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time monitoring and analysis of intrusion detection alerts; coordinated event monitoring, analysis, and management
of Symantec security appliances; and integrated global intelligence services from our early warning solutions.
Symantec Managed Security Services uses global intelligence to offer fast and accurate analysis of security data to
protect customers against emerging threats and reduce overall security risk.
Threat and Early Warning Systems
Our customized and comprehensive alerts of impending Internet-based attacks worldwide — with counter-
measures to prevent attacks before they occur — enable companies to mitigate risk, manage threats, and help ensure
business continuity.
Data Center Management
Our Data Center Management segment focuses on providing enterprise and large enterprise customers with
storage and server management, data protection, and application performance management solutions across
heterogeneous storage and server platforms. These solutions enable companies to standardize on a single layer
of infrastructure software that works on every major distributed operating system and supports every major storage
device, database, and application.
Our primary data center management solutions address the following areas:
Storage Management
These solutions provide storage management, storage resource management, storage utilization management,
Storage Area Network, or SAN, management, storage virtualization and replication solutions. Storage Foundation
5.0, announced in May 2006, provides IT organizations with visibility and control of storage assets in their
heterogeneous data centers with recent enhancements including centralized management and enhanced storage
virtualization, and includes Storage Foundation Basic designed for edge-tier workloads. Veritas Command
Central
TM
Storage, a storage resource management and SAN management solution, enables administrators to gain
visibility into all the physical devices on their SAN, and provide capacity and utilization management and reporting.
Server Management
These solutions allow enterprises to ensure the availability of critical applications, and to understand and
manage their server and application infrastructure in a more effective and automated fashion. Veritas Cluster Server
allows critical applications to remain operational, even when the underlying physical servers running those
applications experience outages. Through solutions such as Server Foundation, Symantec provides enterprise
customers the ability to discover in detail what is running on all the servers in their data center, and to actively
manage and administer those servers. The Server Foundation suite of products provides application virtualization,
patch management, configuration management, server provisioning, and server management across heterogeneous
storage and server platforms and virtual machines. In November 2006, we further expanded Server Foundation with
the addition of Veritas Application Director. Application Director helps companies share server resources across
applications to maximize server utilization and application availability.
Data Protection
The NetBackup solutions are designed to protect, backup, archive, and restore data across a broad range of
enterprise computing environments — from large corporate data centers to remote offices and desktop and laptop
computers. Veritas NetBackup PureDisk
TM
, announced in April 2006, combines disk-based data protection and
advanced data de-duplication technology to enable companies to centrally manage and administer data protection
for hundreds or even thousands of remote offices.
Application Performance Management
These products provide monitoring and reporting of performance management across business production
environments, enabling organizations to meet stringent Service Level Agreements set for important applications.
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