Symantec axes GoEverywhere service

Symantec's GoEverywhere online data-sharing service is going nowhere, it turns out.
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The company said it would begin notifying users Friday that it was terminating the product, which it has been beta testing since January.

GoEverywhere was an experimental "Webtop" service designed to give users a single point of access to their different Web-based applications. Users could sync up different files from services such as Zoho and Google Docs, save passwords, and manage different Web programs all from a single Web site.

The project was one of the first to emerge from Symantec's new in-house technology development group, known as Incubator, but it didn't last long after the company switched CEOs in April. Neither did the head of Incubator, Art Wong, who had been with the company since its 2002 acquisition of SecurityFocus. Wong left the company last Friday, Symantec said.

A company representative could not give a reason for Wong's departure. He could not be reached for comment on this story.

Although Wong's departure raises questions about the future of Incubator, Symantec President and CEO Enrique Salem said Thursday that he had not shuttered the effort, but merely reined in some of the Incubator products launched before he took over. "What you do with an incubator is you place some bets and you do a review and you say, 'What do you think the long-term bets are going to be?'" he said. "We tried four or five things, we picked two to go forward with, and we'll fund some other new things to put in the incubator."

Symantec Senior Vice President of Strategy Ken Berryman is now in charge of Incubator.

According to a source familiar with the situation, Incubator, which was supposed to operate like an internal startup company generator, is now a shadow of its former self. "The original concept is dead," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Symantec's Online Protection Network was built through the incubator group and another undisclosed project relating to health care is still going forward, Salem said. With Online Protection Network now spun into a business unit, the health project, called Electronic Health Group, is the only remaining Incubator project.

Under Salem's predecessor, John Thompson, Symantec moved into a wide range of new businesses, capped by its US$13.5 billion acquisition of storage vendor Veritas in 2005.

But under his watch, the focus is on building market share in Symantec's core businesses, Salem said. That means fewer acquisitions and a greater focus on internal development. "I've got to integrate all these great things we bought over the last 10 years," he said.

"We bought 30 companies," Salem noted. "We've got enough breadth. Now we need more depth and better integration so we can cross-sell more."

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BY Robert McMillan
Source：IDG News Service

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Symantec vows huge push into SaaS market

At its Financial Analyst Day event in San Francisco Thursday, Symantec's top executives vowed a major push into software-as-a service and also offered a glimpse at upcoming back-up products.
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Enrique Salem, president and CEO, kicked off the event with the investment industry's analysts by saying Symantec intends to expand into software-as-a-service, an area in which it already has experience (the company now backs up 32 petabytes of customer data in the cloud with continuing growth at 5 petabytes each quarter). Salem predicted SaaS, in which Symantec will have new offerings, could comprise "15% of total revenues in the next five years."

Symantec's detailed announcements pertaining to its SaaS strategy may not come until later this year, but executives told industry analysts from the financial world that Symantec is developing a "cloud storage platform" it will offer based on what it has learned hosting massive amounts of data.

Symantec is pursuing some of these cloud-based storage efforts through its joint venture with Huawei in China, mainly to be able to deliver cloud-based storage systems to firms based in that country. Symantec also can be expected to detail various types of host- and hybrid cloud-based SaaS offerings in the area of messaging security from this fall into next year.

Adrian Chamberlain, senior vice president in Symantec's Software-as-a-Service Group, which absorbed the products, services and development team associated with the $700 million MessageLabs acquisition last year, said the objectives over the next fiscal year would be to ‘"develop new hosted and hybrid security solutions."
But Symantec also acknowledged to industry analysts it has not been as successful as it would hope in selling security products and services to customer in the small-to-mid-sized business market.

"We've fallen short on delivering on the needs of small-business customers," admitted Greg Hughes, group president of Symantec's Enterprise Products Group. A specially-designed version of Symantec's Endpoint Security product for SMBs, released in May, is the vendor's latest attempt to woo these customers.

Separately, Symantec gave more specifics about upgrades to existing products. NetBackup 7.0, expected out the second half of the next fiscal year, will include deduplication and application recovery for Oracle, while Backup Exec 2010 will include a light version of Enterprise Vault in it.

