Symantec Enterprise Podcasts

Control Compliance Suite 11 Translates IT Risk into Business Risk

Tue, 14 Feb 20121 21:00:00 -0700

As security threats and IT risk management become boardroom-level discussions, security leaders must be able to communicate and prioritize their IT risks in a business context to successfully drive change. Suzanne Konvicka, Senior Manager, Product Marketing at Symantec, discusses the importance of IT risk management in an organization and how Symantec’s latest release, Control Compliance Suite 11 helps security leaders connect to the business by translating IT risk into business exposure, prioritize remediation efforts and automate assessment processes to improve their overall security and compliance posture.

Symantec ApplicationHA 6.0

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Listen to Chaya Adatrao, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, discuss how businesses can confidently ensure high availability for business-critical applications inside virtual machines across heterogeneous platforms.

The Psychology of Insider Theft: What Pushes Employees to Steal?

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Do you recognize the early warning signs of employees who are likely to steal intellectual property? Leading forensic psychologists Dr. Harley Stock sheds new light on his research recent research with Dr. Eric Shaw into the motivations and behaviors of malicious insiders. What motivates them to steal an organization’s confidential information?

Extending Data and Application Availability for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Environments

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Lisa Erickson, principal product manager at Symantec discusses great new features such as Fast Failover and Hyper-V Integration in the Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows 6.0 release that provides customers comprehensive data and application availability for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 environments.

Benefits of the FileStore N8300 NAS Storage Solution for Cloud, Archiving, and VMware Environments

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Frank Currie, director of technical product management at Symantec, discusses FileStore N8300, Symantec's network attached storage appliance solution for virtual infrastructures. Filestore N8300 provides customers with a high performing, scalable, and cost-effective storage solution that is optimized for VMware infrastructures, as well as cloud and archiving workloads.

Clearwell and Symantec

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:00:00 -0700

In this podcast, Kurt Leafstrand, Director of Product Management from Clearwell and now part of Symantec, discusses the recent acquisition of Clearwell by Symantec, what Clearwell adds to the Symantec portfolio, the evolution of eDiscovery, future product integration, and more.

Intelligence Report Podcast – September 2011

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the September 2011 Intelligence Report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The Intelligence Report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

The Benefits of Using Centralized Backup and Recovery Across Physical and Virtual Servers with Symantec V-Ray

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Symantec Backup Exec and NetBackup, powered by V-Ray technology, provides visibility across physical and virtual servers, as well as into the virtual machine and applications for very fast and efficient backup and recovery. This podcast discusses the benefits of using Symantec to protect business critical applications, whether physical or virtual, or from the SMB to the large data center.

The Benefits of Using Centralized Backup and Recovery Across Physical and Virtual Servers with Symantec V-Ray

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Mobile Security & Management: A Holistic Approach

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:00:00 -0700

John Engels, group product manager of Enterprise Mobility Group at Symantec, provides an overview of the recent increase in focus on mobility and the best approach for organizations to take when dealing with mobile security and management.

Partner Perspective Podcast: Intalock Technologies

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Intalock Technologies of Queensland, Australia is young but ambitious: Founded in 2010, it wants to be the number one Symantec consulting partner in Australia. Intalock serves dozens of organizations ranging up to 300,000 users with Symantec security, infrastructure operations, storage, and business continuity solutions, racking up multiple Symantec specializations and Platinum partnership.

Symantec Deepens Encryption Offerings to Provide Greater Flexibility and Support for Mobile Devices

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Brian Tokuyoshi, senior product marketing manager, discusses Symantec PGP Viewer for iOS and new version of Symantec Endpoint Encryption Full Disk Edition with Opal-compliant Drive Support.

Symantec Increases Patch Management Support

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Michael Grueber, senior product manager of Endpoint Management at Symantec, provides an overview of the broader patch coverage provided by Symantec's Patch Management 7.1, including support for 28 commonly used third-party Windows applications, and how the increased support helps organizations address the major risks associated with unpatched client-side software.

Executive Spotlight Podcast: Private Cloud Trends and Challenges

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed,27 Jul 2011 17:00:00 -0700

In this podcast V.R. Satish, CTO Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec discusses some of the trends and challenges facing data centers as they move to the private cloud, challenges around moving some of the more business critical applications to virtual environments, trends around using commodity wherever possible.

Executive Spotlight Podcast: Availability for the Private Cloud

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed,27 Jul 2011 17:00:00 -0700

In this podcast V.R. Satish CTO Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec discusses challenges around availability for the private cloud. He argues for the need for disaggregation of the availability into infrastructure and application availability to handle the needs of virtual environments.

Executive Spotlight Podcast: Storage for the Private Cloud

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed,27 Jul 2011 17:00:00 -0700

In this podcast V.R. Satish CTO Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec talks about the challenges on the storage side for the private cloud. In particular he talks about the storage as a service needs for the cloud and then ties it to the broad storage needs of virtual environments.

Executive Spotlight Podcast: Making the Private Cloud Agile

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed,27 Jul 2011 17:00:00 -0700

In this podcast V.R. Satish CTO Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec talks about what it means to be agile. He takes an interesting take on agility especially in the context of the cloud and argues for the need for automation tied with on demand nature of the cloud.

Partner Perspective Podcast: PCMS IT Advisor Group

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:00:00 -0700

PCMS IT Advisor Group, a Symantec Gold Partner based in Cincinnati, focuses on back-office technologies for midmarket companies. PCMS IT Advisor Group serves its customers by leveraging a small number of top vendor-partners, an exclusive relationship with distributor Ingram Micro, and deep expertise in Symantec data protection, endpoint security, IT compliance, messaging security, and storage management solutions.

A Window into Mobile Device Security

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Join Kevin Haley, Director, Symantec Security Technology and Response, as he shares findings from "A Window into Mobile Device Security: Examining the security approaches employed in Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android" – a whitepaper, which provides an in-depth, technical evaluation of the two predominant mobile platforms, in an effort to help corporations understand the security risks of deploying these devices in the enterprise.

Partner Perspective Podcast - Storage OnLine

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:00:00 -0700

Storage OnLine is a Symantec Registered Partner headquartered in Dublin, Ireland that provides system protection, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions to small to mid-sized businesses in both Ireland and the UK.

