IBM and Symantec have enjoyed a successful, long-term relationship combining Symantec’s best of breed availability and security products with industry-leading IBM hardware and IT services solutions.
IBM Global Services (IGS) has standardized on several Symantec products for its outsourcing business, and has developed joint solutions for complex engagements involving high availability and enterprise message management solutions based on a combination of IGS services and Symantec products and services.
Advantages of Symantec Availability Solutions and IBM Global Services
Together, Symantec and IGS have a strong track record of substantial client wins for the two joint availability solutions we offer:
Together, Symantec and IGS have a strong track record of substantial client wins for the two joint availability solutions we offer:
Messaging Management (formerly known as Microsoft® Exchange Optimization Services)
Symantec and IBM Global Services have teamed to provide a Messaging Management solution integrating Enterprise Vault and IBM Global Services consulting to deliver hardware, software and governance that enable clients to systematically retain, manage, search and restore email and instant messages. This combination of IBM’s world-class consulting expertise and Symantec’s market-leading security and availability technologies addresses virtually every issue facing today’s messaging environments.
Symantec and IBM Global Services have teamed to provide a Messaging Management solution integrating Enterprise Vault and IBM Global Services consulting to deliver hardware, software and governance that enable clients to systematically retain, manage, search and restore email and instant messages. This combination of IBM’s world-class consulting expertise and Symantec’s market-leading security and availability technologies addresses virtually every issue facing today’s messaging environments.
IBM Implementation Services for Geographically Dispersed Open Clusters (GDOC)
IBM Implementation Services for Geographically Dispersed Open Clusters (GDOC) provides the automation, testing and management needed to support high availability and near-transparent application recovery. Incorporating Veritas™ Cluster Server and associated software modules from Symantec, this open solution is designed to keep applications operational in mirrored environments running on IBM AIX®, HP-UX®, Sun™ Solaris™, Linux® and Microsoft Windows® operating systems.
Symantec Management Solutions and IBM Global Services
Symantec has additional management capabilities that can be interesting to consultants and outsourcers like IBM Global Services. The following are opportunities where Symantec and IBM Global Services can work together:
Symantec has additional management capabilities that can be interesting to consultants and outsourcers like IBM Global Services. The following are opportunities where Symantec and IBM Global Services can work together:
- Management of heterogeneous environments
- Dynamic desktop environments
- Hardware and software inventory and asset management, license compliance
- Windows Vista® migration
- Deployment and provisioning of heterogeneous clients and servers
- Monitoring and remediation, patch management




