PRESS RELEASE: Symantec Receives Top Honours for Acterra Environmental Practices in Sustainability Award

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Today, Symantec Corp. announced the company has been awarded Acterra’s 2011 Business Environmental Award for large-company environmental sustainability.  The aware celebrates Symantec’s model program that encompasses all three tenants of sustainability:  Business processes, environment and social equity. Symantec will be honoured at the 2011 Business Environmental Awards Reception on Thursday, June 2nd at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel in Palo Alto. 

 

Key highlights from this announcement:

·         Acterra’s Business Environmental Awards is one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s oldest and most prestigious environmental recognition programs. 

·         Initiated in 1990, it is considered a heavyweight among award programs due to its rigorous application and judging process. 

·         Awardees must demonstrate environmental commitment and prove that their programs are “setting the bar” in corporate environmental leadership.

 

For more information about this announcement or to speak with a Symantec spokesperson, please feel free to contact me.

 

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Symantec Receives Top Honors for Acterra Environmental Practices in Sustainability Award

Symantec Recognized In Areas of Business Processes, Environmental and Social Equity

 

Toronto, ON. – May 31, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:  SYMC) today announced that the company has been awarded Acterra’s 2011 Business Environmental Award for large-company environmental sustainability.  The aware celebrates Symantec’s model program that encompasses all three tenants of sustainability:  Business processes, environment and social equity.

 

“Thanks to thoroughly integrated, solid and well-documented sustainability frameworks, processes and global programs, Symantec Corporation has mastered a rare achievement:  It has successfully managed to fully embed sustainability into its business,” said Christine Kohl-Zaugg, judging committee chair, Business Environmental Awards.  “Hallmarks of Symantec’s award-winning application includes exemplary leadership from top executives, combined with strong environmental programs such as green IT, aggressive greenhouse gas commitment, LEED certified green buildings, and committed green teams.  A new leader in the sustainability arena, Symantec Corporation is a company to learn from.”

 

Acterra’s Business Environmental Awards is one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s oldest and most prestigious environmental recognition programs.  Initiated in 1990, it is considered a heavyweight among award programs due to its rigorous application and judging process.  Awardees must demonstrate environmental commitment and prove that their programs are “setting the bar” in corporate environmental leadership.

“This is a significant achievement for Symantec, and we are very honoured to be recognized for our global commitment to minimizing the environmental impacts of our business,” said Cecily Joseph, director of Corporate Responsibility at Symantec.  “In order for our environmental programs to be effective, sustainability must remain a corporate priority at the top levels of the company.  We must maintain a commitment to continuous improvement and seek to encourage the participation of employees at all levels of the company.  Recognition from renowned organizations like Acterra validates that Symantec is on the right path.”

Symantec will be honoured at the 2011 Business Environmental Awards Reception on Thursday, June 2nd at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel in Palo Alto.  For information on the award, please visit www.acterra.org/bea.

About Acterra:  Action for a Healthy Planet

Acterra is a non-profit organization with a 41-year history of environmental programming in and around Silicon Valley.  Acterra involves and educates individuals, businesses and communities to take action against global warming, restore natural habitats, and cultivate environmental leaders for the future.  For more information visit www.acterra.org.

About Symantec

Symantec’s Canadian operations are headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.  For more information on Symantec products or current promotions, access Symantec’s Canadian Web site at www.symantec.ca. Symantec is an active member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

 

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world.  Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

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fVirtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Boot Storm Surprises Audience with New Standard for Low Cost per Seat

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Boot Storm Surprises Audience with
New Standard for Low Cost per Seat

Iomega and VMware bring Enterprise Class VDI to SMBs and Distributed
Enterprises

SAN DIEGO – May 26, 2011 – Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a
global leader in data protection, today announced a “first” in
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for small- and medium-sized
businesses and distributed offices when 100 thin clients with VMware
View 4.6 were simultaneously booted in a matter of minutes – an
unheard of VDI implementation utilizing a sub-US$3,000 network storage
device.

Before thousands of IT professionals at the recent EMC World in Las
Vegas, the six-bay desktop high performance and scalable Iomega®
StorCenter™ px6-300d – utilizing two 128GB* solid state drives and
four 2TB** hard disk drives – booted 100 Wyse clients to VMware View
on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) server platform in less than
five minutes, establishing a new low cost, high performance bar for VDI
deployments for today’s small installations, such as a Fortune 500
call centre or a professional services firm. To see the video of this
amazing demonstration, please go to
.

“VDIs are taking enterprise IT installations by storm today, but
until now small- and medium-sized businesses and distributed offices
didn’t have the capabilities to take advantage of the cost savings and
management simplicity,” said Jonathan Huberman, President of Iomega.
“With the power of EMC companies VMware and Iomega, the advantages
of VDI are now accessible to whole new segments of businesses and others
for less cost than ever. The new Iomega StorCenter PX series products
are powerful business-class network storage devices that were created
using the same practices that produce EMC’s enterprise network storage
products. This demonstration continues Iomega’s multi-year history of
collaboration with VMware and why we were the first in our class to have
the full VMware certification. This demo is one more example of
Iomega’s thought leadership in this space and our close
relationship with VMware – all because Iomega is part of the EMC
family.”

All You Need to Know About the New Iomega PX Network Storage Series

The new Iomega® StorCenter™ PX Series of network storage products,
launched earlier this month, is Iomega’s most advanced series of
desktop and rackmount NAS devices created specifically for high
performance use at small- to medium-sized businesses and distributed
enterprises.