And on the prickly question of the $375,000 fine slapped against Symantec (and McAfee separately) this week regarding the automatic charging of customers for software subscriptions without their permission—Symantec has an automatic renewal-by-default policy but was accused of burying that information too deeply in contracts—Symantec today indicated it would be making changes to its method of charging customers through the opt-out approach.

Although Symantec has grown to be a $6 billion company by making about 30 acquisitions, it may not be done with buyouts, Salem hinted.

But instead of entering wholly new market segments through acquisitions, Symantec's strategy next time around is likely to be targeting companies in areas where it already is strong in order to drive consolidation, Salem said.

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BY Ellen Messmer
Source：Network World

Copyright © 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. All rights reserved.

赛门铁克状告盗版软件商 索赔1000万人民币

核心人物马靖易目前处于羁押状态，缺席了昨天的庭审。马靖易案是公安部与美国联邦调查局（FBI）联合行破获的特大跨国生产、销售盗版软件的两起案件之一，涉及盗版光盘66.7万盘，非法经营额高达1048万美元。
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昨天，上海市第一中级人民法院开庭审理了诺顿杀毒软件制造商——美国赛门铁克公司状告盗版软件制造商马靖易控制的3家公司侵权一案，索赔金额高达1000万元人民币。核心人物马靖易目前处于羁押状态，缺席了昨天的庭审。马靖易案是公安部与美国联邦调查局（FBI）联合行破获的特大跨国生产、销售盗版软件的两起案件之一，涉及盗版光盘66.7万盘，非法经营额高达1048万美元。

《每日经济新闻》了解到，马靖易原名马克培，2003年2月以前一直在美国从事盗版软件销售活动。后因美国法院签发逮捕令，马克培回到中国并将名字改为马靖易。回国数月后，他又在上海开设了上海安意投资管理有限公司（下称“安意公司”）、上海斯利投资管理有限公司（下称“斯利公司”）以及上海思利电子商务咨询有限公司（下称“思利公司”），继续从事以诺顿系列软件为主的盗版软件生产、销售工作。

根据公诉机关指控，2003年7月至2007年2月，马靖易指使雇员向境外售出盗版光盘总计67.7万片、母盘15片以及菲林片等，非法经营额逾1048万美元。

日前，马靖易被上海市第一中级人民法院一审判处有期徒刑7年，罚金860万元。由于该案其他被告人提出了上诉，整案的判决尚未生效。

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文章出处：每日经济新闻
作者：N/A

Symantec to expand cloud-based software

Symantec Corp is looking to expand offerings of cloud-based security and storage services in a bid to accelerate sluggish revenue growth, Chief Executive Enrique Salem said on Monday.
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Salem, who took the helm of the world's largest maker of security and storage software in April, told the Reuters Global Technology Summit that he wants to boost sales from data backup and other services that Symantec delivers over the Internet, so that they account for 15 percent of revenue within three to five years.

Profit margins for Web-based software tend to be thinner than for traditional software because vendors have to foot the cost of running computer centers to host the programs, on top of the developments costs for the software.

But Salem said he believes Symantec will be able to generate margins from hosted storage that are "comparable" to selling traditional software within three to five years.

"The lifetime value of a customer will potentially be higher," the CEO said of such offerings, which are commonly known as Software as a Service, or SaaS.

The 17-year company veteran also said he is in no hurry to make acquisitions, even though Symantec has $2 billion in cash, as he expects valuations of private companies to decline over the next year. Symantec has bought 30 companies in the last decade.

"Private company expectations on valuation are still too high," Salem said. "We can afford to be patient."

Salem said the company will use acquisitions to add products in security, services delivered over the Internet, systems management and virtualization.

He pointed to recent purchases of Swap Drive and Message Labs, which sell online backup and messaging services, as examples of how he is using acquisitions to add such products.

STORAGE SERVICES

Symantec's hosted storage services, which consumers and businesses access over the Web, are among its fastest-growing products. Salem said companies were originally hesitant to use the Internet to transmit sensitive information, but are gradually becoming more comfortable with the concept, thanks to improved technology for securing the data.

"We are no longer waiting for people to say they are interested. People are absolutely interested," he said. "It's crossed the chasm."

Symantec rival McAfee Inc last week announced plans to launch an online backup service for consumers in the second half of this year with data storage equipment maker EMC Corp, which will compete with the one that Symantec sells using technology it acquired from Swap Drive.

