Sun and Symantec

Overview

You need to access your information anytime and anywhere. You need to make sure your systems and data are up and running, and the interactions between people and data is secure. By enabling you to protect your infrastructure, information, and interactions, Symantec and Sun can help improve your confidence in a connected world.

For 25 years, Symantec has been enabling people to have confidence in their infrastructures, their information, and their interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance, and performance.

Alliance Overview

Sun and Symantec have worked together for all of those years, continuously strengthening their alliance to deliver industry leading, innovative data protection solutions. In fact, Sun and Symantec continue to jointly sell Veritas Storage Foundation and NetBackup while creating new offers around Symantec Enterprise Vault, PureDisk, and Brightmail AntiSpam.

Symantec Products at a Glance

Symantec Enterprise Vault
Symantec Enterprise Vault provides a software-based intelligent archiving platform that stores, manages, and enables discovery of corporate data from email systems, file servers, instant messaging platforms, and content management and collaboration systems. Enterprise Vault uses intelligent classification engines to manage different types of data, improving a company's ability to retain and protect corporate information while reducing storage costs and simplifying management.

Veritas NetBackup
Veritas NetBackup delivers high performance data protection that scales to protect the largest UNIX, Windows, Linux, and NetWare environments. With complete protection from remote office to data center to vault, NetBackup offers a single console for all backup and recovery operations.

Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam
Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam provides an advanced anti-spam and email threat defense system. Deployed at the Internet gateway, this solution makes email more secure and productive by leveraging multiple effective technologies, globally distributed operations centers, a patented spam detection network, and a real-time filter delivery mechanism.

Veritas Storage Foundation
Veritas Storage Foundation provides a complete solution for heterogeneous online storage management. Based on Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System, it provides a standard set of integrated tools to centrally manage explosive data growth, maximize storage hardware investments, provide data protection, and adapt to changing business requirements.

Veritas NetBackup PureDisk
Veritas NetBackup PureDisk offers storage and bandwidth-optimized data protection for remote offices, virtual environments, and data centers. PureDisk uses data deduplication technology to reduce the size of backups before moving any data. A scalable and open storage architecture allows you to deploy PureDisk into any data protection environment.

What's New

Sun and Symantec Data Protection for Virtualized Environments Solution
Backing up virtual environments is a growing concern for enterprises . This solution is a three-way collaboration between Sun, Symantec and VMware. Check out the White Paper — Fast Backups in Virtual Environments: Design Blueprint and Benchmark Results.

What people are saying about the partnership

Feature Story - Securely archive your data and easily find what you need, when you need it most.
With Symantec Enterprise Vault running on Sun, you can reduce the e-discovery process from 2-5 weeks down to a matter of hours - and more efficiently and cost-effectively manage and protect your data over time.

Sun and Symantec Open Archive for Email Solution - Enterprise
Sun and Symantec have partnered to enable organizations to establish policies for archiving, retaining, and recalling email data and attachmentsall while reducing risk and controlling costs.

Sun and Symantec Open Archive for Email Solution - Midmarket
This augments the Open Archive Solution leveraging new Enterprise Vault capabilities for ease of implementation and ease of use.