Powered by world-class EMC® storage technology, the StorCenter PX
Series features four-bay and six-bay desktop models and a four-bay
rackmount model, each available in scalable configurations at
competitive prices. SMBs, remote offices and distributed enterprise
users will benefit from the optional use of SSD drives for even higher
performance, as well as such advanced data protection features as
multiple RAID levels with hot swap drives, UPS support, user quotas,
device-to-device replication and certification for most virtualization
environments.

Easy to set up, simple to manage, affordable to own, Iomega’s new
StorCenter PX Series of network storage devices range from diskless with
no included storage up to 18TB of storage capacity. The PX Series also
includes award-winning Iomega Personal Cloud technology, empowering
users to protect and share data from virtually anywhere without any
incremental costs.

Desktop StorCenter px4-300d and px6-300d

The new StorCenter PX series features two desktop models, each
available in flexible configurations.

The Iomega® StorCenter™ px4-300d consists of four HDD bays and up to
12TB of storage, and the Iomega® StorCenter™ px6-300d is outfitted with
six HDD bays and up to 18TB of storage capacity. Empty bays in both
models are fitted with a drive carrier that can accom
modate 2.5-inch and
3.5-inch HDD drives, as well as SSD drives for performance-intensive
applications.

Rackmount StorCenter px4-300r Network Storage Array

With up to 12TB of storage capacity, the Iomega® StorCenter™ px4-300r
Network Storage Array features four bays for use with HDDs or SSDs. The
px4-300r comes in a space-saving 1U form factor ranging from diskless to
fully populated with HDD and/or SSD drives. Moreover, the px4-300r has
all of the high availability features of Iomega’s flagship rackmount
unit, the Iomega® StorCenter™ ix12-300r Network Storage array, including
redundant power supplies.

CDW is One-Stop Shop for New StorCenter PX Series

In the U.S., CDW has a 30-day exclusive at launch for disk-populated
models of the new Iomega StorCenter PX Series network storage devices,
beginning immediately. The diskless versions of the desktop StorCenter
px4-300d, the desktop StorCenter px6-300d, and the rackmount StorCenter
px4-300r, will be available in the U.S. at launch from all distribution,
resellers and DMR channel partners.

Availability and Warranty

The new Iomega PX Series of network storage devices is now available
worldwide.

The desktop Iomega® StorCenter™ px4-300d Network Storage devices start
at US$799.99 for the diskless model, the partially-populated 4TB model
is US$1,199.99, the 8TB model fully populated with 4x2TB HDDs is
US$2,299.99, and the fully populated 12TB (4x3TB HDDs) model is
US$2,999.99.

The desktop Iomega® StorCenter™ px6-300d Network Storage devices start
at US$1,199.99 for the diskless model, the partially-populated 6TB model
is US$1,699.99, the fully populated 12TB model (6x2TB HDDs) is
US$3,299.99, and the fully populated 18TB model (6x3TB HDDs) is
US$3,999.99.

The rackmount Iomega® StorCenter™ px4-300r Network Storage Array units
start at US$2,299.99 for the diskless model, the fully populated 8TB
model (4x2TB HDDs) is US$2,999.99, and the fully populated 12TB model
(4x3HDDs) is US$3,799.99. There is no partially populated px4-300r
rackmount model.

All pricing is U.S. suggested retail.

The Iomega StorCenter PX Series includes a standard three-year limited
warranty with U.S.-based phone support 13 hours a day, five days a week.
Optional service plans include Iomega’s Enhanced Service Plan which
includes 24x7 phone support with advance replacement.

To review all of the features of the new Iomega StorCenter PX Series of
network storage devices, please go to www.iomega.com.

About Iomega

Iomega is a worldwide leader of innovative storage solutions for small
businesses, distributed enterprises, home offices, and consumers. A
wholly-owned subsidiary of EMC, the world's premier information
infrastructure technology provider, Iomega has shipped more than 14
million terabytes of storage since its inception in 1980. Today,
Iomega’s portfolio includes industry-leading network attached
storage solutions that utilize world class EMC storage and security
technologies as well as Iomega’s Personal Cloud technology; one of the
industry’s broadest selections of portable and desktop hard drives;
multimedia drives that make it easy to view video and Internet content
in the living room; and the one-of-a-kind Iomega® SuperHero™ Backup &
Charger for iPhone. To learn more go to www.iomega.com. Resellers in US
can visit www.iomega.com/ipartner and in EMEA visit www.ioclub.net.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and
provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that
enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and
create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products
and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

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For more information contact:
Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
m
ichelle@stratamp.com


NOTE: This release contains “forward-looking statements” as defined
under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ
materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a
result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i)
adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or
reductions in information technology spending; (iii) the relative and
varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the
volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (iv) competitive
factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures and new product
introductions; (v) component and product quality and availability; (vi)
fluctuations in VMware, Inc.’s operating results and risks associated
with trading of VMware stock; (vii) the transition to new products, the
uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid
technological and market change; (viii) risks associated with managing
the growth of our business, including risks associated with acquisitions
and investments and the challenges and costs of integration,
restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (ix) the ability to
attract and retain highly qualified employees; (x) insufficient, excess
or obsolete inventory; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xii)
threats and other disruptions to our secure data centres or networks;
(xiii) our ability to protect our proprietary technology; (xiv) war or
acts of terrorism; and (xv) other one-time events and other important
factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC’s filings
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any
obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date
of this release.


