Symantec releases first solution since merger
Symantec releases first solution since merger
Aug 25, 2005: Symantec has released its first solution since it bought Veritas, which comprises products from both companies that have been combined to provide integrated email security and storage functionality.
Sarah Schultz, the regional product marketing manager of Asia Pacific, said that the release of its new Email Security and Availability solution is a response to the growing need to control, secure, archive and retrieve emails, which have been outlined by research companies such as IDC.
"IDC has provided evidence to show that the volume of emails used as a primary source of communication grew significantly between 2003 and 2004, but along with this also grew the number of spams that could be accessed. IDC has also reported that 40 percent of the overall email volume was also spam during this period.
"In addition, more and more companies follow up phone calls with an email, so that they can have a written record on file. This has introduced a new equation into record keeping. We have introduced this new solution to address the security needed to protect emails and to make sure that these records can be stored easily and made available simply too."
The solution will combine the Anti-Spam Traffic Shaping Appliance, the Symantec Mail Security 80300 Series Appliance, Veritas Netback Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Enterprise Vault.
Schultz said that the Anti-Spam Traffic Shaping Appliance is capable of identifying who is a bad sender and who is a good sender. Therefore, it puts the onus on the sender to qualify itself as a good sender and blocks out senders who behave in the pattern of a spammer. She claims that this system can reduce up to 50% of emails through filtering out bad senders.
The Symantec Mail Security 80200 Series Appliance integrates with Symantec's BrightMail Anti-Spam technology. Schultz added that it can clean viruses in 99.99% cases. In other words, it will fail to find one fault in every one million messages. It also protects networks from being hit by viruses carried by connected laptops.
Symantec boasts that Veritas Enterprise Vault has the capability of transferring email storage to a second tier level to reduce the overall cost and strain for end-users. It can also comply with internal policies that require certain email to retained in certain areas for a specific amount of time, and then be removed to an alternative storage area.
Veritas NetBackup Storage Foundation for Storage allows data to be backed up without creating duplicates, so that not everything has to be backed up.
Spam can also be indexed through this new solution, so that it can be kept in one place for analysis.
Schultz added that Symantec is excited about releasing this new solution to show to its customers that it is already combining the strengths of the two companies.
"We wanted to deliver this solution as soon as possible to show our customers that we are working hard to meet their current business needs which involve a balance of email security and availability. Many of our competitors provide products that focus on individual areas, but none of them offered a combined solution from one vendor that integrates with so many individual areas."
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