IT Management Suite 7.1

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 24 May 2011 06:00:00 -0700

Russ Clark, product marketing manager of Endpoint Management at Symantec, provides an overview of Altiris IT Management Suite 7.1 from Symantec and how it can help organizations easily support new technology changes, quickly adapt to changing processes and business needs and gain the necessary insight to make more intelligent, data-driven decisions.

How is Social Media Influencing Your IT Agenda?

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 24 May 2011 06:00:00 -0700

Social media is ever-present–not just used at work, but used for work. According to IDC, fifty seven percent of U.S. workers use social media for business purposes at least once per week. With new government regulations requiring monitoring, logging, retaining and disclosure of their employee's relevant communications throughout all forms of social media, IT is often tasked with implementing solutions that will help companies comply with these requirements. Hear from a panel of IT professionals to discuss the issues involved in how IT can navigate help their organizations understand and properly prepare for the governance, data loss prevention, compliance an electronic discovery requirements that are expected in today's social world.

May 2011 State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 18 May 2011 06:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the May 2011 State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

ApplicationHA

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 06 May 2011 06:00:00 -0700

Hear how AppHA can be used to minimize downtime in VMware environments in this podcast.

Nirvanix CEO Shares Insights into Real Enterprise Cloud Implementations

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 06 May 2011 06:00:00 -0700

Listen to Scott Genereux, CEO and President of Cloud storage service provider Nirvanix, talk about here-and-now examples of enterprise Cloud implementations. Scott discusses currently popular use cases for enterprise Cloud, adoption drivers, adoption inhibitors, and scenarios for the near-term usage of Cloud by enterprises.

Protecting your Virtual Environment

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:00:00 -0700

Protecting your virtual environments takes more than just hiding them behind a firewall. This podcast looks the question of endpoint protection for virtual machines. In this discussion with Daniel Schrader from our Endpoint Security Product Management team, we will look at the differences between protecting physical and virtual endpoints. Different approaches to securing virtual machines will be discussed as will changes Symantec has made to Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 to optimize it for virtual environments.>br/<>br/< DISCLAIMER: This information is about pre-release software. Any unreleased update to the product or other planned modification is subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec and therefore subject to change. This information is provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Customers who purchase Symantec products should make their purchase decision based upon features that are currently available.

April 2011 State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the April 2011 State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Vision Preview Podcast: Storage & Availability Management

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:00:00 -0700

Christine Lim, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Storage & Availability Management track at Vision 2011.

Vision Preview Podcast: Information Management Track

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:00:00 -0700

Sean Roth, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Information Management track at Vision 2011.

Vision Preview Podcast: Security & Risk Management

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Todd Zambrovitz, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Security & Risk Management track at Vision 2011.

Vision Preview Podcast: Systems & IT Management Track

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Christine Ewing, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Systems & IT Management track at Vision 2011.

Partner Perspective Podcast: SHI

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

SHI is a $3+ billion global provider of IT products and services with roots that reach back into the late 1980s. Maintaining strong customer relationships and meeting their clients’ business needs first has led the company on a journey of organic growth that has made SHI the IT provider of choice for the Fortune 50, 100, and 500. With tighter budgets becoming the new norm, SHI partnered with Symantec to offer optimization solutions that continue to drive business in a more-with-less environment.

Symantec Report Finds Cyber Threats Skyrocket in Volume and Sophistication

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 4 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Join security expert Kevin Haley as he discusses the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Kevin will review high profile threats such as Hydraq and Stuxnet in 2010; discuss security impacts of the growing popularity of social networks; review findings on the future of mobile security; and share results related to attack toolkits.

Symantec Appliance Strategy: Messaging Gateway & Web Gateway

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Deaddin Edris, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, discusses Symantec’s Messaging Gateway and Web Gateway appliances – providing customers with secure Web gateway and market leading email security solutions. The solutions address customers’ challenges and issues of securing their Web and Email infrastructures against, spam, phishing and malware and provides them the ability to protect against data loss over the Web and email, all from one vendor.

March 2011 State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the March 2011 State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Ponemon Cost of a Data Breach Report

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:00:00 -0700

Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, discusses the findings of the 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach, which reveals data breaches grew more costly for the fifth year in a row. The Symantec-sponsored report finds compliance pressures, cyber attacks drive companies to respond more quickly and incur higher costs.

Forrester Research has concluded that Altiris solutions deliver more than $7M in cost savings

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:00:00 -0700

Rick Maddox, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, discusses the new Forrester Total Economic Impact Study on Altiris IT Management Suite 7 from Symantec.

Nonprofit Organization Reduces Storage Capacity by 47% with Symantec (Part 2)

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:00:00 -0700

U.K. charity Livability deployed Symantec data protection and security technologies and cut its backup volumes by 47% using deduplication. It shrank the backup window by 7 hours per day, and increased the backup success rate from 15% to 99%. Restored files are now also available in minutes as opposed to days or not at all.

Nonprofit Organization Reduces Storage Capacity by 47% with Symantec (Part 1)

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:00:00 -0700

Symantec Appliance Strategy: NetBackup 5200

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:00:00 -0700

Q&A with Symantec Product Marketing Manager, Nicole Kim, on Symantec NetBackup 5200™, a complete backup solution, based on NetBackup 7, with deduplication and integrated replication, in an easily deployed appliance with storage.

Symantec Appliance Strategy: Filestore

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:00:00 -0700

Ranna Unthank, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, discusses Symantec’s high performance, scale-out FileStore N8300 NAS appliance - A highly scalable low cost integrated solution. The holistic solution addresses customers’ challenges & issues of storing & archiving the unstructured data growth and provides efficient data management control for storage optimization – all from one vendor.

February 2011 State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the February 2011 State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 Provides Advanced Protection and Improves System Performance

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:00:00 -0700

Dan Schrader, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, discusses how Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 offers unrivaled security and fastest performance.

Symantec Appliance Strategy: NetBackup 5000 Series

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:00:00 -0700

Q&A with Symantec Product Marketing Manager Nicole Kim about the Symantec NetBackup 5000 series, a new offering of scalable deduplication appliance solutions that integrate with award-winning NetBackup to provide a complete data protection solution for the enterprise.

Control Compliance Suite 10.5 Delivers More Timely Insight into IT Risks

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 03 Jan 2011 08:00:00 -0700

Suzanne Konvicka, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides an overview of the newly released Control Compliance Suite 10.5. This latest version of Symantec's fully automated IT risk and compliance solution provides organizations with even greater visibility into their key IT risks so they can prioritize and fix problems faster.