*1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes
**1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes


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ScreenPlay, and StorCenter are trademarks or registered trademarks of
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May Netcraft Survey Shows Symantec Has Largest SSL Certificate Gain for the Month and Continues Year-over-Year Market Share Growth

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May Netcraft Survey Shows Symantec Has Largest SSL Certificate Gain for the Month and Continues Year-over-Year Market Share Growth

Symantec is the only major Certificate Authority (CA) with year-over-year market share increase for five consecutive months; Sees more than three percent year-over-year growth in each April and May

 

TORONTO, ON. – May 26, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it achieved the largest SSL Certificate growth for the month of May with 8,322 units, and its unit market share grew by 3.55 percent year-over-year, according to the latest Netcraft survey. The Netcraft Secure Server Survey for May 2011 reports that all SSL Certificate brands under Symantec-- including VeriSign, Thawte, GeoTrust and RapidSSL-- make up 41.72 percent of the SSL market, which is 31 percent more than the nearest competitor.

 

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In addition, Symantec witnessed a 3.1 percent year-over-year unit growth in the month of April as well as a steady uptick in the previous five months while all other major Certificate Authorities* experienced a loss in unit market share for the same period.

 

“We attribute our undisputed market leadership for the past 15 years to the fact that customers recognize that we offer the most comprehensive product lineup and highest quality technical support,” said Fran Rosch, vice president of Trust Services at Symantec. “We have continued to innovate beyond traditional SSL services to provide value-added trust services, most recently with Seal-in-Search and web site malware scanning for the VeriSign brand.”

 

This month’s report comes amid a series of high-profile attacks on consumer-facing websites due to insufficient application of SSL technology. Concerns over rogue hotspots and related man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks have highlighted the importance of extending SSL use to protect web sessions beyond login and transactional pages to the entire user session. As a result, many leading web sites have lead the charge to ensure a higher level of consumer protection by adopting more complete SSL encryption on their sites.

 

The Netcraft May 2011 report found a total of 1,722,572 distinct valid third-party SSL Certificates, of which 718,683 certificates are provided by Symantec and its brands. The report noted that Symantec maintains its lead in the extended validation and organizationally validated markets with shares of 68.7 percent and 43.8 percent, respectively.

 

Symantec continues its strong position in the market by offering customers more value-added services than the competition. VeriSign® SSL Certificates enable customers to receive daily malware scans and Seal-in-Search™, which allow the VeriSign seal to be displayed within search engine results to boost traffic to web sites. Also under the Symantec umbrella are the GeoTrust, Thawte and RapidSSL brands, which have experienced strong growth as well.

 

*  “Major Certificate Authorities” include CAs with five percent market share or more.

 

Related

·         VeriSign SSL Certificates

·         Netcraft SSL Survey

 

Connect with Symantec

·         Follow VeriSign on Twitter

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·         Join VeriSign on Facebook

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·         View Symantec’s SlideShare Channel

·         Subscribe to Symantec News RSS Feed

·         Visit VeriSign Blogs

·         Visit Symantec Connect Business Community

 

About Symantec

Symantec’s Canadian operations are headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.  For more information on Symantec products or current promotions, access Symantec’s Canadian Web site at www.symantec.ca. Symantec is an active member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

 

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world.  Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

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NOTE TO EDITORS: If you would like additional information on Symantec Corporation and its products, please visit the Symantec News Room at http://www.symantec.com/news. All prices noted are in U.S. dollars and are valid only in the United States.

 

Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Forward-looking Statements: Any forward-looking indication of plans for products or programs is preliminary and all future release or delivery dates are tentative and are subject to change. Any future program plans, or release of the product or planned modifications to product capability, functionality, or feature are subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments by Symantec and should not be relied upon in making program participation or product purchasing decisions.

 

Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

 

 

NComputing Announces Seamless Integration With Windows Multipoint Server (WMS) 2011


NComputing Announces Seamless Integration With Windows Multipoint Server (WMS) 2011

  • Extends Deployment and Economic Advantages of WMS 2011 to the Desktop in Education and SMB Markets

REDWOOD CITY, CA, May 25, 2011 /CNW/ - NComputing (http://www.ncomputing.com/), the global leader in end-to-end desktop virtualization, today announced technology integration between NComputing vSpace(TM) virtualization software and desktop devices, and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Multipoint Server (WMS) 2011 (http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/multipoint/default.aspx) multiuser operating system. This integration extends the benefits of WMS 2011 low cost, high performance networking and rich management features from the server through to the desktop endpoint to provide a complete, simple and seamless end-to-end desktop virtualization deployment.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner, NComputing collaborated on early product testing, tuning and validation to ensure the best user experience possible. Microsoft WMS 2011 brings the Windows 7 computing experience to every student and productivity worker and powerful tools for administrators to simplify user setup and management, while NComputing drastically reduces the cost of computing by allowing multiple people to simultaneously share a single computer. NComputing offers the industry's broadest support of Microsoft WMS 2011 in desktop virtualization environments including USB, PCI and Ethernet. As well as its L-Series (Ethernet), X-Series (PCI) and U-Series (USB) desktop virtualization devices, NComputing vertical market 'In A Box' solutions including Classroom In a Box for education markets and Office In A Box for SMB markets will support Microsoft WMS 2011.

"Working together, Microsoft and NComputing have delivered shared computing solutions that can help more students and teachers gain access to the latest technology and embrace "21st Century Skills" in the classroom. In the world of education, this means schools can advance higher learning and trim budgets at the same time. In fact, a recent Forrester study[1] commissioned by Microsoft showed that schools can triple their reach without increasing budget, thanks to a 66% reduction in the overall costs using Windows MultiPoint Server 2011. With Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 schools could expect to realize significant savings in hardware, energy consumption and costs, as well as in labor and maintenance," said Chris Phillips, General Manager, Windows Server and Solutions Division, Microsoft.

