  • Storage Templates & Volume Migration Add-on
  • Unix Active Management Add-on
  • Windows Active Management Add-on

Key Features:

  • Brand New Dashboard, focusing on Risks and health of your environment
  • Storage Provisioning using Templates
  • Advanced Volume Migration
  • VCS Operations
  • More detailed VCS visualization
  • ...
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New Release: Announcing Veritas Operations Services 2.1
jmartin | 28 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

Symantec’s Veritas Operations Services (VOS) 2.1 went live on April 2nd, 2010. This release offers many advancements, including:
 
First, we now support NetBackup for the Installation and Upgrade General Checklist: a single report containing all information and links needed for a simple, fast, and low risk installation or upgrade of NBU products. To date, VOS has reduced installation support issues and we anticipate similar benefits for NBU.
 
Second, we created new features:
-         VCS agent information, documentation, notifications, and downloads
-         Organized and searchable product documentation
-         Navigation to view and sort all patches associated with a SF specific product release
-         Risk Assessment statistics

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Why Did You Buy (Or Not) Symantec Storage and Availability Products: Tell Us and Enter to Win an iPad!
Rishi Manocha | 07 Apr 2010 | 3 comments

The Storage and Availability Management Group (SAMG) at Symantec wants to hear from you!  Were you a part of the decision making team to purchase one or more SAMG products, such as Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas CommandCentral or Symantec FileStore? Or, where you a part of the decision making team to vote against purchasing a SAMG product? If so, we’d like to hear why you voted yea or nay. This is a quick process (as little as 20-30 minutes), and for your valuable input, you’ll be entered into an exclusive raffle to win a 16 GB Wi-Fi enabled Apple iPad!

To participate, simply send an email to Cheryl Young (cheryl_young@symantec.com) to schedule a short call. This call will not be a sales call by any means, but rather an opportunity for you to share why you bought or decided not to buy our products. Sign up today, tell your story and enter to win a new 16GB Wi-Fi enabled Apple iPad!...

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Aggressive IT Cost Saving
D Thomson | 05 Mar 2010 | 0 comments

Finding ways to substantially cut costs and complexity in an active, vibrant Data Centre is not easy. CIO’s have spent years trimming here and there and, to many, further demand from the business to reduce CAPEX/OPEX can seem like asking the impossible.

Nonetheless, significant additional reductions and effeciencies can be made possible where companies take a broader look at the way IT serves the business in a broad context. Key to this approach is the bringing together of “IT” and “Business” people in a combined effort to rationalise applications, processes, core infrastructure and operations. I have recently facilitated “IT/Business Alignment” workshops, forced both sides of the house to work together productively and have been amazed as to the opportunities that drop out of this exercise.  Well managed and facilitated workshops are a great way from stakeholders to express ideas, test theory and find “1+1=3...

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Best Practices for Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.1 Installation and Upgrade
SAMG Tech Support Team | 11 Jul 2011 | 0 comments

Here's some installation and upgrade information from our Tech Support team. Symantec strongly recommends the following best practices:

1. Read the 5.1 Late Breaking News Technotes:

2. Use the Symantec Operation Readiness Tool for 5.1 installation and upgrade preparation:
https://sort.symantec.com

3. View the 5.1 instructional videos ...

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