Symantec’s Reputation-based Security Strategy

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:00:00 -0700

Symantec Vice President and Fellow of Symantec’s Security Technology Carey Nachenberg discusses Symantec’s new reputation-based security strategy.

January 2011 State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the January 2011 State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Forrester Consulting Enterprise Authentication Study Findings

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:00:00 -0700

Jonathan Penn, VP of Research at Forrester, and Atri Chatterjee, Vice President at Symantec present key findings from a Forrester Consulting commissioned study focused on how enterprises are evolving authentication and security practices in response to changing business and IT needs as exemplified by cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) adoption, the business use of Web 2.0 services, and user mobility trends on strong authentication.

December State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the December State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Protect Your Intellectual Property with Symantec Data Loss Prevention 11

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Enterprises face growing challenges in protecting their most valuable information – their intellectual property. Join Symantec’s David Dorosin, director of product marketing, as he discusses the ever-increasing risks of data loss and how Symantec is working to help its customer protect their intellectual property and other forms of unstructured data with the release of Symantec Data Loss Prevention 11, which simplifies the detection and protection of hard-to-find intellectual property.

Symantec’s 2011 Internet Security Predictions

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Kevin Haley from Symantec discusses Symantec’s Internet security predictions for 2011. Topics include Stuxnet, the rise in zero-day vulnerabilities, mobile devices in the workforce, data breach mitigation and politically motivated attacks.

Executive Spotlight Podcast: New Symantec eStore Authentication/Security Highlights

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 03 December 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Symantec’s senior vice president, eCommerce Lenny Alugas and Sanjay Saraf, vice president, eBusiness Services Group, discuss the authentication and security strategies that help the new Symantec eStore build and protect customer trust.

SMB Customer Connect Podcast: McCall’s Catering

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Dan McCall, Lucas Schoemaker, and Dave Irvine discuss the history of McCall’s Catering and its relationship with McCall’s and Symantec.

Tel Aviv Tunes into Symantec

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:00:00 -0700

Symantec technologies drive business value for Tel Aviv Municipality.

SMB Customer Connect Podcast: Iceberg Drive Inn

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Iceberg Drive Inn President and CEO Kelly Christensen and Wasatch Software’s President and CEO Spencer Ferguson discuss how technology is enabling Iceberg Drive Inn to focus on what it does well—flipping burgers and spinning shakes.

Larry Ponemon discusses U.S. Enterprise Encryption Trend

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:00:00 -0700

The 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Enterprise Encryption Trends reveals that for the first time regulatory compliance has surpassed data breach mitigation as the top reason why organizations deploy encryption technologies. The report from Symantec and the Ponemon Institute also found that solutions involving encryption have seen the biggest increase in IT budget earmarks over the past year. The fifth annual study on enterprise encryption usage is based on responses from nearly 1,000 U.S.-based senior IT and business managers from 15 different industries.

November State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the November State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Customer Connect Podcast: BDO Israel

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:00:00 -0700

By standardizing on an integrated Symantec endpoint security and archiving solution, BDO Israel is effectively protecting its endpoint, messaging, and Web environment against malware, data loss, and spam threats. From an archiving perspective, the Symantec solution has saved at least 60 percent storage capacity via file system archiving (equivalent to $60,000) and reduced the size of the Exchange database by up to 65 percent through email archiving.

2010 Windows 7 Migration Survey

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:00:00 -0700

Symantec conducted a survey of more than 1,300 IT managers across the globe to determine best and worst practices that will help make future Windows 7 migrations successful. Join Symantec’s Gary Brown, senior manager of product marketing, Endpoint Management Group, as he discusses key findings that will help companies preparing to upgrade their systems to Windows 7 and increase their chances of having a smooth and efficient migration.

October State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the October State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Customer Connect Podcast: Starhome

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:00:00 -0700

Starhome's IT and Infrastructure Manager Yaniv Dinar oversees the engineering and IT teams and has built synergies between both groups that have helped the roaming mobile network services provider to rapidly grow its business, which delivers services to more than 178 mobile operators in 118 countries around the world. In this podcast, he discusses how Symantec technologies, coupled with assistance from Symantec Partner Spider Services, are playing an important role in he and his team's ability to do so.

September State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 9 Sep 2010 20:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the September State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Customer Connect Podcast: York County

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:00:00 -0700

Managing communications for county offices that deliver services to 400,000 residents, the IT department was running out of email storage. In search of a better way to manage, backup, and search its growing Microsoft Exchange environment, York County came to Continental Technologies, Inc., and Symantec for an archiving and e-discovery solution that helped IT conduct legal document searches fivefold faster and save the county $50,000 on a storage solution.

Partner Perspective Podcast: DLT Solutions

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Founded in 1991 and based in Herndon, Virginia, DLT Solutions provides enterprise IT solutions to federal, state, and municipal governments. The company focuses on obtaining deep subject matter expertise and tight integration with its technology partners, offering only the top software and hardware manufacturers in each market segment. Symantec™ is DLT's partner in the data availability and security space.

August State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the August State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Optimizing storage in a virtual infrastructure

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:00:00 -0700

David Noy discusses new Symantec software to minimize storage costs on the VMware platform.

Confidently virtualizing business critical applications

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Niraj Zaveri discusses a new Symantec HA solution to minimize downtime in VMware environments.

PGP & GuardianEdge Acquisition

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Find out more about the acquisitions of GuardianEdge and PGP, two formerly independent endpoint encryption leaders that are now part of Symantec. These acquisitions extend Symantec's data security solutions to include email and file encryption and a consistent key management infrastructure to keep your sensitive information protected.

Vision Barcelona Preview Podcast: An Interview with Norbert Funke

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Norbert Funke, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Storage and Availability Management track at Vision Barcelona.

Vision Barcelona Preview Podcast: An Interview with Martin Warren

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Martin Warren, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Information Management track at Vision Barcelona.

Vision Barcelona Preview Podcast: An Interview with Guido Sanchidrian

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Guido Sanchidrian, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Information Risk & Compliance track at Vision Barcelona.

Symantec Services Help Qualcomm to Manage Resources and Reduce Costs

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Paul Ferraro, IT director, and Matt Clark, senior IT director, Qualcomm, discuss how their team uses Symantec services to enable day-to-day management at Qualcomm. Symantec residents bring in expertise—and contacts and relationships not available in-house—so that Qualcomm personnel can spend more time managing costs.

