Symantec Enterprise Podcasts

The fourth installment in a multi-part series on Stop Buying Storage, Patrick Spencer, senior director of publishing and customer relationship programs at Symantec, interviewed Phil Goodwin, senior manager of product marketing at Symantec, about the complexity of managing storage resources from the host. This is a task that is becoming increasingly difficult with many data centers having between three and six server platforms and operating systems and storage devices. Veritas Storage Foundation can serve the foundation for an IT organizations storage resource management (SRM) initiatives.

The first installment in a multi-part series on Stop Buying Series, Patrick Spencer, senior director of publishing and customer relationship programs at Symantec, interviewed Sean Derrington, director of product marketing at Symantec, about storage trends today. The discussion covers a number of topics such as thin storage, virtualization, utilization, tiering, deduplication, and more and ways in which IT organizations can leverage these to their advantage.

This podcast is a virtual roundtable discussion on strategies that enable organizations to effectively store and manage electronic record systems in the healthcare industry. To learn more, visit the business section at .

The second installment in a multi-part series on Stop Buying Storage, Patrick Spencer, senior director of publishing and customer relationship programs at Symantec, interviewed David Campbell, senior manager of product marketing at Symantec, about unstructured data and strategies for archiving--including deduplication--it to less-expensive storage. The result is significant storage cost savings while enabling rapid e-discovery.

Brian Duckering, Sr. Manager of Product Marketing in Symantec's Endpoint Virtualization Group, provides an overview on what endpoint virtualization is, and how organizations can leverage endpoint virtualization technology to achieve cost savings in today's tough economic environment.

Endpoint virtualization is one of the hottest emerging technologies for financial institutions, which are looking to maximize secure access to and management of key applications – while also controlling costs.

In this 30-minute panel discussion, the panelists discuss successful virtualization strategies for banking institution, offering unique perspectives from the practitioner's, vendor's and market researcher's points of view.

Brian Hill, Forrester Research Senior Analyst, and Mike Miller, Director of Security at Media General, discuss the importance of archiving to proactively mitigate legal risk. Mike Miller discusses Media General's initial evaluation criteria and benefits from implementation Symantec's Enterprise Vault with Discovery Accelerator.

Information security programs must constantly adapt to changes in the threat landscape according to Fleury and her team. Leveraging a combination of insourcing and outsourcing solutions, they have built a best-in-class information security program that is generating significant business value for Unum.

Howard Hutchings, the VP of IT Infrastructure, and Wolfgang Ruland, the Global IT Security Officer, at Heidelberg Druckmaschinen discuss how the combination of technology, processes, and people are the keys to their security consolidation success. They've dramatically reduced security infrastructure costs and enhanced IT staff productivity while improving the risk posture for 20,000 endpoints.

Holding the titles of chief information, planning, and marketing officer, David Bradshaw has a unique vantage point. He discusses how the "triple whammy" of the current economic crisis, the after affects of Hurricane Ike, and the uninsured problem is driving the IT organization to become more streamlined and focused on delivering value to address each of these three issues.