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Endpoint management solutions help customers further secure and ultimately reduce the cost of owning
information technology by automating management tasks, including backup, recovery, deployment, migration,
inventory, patch management, IT asset and service management, business process automation, data archiving and
remote control. Products include Symantec
TM
Endpoint Protection, Symantec Network Access Control, and
Altiris
TM
Total Management Suite.
Information Risk Management
Our Information Risk Management solutions provide a common framework for customers to consistently
enforce data security policies across endpoints, networks, email, storage systems, and archiving. These solutions are
built on market-leading policy management, archiving and retention, data loss prevention, antispam, and content
filtering technologies, allowing IT professionals to proactively mitigate data security risks and policy violations
while rapidly and cost-effectively responding to e-Discovery requests. We also help customers define, control, and
govern their IT policies from a central location, enabling them to protect critical assets and reduce business risk by
probing for network vulnerabilities, monitoring threats in real-time, retaining logs for analysis, managing security
incidents, and demonstrating compliance with internal mandates and external regulations. Products include
Symantec Information Foundation
TM
, Symantec Mail Security, Symantec Enterprise Vault
TM
, Vontu
TM
Data Loss
Prevention, Symantec Control Compliance Suite, Symantec Security Information Manager, and Symantec Enter-
prise Security Manager
TM
.
Storage and Server Management
Our Storage and Server Management segment focuses on providing enterprise customers with storage
management, high availability, and data protection 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 storage and server management solutions address the following areas:
Storage and Availability Management
These solutions provide file systems, volume management, clustering, storage resource management, storage
utilization management, Storage Area Network management, storage virtualization and replication. They also
enable enterprises to manage large storage environments and ensure the availability of critical applications.
Products include Veritas CommandCentral Storage, Veritas Storage Foundation
TM
, and Veritas
TM
Cluster Server.
Data Protection
Symantec’s data protection family of products are designed to ensure successful backup and recovery of
information and systems for organizations ranging from small to large enterprises using the latest disk, tape, de-
duplication, indexing and virtual technologies. Products include Veritas NetBackup
TM
, Veritas NetBackup Pure-
Disk
TM
, Symantec Backup Exec
TM
, and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery.
Services
Our Services segment delivers Consulting, Managed, Hosted and Education services that complement our
products and assist with product sales.
Managed and Hosted Services
Symantec Managed Services enable customers to place resource-intensive IT operations under the manage-
ment of experienced Symantec specialists in order to optimize existing resources and focus on strategic IT projects.
Symantec Hosted Services leverage infrastructure managed in a Symantec environment to help customers reduce IT
complexity, manage IT risk, and to lower cost of operations. Symantec recently launched the Symantec Protection
Network, a software-as-a-service platform that brings a range of availability technologies to small to medium-sized
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