Using Symantec to Gain Visibility into Storage at Qualcomm

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Paul Ferraro, IT director, and Matt Clark, senior IT director, Qualcomm, discuss how their team leverages Symantec storage, management, and availability solutions to enable business by gaining visibility into the company's storage needs, including what they have, what's being used, how much is free, and growth trends.

Backing Up Efficiently at Qualcomm with Symantec

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Paul Ferraro, IT director, and Monte Ambrose, manager of the data protection team, Qualcomm, discuss how they use Symantec NetBackup and NetBackup PureDisk within the Qualcomm environment to back up 4 petabytes monthly—a substantial increase from 20 terabytes monthly in 1999—without a substantial increase in IT personnel.

Executive Spotlight Podcast: Rodyk & Davidson Part 1

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Alvin Aw, IT manager at Rodyk & Davidson, discusses the business issues the firm is addressing with Symantec solutions

Executive Spotlight Podcast: Rodyk & Davidson Part 2

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:00:00 -0700

In the second half of this interview, Alvin Aw and Gilbert Leong of Rodyk & Davidson discuss the firm's Green IT initiatives, among other topics.

Control Cost and Risk by Putting Data Growth in Its Place

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 21 July 2010 19:00:00 -0700

One of the most challenging issues in the modern data center is the rapid growth of corporate data. In an effort to help IT Executives better understand their options for controlling data growth we invite you to listen to this Q&A with Symantec Vice President of IT Infrastructure, Sal Caruso.

July State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 8 Jul 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the July State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Putting Information in Its Place by Storing Efficiently

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:00:00 -0700

One of the most challenging issues in the modern data center is the rapid growth of corporate data. In an effort to help IT Managers better understand their options for controlling data growth we invite you to listen to this Q&A with Symantec Sr. Vice President for the Storage Foundation Group, Anil Chakravarthy.

Securing a Middle Eastern, Data-Driven Telecommunications Provider

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:00:00 -0700

The information security needs of more than three million customers rest on Kobi Hirsh's shoulders. Explore how the CISO and his team at Partner Communications in Israel?which operates under the Orange telecommunications provider brand?has created a secure technology infrastructure, free from threats and safeguarded from malicious or inadvertent data loss.

Clalit Conquers Disk-Based Backup with NetBackup

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Learn how the world's second largest HMO has shrunk its backup volumes by 75% with a Symantec deduplication solution. Combine this with a Symantec archiving and messaging security solution, and it's no surprise that Israel-based Clalit Health Services considers Symantec to be 'one of its most important strategic partners.'

Partner Perspective Podcast: ExaGrid Systems

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Bill Hobbib, VP of marketing at ExaGrid Systems, Inc., discusses his company's partnership with Symantec through its backup appliance offerings.

Putting Information in Its Place with Deduplication

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:00:00 -0700

June State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the June State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

File System Archiving - Refresh

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:00:00 -0700

If you've thought about it or are currently archiving from file servers to improve performance, reduce backups, improve storage utilization, or become more compliant, listen to this podcast on how file system archiving works today. Find out what platforms Enterprise Vault can archive from and store to as well as understand the value of deduplication, reporting, seamlessness, discovery, and our file system analyzer tool.

Cyber Threats Increase for Small and Medium Size Business in Australia

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:00:00 -0700

A Symantec survey reveals more than half of Australian Small and Medium (SMB) size businesses have been affected by cyber threats, up 46 percent in 2008. The study shows growth in volume and sophistication of cybercrime attacks, together with SMBs lack of security policies have contributed to the increase.

May State of Spam & Phishing Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the May State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Partner Perspective Podcast: Advanced Internet Security on NetBackup 7

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Gary Cannon and David Kramer from Advanced Internet Security (AIS) discuss the new features and functionality of NetBackup 7 and how they will impact their customers.

Partner Perspective Podcast: Advanced Internet Security on Backup Exec 2010

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Learn about the new features of Backup Exec 2010 during a Q&A discussion with Symantec partner, Advanced Internet Security (AIS).

Downadup (Conficker) and Malicious Code Trends in 2009

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 22 Apr 2010 16:00:00 -0700

This podcast focuses on the Downadup worm and its big impact on malicious code trends in 2009. Commonly known as "Conficker", Downadup was the fifth-ranking global malicious threat observed by Symantec in 2009. Downadup is considered to be responsible for a jump in global worm activity during 2009, as worms rose from 29 percent in 2008 to 43 percent in 2009.

Data Breaches: Affected Sectors and Causes

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:00:00 -0700

This podcast focuses on the prominent causes of data breaches that could lead to identity theft and the sectors that accounted for the most incidents in 2009. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand the most common causes of data breaches and why certain sectors are affected more than others.

IT Management Suite 7.0 Launch Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Stephen Brown, senior product manager of Endpoint Security and Management at Symantec, provides an overview of Altiris IT Management Suite 7.0 from Symantec and how it can help organizations manage endpoints more effectively while reducing the cost and complexity of owning and managing corporate IT assets.

Control Compliance Suite 10.0 Launch Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Do you lack visibility into your highest priority IT risks? Are you struggling to comply with multiple mandates? Are your manual compliance efforts costly and time-consuming? Check out this podcast on Symantec's latest compliance offering, Control Compliance Suite 10.0, and learn how this new solution can provide even greater visibility into your IT and compliance posture at lower cost and complexity.

Data Loss Prevention 10.5 Launch Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:00:00 -0700

What are customers excited about in the latest release of Symantec Data Loss Prevention? We're introducing new capabilities to enable secure use of social media, protect information in private clouds, and take ownership of unstructured data. Learn more about Symantec's market leading data security suite with Linda Park, Product Marketing Manager, Data Loss Prevention.

April State of Spam Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the March State of Spam & Phishing report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Vision 2010 Preview Podcast: An Interview with Miguel Perez

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thur, 01 Apr 2010 16:40:00 -0700

Miguel Perez, Product Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Symantec Management Platform track at Vision 2010.

Vision 2010 Preview Podcast: An Interview with Brian Duckering

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:40:00 -0700

Brian Duckering, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of one of the Hot Topics at Vision 2010, Virtualization.

Vision 2010 Preview Podcast: An Interview with Deaddin Edris

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:40:00 -0700

Deaddin Edris, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Endpoint Security track at Vision 2010.