Said Raj Dhingra, NComputing CEO, "NComputing is uniquely positioned to expand the desktop virtualization market. We are accomplishing this through deepening our technology integration and go-to-market partnerships with key industry leaders such as Microsoft. When you combine Microsoft WMS 2011 and NComputing virtualized desktop environments, previously unviable desktop computing deployments are viable. In the world of education and SMBs, this better together advantage translates to being able to multiply computer access by 3 to 30 fold - for less, much less."

NComputing has deployed 2.6 million virtual desktops in 140 countries. The company is a leading provider of virtualization to the U.S. K-12 education market; it has virtualized desktop deployments in over 18000 schools in India; and has partnered with the Ministry of Education in Macedonia to provide 200,000 virtual desktops in schools throughout the country to realize the country's vision of a computer for every child. In addition to a significant installed base in education, NComputing leads the market in size, scale and scope of desktop virtualization deployments in SMB and large enterprise environments. NComputing is helping accelerate adoption of desktop virtualization through collaborative initiatives with Microsoft, VMware and Citrix, through strategic partnerships with OEMs including LG and Fujitsu,and by partnering with IT resellers to provide 'out of the box' solutions comprising all the software infrastructure, hardware and services required for specifics markets such as Education and SMB.

About NComputing

NComputing, Inc. is the fastest growing desktop virtualization company in the world with over 20 million daily users in 140 countries. The company's award-winning, patented technology lowers desktop computing costs, improves manageability, and reduces both energy consumption and e-waste. To learn more about NComputing, visit http://www.ncomputing.com

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[1]The Total Economic Impact Of Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server 2011," a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, April 2011

For further information:

Media contact: Ana Tackett, Bond PR for NComputing, e: ana@bondprUS.com, t: +1-415-848-2626

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Movers and shakers of the Quebec ICT industry whose combined revenues exceed the half-billion-dollar mark will meet at Le Big Bang


Movers and shakers of the Quebec ICT industry whose combined revenues exceed the half-billion-dollar mark will meet at Le Big Bang

MONTREAL, May 25, 2011 /CNW Telbec/ - This coming May 31, the Big Bang (www.lebigbang.net) will welcome companies that have set their sights high and whose combined revenues exceed the half-billion-dollar mark. Some two hundred participants representing more than one hundred industry players will attend this gathering at the Centre Mont-Royal to talk sales and marketing. Movers and shakers of the Quebec ICT industry - from start-ups to companies that have experienced phenomenal growth, such as Beyond-the-Rack whose mere handful of employees two years ago has grown to today's complement of 240 - will come together to discuss strategies to drive their growth.

"With a presence in a hundred or so countries and 80% of their workforce based in Canada, Quebec's small and mid-size ICT companies rely principally on direct and online sales, stated Nicole Martel, CEO of the Quebec Technology Association. They are a major economic driver for which marketing remains a top priority."

This year's feature theme, "New Business models for Customer Acquisition", will allow participants to explore issues surrounding the integration of new communication channels, social media, and mobility. Today's companies are truly experiencing a "Big Bang" that is compelling them to consider new strategies. How will this impact budget allocations for sales and marketing? The alignment of sales and marketing teams? Mobility? How can social media be leveraged to bridge gaps and help entrepreneurs get closer to new markets?

These are precisely the type of issues the field experts and speakers gathered for this annual meeting of movers and shakers of the Quebec ICT industry will address, providing an opportunity to examine possible solutions, identify trends, and learn from peers who have successfully implemented creative marketing strategies:

  • Sales and marketing specialist Ally Motz (Sirius Decisions).
  • Entrepreneurs Alain Nadeau (Dynacom), Mike Petsalis (Vircom), Nicolas Arsenault (Inovacom), Denis Lavallée (ex-Nstein Technologies), and Yona Shtern (Beyond-the-Rack).
  • Strategic and tactical experts Alain Boudreau (VSM), Simon Hénault (Founder of Linkedin Quebec), Sol Tanguay (HEC Montreal), as well as Michel Ouellet and Thomas Bastien (Morin Public Relations).
  • Legal experts Nicolas Lassonde from Legault Joly Thiffault who will discuss Bill C-28, the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act (FISA), slated to come into effect next summer, as well as Jean-Philippe Riverin and Florence Lucas from Gowling Lafeur Henderson who will provide a legal perspective on social media.

New to this year's event is the Technology Pavilion where participants can go to discover the latest offerings of Alsa Marketing, C2 Innovations, Enode, Gestisoft, HumanIT, Phéromone, and WCIT 2012 (World Congress on Information Technology).

The organizers wish to thank their Big Bang partners: Solidarity Fund QFL, Legault Joly Thiffault, Morin Public Relations, VSM, Gowling Lafleur Henderson, CNW, Xpertdoc, Les affaires.com, K3 Media, Direction informatique, and Canada Economic Development.

Since 2002, the Quebec Technology Association has been hosting the Big Bang event, its signature ICT sales and marketing forum, to help participants improve marketing efficiency. More and more ICT CEOs, sales and marketing directors, and industry players join in each year to explore the latest trends and discuss the best sales and marketing practices with their peers.