Salem said Symantec has some 7 million customers using its hosted storage services, about 90 percent of which are either consumers or companies with 1,000 or fewer employees.

Web-based storage and software services are projected to be among the fastest-growing segments of the sluggish tech sector of the next few years.

Gartner Inc expects 2009 sales of cloud-based software, storage and backup services to grow about 22 percent this year to a record $12 billion, even as the recession causes overall technology spending to decline.

COVETED HP CONTRACT

Cupertino, California-based Symantec's revenue missed analysts' forecasts in its most recent quarter, as business security software sales fell 14 percent to $370 million.

Salem said on Monday he hopes sales to small and mid-sized businesses will improve over the next few quarters due to a new product launched earlier this month. He added that sales of security software to larger companies and Symantec's back-up software business are both doing "very well."

McAfee has gradually been expanding its distribution agreements with PC makers over the past 18 months, a strategy that analysts say has paid off in increased market share.

Salem said Symantec's coveted contract to distributes its Norton anti-virus software on Hewlett-Packard Co's consumer PC's will continue for at least another year. That contradicted a comment last week from McAfee Chief Executive Dave DeWalt, who told Reuters the agreement would expire within the next 12 months.

DeWalt had said he wants to win the HP deal away from Symantec and could do so within the next year.

"He is wrong," Salem said. "Maybe he should get his facts straight."

Officials with HP and McAfee could not be reached for comment.

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Reporting by Jim Finkle and Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Tiffany Wu, Lisa Von Ahn and Richard Chang
Source：Reuters

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McAfee Gains Market Share Over Symantec

Despite weak corporate consumer spending, the earnings and sales of security software maker McAfee (MFE) remain strong.
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McAfee is the No. 2 company in its space behind Symantec (SYMC), but is gaining, analysts say. One analyst calculated that the amount of McAfee software products pre-loaded on PCs destined for the consumer market increased from 20% to 50% in a year.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has made even bigger strides in the corporate security world. Its revenue grew 23% in 2008 to $945 million. Symantec showed a 6% increase, to $1.7 billion.

Some analysts attribute McAfee's aggressive moves to a new chief executive, David DeWalt, who took over two years ago.

On the consumer side, Symantec has an exclusive pre-load contract with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). McAfee has lined up Dell (DELL), Toshiba, Lenovo and Acer.

McAfee became only the second stock to make the weekly IBD list of top-performing long-term growth stocks. The bear market has reduced the list, published each week on investors.com, nearly to nothing.

McAfee's steady growth has earned it an EPS Stability Rating of 13.

The stock has formed a cup without handle. It already broke out of an awkward double bottom that formed within the larger pattern.

It gapped up last week on a better-than-expected earnings report.

McAfee earned 57 cents a share, a 33% increase from the year-ago quarter. That was 9 cents better than estimates. Sales rose 21%.

Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters forecast 2009 earnings at $2.34, a 16% increase.

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BY KEN HOOVER
Source：Investors.com

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Symantec boss tells industry to stop buying storage

The new head of Symantec has told delegates at Storage Networking World in Orlando that they should stop buying storage and focus on what they have.
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In his first major address since taking over as head of Symantec Salem told delegates that they were missing a trick by focusing on return on investment (ROI) when they should be focusing on ROY – return on yesterday.

“My key message for you today: Stop buying storage. You heard me right. Stop buying storage,” he said.

“How? Reduce the amount of information that you store in the first place, and make the storage you do have more flexible and efficient.”

He outlined four strategies to achieve this: storage resource management, thin provisioning, data deduplication and intelligent archiving.

Salem criticised hardware companies that sold storage management tools which only detected their own hardware. Most data centres use multiple hardware manufacturers and storage managers needed to be aware of this.

Secondly storage needed to be allocated on demand rather than building large storage arrays that sit idle initially until they fill up. Similarly, when data is deleted then servers need to be aware of this and allocate it back to a common pool.

Salem also warned about data duplication. He pointed out that a 5MB presentation in three employees inboxes, if backed up once a week, would lead to 15,600 copies in storage by the year’s end.

Finally he said archiving needs to be more intelligent, by embracing tiered storage and smarter archiving.