Vision 2010 Preview Podcast: An Interview with Russ Clark

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:30:00 -0700

Russ Clark, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the IT Service Management & Automation track at Vision 2010.

Partner Perspective Podcast: Atea

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Atea, the largest IT infrastructure company in Scandinavia and the Baltics and the third largest IT infrastructure provider in Europe, counts Symantec among its top seven partners (out of more than 500 suppliers). Symantec solutions help Atea respond to its customers' most pressing IT challenges and helps them prepare for emerging technologies.

Vision 2010 Preview Podcast: An Interview with Amanda Jurich

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Amanda Jurich, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Information Risk & Compliance track at Vision 2010.

Partner Perspective Podcast: Plan B Technologies

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Plan B Technologies (PBT), a Symantec Platinum partner is strategically located between Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Annapolis, Maryland. The engineering-based firm takes an integrated approach to implementing technologies in the top banks, law firms, hospitals, and government entities it counts among its clients in the greater mid-Atlantic region. PBT is a growing firm of 65 employees with 25 cross-trained engineers and a million-dollar R&D test lab, they have achieved great success with their holistic engineering-based consulting model.

March State of Spam & Phishing Report

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Partner Perspective Podcast: Continental Technologies

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Continental Technologies (CTI) is a Symantec Gold partner in Hunt Valley, Maryland with expertise in systems integration, network security assessments, intrusion detection and prevention, and business continuity and disaster recovery planning. The company's 20 customer-facing engineers—all with nine-plus years of industry experience—are trained across the spectrum of CTI's offerings, which include Symantec products in the categories of security management, IT compliance, endpoint security, and disaster recovery.

Vision 2010 Preview Podcast: An Interview with Patrick Spencer & Mark Mullins

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Patrick Spencer, Sr. Director of Customer Relationship & Publishing Programs, and Mark Mullins, Manager of the Customer Reference Program at Symantec, provide listeners with a preview of the Business Value track at Vision 2010.

Vision 2010 Preview Podcast: An Interview with Jordan Pusey

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0700

Jordan Pusey, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Client, Server & Mobile Management track at Vision 2010

Vision 2010 Preview Podcast: An Interview with Nicole Kim

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0700

Nicole Kim, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Storage management & High Availability track at Vision 2010.

Vision 2010 Preview Podcast: An Interview with Brandy Kerr

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0700

Brandy Kerr, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Information Management track at Vision 2010.

Partner Perspective Podcast: Bay Dynamics

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0700

Bay Dynamics is a Symantec Platinum partner headquartered in San Francisco, California with extensive expertise selling and servicing Altiris Workflow from Symantec. Bay Dynamics' CEO and Co-Founder, Feris Rifai discusses Workflow and explains how this process automation product allows customers and Symantec partners the ability to accelerate the delivery of both IT and business processes and enables end users control of their system management, security, business continuity, and compliance systems.

Symantec Helps Companies Get Necessary Training Through Credits and Bundles Programs

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0700

In today's world, it's difficult for organizations to find the resources to train their IT teams. In this podcast, Symantec's VP of Education Services, Shelley Olson, addresses Symantec's new options – Training Credits and Training Bundles – to help customers buy the training needed to be successful with Symantec products.

Partner Perspective Podcast: Interview with Steve Barone & Dave Glenn from Creative Breakthroughs

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0700

Creative Breakthroughs, Inc. (CBI) a Symantec Platinum and National partner has grown its bottom line by consolidating on eight vendors—including Symantec—and gaining deep expertise in those partners' technologies. CBI sells bundles of Symantec solutions to customers, allowing them to leverage discounts for larger purchases—and getting a bigger share of their software budget in the process. One recent transaction that started out as a purchase of a single solution turned into a bundle worth eight times as much as the original deal.

Partner Perspective Podcast: An Interview with Samantha Mudd from Phoenix Software

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0700

Phoenix Software—a Symantec Platinum Partner has built its expertise through 20 years of customer-first service. Phoenix Software's customers range in size from 50 to 5,000 users and work in four sectors: local government, educational institutions, not-for-profits, and corporations. Customer are loyal to Phoenix because of the all-around package they offer in terms of pre-sales advice, pilot work, the ability to help a customer design and deploy a product, and provide support. It's that whole experience that differentiates Phoenix Software from its competition.

Partner Perspective Podcast: An Interview with Tony Tan from Imperium Solutions

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:00:00 -0700

Singapore-based Imperium Solutions offers Symantec solutions and managed services for security, backup, and system management to government, financial services, manufacturing, and other organizations. Imperium's system management offerings leverage Symantec Workflow, Service Desk, and other solutions to help customers automate IT processes and get top value from their technology investments.

February State of Spam Report

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the February State of Spam report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Partner Perspective Podcast: An Interview with Vince Zappula from Computer Media Technologies

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0700

Computer Media Technologies (CMT), a Symantec Platinum partner provides efficient computing solutions for high-performance data management, virtualization, consolidation and infrastructure management. The company has over 25 years of experience as a supplier of cost-effective services for IT optimization and consolidation. Working together, Symantec and CMT bring relevant products and services to customers that are meaningful and solve today's data management challenges.

Partner Perspective Podcast: Interview with Scott Preszler from US Analytics

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 3 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0700

US-Analytics, is a Symantec Consulting Partner (SCP) and Silver registered partner that focuses on Enterprise Vault related professional services such as installation, configuration, customization, consulting, and support nationwide with a focus on small to midsize businesses and enterprise customers. Drawing on its staff of 15 internal Symantec experts, as well as their network of external consultants to cover any size engagement, US-Analytics provides professional services to customers of LARs, other Symantec partners, and even Symantec itself.

SMB Customer Connect Podcast: Axon Computer Systems Limited

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 3 Feb 2010 05:00:00 -0700

Axon Computer Systems Limited (Axon) is the largest private New Zealand-owned provider of ICT services. It's a Symantec Platinum Partner with offices across New Zealand and 270 employees. Axon was among the first organizations in the Asia Pacific region to be 100 percent Windows 7 deployed. They migrated to Windows 7 using PC Transplant technology in Altiris Client Management Suite which reduces three to four hours of work at each system to a half hour.

