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Symantec Enhances Interoperability Through the Open Collaborative Architecture
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ORLANDO, FL, October 14 / MARKET WIRE/ --
ManageFusion -- Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC)
today announced the Open Collaborative Architecture and a new third-party
developer program to establish greater interoperability with Symantec
solutions and provide customers, partners and ISVs with the ability to
integrate their applications with the Symantec Management Platform
(formerly the Altiris Platform). The Open Collaborative Architecture is an open, standards-based
set of guidelines and technologies that enables collaboration across
Symantec's product portfolio and third-party solutions. The architecture
allows customers to maximize their investments through easy management of
the infrastructure with greater confidence, efficiency and control across
more platforms.
The Open Collaborative Architecture prescribes an evolutionary approach to
interoperability and solution building. Using standard Web services,
Web-based security, workflow management and configuration management
technologies, the Open Collaborative Architecture provides customers with
greater flexibility to build complex, multi-disciplinary solutions that can
be tailored to specific business needs. The Web services-based architecture
provides data sharing and IT automation to streamline process execution and
reduce the cost and risk of IT ownership.
Other major software vendors have previously promoted interoperability but
have either architected monolithic platforms or collaborated within a
specific vertical market. Symantec differs with the Open Collaborative
Architecture by using existing technologies that are a part of the Symantec
portfolio to build on customers' existing IT investments so that a
wholesale replacement of the existing infrastructure is not required.
"IT organizations often have the right people, tools and best practices in
place but lack the resources to connect them in a way that provides
business value," said Brad Kingsbury, senior vice president, Endpoint
Security and Management, Symantec. "Through the Open Collaborative
Architecture, Symantec is uniquely positioned to help our customers have
confidence in how they implement their products by integrating
best-of-breed technologies and capabilities across our product portfolio.
The Open Collaborative Architecture allows the IT industry to move beyond
discreet management boundaries into an area of collaboration."
The Symantec Management Platform -- a core technology of the Open
Collaborative Architecture -- leverages the current Altiris infrastructure,
technology and model to rapidly deliver integration in order to react to
customers' changing needs, regardless of the technology stack. Symantec has
already leveraged the platform to integrate technologies from some of its
key products, including Symantec Endpoint
Protection, Backup Exec System Recovery, Veritas Configuration
Manager and Data Loss Prevention.
Third-party solutions can also be integrated on the platform to help reduce
the overall costs of managing and supporting multi-discipline,
multi-platform and multi-vendor IT solutions. As new technology issues
arise that are outside of Symantec's area of focus, such as network
management,
third-party products that solve these problems can be integrated into the
platform and offered to customers quickly to ensure that information,
infrastructure and processes are protected completely, managed easily and
controlled automatically. Symantec is using the platform to adapt to
customers' most pressing requirements for business alignment, cost
reduction, improved IT service, enhanced end-user experience and proactive
security.
"With increasing security threats and the need to protect corporate
information, IT organizations continue to add solutions to secure, manage
and backup their infrastructures," said Fred Broussard, research director
in the Systems Infrastructure Software group at IDC. "The result is a
multitude of management consoles, agent components, storage and database
requirements that pose training, management and support challenges. Getting
these solutions to integrate takes considerable time and energy and the
resulting output may still not satisfy IT requirements. Architectures that
streamline and integrate processes, such as the Symantec Open Collaborative
Architecture, help solve this problem by simplifying management in a
complex world."
Dell to Standardize on Symantec Management Platform
As a major initiative related to the Symantec Open Collaborative
Architecture, Dell is working to standardize its systems management
offerings for all Dell enterprise class machines on the Symantec Management
Platform by early 2009. Dell's adoption of the management platform as the
foundation for its flagship enterprise management console further
substantiates the value of the Open Collaborative Architecture and its
value to the companies' joint customers. Going forward, Symantec and Dell
are aggressively building out a comprehensive roadmap to use the platform
in Dell systems such as Dell PowerEdge(TM) servers and blades, Dell
Latitude(TM) Laptops, Dell Precision(TM) Workstations and Dell OptiPlex(TM)
Desktops.
"With the Dell Management Console as a modular plug-in to the Symantec
Management Platform, we will be able to offer one of the most simple,
flexible, cost-effective ways for our customers to backup, secure and
manage enterprise data," said Sally Stevens, director of product marketing
at Dell. "We will offer customers a single view to manage all of their
computing resources without additional infrastructure. Using the Open
Collaborative Architecture will let us simplify IT so customers improve
productivity and reduce management costs."
Symantec Introduces Symantec Developer Program
The new Symantec
Developer Program opens up the Symantec Management Platform to
third-party products and technologies. The subscription-based developer
program provides products, support services and developer communities to
help Symantec customers, partners and third-party developers leverage and
extend the Symantec Management Platform. To date, more than 60 commercial
partners have successfully created products that are integrated with the
platform, including the following new partners:
-- Bit9 -- offers trust-based adaptive application whitelisting allowing IT
to better manage and protect enterprise environments. The addition of this
capability to Symantec's portfolio allows customers to automate the
creation of application whitelists. Bit9's integrated offering is available
now.
-- Dorado Software -- heterogeneous network and service management offers
visibility into and control of IT infrastructure while complementing
Symantec's endpoint management increasing overall
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) compliance. Dorado
Software's integrated offering enables Symantec's customers to manage
datacenter network infrastructure and services from one console and is
scheduled to be available in November.
-- Savant Protection -- application whitelisting and software verification
that complements base antivirus offerings by preventing unauthorized
applications from running. Savant's technology controls the execution of
applications by establishing a unique key, or signature, for each
application and device. Savant Protection's integrated offering is
currently under development.
The Symantec Developer Program includes compatibility testing to insure
interoperability and the Symantec verification logos that are used to
promote tested and approved solutions and their interoperability with all
other solutions built upon the platform. Additionally, the Developer
Program offers the Symantec Developer
Portal as a central resource for the latest software development kits
(SDKs) and documentation updates, a developer-oriented discussion forum, a
library of frequently asked questions and supplemental sample code.
"The Symantec Developer Program opens the Symantec Management Platform to
us and our customers and encourages all to take advantage of the Open
Collaborative Architecture for rapid development of new, robust management
solutions," said Tim Sebring, CEO of Dorado Software. "This program helps
us get the most out of our Platform investment by providing us with the
ability to develop our own solutions natively integrated with Symantec and,
in the process, offer verified solutions to the rest of the world."
About Symantec
Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems
management solutions to help businesses and consumers secure and manage
their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has
operations in more than 40 countries. More information is available at
www.symantec.com.
NOTE TO EDITORS: If you would like additional information on Symantec
Corporation and its products, please visit the Symantec News Room at
http://www.symantec.com/news. All prices noted are in U.S. dollars and are
valid only in the United States.
Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other
countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
This forward-looking indication of plans for products is preliminary and
all future release dates are tentative and are subject to change. Any
future release of the product or planned modifications to product
capability, functionality or feature are subject to ongoing evaluation by
Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered
firm commitments by Symantec and should not be relied upon in making
purchasing decisions.
Spencer Parkinson
Symantec Corp.
801-995-7743spencer_parkinson@symantec.com
Mike Bradshaw
Connect PR for Symantec
801-373-7888mikeb@connectpr.com
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