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<item><title>Symantec Urges Partners to Narrow Focus</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:54:51 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[After dozens of acquisitions, Symantecs product portfolio now spans security, storage and configuration management. While the portfolio offers partners many opportunities, the vendor says solution providers should only focus on technologies where they have expertise. Symantec is taking this channel segmentation approach to maintain focus and relevancy among partners and end users.<br/>   -  While having leadership positions in multiple technology
segments would seem like a good thing, it creates a problem for Symantec in
that its increasingly difficult to succinctly classify Symantec as a whole. Is
it a security company? Is it a storage company? Is an information lifecycle
company?...]]></description>
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<item><title>Symantec Honors High-Performing Partners</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:02 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[At last week's Partner Connect conference in Orlando, Symantec CEO Enrique Salem and Channel Chief Randy Cochran recognized distribution and reseller partners for their sales and services excellence.<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Symantec Reveals 2010 Channel Plan at Partner Engage Conference</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:30:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Security and storage solution providers headed to Symantec's partner event this week got sneak peeks of the company's channel plans for 2010, including the new SymDemo demo platform that lets partners show off product capabilities without the hassles of worrying about hardware, software licensing and logistics.<br/>   -  Security and storage channel providers converged in Orlando,
Fla., this week to meet up with
representatives at Symantec for the companys annual Partner Engage conference.
The intensive day-and-a-half event is highlighted by several sneak peeks into
Symantecs channel plans for 2010, including a ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Symantec vs. McAfee: A Rivalry Renewed</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:34:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Symantec partners will roll into Orlando this week to hear about new programs, products and initiatives that will in subtle and not so subtle ways be aimed at curbing the “Red Menace” known as McAfee. McAfee is investing in its channels to take share away from Big Yellow. Its the renewal of an old rivalry.<br/>   -  When solution providers and enterprise customers arrived in Las
Vegas last month for the McAfee Focus conference, they
were greeted at McCarron Airport
by a sea of yellow signs from the gate to the door extolling the superiority of
Symantec products. It was a marketing coup that didnt sit well w...]]></description>
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<item><title>Symantec Calls a Quorum with Reputation-Based Tech</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:32:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Integrated into Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010, Quorum pulls together knowledge gained from anonymous software patterns within its volunteer user community and data from Symantecs research labs to automatically detect malware executables and files affected by malware.<br/>   -  Symantec says it wants to take advantage of the wisdom of crowds with a new reputation-based malware technology that it made available to the channel this week.
The company took the wraps off of the technology, dubbed Quorum, as it released its latest 2010 Norton line-up. Integrated into Norton Int...]]></description>
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<item><title>Symantec Extends Payment Terms for Select Partners</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:29:33 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Symantec partners certified as SMB specialists will be able to defer payment on endpoint security and backup application sales up to 60 days under the pilot program designed to allow solution providers to keep more cash on hand.<br/>   -  Symantec is taking the wraps off a new credit and financing plan
today that is designed to help select security and storage solution
providers keep more money in their pockets longer.
Symantec is extending payment terms to 60 days to partners with a
SMB specialization on sales of Symantec Endpoi...]]></description>
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<item><title>Symantec Adds Web Gateway Security to Protection Suite</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:53:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Symantec has integrated the Mi5 Networks Web Gateway 4.5, acquired in April, into its Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition. The move increases Symantec's Web security play against competitors such as Blue Coat and Websense.<br/>   -  Symantec today announced the integration of Web Gateway 4.5 into its
Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition following the companys April
acquisition of Mi5 Networks.

The latest improvement to the Symantec suite adds a new tier of anti-malware
technology to the existing anti-virus engine ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Symantec Posts Much Lower-Than-Expected Earnings</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:09:46 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Company officials blame slow business-to-business sales for its poor performance, claiming that enterprises are choosing to opt for smaller deals to weather the current economic climate.<br/>   -  Symantec this week reported a dramatic drop in
revenue and earnings during the fiscal quarter ending July 3, missing analyst
projections and  sparking a drop in shares yesterday. 

In its financial statements released yesterday, the company said it saw
earnings shear off from $172 million durin...]]></description>
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<item><title>Symantec Snags $18.6 Million From Counterfeit Distributors</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:45:59 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[N.J.-based V-Micro and Conn.-based Higher Model Computer both lost judgments and forced to pay millions to security vendor.<br/>   -  Unscrupulous distributors, beware. There are consequences to your actions, as was so forcefully exhibited Thursday with the announcement that security vendor Symantec will receive $18.6 million in damages from two distributors selling counterfeit software throughout North America.

The larger judg...]]></description>
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<item><title>Symantec Unveils Deduplication Strategy</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:54:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Company plans to deliver solutions over the next year as well as several updates and enhancements to its flagship backup and recovery solution NetBackup.<br/>   -  Symantec Corp. announced its deduplication strategy with plans to deliver on it over the next year as well as several updates and enhancements to its flagship backup and recovery solution NetBackup.

With data volumes increasing daily, companies need a better way to balance backup storage costs wi...]]></description>
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<item><title>Workflow Apps Help Organize Businesses Better</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:45:04 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Symantec is betting that its Altiris Workflow Solution will automate the way end users define processes and interact with systems and business tasks, and will improve operational efficiencies. What workflow apps require are solution providers that understand the technology and business operations.<br/>   -  To listen to John Radi, the next great technology opportunity lies in a
rather ambiguous word: workflow.
“Its a rapid development application environment where you can write your
processes and integrate into other products,” says Radi, the chief executive of
Incendio Technology, a solution provi...]]></description>
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<item><title>Symantec's New CEO Is Committed to Growing with the Channel</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:41:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[In less than a month, Enrique Salem will take the helm of the world's fourth largest software company. No longer just a security company, the new chief executive tells Channel Insider that he plans to increase the company's marketplace relevancy with the support of solution provider partners.<br/>   -  Competitors have crowed about stealing accounts and robbing market share
away from Symantec. They say they're slowly chipping away at Big Yellows
dominance in the security industry because Symantec has become distracted by
its adventures in storage and systems management. And many solution provid...]]></description>
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