Symantec News & Articles

We may as well admit it, cloud computing has been changing our lives for some time now. When was the last time you didn't save something to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive or Box? Most, if not all of your information lives somewhere in the ether. Hard drives may come and go, but thanks to the cloud, your life can go on, practically unscathed.

Everyone has an opinion about Bring Your Own Device policies. Regardless of what you think about it, BYOD ranks high on IT’s lists of mobile concerns and has companies and vendors alike scrambling to accommodate the growing proliferation of mobile devices. Still, we’re so caught up in talking about BYOD, that we haven’t considered how to actually create a BYOD policy. Until now.

American companies can expect an online security breach about once every four years, but many organizations appear unprepared. That’s a key takeaway from a IDG's new report on Website security.

Symantec’s 2011 Information Retention and eDiscovery survey found nearly half of respondents do not have an information retention plan in place. Thirty percent are only in the process of discussing how to do so, and 14% have no plan. A year later, according to the 2012 Information Retention and eDiscovery Survey, the percentage of organizations without a formal information retention plan dropped by half.

There have been numerous reports over the years on how cloud computing has developed, how businesses are taking to it, and how it is being used in the home. However, little enough research has been done to assess what vendors think about it. A new report aims to remedy that.

As we near the end of 2012, it seems like the perfect time to rehash one of the big themes that has pre-occupied enterprises over the past 12 months -- content security. Forrester's Wave Report takes it one step further -- taking an in-depth look at the area of security that enterprises really need to take note of. 

When it comes to free apps for Android smartphones, it’s downloader beware. According to new information from security firm Symantec, as well as other reports, free apps for Google’s Android platform deliver far more than they indicate. 

One of the advantages that cloud technologies have afforded us is the ability to share and access content without having to create more than one copy. So you’d think there would be a lot less document duplication in the enterprise. But according to a new report from Symantec, you’d be wrong.

This week in the world of enterprise information management, Symantec takes on BOYD with the provision of new security features for mobile devices, RSA takes a deep look at GRC across business, Kroll Ontrack upgrades Verve, and LockPath lands US$ 6 million funding.

Backupify, a cloud-based provider of online backup services for cloud application data, has secured US$ 9 million in Series C funding from security solutions provider Symantec Corp. as well as existing investors Avalon Ventures, General Catalyst Partners and Lowercase Capital. Backupify says it will use the funds to accelerate the development and adoption of its backup solutions and also to develop new online services.

Where better to learn about how people use Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Exchange Online / Office 365 than during Microsoft TechEd North America 2012? Symantec thought so too, which is why they surveyed more than 100 qualified respondents. What they found indicates that unstructured data is still a challenge for many organizations and that there is a need for third party archiving solutions to complement Exchange 2010, which doesn’t support Single Instance Storage.

Storage management solutions vendor Symantec Corp. is partnering with open source software provider Red Hat, Inc. to jointly offer private and hybrid cloud applications and datacenter solutions. The new solutions will feature Symantec storage and availability tools running on the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.

The really surprising thing about "Symantec’s State of Information Survey 2012" is just how mundane it actually is. Not because the facts that it contains are mundane, but because the problems around information management, or lack of management, are so well known that it seems not a lot can surprise any more.

This week OpenText has announced an upgrade to its SharePoint 10 governance solution, Symantec has pushed its Windows recovery solution onto Azure, NextDocs offers a cloud-based compliance solution built from ground up, while AccessData and dtSearch Partner.

Last week we reported on the big changes with Microsoft's Windows Azure service. Now announcements are flying from vendors capitalizing on the news with their own new product offerings. Security software provider Symantec just revealed it is extending its disaster recovery software to run on Microsoft’s newly upgraded cloud platform.