Partner Perspective Podcast: Interview with Steve Barone & Dave Glenn from Creative Breakthroughs

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 2 Feb 2010 05:00:00 -0700

Creative Breakthroughs (CBI) is a Symantec National & Platinum partner based in Troy, Michigan. CBI grew from $10 million to $100 million in annual revenues by consolidating on only eight vendors—including Symantec—and gaining deep expertise in those partners' technologies. CBI sells bundles of Symantec solutions to customers, allowing them to leverage discounts for larger purchases. Bundling helps CBI customers reduce their IT spending and can reduce costs as much as 30 or 40 percent.

Partner Perspective Podcast: ITS

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0700

During the four years Altiris named a partner of the year, ITS Partners, LLC won that honor twice. Then Symantec acquired Altiris and ITS executives worried that a company so large would pay little attention to them. Instead, Symantec sought out their opinions, and offered invaluable training. Today, ITS offers a range of Symantec products aimed at making life simpler for customers with integrated solutions, all from one vendor. As the company begins migrating its enterprise clients to Microsoft Windows 7, Altiris Client Management Suite offers huge efficiency gains, allowing ITS to upgrade 25 or more computers simultaneously in less time than it would take to do just one without this tool.

Symantec Backup Exec 2010 - Protect More, Store Less, Save More!

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0700

Join Pat Hanavan, VP, Backup Exec Product Management and learn how the latest features in Backup Exec 2010 can provide unique benefits to your organization. From integrated deduplication and archiving to new first-to-market virtual application protection.

NetBackup Launch Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0700

Q&A with Symantec Sr. Manager of Product Marketing Peter Elliman about the new features in NetBackup 7.

SMB Customer Connect Podcast: TDXNet

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:00:00 -0700

TDXNet President Julie Shane and Director of Enterprise Operations Steve Vandagriff worked with Symantec Gold Partner Advanced Internet Security, Inc., to bring about a transformation in security and data protection, standardizing on Symantec solutions and resulting in tangible business value.

January State of Spam Report

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:00:00 -0700

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the December State of Spam report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Executive Spotlight Podcast: Interview with David Thompson, CIO, Symantec - Part 3

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 08 Jan 2010 15:00:00 -0700

David Thompson joined Symantec as CIO in 2006 and assumed additional responsibilities in 2008 when he was given charge of the global services organization. He discusses how governance and business process optimization are core elements to the strategy he and his team are spearheading. This is part 3 in a 3-part podcast series that touches on a number of different subjects—from his assignments at PeopleSoft and Oracle, to M&A, to business value analysis, to Green IT, to outsourcing decisions.

Executive Spotlight Podcast: Interview with David Thompson, CIO, Symantec - Part 2

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 08 Jan 2010 15:00:00 -0700

David Thompson joined Symantec as CIO in 2006 and assumed additional responsibilities in 2008 when he was given charge of the global services organization. He discusses how governance and business process optimization are core elements to the strategy he and his team are spearheading. This is part 2 in a 3-part podcast series that touches on a number of different subjects—from his assignments at PeopleSoft and Oracle, to M&A, to business value analysis, to Green IT, to outsourcing decisions.

Executive Spotlight Podcast: Interview with David Thompson, CIO, Symantec - Part 1

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 08 Jan 2010 15:00:00 -0700

David Thompson joined Symantec as CIO in 2006 and assumed additional responsibilities in 2008 when he was given charge of the global services organization. He discusses how governance and business process optimization are core elements to the strategy he and his team are spearheading. This is part 1 in a 3-part podcast series that touches on a number of different subjects—from his assignments at PeopleSoft and Oracle, to M&A, to business value analysis, to Green IT, to outsourcing decisions.

Partner Perspective Podcast: Interview with Feris Rifai & Ryan Stolte from Bay Dynamics

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:00:00 -0700

Bay Dynamics, a nine-year-old IT solutions provider based in San Francisco, is a Platinum Value Added Reseller (VAR) of Symantec products, offering almost the entire Symantec product line to midmarket and larger customers. But Bay Dynamics is unique in the fact that it is also a Symantec consulting partner, an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner, a development partner, and operates the only authorized Symantec training center in the San Francisco Bay Area.

December State of Spam Report

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:00:00 -0700

Dermot Harnett and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the December State of Spam report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Managed Backup Services: Interview with Sunil Polepalli

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:00:00 -0700

Sunil Polepalli, product manager for Managed Backup Services (MBS), provides an overview of MBS and discusses the importance of backup and data protection for businesses of all sizes.

Symantec 2009 Security Trends Review and 2010 Security Outlook

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0700

Symantec held a virtual roundtable on top Internet security trends from 2009 and security landscape predictions for 2010. Panelists were Paul Wood from MessageLabs Intelligence and Zulfikar Ramzan from Symantec Security Technology and Response. Marian Merritt, Symantec's Internet Safety Advocate, moderated the discussion.

2010 Security Outlook

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0700

Join Symantec experts Zulfikar Ramzan of the Security Technology and Response Group and Paul Woods from Message Labs, as they discuss trends for 2009 and offer their predictions for the security landscape in 2010. Ramzan and Woods will cover topics from rogue security software to malware targeted at social networking sites.

Enterprise Vault Podcast Series: Managing SharePoint Storage

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0700

SharePoint is quickly becoming the primary repository for company Intellectual property. According to a recent survey by ESG, 29% of SharePoint adopters rate the technology as a top three IT initiative. This same survey showed that of companies with SharePoint fully deployed that 34% had over 5000 active users and 40% already had more than 1TB of data. SharePoint 2010 will enable even larger deployments and higher limits in terms of documents and size. This will have serious implications from a storage, data protection and security perspective. In this session Symantec Product Manager David Scott will cover strategies to ensure your SharePoint environment is running optimally despite rapid growth via SharePoint optimizations and archiving via Symantec Enterprise Vault.

November State of Spam Report

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Dermot Harnett and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the November State of Spam report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Complete the Promise of Virtualization: Eliminate Backup Bottlenecks

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0700

In the final installment of the Complete the Promise of Virtualization podcast series, Jon Eyre, Principal Social Media Specialist at Symantec interviews Peter Elliman, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Symantec. Peter discusses how companies can eliminate the bottlenecks associated with virtual machine backup and recovery.

Complete the Promise of Virtualization: Transforming Workspace Management with Endpoint Virtualization

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0700

In this installment of the Complete the Promise of Virtualization podcast series, Jon Eyre, Principal Social Media Specialist at Symantec, interviews Brian Duckering, Senior Manager of Product Marketing in the Endpoint Virtualization team. Brian explains how endpoint virtualization solutions are being used to reduce the cost and complexity of traditional and virtual workspaces while increasing the productivity and flexibility of the end user.