Salem made his speech the day after IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker found that Symantec is maintaining its position as the number two in the storage software market with 18.3 per cent of revenues compared to E MC’s 26 per cent.

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BY Iain Thomson, San Francisco
Source：vnunet

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Symantec Rolls Out New Norton Online Storage Service

Symantec (NSDQ:SYMC) on Thursday officially rolled out its entry into the consumer online storage market with the introduction of its new Norton Online Backup product.
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Norton Online Backup allows the backing up and securing of files such as digital photos, financial documents and e-mails from up to five PCs in a household to an online site that can be accessed through a Web browser, said Jeff Kyle, group product manager for consumer products at Symantec.

That is a primary difference from many other online storage technologies that require the user to use the same PC for backing up and accessing online files, Kyle said.

Symantec also sells a business-oriented online storage software service called Symantec Protection Network, which it unveiled about a year ago as its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform.

The Symantec Protection Network online data backup and recovery service is aimed at helping small and midsize businesses get access to online data protection, with one fee to cover the service, maintenance and support. The service leverages legacy Veritas backup and recovery solutions and legacy Symantec services management technology, and it relies on some redundant data centers that Symantec has set up for customers to use for online backups.

Because Norton Online Backup is a browser-based system, users can access and restore files from anywhere, he said.

Norton Online Backup is a Web-based application, so only a 3-MB client application for signing in to the system is actually loaded on the customer's PC. That client application allows access to the files over the Web from anywhere, Kyle said.

Customer files are stored and secured on Symantec-hosted vaults, Kyle said. The data is protected by 256-bit AES encryption on the servers and by 128-bit SSL encryption during the transfer process. The data is further protected by redundancy between Symantec's data centers, he said.

Symantec is offering the service with a starting price of $49.99 per year, which includes 25 GB of compressed storage, with no extra charges to transfer data into and out of the offering, Kyle said. Some customers looking for special offers can also get 5 GB of storage for $29.99 per year, he said.

The company is selling its service direct to customers and will be signing OEM partners, and expects to make it available through retail as well, Kyle said.

The service will primarily compete with similar services offered by Carbonite and EMC (NYSE:EMC)'s Mozy.

Mozy was acquired by EMC early last year, and is now the base on which EMC is building a SaaS offering.

Norton Online Backup is based on technology from SwapDrive, an online storage service provider acquired by Symantec last June.

Prior to the SwapDrive acquisition, Symantec had a two-year OEM relationship with the company. SwapDrive technology was in use as part of Symantec's Norton 360 antivirus and data protection offering. "But we've rebuilt it from the ground up as a new product for Norton Online Backup," Kyle said.

That gives Norton Online Backup an advantage over many of the other consumer storage offerings, Kyle said.

"It's already proven," he said. "We have over 26 petabytes of stored data through Norton's SwapDrive relationship, which we've been doing for two years as part of our Norton 360 offering."

Symantec is entering an ever-more crowded market with a consumer-oriented online storage service.

In addition to established competitors such as Carbonite and EMC Mozy, it will compete against new faces in the market.

These include companies such as Qwest (NYSE:Q), which recently unveiled its Qwest Personal Digital Vault online backup service; Google, which is expected to unveil its GDrive service at any time; and maybe even Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, who has used the comics to plug his DilbertFiles service.

However, entering the online storage market does not guarantee success. Hewlett-Packard is planning to close its Upline online storage service by the end of this month. Yahoo (NSDQ:YHOO) is planning the same for its Yahoo Briefcase service.

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BY Joseph F. Kovar
Source：ChannelWeb

Copyright © 2009 United Business Media LLC.

Symantec plans web storage for consumers

BOSTON (Reuters) - Symantec Corp (SYMC.O), the world's top security software maker, will soon launch a Web-based storage service for consumers, joining a market led by EMC Corp's (EMC.N) Mozy and privately held Carbonite.
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Symantec Consumer Division President Janice Chaffin said in an interview on Monday that her company will start offering the new service at the end of next month.

"We think this is something that is going to be a big and growing opportunity," she told Reuters.

Symantec already offers 2 gigabytes of online storage for consumers as one of the offerings included with its Norton 360 suite of security software, which retails for about $80.

About 30 percent of its Norton 360 customers use the online backup feature. It runs in the background, automatically backing up important documents to Symantec's data center. They can easily be retrieved if a PC fails or files are accidentally deleted.