In addition, the organizers decided to go "green" and ''techno'' this year in keeping with the global shift towards more environmentally friendly events. Consequently, participants will be invited to take advantage of mobile technologies and social media. A Linkedin group dedicated exclusively to participants will make it possible to prepare meetings beforehand; Twitter (#bigbang2011) will serve to initiate conversations and create on-site interest groups; and, finally, QR codes will be used to grant access to the mobile site and to the participant's guide from mobile phones with keyword search capabilities. There will also be a Mobile-Techno squad on location to demystify mobile applications and help unlock their full potential.

About the Quebec Technology Association (AQT) The AQT has over 450 members and affiliate members. The Association brings together Quebec Information and Communications Technology companies, their management teams, and industry partners. The AQT Growth Accelerator gives them access to a broad range of services and networking opportunities, while also facilitating access to the best management and marketing practices. The AQT calls attention to the challenges specific to the ICT industry and creates a powerful voice to influence governments and policy makers. The AQT is one of the main members of TECNA (Technology Councils of North America), a coalition of North America's leading technology associations. www.aqt.ca. For more information on the event, please visit: www.lebigbang.net.

For further information:

AQT - Valerie Danger at 514 874-2667, ext. 118 or vdanger@aqt.ca

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New EMC Solution for Citrix XenDesktop Supports Thousands of Virtual Desktops

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New EMC Solution for Citrix XenDesktop Supports Thousands of Virtual
Desktops

EMC VNX, EMC Flash and FAST Suite Dramatically Reduce Time and Costs

CITRIX SYNERGY, San Francisco – May 25, 2011 – EMC Corporation
(NYSE: EMC) today announced a new EMC Proven™ solution for Citrix
XenDesktop® to accelerate the adoption of virtual desktop
infrastructures and realization of the associated benefits. The robust,
flexible and cost-effective solution built on EMC VNX™ unified storage
(http://www.emc.com/products/series/vnx-series.htm) systems delivers
predictable high performance and high availability for up to 1,000
virtual desktops and is easily expandable. The solution utilizes a
building-block approach which can then scale to thousands of virtual
desktops.

“Today’s announcement showcases the tangible benefits associated
with implementing EMC’s advanced unified storage systems and
associated technologies in a virtual desktop implementation,” said
Eric Herzog, EMC’s Vice President, Product Marketing and Management,
Unified Storage Division. “Customers can now quickly, efficiently and
cost-effectively implement and scale their virtual desktop environment
while taking advantage of trademark EMC reliability, availability,
multi-protocol support, disaster recovery features, replication and
snapshot technology, and hardened security.”

EMC VNX unified storage systems with advanced flash technology provide
customers flexibility, choice and control as they support virtual
desktop provisioning for Citrix XenDesktop. Customers can optimize and
manage their infrastructure with the assurance that EMC storage will
perform and scale to meet their specific needs. EMC FAST Cache
technology delivers the IOPS required to exceed a customer’s virtual
desktop SLAs and ensures maximum performance to easily scale without
incurring the power, space and acquisition costs associated with a large
storage array.

EMC FAST Suite which includes EMC FAST VP technology and EMC FAST Cache
enables 1,000 virtual desktops to power on, achieve a steady state and
register with the XenDesktop controllers within eight minutes. At peak
load and with high IOPS being generated by the Boot Storm, the EMC VNX
system requires only 20 SAS drives and two flash drives in comparison to
the 90-100 (nearly five times more) SAS drives required by an equivalent
competitive configuration without flash drives to match this
performance.

“Customers are grappling with the costs and complexities associated
with infrastructure implementation in a virtual desktop environment,”
said John Fanelli, Vice President of Product Marketing, Enterprise
Desktops and Applications at Citrix. “To meet customer needs, Citrix
and EMC have created tight integration between VNX unified storage
systems and XenDesktop which enables a simple and cost-effective storage
solution that meets high performance requirements of the most demanding
service level agreements for XenDesktop customers.”

Implementing and configuring a complete virtual desktop infrastructure
requires expertise in desktop deployment and migrations, application
virtualization, security, system management and storage design. The
powerful combination of EMC Global Services (
http://www.emc.com/services/index.htm ) expertise – including
consulting and implementation – and EMC’s industry-leading
technology for Citrix XenDesktop 5 environments enables customers to
achieve business agility, application flexibility and infrastructure
efficiency.

The EMC solution for Citrix XenDesktop will be demonstrated in booth
#624 at Citrix Synergy, May 24-27 in San Francisco. For further
information and to view the associated whitepaper, please click here
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/technical-documentation/h8243-virtualdesktop-vnx-citrix-xendesktop5-vsphere-ra.pdf).


About EMC

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create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products
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eGRC Strategy and Collaboration Key to Meeting Privacy and Risk Challenges


eGRC Strategy and Collaboration Key to Meeting Privacy and Risk
Challenges

New Ponemon Research Finds Only 20 per cent of Organizations Have an
Enterprise-Wide eGRC Strategy, 28 per cent Cite Lack of Collaboration
among eGRC Domains

News Summary
* New research highlights challenges organizations face meeting eGRC
objectives
* Lack of eGRC strategy and enterprise collaboration largest barriers
to achieving eGRC goals
* Nearly 90 per cent of respondents believe enabling technologies are
essential to meeting eGRC objectives

HOPKINTON, Mass. – May 25, 2011 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the
world leader in information infrastructure solutions, and the Ponemon
Institute, LLC – a leader in privacy, data protection and information
security research – today released a study
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/about/news/ponemon-report-egrc.pdf) that
explores the most immediate issues global organizations face in meeting
privacy and risk challenges. Respondents representing global financial
services, technology, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries
identified the largest barriers to meeting these challenges as lack of a
defined enterprise governance, risk and compliance (eGRC) strategy and
lack of enterprise cooperation and collaboration.