Complete the Promise of Virtualization: Storage Virtualization

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0700

In this installment of the Complete the Promise of Virtualization podcast series, Jon Eyre, Principal Social Media Specialist at Symantec speaks with Phil Goodwin, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Symantec. Phil explains how implementing a storage virtualization solution can allow companies to have a single set of management tools across all systems and operating systems, while enabling the implementation of consistent policies throughout the organization.

Complete the Promise of Virtualization: Application Recovery in Virtual Environments

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0700

In this installment of the Complete the Promise of Virtualization podcast series, Jon Eyre, Principal Social Media Specialist at Symantec Interviews Mike Reynolds, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Symantec's High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions. Mike discusses how companies are using virtualization to reduce hardware costs and increase agility. He also addresses the new challenges associated with virtual machines.

Five Tips to a Security-aware Business

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Five Tips to a Security-aware Business

Backup & Recovery Business Value Market Research Report

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Listen to Patrick Spencer, Senior Director of Customer Relationship & Publishing Programs at Symantec, interview Skip King, Managing Director and Founder of The Alchemy Solutions Group, about the recently published Business Value Analysis Market Research Report on Backup and Recovery. The interview discusses how backup and recovery is essential for protecting data and keeping businesses running efficiently and effectively.

October State of Spam Report

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Dermot Harnett and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the October State of Spam report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

CIO Digest October 2009 Preview: An Interview with Patrick Spencer, Editor-in-Chief

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 19 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0700

In this podcast Patrick Spencer, Editor-in-Chief of CIO Digest, discusses the October 2009 issue, which includes interviews with John Suffolk, the CIO and CISO of Her Majesty's Government (U.K.) and Adrian Chamberlain, the senior vice president of Symantec Hosted Services as well as features on Endpoint Virtualization and IT in the public sector.

Symantec Report on Rogue Security

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0700

The Symantec Report on Rogue Security is an in-depth analysis of rogue security software programs. Kevin Haley, Director of Symantec Security Response, provides an analysis of the prevalence of rogue security software globally and discusses some of the more noteworthy rogue software related scam.

Enterprise Vault Podcast Series: How EV Can Aid in the Legal Process

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Has your organization gone through – or is going through – discovery requests to find information relevant to a legal case – have you had to put that information on legal hold? Are you having discussions on retention and expiry policies for managing electronic information? Listen to this podcast to hear Symantec's Discovery Attorney, Annie Goranson, discuss why it is so important for Legal and IT to communicate and collaborate on tools within the organization that will not just help with legal and compliance needs but tools that will also help reduce storage costs, backups and automate archive processes. What can you do to help foster the relationship between your Legal and IT teams?

Enterprise Vault Podcast Series: File Blocking

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Listen as Rob Forgione, Technical Product Manager for Enterprise Vault, discusses the features, benefits, and use cases of the File Blocking feature associated with File System Archiving. In this podcast you will find out how to effectively eliminate unnecessary, non-business related data you inevitably manage and back up.

Enterprise Vault Podcast Series: The ROI of Enterprise Vault

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Please join Mark Olsen, Senior Regional Product Manager for Enterprise Vault, as he shares the real world Return on Investment he experienced by implementing Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator as a former customer. Hear how the ROI can far exceed the total cost of implementing Enterprise Vault and provide numerous hard and soft cost benefits.

September State of Spam Report

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Dermot Harnett and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the September State of Spam report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and tips on how to avoid spam messages. The State of Spam report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Embracing Clouds Avoiding Storms Episode 3: Winning the Battle Internally – Top Challenges and Tactics of a Successful Cloud Implementation

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Rob O'Brien, group product manager at Symantec, discusses some of the internal challenges that should be addressed before moving to a Cloud Computing model and the tactics that lead to a successful cloud implementation.

Embracing Clouds Avoiding Storms Episode 2: Business Questions and Best Practices for Cloud Computing

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Rob O'Brien, group product manager at Symantec, discusses how cloud computing represents a fundamental shift in how we think about IT services and how this allows organizations to efficiently pair in-house capabilities with the right balance of cloud services.

Embracing Clouds Avoiding Storms Episode 1: Cloud 101 – Catalysts, Business Drivers and Models

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Rob O'Brien, group product manager at Symantec, provides an overview of cloud computing and how it is poised to change the landscape of IT solutions, and possibly the business models that underpin successful software and hardware companies.

Tolly Testing Results: Symantec vs. EMC

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0700

The Tolly Group will present the key findings from comparative testing of Symantec Data Protection solutions, Backup Exec and NetBackup versus EMC NetWorker, which was sponsored by Symantec. This Podcast will provide detailed insight into the findings and relate why they are important to any business running Exchange and/or VMware environments.

Tolly Testing Results: Symantec vs. CommVault

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0700

The Tolly Group will present the key findings from comparative testing of Symantec Data Protection solutions - Backup Exec & NetBackup - versus CommVault Simpana, which was sponsored by Symantec. This Podcast provides detailed insight into the findings and relate why they are important to any business running Exchange and/or VMware environments.

State of Spam - August Podcast

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Dermot Harnett and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the August State of Spam report in this monthly podcast series. Topics include the volume of spam seen by Symantec in the previous month, the latest spam trends and techniques, and spam subject line analysis. The State of Spam report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Data Center Optimization Whitepaper: Interview with Greg Malacane & Niraj Zaveri

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:01:00 -0700

Greg Malacane from the Alchemy Solutions Group and Niraj Zaveri from Symantec discuss a new whitepaper on Data Center Optimization, some of the key findings include how to avoid storage costs through consolidation, deduplication, compression and virtualization, how to improve efficiencies through centralization and standardization, and how data center optimization can fit in with green initiatives.

The Insider Angle on Data Protection

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:01:00 -0700

David Aflak, Senior Manager of Production Services at eSurance, discusses a topic that is top-of-mind for all security professionals: how to protect confidential information and prevent data breaches--specifically from the well meaning insider who inadvertently puts company or organization data at risk--as well as tips for safeguarding data exposed on servers and desktops and creating a company or organization culture that is aware of data security.

