Symantec Enterprise Podcasts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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