Lack of Common eGRC Strategy

Surveying an active group of more than six thousand eGRC practitioners,
the Ponemon study reveals that eGRC continues to emerge as a top C-Suite
priority, yet only 20 per cent of organizations have a clearly defined
eGRC strategy that pertains to the entire enterprise, and 33 per cent
admit they have no eGRC strategy at all.

“Taking an enterprise-wide approach to governance, risk and
compliance by managing information and what that means for all elements
of the organization – IT, legal, human resources and all the requisite
facets – is no longer a choice, it’s a strategic imperative,”said
Tom Roloff, Chief Operating Officer for EMC Consulting. “It is only
through a multi-faceted and integrated view of information sources and
requisite policies that organizations can satisfy the growing
requirements of corporate boards and regulatory agencies for an
integrated, centralized risk and compliance strategy.”

Lack of Collaboration

The study also found that while eGRC responsibilities are rapidly
spreading from the IT epicenter out to the operations, finance and legal
domains, collaboration among and between these critical areas is lagging
behind. Only 28 per cent of respondents report that their organizations
enjoy frequent collaboration or cooperation among eGRC domains and 12
per cent admit their eGRC functions still operate in silos.

Just how distributed have eGRC activities become? The Ponemon report
uncovers that while governance activities are still most likely located
in IT, risk management activities are usually managed within the
associated domain. Similarly, compliance activities typically reside in
their own corporate compliance function while privacy and data
protection management is most likely to be located in the legal
department. When it comes to ranking the importance of these fundamental
eGRC activities, risk management takes first place at 32 per cent,
followed by compliance at 27 per cent, governance at 22 per cent and
privacy and data protection at 20 per cent.

“Silos are the enemy of an effective eGRC program,” said, Dr. Larry
Ponemon, Chairman and Founder, Ponemon Institute for Privacy Research.
“These departments deal with related information and business
processes around policies, business processes and multiple regulations.
Unfortunately, they are not talking to each other which results in a
great deal of waste and inconsistency. Without collaboration across
functions the business is at risk.”

Privacy Emerges as eGRC Collaboration Flashpoint

Regardless of their industry, all organizations report that managing
privacy regulations
by geography and in accordance with country or state
laws is a driving factor in their organization’s move to an integrated
program that supports IT, Legal, Operations and Finance. Respondents
identified their top two privacy challenges as 1) ensuring data shared
with third parties will remain safe and secure and 2) complying with all
appropriate regulations.

“Privacy and data protection is a particularly pressing issue,”
said Dr. Ponemon. “Today these essential privacy management
responsibilities are typically split between the legal and IT functions.
While the legal department plays a dominant privacy role overall, IT
still holds accountability for implementing controls to address privacy
regulations. So you can see why the IT and legal teams need to speak the
same language and collaborate like never before to reduce enterprise
risks.”

Collaboration at Work

“This research highlights collaboration as both a critical need and a
growing exposure point in complex organizations,” said Dan Burks,
Chief Privacy Officer and Director of Vendor Risk Management of US Bank.
“Organizations that get people to talk together about eGRC and
collaborate help ensure their program’s success. Developing risk
‘ambassadors’ within each business line has been an enabling
factor for collaboration within our organization.”

“Policy management, incident response, and compliance monitoring are
critical for highly regulated and litigious industries, but frequently
organizations outside these industries ignore day-to-day business risks,
including using e-mail for communications and employee litigations,”
said Jeff Bettencourt, General Manager, Information Governance
Solutions, EMC. “Organizations that truly understand the critical
dependencies across domains and can align policies, processes, and
technologies, gain greater visibility and control to more effectively
manage risk across the enterprise. This can be a key competitive
advantage.”

Looking ahead, nearly 90 per cent of respondents believe enabling
technologies are essential or very important to achieving eGRC
objectives. The applications that are most likely to be deployed to
facilitate eGRC-related activities include risk assessment (81 per
cent), policy management (75 per cent), controls assessment (73 per
cent), incident response and management (68 per cent), and compliance
monitoring (63 per cent).

About EMC’s eGRC Portfolio

The EMC eGRC portfolio of technology, business solutions and
professional services provides an integrated solution to help
organizations manage risk and compliance requirements across the
enterprise on a consistent, ongoing basis. To learn more about the EMC
eGRC portfolio visit www.emc.com/egrc or attend an Active eGRC Seminar
at a city near you www.emc.com/egrcseminar.

About the Ponemon Institute

The Ponemon Institute© is dedicated to advancing responsible
information and privacy management practices in business and government.
To achieve this objective, the Institute conducts independent research,
educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the
privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a variety of
industries.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and
provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that
enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and
create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products
and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

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IBM's Watson Supercomputer to Visit Toronto at eHealth 2011 Conference

 

 

Media Advisory

 

IBM’s Watson Supercomputer to Visit Toronto at eHealth 2011 Conference 

 

Toronto, ON (May 25, 2011) – IBM will be taking part in the eHealth 2011 Conference, including live demonstrations of its Watson question answering system made famous during a successful stint on Jeopardy! earlier this year.

 

IBM’s Dr. Martin Kohn will also host a keynote session, where he will discuss a Watson-enabled future where technology can help healthcare organizations turn clinical and business data into actionable insights for healthy outcomes.

