Symantec Enterprise Podcasts

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the December 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.

David Thompson joined Symantec as CIO in 2006 and assumed additional responsibilities in 2008 when he was given charge of the global services organization. He discusses how governance and business process optimization are core elements to the strategy he and his team are spearheading. This is part 3 in a 3-part podcast series that touches on a number of different subjects—from his assignments at PeopleSoft and Oracle, to M&A, to business value analysis, to Green IT, to outsourcing decisions.

David Thompson joined Symantec as CIO in 2006 and assumed additional responsibilities in 2008 when he was given charge of the global services organization. He discusses how governance and business process optimization are core elements to the strategy he and his team are spearheading. This is part 2 in a 3-part podcast series that touches on a number of different subjects—from his assignments at PeopleSoft and Oracle, to M&A, to business value analysis, to Green IT, to outsourcing decisions.

David Thompson joined Symantec as CIO in 2006 and assumed additional responsibilities in 2008 when he was given charge of the global services organization. He discusses how governance and business process optimization are core elements to the strategy he and his team are spearheading. This is part 1 in a 3-part podcast series that touches on a number of different subjects—from his assignments at PeopleSoft and Oracle, to M&A, to business value analysis, to Green IT, to outsourcing decisions.

Bay Dynamics, a nine-year-old IT solutions provider based in San Francisco, is a Platinum Value Added Reseller (VAR) of Symantec products, offering almost the entire Symantec product line to midmarket and larger customers. But Bay Dynamics is unique in the fact that it is also a Symantec consulting partner, an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner, a development partner, and operates the only authorized Symantec training center in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dermot Harnett and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the December 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.

Sunil Polepalli, product manager for Managed Backup Services (MBS), provides an overview of MBS and discusses the importance of backup and data protection for businesses of all sizes.

Symantec held a virtual roundtable on top Internet security trends from 2009 and security landscape predictions for 2010. Panelists were Paul Wood from MessageLabs Intelligence and Zulfikar Ramzan from Symantec Security Technology and Response. Marian Merritt, Symantec's Internet Safety Advocate, moderated the discussion.

Join Symantec experts Zulfikar Ramzan of the Security Technology and Response Group and Paul Woods from Message Labs, as they discuss trends for 2009 and offer their predictions for the security landscape in 2010. Ramzan and Woods will cover topics from rogue security software to malware targeted at social networking sites.

SharePoint is quickly becoming the primary repository for company Intellectual property. According to a recent survey by ESG, 29% of SharePoint adopters rate the technology as a top three IT initiative. This same survey showed that of companies with SharePoint fully deployed that 34% had over 5000 active users and 40% already had more than 1TB of data. SharePoint 2010 will enable even larger deployments and higher limits in terms of documents and size. This will have serious implications from a storage, data protection and security perspective. In this session Symantec Product Manager David Scott will cover strategies to ensure your SharePoint environment is running optimally despite rapid growth via SharePoint optimizations and archiving via Symantec Enterprise Vault.