Endpoint Management Whitepaper: Interview with Greg Malacane

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 21 Jul 2009 12:01:00 -0700

Greg Malacane from the Alchemy Solutions Group, discuss esresearch he conducted for a new whitepaper. He found IT organizations realize business value when deploying Symantec Endpoint Management solutions through a comprehensive, centralized approached to managing IT endpoints resulting in increased IT productivity gains and cost savings associated with reduced IT support and maintenance for PCs and mobile devices.

Greener IT Advisory Guide: Interview with Ken Gonzales

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:01:00 -0700

Ken Gonzales, Group Product Manager, Symantec Data Center Solutions, provides an overview of his recently authored "Greener IT Advisory Guide," and discusses Green IT best practices for Enterprise organizations and their data centers. For more information, visit <a href="http://go.symantec.com/green_it">go.symantec.com/green_it</a>.

Forrester Wave on Email Filtering, Part 2: Symantec Strategy

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:01:00 -0700

Chenxi Wang, Ph.D., Principal Analyst covering Security and Risk Management with Forrester Research, shares her views on Symantec's strategy in the email filtering and content security market, based on her recent analysis in the 2009 Forrester Wave report on Email Filtering.

Forrester Wave on Email Filtering, Part 1: Overview and Results

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:01:00 -0700

Chenxi Wang, Ph.D., Principal Analyst covering Security and Risk Management with Forrester Research, walks through the results of the 2009 Forrester Wave report on Email Filtering, including highlights on the ratings for Symantec and MessageLabs, now a part of Symantec.

Symantec's Data Deduplication Strategy: How it can help organizations reduce data, management complexity, and infrastructure

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:01:00 -0700

Everyone agrees that there is a significant storage growth problem. As a result of this, organizations are facing serious backup and recovery challenges. Listen to Symantec's new Deduplication strategy and find out how Symantec can help reduce your storage, complexity and infrastructure challenges via integrated solutions.

Data Leaks for Dummies Interview with Guy Bunker and Gareth Fraser- King

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 22 Jun 2009 12:01:00 -0700

Patrick Spencer, senior director of publishing and customer relationship programs at Symantec, interviewed Guy Bunker and Gareth Fraser-King about their recently published book, Data Leaks for Dummies. Part of the For Dummies Series from Wiley Publishing, the book covers a spate of different topics on the steps organizations can take to protect their data and thus protect their businesses. The authors discuss the genesis of the book, how the topic of data leaks coincides with Symantec's data loss prevention solution, key insights that arose when writing the book, and much more.

Stop Buying Storage: Show 5, Getting Storage Under Control at the Device

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:01:00 -0700

The third installment in a multi-part series on Stop Buying Storage, Patrick Spencer, senior director of publishing and customer relationship programs at Symantec, interviewed Andy Singer, senior manager of product marketing at Symantec, about the need for an IT organization to possess one, transparent view into its allocation of storage across its different storage systems and arrays and to optimize them for maximum utilization. Veritas CommandCentral Storage can serve as a centralized, standardized console for doing so.

Stop Buying Storage Part 4: Getting Storage Under Control at the Host

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:01:00 -0700

The fourth installment in a multi-part series on Stop Buying Storage, Patrick Spencer, senior director of publishing and customer relationship programs at Symantec, interviewed Phil Goodwin, senior manager of product marketing at Symantec, about the complexity of managing storage resources from the host. This is a task that is becoming increasingly difficult with many data centers having between three and six server platforms and operating systems and storage devices. Veritas Storage Foundation can serve the foundation for an IT organizations storage resource management (SRM) initiatives.

Stop Buying Storage: Show 3, Deduplication of the Data Stupefaction Factor

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:01:00 -0700

The third installment in a multi-part series on Stop Buying Storage, Patrick Spencer, senior director of publishing and customer relationship programs at Symantec, interviewed Peter Elliman, senior manager of product marketing at Symantec about storage duplication and how IT organizations can employ deduplication technologies and strategies to engender significant storage savings and avoidance. Veritas NetBackup and Veritas NetBackup PureDisk can serve as the basis initiatives in this space.

Stop Buying Storage Part 2: Getting Control of Unstructured Data

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:01:00 -0700

The second installment in a multi-part series on Stop Buying Storage, Patrick Spencer, senior director of publishing and customer relationship programs at Symantec, interviewed David Campbell, senior manager of product marketing at Symantec, about unstructured data and strategies for archiving--including deduplication--it to less-expensive storage. The result is significant storage cost savings while enabling rapid e-discovery.

Stop Buying Storage: Show 1, Storage: Where's It All Headed

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Tue, 6 Jun 2009 12:01:00 -0700

The first installment in a multi-part series on Stop Buying Series, Patrick Spencer, senior director of publishing and customer relationship programs at Symantec, interviewed Sean Derrington, director of product marketing at Symantec, about storage trends today. The discussion covers a number of topics such as thin storage, virtualization, utilization, tiering, deduplication, and more and ways in which IT organizations can leverage these to their advantage.

Endpoint Virtualization for Banking

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 4 May 2009 0:01:00 -0700

Endpoint virtualization is one of the hottest emerging technologies for financial institutions, which are looking to maximize secure access to and management of key applications – while also controlling costs.<br /><br />In this 30-minute panel discussion, the panelists discuss successful virtualization strategies for banking institution, offering unique perspectives from the practitioner's, vendor's and market researcher's points of view.

Healthcare Virtual Roundtable

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Mon, 3 Jun 2009 12:01:00 -0700

This podcast is a virtual roundtable discussion on strategies that enable organizations to effectively store and manage electronic record systems in the healthcare industry. To learn more, visit the business section at www.symantec.com.

Saving Money with Endpoint Virtualization

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Thu, 7 May 2009 12:01:00 -0700

Brian Duckering, Sr. Manager of Product Marketing in Symantec's Endpoint Virtualization Group, provides an overview on what endpoint virtualization is, and how organizations can leverage endpoint virtualization technology to achieve cost savings in today's tough economic environment.

Leveraging Messaging Archiving to Mitigate Risk

ClubSymantecPodcasts@symantec.com — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:01:00 -0700

Brian Hill, Forrester Research Senior Analyst, and Mike Miller, Director of Security at Media General, discuss the importance of archiving to proactively mitigate legal risk. Mike Miller discusses Media General's initial evaluation criteria and benefits from implementation Symantec's Enterprise Vault with Discovery Accelerator.

Interview with Unum AVP and CISO Lynda Fleury and Her Team