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Storage software market leaders in Q4 2005: EMC, Symantec, IBM

EMC led the global storage software market in Q4 2005 with 29.2% revenue share. Symantec took the second position with 19.7% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 11.5% revenue share, posting a strong result of 32.6% YTY growth. Network Appliance and HP once again rounded the...

Tags: revenue, YTY

Blog posts 2006-03-15

Automation of SAN Management Drives Immediate ROI With VERITAS CommandCentral Storage Software From Symantec

As one of the most prominent promoters of Open Source technology, the City of Munich has made headlines worldwide with its planned client migration from Microsoft Windows-based servers to Linux-based servers. The structural changes also had consequences for the storage infrastructure. Following the consolidation of numerous storage islands into a...

Tags: Software, Drives Inc., Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., SAN, ROI, Storage Software, Automation, Storage, Hardware

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Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Symantec's take

Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V, as with other Microsoft announcement, brings out the spin-miesters in the marketing departments at Microsoft's partners and competitors alike. Over the past few days I've been posting a summary of some of the conversions I've been having about Hyper-V. This time, I spoke with Sean Derrington...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Marketing, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Storage, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Critical back door-like vulnerability exposes Symantec anti-virus users

In light of a potentially critical vulnerability and with over 200 million people using his anti-virus solutions, are the comments by Symantec CEO John Thompson about a "Microsoft security monoculture" coming back to haunt him?Associated Press:Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S....

Tags: Symantec Corp., monoculture, antivirus, security

Blog posts 2006-05-26

Symantec sues Microsoft on storage tech

Symantec sues Microsoft on storage techSubjective, no?I've seen a number of your other posts and you are often quite objective. So what happened here? Why not wait for the details and see if there's merit?Though I could be wrong, I doubt that Symantec bought Veritas and its...

Tags: SECURITY, storage, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., shareholder

Discussion threads 2006-05-18

'Bot' for Sony CD software spotted online

'Bot' for Sony CD software spotted onlineSony's EULA is worse than their DRMHas anyone read the EULA Sony includes with their cd's?http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.phpIf your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home. That's because the EULA says that your rights to any...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), PRODUCTIVITY, Digital media, bot, Sony EULA, software, EULA, digital-rights management, Sony Corp., music, computer, CD, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-11-10

Symantec to buy Veritas for $13.5 billion

Symantec to buy Veritas for $13.5 billionTrying to make the connection hereSymmantec is largely a retail consumere sales organization. Many of their tools have an enterprise component, but they compete primarily in the retail space. What corperate tools they have certainly are not as specified or support intensive...

Tags: Storage, SECURITY, Mergers & Acquisitions, Symmantec, Symantec Software, Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-12-16