Symantec's new offering will be similar to that service, but will be sold a la carte, Chaffin said. She declined to discuss pricing or product features ahead of the launch.

The small but rapidly growing market is currently dominated by Mozy, which charges $5 a month for unlimited storage, and Carbonite, which sells unlimited storage for $50 per year.

Norton 360 users can store 2 gigabytes of data at no extra charge, but need to pay extra if they exceed that limit.

Chaffin said the new storage service is one of several in Symantec's pipeline of cloud computing products, or computer services that are delivered over the Web.

The company is also expanding into Web-based services that help secure PCs, improve their performance and allow users to remotely obtain technical support when their machines break down, she said.

Symantec's online storage services use technology that it acquired last year when it purchased privately held SwapDrive Inc for $124 million.

The business that Symantec built with the SwapDrive acquisition runs online storage systems behind the scenes for Internet providers and PC makers, which offer online storage products to their customers under their own brands.

Altogether, Symantec provides online backup for more than six times the number of consumer PCs as Mozy or Carbonite, Chaffin said.

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BY Jim Finkle
Source：REUTERS

© Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved.

賽門鐵克看2009年：寄望個資法和宅經濟

賽門鐵克認為新版個資法，以及宅經濟的興起，有助帶動資安市場買氣。
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「新版個資法的通過有助於提醒企業關注資料外洩防護議題。」賽門鐵克台灣暨香港區董事總經理徐海國指出，一昧的刪減IT預算與人力資源恐導致企業陷入資訊安全危機，再加上惡意軟體變種程式、垃圾郵件、先進的網頁威脅、社交網站威脅，以及虛擬機器安全等問題都比往年來得嚴重，在這樣的狀況下，企業需要一套可以解決上述問題的整合式的資安防護機制─資料外洩防護（DLP）。

在企業紛紛下修IT預算的2009年，賽門鐵克盼透過新版個資法刺激企業市場買氣。

已進行到三讀階段的新版個資法與既有的「電腦處理個人資料保護法」最大的差別在於：適用對象將擴大到蒐集個人資料的所有網站，不再侷限於現行的八大類企業。舉例來說，擁有眾多會員資料庫的電子商務業者一旦洩漏了會員資料，除非網站業者能證明遭人破壞竊取，否則，該網站受害會員可以向網站請求損害賠償。

整合式的資訊安全防護軟體才是企業所需。IDC企業應用資深產業分析師薛如珊指出，伴隨IT預算與人力的緊縮，企業需要的是一套整合式的資訊安全防護方案，是故，資安業者如能同時提供整合式安全防護機制，以及即時技術支援服務，較易獲得企業青睞。

宅經濟：線上玩家市場
賽門鐵克盼以線上玩家版防毒軟體拉升消費者市場買氣。經濟不景氣讓玩線上遊戲的消費者變多了，看準該塊市場商機，賽門鐵克計劃於下周推出諾頓防毒玩家版軟體，賽門鐵克個人消費性產品事業部協理許淑菁指出，諾頓防毒玩家版的功能與Symantec Norton Internet Security 2009一致，差別在於玩家可視自身情況設定某些功能，如遊戲進行時不要跳出警告視窗等，「賽門鐵克將與某些遊戲業者一同行銷該軟體，如購買諾頓防毒玩家版軟體即贈送虛擬寶物等。」她說。

「線上玩家等宅經濟的興起，有助賽門鐵克提升在消費者資安市場的業務表現。」許淑菁說道。

儲存市場成長力道：搭VMWare順風車
在伺服器虛擬化已經成為顯學之際，賽門鐵克也想搭順風車，向企業用戶訴求：備份虛擬伺服器的資料，就像備份實體機器一樣簡單。

賽門鐵克技術顧問陳力維即表示，該公司將持續加深與虛擬化軟體廠商VMWare的合作，讓備份虛擬化伺服器的資料不再成為企業用戶的負擔：過去，企業用戶若是想有上述作為，必須額外再寫許多程式語言。對缺乏IT人員的中小企業而言，不啻為一大負擔。

賽門鐵克已經在Veritas NetBackup和Backup Exec兩項軟體中，加入了對VMWare的支援：企業用戶只要額外點選一個圖形化介面的選項，即可備份虛擬伺服器的資料。

