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  Updated: tzambrovitz 10 Dec 2012

  100-plus Reasons to Be Cheerful – Symantec and VMware Integrations

  Ask anyone who has worked in IT for any length of time, and they will tell you the devil is in the detail. While a product might look great on paper or as part of a well-rehearsed demo, post-deployment the grass may not be so green. Frequently, the biggest issues with implementations or upgrades are caused by integration with technologies already in place. The more embedded a product is in the infrastructure, the more likely it is to hit challenges. As Symantec is, essentially, a purveyor of infrastructure products and services, we are acutely aware of such issues – indeed, it is our business to help organisations of all sizes reduce the risks that they cause. And given that no technology has had a bigger issue on IT infrastructure over the past decade than virtualisation, we have made it our business to help organisations address that, too. At VMworld this summer, we announced no fewer than...
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  Updated: Symantec Analyst Relations 10 Dec 2012

  Interview: Angela Tucci, chief strategy officer, Symantec

  "Sometimes I like to think of Symantec as an elephant," said Angela Tucci, Symantec’s chief strategy officer, over lunch at London’s Soho Hotel. "Depending on which side of the elephant you look at," she explained, "you get a completely different perspective of the creature." Read the following interview with Angela Tucci, Chief Strategy Officer at Symantec on her views around Mobile, Cloud, Virtualization, strategic acquisitions and rebranding Symantec here
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  Updated: GregDay-SecurityCTO 10 Dec 2012

  Antivirus and virtual machines - host or instance?

  Strip away all the technical jargon and a virtual machine management package is just a software program, which emulates a real computer for each instance of a virtual machine (VM). So, it will have virtual USB ports, virtual network connections, a virtual processor and so on, each of which will use up resources of the real, 'physical' machine. Each VM instance will need to run an operating system and whichever applications it requires, as will the physical machine. In principle, it stands to reason that the total load on the physical processor at any moment in time is going to add up to the sum of all the OS'es, applications, device drivers, virtual machine management tools and whatever else is running, whether they are on a physical machine or a virtual machine. With this in mind, a question we are often asked is whether anti-virus software should be installed on the physical machine, or in each virtual machine instance. At first glance you'd think...
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  Updated: Symantec Analyst Relations 10 Dec 2012

  Video blog: Darren Thomson, CTO EMEA for Symantec

  Continuing his video blog, Symantec’s EMEA CTO, Darren Thomson talks about Virtualization in this three minute video and some of the reasons why customers are doing this.  Cost savings, agility, consolidation and a step towards the cloud are discussed along with Symantec’s view across the areas of risk such as: storage, data protection, HA/DR, security and virtual desktop. Watch the video here
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  Updated: GregDay-SecurityCTO 10 Dec 2012

  Security in the virtual (desktop) world

  While it may not be the answer to everything, desktop virtualization offers a good solution for certain usage models, such as where access needs to be restricted to certain information or services, or where desktop management needs to be centralized. In the model, virtual instances of desktops send display information to remote screens, even though the processing is actually taking place on a server. The model can put strains on the physical IT architecture, however. To avoid bottlenecks, it helps to have an understanding of what's going on in the underlying server, storage and network environment. As well as visibility on what’s running on each virtual machine, and how much resource it is consuming. This brings us to desktop antivirus software which, like any other package, is going to be contending for processing cycles. With the best will in the world, if a hundred virtual desktops are running on the same server and accessing the same storage, and each...
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  Updated: Symantec Analyst Relations 10 Dec 2012

  What comes first “Management or Security?”

  Blog by Robert Mol, Director Product Marketing EMEA: I’m currently defining some interesting debate topics for a “Consumerization of IT” roundtable discussion taking place in Brussels on December 2nd. This debate, which will be joined by a group of enterprise IT executives may well become a very lively debate on priorities, or we may find the usual reluctance to discuss the rather typical analyst assessment of the market for mobile technologies. Read more here: What comes first “Management or Security?”
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  Updated: D Thomson 10 Dec 2012

  Avoiding virtual backup sprawl - a starter for 5

  The term 'sprawl' seems to be gaining momentum in IT circles. The culprit, we are told, is virtualisation: while creating, duplicating and even cloning new virtual machines may be much simpler than procuring their physical equivalents, organisations can end up with so many of the things that they start causing management problems. IT isn't straightforward to manage at the best of times, and the usual issues of operations, patching and licensing can quickly get out of control if the number of systems gets out of hand. One area in particular that can suffer problems is backups, and it's not rocket science to work out why. Backups require transfers of sometimes-large quantities of data, from system, application and user repositories: more machines equals more data to be transferred, which can increase pressure on physical server and network interfaces particularly if everything sis being backed up at once. Lose control of the systems in a sprawl situation, and...
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  Updated: Symantec Analyst Relations 10 Dec 2012

  Virtualization and Risk Management Solutions

  New blog by Darren Thomson, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA As I meet Symantec customers and partners to talk about some of the impacts that virtualization, mobile and cloud computing are having on their businesses, I hear time and time again about the importance of information and about the fact that the governance and security policy that surrounds information will be key to ensuring successful transitions to new computing and service delivery models. Read more
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  Updated: Symantec Analyst Relations 10 Dec 2012

  Symantec is Platinum Sponsor of VMWorld 2011 in Las Vegas

  Symantec is Platinum Sponsor of VMWorld 2011 in Las Vegas, August 29 – September 1 Join Symantec experts at this year’s VMWorld in Las Vegas and see what they have to say about building a virtualization strategy that moves organizations from static infrastructure silos to an automated, high-density cloud that transforms IT service delivery. If you have any questions or would like to book a meeting with Symantec’s experts and Symantec’s Analyst Relations team please contact Phil_Nash@symantec.com, Esther_Kim@symantec.com or the Analyst Relations team at Analyst_Relations@symantec.com.   VMWare Podcast with John Magee John Magee, Symantec Vice President, Virtualization and Cloud Solutions, discussed his session at the show,  Going the Distance: Virtualizing...
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  Updated: Symantec Analyst Relations 21 Mar 2013

  Videos and Podcasts

  Events RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco RSA Conference 2013 Security Intelligence Keynote with Francis DeSouza Symantec's Big Intelligence Dominates at RSA Conference 2013 Watch the latest from VMWorld 2012 in Barcelona Virtualising More of the Server Estate with Business Critical Virtualization The Strategic Relationship Between Symantec and VMWare Backup and Recovery for Virtual and Physical Worlds Securing a Software Defined Datacenter...