Stories about: Veritas

Symantec today announced enhancements to Veritas CommandCentral, a storage optimisation suite that helps organisations stop buying storage and reduce operational costs. Veritas CommandCentral Storage now includes new agentless capabilities which speed time-to-value – helping customers reduce storage capital costs by increasing storage utilisation and control demand by mapping storage consumption to business applications

Late at night, a system administrator performed a routine check of a crashed server, one of 48 systems comprising a major online infrastructure that generated about US$4 million per month in revenue. He was a bit surprised that the system had gone down, as it had been humming for months without any indication of being prone to crashing. The check uncovered three encrypted files. The administrator called on MANDIANT to analyse them.

Symantec launched a new online software licensing program on Nov. 6, about the same time it unveiled Veritas Backup Exec 11d. Users are complaining that they have to wait for Backup Exec upgrade notices because of a backlog of people trying to register on the new licensing site. Symantec's CIO, David Thompson, and public relations manager, Cris Paden, told Computerworld that the new licensing system is necessary to help thwart a "humongous" piracy ring that has been costing Symantec more than US$10 million every year. Excerpts from the interview follow:

It's always interesting to see the public response to a game-changing acquisition, namely EMC buying RSA Security. This deal changes the security landscape, so I need to come up with a new name for EMC. How about EMCecurity (pronounced E-M-See-curity)? I kind of like that.

Bill Robbins, incoming senior vice president of Symantec Asia Pacific and Japan, believes EMC's proposed $US2 billion takeover of RSA Security validates the company's recent Veritas merger.

Antivirus software maker Symantec may owe the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as much as US$1 billion in back taxes and penalties, The Wall Street Journal reports.

In a deal that marries one of the IT industry's biggest data storage vendors and one of its best-known security companies, EMC Thursday unveiled plans to acquire RSA Security.

Symantec this week laid off staff and said it is shaking up its network and gateway security business, ending the company's experiment with security hardware appliances.

Consolidation (of smaller players) and convergence (of physical and IT security technologies) keep CSOs on their guard.

It's been an interesting decade, to say the least. Unprecedented highs gave way to terrifying lows. And that was just my stock portfolio.