「隨著VMWare升級備份功能VCB（VMWare Consolidate Backup），賽門鐵克也會跟進配合，」陳力維說。

減輕用戶的負擔是訴求之一，最終的價值還是落在為客戶節省成本——尤其在不景氣的今日。

陳力維舉例道，在自家的叢集軟體Veritas Cluster Server支援VMWare ESX之後，讓備份多個虛擬伺服器，不再成為硬碟輸出/入的負擔。這才讓企業用戶真正獲益於一個實體伺服器上執行多個虛擬機器：因為軟體授權費用只需要一份就好。

「歸檔（Archiving）、資料重複刪除（De-duplication）、精簡配置（Thin-provisioning）等能夠資料減量的儲存技術，也都會在今年大放異彩，」陳力維說。

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文章出处：ZDNet
記者：蔡宜秀、曠文溱／台北報導

Symantec针对VMware推灾难复原方案

全球安全、存储及系统管理技术领袖Symantec Corporation与VMware合作，推出针对VMware环境的强化式高可用性 (HA) 及灾难复原 (DR) 解决方案。合作内容包括在VMware环境中利用Symantec专为VMware ESX而设的Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) 方案 ，透过「技术支持联盟网络」(Technical Support Alliance Network，简称TSANet) ，为双方客户提供联合支持；同时整合VCS及VMware基础架构，提供互补性HA/DR解决方案；并致力强化VCS的性能，在VMware vCenter中体现完善的HA/DR效能。
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VMware基础架构联盟副总裁Shekar Ayyar表示：「VMware喜见Symantec推出VCS这类能整合VMware虚拟化技术、又能为客户创优增值的高可用性解决方案，同时印证了稳健的伙伴生态系统对突显VMware虚拟化技术优势的重要。我们期望与Symantec继续紧密合作，为VCS for VMware的用户提供支持；并通过像刚公布的TSANet合作性支持协议这类计划项目，为彼此的共同客户带来尽善尽美的操作体验。」

Symantec与VMware的合作性支持计划透过TSANet，派遣训练有素的支持专家，为客户解决高可用性方面的需要。Symantec本已成为了TSANet的全球会员，现更加入VMware年初成立的虚拟化合作支持小区，积极推动旨于为共同企业客户提供关键任务支持的协作计划，透过协调响应、信息互换及更高响应速度，使客户体验更臻完善，精益求精。

Symantec的VCS解决方案与VMware环境相辅相成，妥善保护关键任务应用，免受突发性停机影响。VCS以「应用为本」的理念实践HA/DR，可针对任何地方、任何形式的故障，提供一应俱全的保护。VCS与VMware vCenter完全融会贯通，兼备多项关键VMware效能，如有助减少计划性停机的VMware VMotion及提供动态工作负载管理的Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) 等。

VCS与VMware基础架构的结合，使客户尽享优越的计划性和突发性停机保护。VCS是VCS HA/DR解决方案系列的一部分，适用于混合式实质及虚拟环境，在现代数据中心内提供共同的HA/DR平台。

此外，Symantec还在VCS中引进多种强化功能，为VMware vCenter提供高可用性支持，加强对虚拟基础架构关键组件的保护。最近一项由Symantec资助的灾难复原调查指出，有四分一受访者认为VMware vCenter的保护是建立高可用性虚拟环境的两大挑战之一。另外，为避免应用系统受突发性停机影响，VCS现加入了VMware vCenter突发性停机保护，以保障关键服务的可用性，范围涵盖虚拟机器配置 (Virtual Machine Provisioning)、性能监察 (Performance Monitoring)、使用控制 (Utilisation control)，以及VMware VMotion实时转移 (Live Migration) 等。

Symantec Veritas集群服务器部副总裁Mark Lohmeyer表示：「虚拟化带动了市场对HA/DR解决方案的需求，因为这些方案有助保障关键任务应用的可用性。我们十分高兴与VMware携手提供有助应付突发性停机的HA/DR平台，以补足VMware现有针对计划性停机的技术，如VMotion，务求达致最全面的应用系统可用性。Symantec与VMware将为不同机构提供综合可用性解决方案及支持，确保他们的应用系统时刻得到周全保护。

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