Symantec Enterprise Podcasts

Plan B Technologies (PBT), a Symantec Platinum partner is strategically located between Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Annapolis, Maryland. The engineering-based firm takes an integrated approach to implementing technologies in the top banks, law firms, hospitals, and government entities it counts among its clients in the greater mid-Atlantic region. PBT is a growing firm of 65 employees with 25 cross-trained engineers and a million-dollar R&D test lab, they have achieved great success with their holistic engineering-based consulting model.

Continental Technologies (CTI) is a Symantec Gold partner in Hunt Valley, Maryland with expertise in systems integration, network security assessments, intrusion detection and prevention, and business continuity and disaster recovery planning. The company's 20 customer-facing engineers—all with nine-plus years of industry experience—are trained across the spectrum of CTI's offerings, which include Symantec products in the categories of security management, IT compliance, endpoint security, and disaster recovery.

Jordan Pusey, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Client, Server & Mobile Management track at Vision 2010

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the March State of Spam & Phishing 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 & Phishing report leverages security data from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to keep organizations and consumers informed of the latest threats to their messaging infrastructure.

Brandy Kerr, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Information Management track at Vision 2010.

Nicole Kim, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec, provides listeners with a preview of the Storage management & High Availability track at Vision 2010.

Bay Dynamics is a Symantec Platinum partner headquartered in San Francisco, California with extensive expertise selling and servicing Altiris Workflow from Symantec. Bay Dynamics' CEO and Co-Founder, Feris Rifai discusses Workflow and explains how this process automation product allows customers and Symantec partners the ability to accelerate the delivery of both IT and business processes and enables end users control of their system management, security, business continuity, and compliance systems.

In today's world, it's difficult for organizations to find the resources to train their IT teams. In this podcast, Symantec's VP of Education Services, Shelley Olson, addresses Symantec's new options – Training Credits and Training Bundles – to help customers buy the training needed to be successful with Symantec products.

Creative Breakthroughs, Inc. (CBI) a Symantec Platinum and National partner has grown its bottom line by consolidating on eight vendors—including Symantec—and gaining deep expertise in those partners' technologies. CBI sells bundles of Symantec solutions to customers, allowing them to leverage discounts for larger purchases—and getting a bigger share of their software budget in the process. One recent transaction that started out as a purchase of a single solution turned into a bundle worth eight times as much as the original deal.

Phoenix Software—a Symantec Platinum Partner has built its expertise through 20 years of customer-first service. Phoenix Software's customers range in size from 50 to 5,000 users and work in four sectors: local government, educational institutions, not-for-profits, and corporations. Customer are loyal to Phoenix because of the all-around package they offer in terms of pre-sales advice, pilot work, the ability to help a customer design and deploy a product, and provide support. It's that whole experience that differentiates Phoenix Software from its competition.

Singapore-based Imperium Solutions offers Symantec solutions and managed services for security, backup, and system management to government, financial services, manufacturing, and other organizations. Imperium's system management offerings leverage Symantec Workflow, Service Desk, and other solutions to help customers automate IT processes and get top value from their technology investments.

Eric Park and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the February 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.

Computer Media Technologies (CMT), a Symantec Platinum partner provides efficient computing solutions for high-performance data management, virtualization, consolidation and infrastructure management. The company has over 25 years of experience as a supplier of cost-effective services for IT optimization and consolidation. Working together, Symantec and CMT bring relevant products and services to customers that are meaningful and solve today's data management challenges.

US-Analytics, is a Symantec Consulting Partner (SCP) and Silver registered partner that focuses on Enterprise Vault related professional services such as installation, configuration, customization, consulting, and support nationwide with a focus on small to midsize businesses and enterprise customers. Drawing on its staff of 15 internal Symantec experts, as well as their network of external consultants to cover any size engagement, US-Analytics provides professional services to customers of LARs, other Symantec partners, and even Symantec itself.

Axon Computer Systems Limited (Axon) is the largest private New Zealand-owned provider of ICT services. It's a Symantec Platinum Partner with offices across New Zealand and 270 employees. Axon was among the first organizations in the Asia Pacific region to be 100 percent Windows 7 deployed. They migrated to Windows 7 using PC Transplant technology in Altiris Client Management Suite which reduces three to four hours of work at each system to a half hour.

During the four years Altiris named a partner of the year, ITS Partners, LLC won that honor twice. Then Symantec acquired Altiris and ITS executives worried that a company so large would pay little attention to them. Instead, Symantec sought out their opinions, and offered invaluable training. Today, ITS offers a range of Symantec products aimed at making life simpler for customers with integrated solutions, all from one vendor. As the company begins migrating its enterprise clients to Microsoft Windows 7, Altiris Client Management Suite offers huge efficiency gains, allowing ITS to upgrade 25 or more computers simultaneously in less time than it would take to do just one without this tool.

Q&A with Symantec Sr. Manager of Product Marketing Peter Elliman about the new features in NetBackup 7.

Join Pat Hanavan, VP, Backup Exec Product Management and learn how the latest features in Backup Exec 2010 can provide unique benefits to your organization. From integrated deduplication and archiving to new first-to-market virtual application protection.

TDXNet President Julie Shane and Director of Enterprise Operations Steve Vandagriff worked with Symantec Gold Partner Advanced Internet Security, Inc., to bring about a transformation in security and data protection, standardizing on Symantec solutions and resulting in tangible business value.

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.