Symantec News & Articles

With the growing use of open source code across corporations, there is considerable unease about use of the code and compliance. The Linux Foundation has decided to tackle this and is offering free tools to trace your sources. Meanwhile, new research from Symantec shows information retention is still a problem.

If you were always worried about the plug-ins you use and the security threat they might pose, Google seems to agree and has just announced that it is going to limit certain plug-ins with its Chrome browser. Social Media also poses a security threat according to the Ponemon Institute.

The prevalence of mobile devices in the workplace has moved security to the top of every IT manager’s list.

This week there has been a whole spate of new releases in the world of GRC, most of which -- unsurprisingly -- have been focused on better security. There have also been a couple of acquisitions as well as increasing interest in services and cloud computing.

The release of SAP’s Business ByDesign suite next month will offer SMBs fully integrated on-demand business processes. Microsoft and HP continue to target the SMB market, this time in the Unified Communications space.

Since HyperOffice went into beta last December with a new version of its cloud suite it has been threatening to take the collaboration thunder in the SMB space from Microsoft and Google. In the meantime Google outlines how much it is worth to the SMB market.

Social media was and will always create compliance headaches unless there is a way of monitoring its use. Autonomy has come up with a solution to do just that, while Laserfiche produces a governance framework for public sector workers.

Even with falling euro values, times are still tough in the SMB space. But this week there are a number of hosted options, including one for SharePoint 2010, that might help. Confirming the in-roads hosted and cloud computing is making, Rackspace is taking its services to Europe.

Following IBM’s release of new tax compliance software, Autonomy has licensed its IDOL technology to the IRS to keep track of companies’ tax liabilities. While it might be difficult to secure Federal IT contracts now, it could be about to get a lot harder.

This week, Facebook takes more SMBs into more advertising markets in more cities, while HyperOffice finally releases its “no geek required” suite of collaboration tools for business users.

Despite persistent global economic difficulties, a recent survey from technology consultancy IDC (news, site) shows that the world-wide storage software market continues to hold its own with 6.3% growth between Q3 and Q4 last year.

However, while the combined market for all top vendors increased by 0.5% in Q4 last year compared with Q4 in 2008, the overall picture is gloomier with a total contraction of the market year-on-year of 4.7%.

This week, new research shows a huge increase in the use of video email in SMBs. In the meantime, Symantec released email security SMB edition with simplified licensing.

CaseCentral (news, site), a provider of on-demand eDiscovery software has announced a new connector that will help eliminate manual exports and uploads, saving time and processing fees.

Even virtual worlds have storage issues. Enterprise virtualization purveyor XenSource has just signed an agreement with Symantec to embed Veritas Storage Foundation into XenEnterpriseTM, bringing HA/DR and backup technology to the customers XenSource serves.

This unity is the first we’ve seen between a leading storage virtualization software and a leading open source hypervisor.

Need some back-up? Don’t we all. Symantec Corp has just released the latest version of its Windows system recovery solution, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0.