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Symantec's growing body of MP3 audio content brings you the latest points of view on Security and Availability topics from industry experts on information technology topics and business issues related to this product or service.
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What’s New in NetBackup 6.5.4
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Symantec Enhances Customer Experience for Carnival Cruise Lines
The need for communications and data reliability are critical to any ship at sea. A global cruise company turned to The Alchemy Solutions Group for help in standardizing IT operations. Greg Malacane, senior business analyst at The Alchemy Solutions Group, discusses how Symantec solutions enhance the customer experience for Carnival Cruise Lines.
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Strategies to Increase Application Availability
Jennifer Ellard and Dan Lamorena, senior managers in Product Marketing at Symantec, discuss strategies for high availability and disaster recovery. Jennifer and Dan discuss how IT organizations can determine the right solutions for their critical applications.
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Phish Report Network
Phishing attacks, which attempt to deceive users into revealing confidential personal and other sensitive information, are dramatically on the rise. This podcast helps consumers and enterprises understand some of the issues surrounding phishing and how Symantec's latest efforts are combating online fraud.
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EMEA 2008 Visionary Awards
The Visionary Award recognizes Symantec customers for their innovative use of Symantec technologies. Patrick Spencer, senior director of Customer Relationship and Publishing Programs at Symantec, provides an overview of the EMEA Visionary Award winners for 2008.
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Vision 2008: Next Generation Data Protection
Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Product Management for Veritas NetBackup, and Pat Hanavan, VP of Product Management for Symantec Backup Exec, have a high-level discussion about Symantec's Next Generation Data Protection strategy.
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Vision 2008: NetBackup Platform Overview
This podcast introduces the latest proof points in Symantec’s Next Generation Data Protection strategy. Marty Ward, director of Product Marketing in the Data Protection Group at Symantec, discusses the updated NetBackup platform, and how it is integral to Symantec's Next Generation Data Protection strategy.
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NetBackup 6.5 White Paper Preview
Centralized, end-to-end management is essential for heterogeneous protection services. This podcast provides a preview of the Symantec white paper, “The Veritas NetBackup Platform: Delivering Next Generation Data Protection and an Introduction to Veritas NetBackup 6.5.”
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Public Sector Backup and Recovery Strategies
Continuity of operations (COOP) function requires the identification and installation of backup and recovery solutions that are cost-efficient, but also cause minimum disruption. Any disruption, whether planned or unplanned, will cause downtime. As discussed in this podcast, the objective is to minimize the downtime and costs associated with COOP.
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Prepare for Disasters Before They Occur
Disasters come in many forms: viruses, hacker attacks, or terrorist attacks. Any one of these can completely take down an organization’s IT abilities. The result of an organization’s disabled IT operation includes lost revenue, a drop in the company’s stock price, regulatory penalties, and the loss of customers to competitors.
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Planning for a Quick Recovery
You shouldn’t have to think about disasters causing you to lose valuable resources and data; however, the reality is that the risk of unforeseen circumstances and disruptions to IT systems is always present. This podcast discusses what you can do to quickly and effectively recover your business’ systems in the event of a disruption.
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Developing a Recovery Plan
Disaster recovery is a topic that many business and organizations do not consider carefully; however, developing a disaster recovery plan now could save your business money and time—and possibly the business itself—in the long run.
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Symantec Enhances Customer Experience for Carnival Cruise Lines
The need for communications and data reliability are critical to any ship at sea. A global cruise company turned to The Alchemy Solutions Group for help in standardizing IT operations. Greg Malacane, senior business analyst at The Alchemy Solutions Group, discusses how Symantec solutions enhance the customer experience for Carnival Cruise Lines.
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Health Alliance Plan Protects Information with Symantec
This podcast discusses how Health Alliance Plan, one of the largest healthcare organizations in Michigan, uses Symantec solutions to protect sensitive patient information, ensure regulatory compliance, minimize IT administration costs, and ensure that patient information is readily available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Shinhan Bank Standardizes Data Center with Symantec
By standardizing their data center, Shinhan Bank in Korea found more than $16 million in business value during a six-year period with Symantec Data Center Foundation products and Symantec Business Critical Services. Greg Malacane, senior business analyst at The Alchemy Solutions Group, provides an overview of a recent business value analysis of the bank.
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Interview with IT Leadership Team at Michigan Department of IT
The Michigan Department of IT (DIT) has received accolades and recognition for standardization and consolidation of IT operations and infrastructure. The DIT leadership team of Ken Theis, CIO; Patrick Hale, CTO and deputy director of Infrastructure Services; and Dan Lohrmann, CISO and deputy director, discuss their successes and lessons learned.
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TD Banknorth Boosts Level of Data Protection with Symantec
TD Banknorth needed to boost its level of data protection, so it turned to Symantec. For the past five years NetBackup has helped the bank easily keep pace with 130 percent annual growth in data volume—all while avoiding adding staff. Backup Reporter creates fast and accurate summaries of resource use to help drive the bank's utility computing model.
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Interview with Phil Brimacombe, CIO, healthAlliance N.Z. Limited
Patrick Spencer, editor in chief for CIO Digest magazine, spoke to Phil Brimacombe, CIO at healthAlliance N.Z. Limited, about the ways in which his team is helping the Counties Manukau and Waitemata District Health Boards in New Zealand to deliver better patient care.
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Interview with Tom Lamming, SVP, Telstra
Patrick Spencer, editor in chief for CIO Digest magazine, discusses Telstra's five-year IT transformation with Tom Lamming, senior VP of Transformation at Telstra. When Tom joined Telstra, he took charge of an IT transformation initiative as far-reaching as the Australian Overland Telegraph Line.
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Interview with Alex Siow, Information Systems and Programs Office, StarHub
Alex Siow, head of information systems and programs office at StarHub, has held a variety of professional roles, ranging from civil engineer to marketer to salesman to professor. Alex draws on his front-line business experience to help build greater linkages between the business and technology initiatives.
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Interview with David Finn, VP and CIO, Texas Children's Hospital
David Finn, VP and CIO at Texas Children's Hospital, describes the production aspects of IT and the nuances of pediatric IT to Patrick Spencer, senior director of Customer Relationship and Publishing Programs at Symantec. Under David’s leadership, IT plays a critical role in helping to deliver some of the best pediatric care in the world.
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