 

What:               eHealth 2011: Enabling Healthy Outcomes

 

When:              IBM Booth: 

Booth 301

Demonstrations and 1-on-1 tours can be arranged May 29th – June 1st between 8am – 6pm 

 

IBM Symposium featuring Dr. Martin Kohn, IBM Research:

Monday, May 30th

10:30 – 11:30 am

Room 715B

 

Where:            Metro Toronto Convention Centre

                        South Building

222 Bremner Blvd.

Toronto, ON  M5V 3L9

 

Contact:          Leslie Plant, IBM Media Relations

                        (416) 478-9840

 

Charlene Magnaye, Ketchum on behalf of IBM

(416) 355-7430

 

IBM will be onsite at the conference, providing demonstrations of its advanced technologies that have been the backbone of Canada’s progress in eHealth. 

 

The IBM booth will have four main focuses:

 

1.    Smarter Decisions – If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. The medical profession is full of inaccessible unstructured data, impacting practitioner efficiency, quality of care and increasing costs. IBM will demonstrate its enterprise health analytics, specifically its Medical Records Text Analytics, that delivers the capability to read free-form text in medical records. The management of unstructured data can complement structured data on both the clinical and business sides of healthcare – for higher levels of medical accountability, lower costs and improvements in quality.

 

2.    Smarter Workflow – Smarter workflow is about process monitoring and supporting a mobile workforce. Process monitoring means giving all stakeholders visibility into medical processes where there would otherwise be none and enabling action in time. Also, creating a mobile workforce, an area where IBM is constantly innovating, is key to smart process. This means connecting all stakeholders via smartphones – driving data to a clinician’s hand in order to speed decisions.

 

3.    Smarter Care Delivery – The ability to make clinical decisions faster improves patient outcomes. IBM will profile its Pharmacy Information Network and Panorama Public Health Solutions, on-demand electronic health solutions to reduce medical errors, shorten the care cycle and route records to the correct healthcare providers. 

 

4.    Smarter Room – IBM will demonstrate SmartRoom, a hospital solution focused on improving clinical workflow by providing essential information to caregivers and patients at the bedside. This system makes retrieving the right patient information at the right time as simple as walking into the room for the clinician. The ultimate goal: safe and reliable care, higher patient satisfaction, improved efficiency, and lower costs. Vocera will also be demonstrated at the booth.

 

Senior IBM executives will also be on hand during the conference and are available for interviews and to answer questions.

 

For more information on IBM, visit www.ibm.com/healthcare.

 

 

Charlene Magnaye

Ketchum Public Relations Canada | 33 Bloor Street East, Suite 1607, Toronto, ON  M4W 3H1
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Symantec Customers STEP Forward for Broader Risk and Compliance Visibility


Symantec Customers STEP Forward for Broader Risk and Compliance Visibility

New Symantec Technology Enabled Program Track Facilitates Integration with Symantec Control Compliance Suite

 

TORONTO, ON – May 25, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced a new Symantec Control Compliance Suite technology track within its Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP)The STEP Control Compliance Suite technology track will enable technology partners to easily bring data from their applications into Control Compliance Suite, giving customers a holistic view of risk and compliance that includes data from many external sources.  The Control Compliance Suite technology track is being launched with seven inaugural partners including Bit9, Courion, Catbird, HyTrust, Qualys, Rapid7 and SailPoint, who are all planning to build a Control Compliance Suite connector for their products. 

 

Click to Tweet: New compliance STEP track streamlines process for technology partners to bring data into CCS: http://bit.ly/mulikf

 

STEP members participating in the Control Compliance Suite technology track receive tools and access to technical resources to help them build solutions that automate the aggregation of security and risk data to provide joint customers with a holistic view of risk.  Symantec Control Compliance Suite offers an extensible data model with flexible web based  interfaces and a comprehensive security and compliance controls library which enables data from external sources to be easily consumed to produce meaningful views of security and compliance risk across the enterprise.  The holistic view of risk provided by Control Compliance Suite through the partner created solutions will help customers identify risks more quickly in their environment and will enable risk based prioritization of remediation efforts.

 

"The new partner program for Control Compliance Suite delivers the kind of broad IT security visibility and control that CISOs and compliance officers dream of," said Mark McClain, CEO and cofounder of SailPoint. "We are very pleased to be an inaugural partner in the CCS STEP program.  Through this partnership, SailPoint is providing the Control Compliance Suite with critical intelligence about identity management controls, providing an unprecedented level of visibility into their IT risk posture and ensuring that the right identity and access controls are in place to protect critical IT assets and data”.


"Enterprises are rapidly expanding virtualization in the datacenter and building private clouds to enable ‘IT as a service,’” said Eric Chiu, president and founder, HyTrust. “HyTrust enables visibility, security and control for virtual infrastructure, which is critical to enabling this datacenter transformation to continue. The partnership between HyTrust and Symantec CCS will allow our common customers to have a single compliance view across physical and virtual environments."  


“With access control resulting in almost 60% of IT audit deficiencies last year and with a growing amount of data accessible from an  increasing number of users and devices, automating visibility into access as a key component of overall  risk is critical” said Kurt Johnson, vice president of corporate strategy, Courion.  “The new synergies between Courion’s Access Assurance products with Symantec’s Control Compliance Suite (CCS) provides organizations a comprehensive view of compliance with the depth and detail for the business manager  to efficiently track,  control  and certify access.”

 

The STEP program provides a single point of entry for technology partners looking to integrate solutions across Symantec’s product portfolio and capitalize on the latest IT trends. Through a streamlined framework the program makes it easier and more rewarding to engage with Symantec. STEP partners can tap into new opportunities by bringing a broader array of integrated solutions to market faster, more efficiently, and with increased flexibility. 

