Symantec Enterprise Podcasts

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 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.

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.

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.

Dermot Harnett and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the November 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.

In this installment of the Complete the Promise of Virtualization podcast series, Jon Eyre, Principal Social Media Specialist at Symantec Interviews Mike Reynolds, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Symantec's High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions. Mike discusses how companies are using virtualization to reduce hardware costs and increase agility. He also addresses the new challenges associated with virtual machines.

In this installment of the Complete the Promise of Virtualization podcast series, Jon Eyre, Principal Social Media Specialist at Symantec speaks with Phil Goodwin, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Symantec. Phil explains how implementing a storage virtualization solution can allow companies to have a single set of management tools across all systems and operating systems, while enabling the implementation of consistent policies throughout the organization.

In this installment of the Complete the Promise of Virtualization podcast series, Jon Eyre, Principal Social Media Specialist at Symantec, interviews Brian Duckering, Senior Manager of Product Marketing in the Endpoint Virtualization team. Brian explains how endpoint virtualization solutions are being used to reduce the cost and complexity of traditional and virtual workspaces while increasing the productivity and flexibility of the end user.

In the final installment of the Complete the Promise of Virtualization podcast series, Jon Eyre, Principal Social Media Specialist at Symantec interviews Peter Elliman, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Symantec. Peter discusses how companies can eliminate the bottlenecks associated with virtual machine backup and recovery.

Five Tips to a Security-aware Business

Listen to Patrick Spencer, Senior Director of Customer Relationship & Publishing Programs at Symantec, interview Skip King, Managing Director and Founder of The Alchemy Solutions Group, about the recently published Business Value Analysis Market Research Report on Backup and Recovery. The interview discusses how backup and recovery is essential for protecting data and keeping businesses running efficiently and effectively.

Dermot Harnett and Deaddin Edris from Symantec discuss the October 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.

In this podcast Patrick Spencer, Editor-in-Chief of CIO Digest, discusses the October 2009 issue, which includes interviews with John Suffolk, the CIO and CISO of Her Majesty's Government (U.K.) and Adrian Chamberlain, the senior vice president of Symantec Hosted Services as well as features on Endpoint Virtualization and IT in the public sector.

Has your organization gone through – or is going through – discovery requests to find information relevant to a legal case – have you had to put that information on legal hold? Are you having discussions on retention and expiry policies for managing electronic information? Listen to this podcast to hear Symantec's Discovery Attorney, Annie Goranson, discuss why it is so important for Legal and IT to communicate and collaborate on tools within the organization that will not just help with legal and compliance needs but tools that will also help reduce storage costs, backups and automate archive processes. What can you do to help foster the relationship between your Legal and IT teams?

Listen as Rob Forgione, Technical Product Manager for Enterprise Vault, discusses the features, benefits, and use cases of the File Blocking feature associated with File System Archiving. In this podcast you will find out how to effectively eliminate unnecessary, non-business related data you inevitably manage and back up.