 

Related

·         Symantec Control Compliance Suite (CCS)

·         Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP)

·         IT Risk & Compliance

 

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About Symantec Control Compliance Suite

Symantec Control Compliance Suite is a holistic, fully automated solution designed to address IT risk and compliance challenges. Symantec Control Compliance Suite allows organizations to better manage all aspects of their IT risk (infrastructure, information and people) while demonstrating compliance with multiple mandates at much lower levels of cost and complexity. It does this by automating the entire risk management and compliance process, from policy definition, controls mapping and controls assessment to reporting and remediation.

 

About Symantec

Symantec’s Canadian operations are headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.  For more information on Symantec products or current promotions, access Symantec’s Canadian Web site at www.symantec.ca. Symantec is an active member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

 

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world.  Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

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Forward-looking Statements: Any forward-looking indication of plans for products or programs is preliminary and all future release or delivery dates are tentative and are subject to change. Any future program plans, or release of the product or planned modifications to product capability, functionality, or feature are subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments by Symantec and should not be relied upon in making program participation or product purchasing decisions.

 

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: Symantec to Acquire Clearwell Systems


Symantec to Acquire Clearwell Systems

Symantec increases its information management leadership by delivering market-leading eDiscovery capabilities

Toronto, ON. – May 19, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Clearwell Systems, Inc., a recognized leader in the eDiscovery market. The acquisition of Clearwell will bring together the industry’s leading eDiscovery, archiving and backup offerings to provide customers one of the most comprehensive information management solutions available. Under the terms of the agreement, Symantec will acquire Clearwell for a purchase price of approximately $390 million, net of Clearwell’s existing cash balance of approximately $20 million. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval, and is expected to close in the September quarter.

Click to Tweet: @Symantec to acquire @Clearwell Systems - brings together leading #archiving and #eDiscovery solutions

“As information continues to grow at unprecedented rates, the biggest challenge for customers is to protect, manage and backup this information as well as have the ability to categorize and discover it efficiently,” said Deepak Mohan, senior vice president, Information Management Group, Symantec. “The acquisition of Clearwell’s market leading electronic discovery solution will further increase Symantec’s ability to get the right information, to the right people, at the right time, while reducing overall legal review costs and limiting risk.”

Clearwell's eDiscovery solution complements and enhances Symantec’s Enterprise Vault eDiscovery capabilities to create a more complete end-to-end eDiscovery solution. The existing integration of Enterprise Vault with the Clearwell eDiscovery Platform  positions Symantec to quickly help IT and legal users streamline and reduce the cost, time and risk of eDiscovery across the most relevant information sources including email, desktops, file servers, backups and the cloud. 

This acquisition will expand Symantec’s addressable market opportunity and will position the company as a leader in the fast-growing eDiscovery software market, which, according to Gartner, is growing at a compounded annual growth rate of 14 percent and is estimated to reach $1.7 billion by 20141. In addition, this acquisition is expected to provide future cross-sell and product integration synergies across Symantec backup and security, by leveraging Symantec NetBackup, Data Loss Prevention and Data Insight.

“Archiving and eDiscovery are two critical elements of information governance,” said Aaref Hilaly, president and chief executive officer, Clearwell Systems. “By joining forces and combining the industry’s leading archiving solution with the industry’s leading eDiscovery solution, we will be uniquely positioned to deliver a seamless, integrated information governance workflow, benefitting both Symantec and Clearwell customers.”

 

Organizations are being required to adopt more formal information governance processes to help reduce the costs and risks associated with legal discovery. According to Gartner, through 2012, companies without an information governance strategy and technology for content archiving solutions, will spend a third more on eDiscovery than those with content archiving solutions.2  Together Symantec and Clearwell are positioned to offer customers the ability to both proactively and reactively manage and discover their information with increased speed, efficiency and scale, both on-premise and in the cloud, while at the same time helping customers reduce costs and risks.

Symantec expects this transaction to be one-and-a-half cents dilutive to non-GAAP earnings per share in fiscal year 2012. The transaction is expected to be accretive starting in fiscal year 2013.  Upon close of the acquisition, Clearwell will join the Information Management Group led by Senior Vice President Deepak Mohan. For more information on how Clearwell will complement Symantec's information management portfolio please visit: http://www.symantec.com/Clearwell

 

Webcast and Conference Call Information

Symantec will host a conference call and webcast today to discuss the acquisition at 1:30 p.m. PT/ 4:30 p.m. ET.  The live discussion can be accessed by dialing 888-278-8459 domestic and 913-312-1502 internationally, passcode 3687953.  An audio webcast of the call will also be available at www.symantec.com/invest.  Please go to the Web site at least 15 minutes early to register, download and install any necessary audio software.  A replay of the call will be available via webcast at www.symantec.com/invest.  A slide presentation providing an overview of the transaction and strategic rationale is available at http://investor.symantec.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=89422&p=irol-eventnpres.

 

1“Market Trends: E-Discovery Software Is a Buyer's Market, Worldwide, 2010,” Gartner, December 8, 2010.

2“Cooperation Is Key for Managing E-Discovery in 2010,” Gartner, March 11, 2010

Connect with Symantec

 

About Clearwell

Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (eDiscovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlines end–to–end eDiscovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, review and production. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent eDiscovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit www.clearwellsystems.com.

 

About Symantec

Symantec’s Canadian operations are headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.  For more information on Symantec products or current promotions, access Symantec’s Canadian Web site at www.symantec.ca. Symantec is an active member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

 

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world.  Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

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