

Symantec also released Symantec Enterprise Vault 6.0 Service Pack 1, which expands the e-mail archiving product's capabilities to allow IBM Domino/Notes users to archive and retain e-mail for regulatory and litigation purposes. “Once you have the enterprise-level licensing, you can use it at all the different levels because you are already licensed for the user count.”Īmong the products that fall under the new licensing scheme are Symantec Mail Security 5.0 for Domino and Symantec Mail Security 5.0 for Microsoft Exchange, new versions that were unveiled Monday.
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“This allows customers to embrace the appliances and add them to their suite of products, rather than just the software products,” Wade said. Partners will be able to spend less time tracking multiple licenses on point products and more time providing the right solutions to customers, he said, adding that the new licensing scheme also will help move software customers up to appliance-based solutions. The new licensing will simplify things for integrators and their customers, said Dave Wade, vice president of operations at Continental Technologies, a systems integrator based in Hunt Valley, Md. Symantec Mail Security Enterprise Edition, a single-licensed suite of mail security solutions for SMTP gateway and groupware tiers, lets customers choose between multiplatform software-based, appliance-based and hosted service solutions, Miller said.
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29 plans to launch a new licensing scheme for enterprise customers that&'s slated to simplify product bundling, said Chris Miller, director of product management at the Cupertino, Calif.-based vendor. Sign up for The VAR Guy’s Newsletter Webcasts and Resource Center and via RSS Facebook Identi.ca Twitter and VARtweet.Along with upgrades to its e-mail security and archiving products being released this month, Symantec on Nov. We expect that trend to continue during Symantec Partner Engage, a channel conference scheduled for early November in Las Vegas, Nev.Īdditional reporting by Joe Panettieri. Although some Wall Street analysts remain skeptical of Symantec’s business plan, we’ve noticed Symantec gaining some momentum on the Hosted Services front while continuing to launch on-premise offerings.

Meanwhile, Symantec finally seems to be blending its on-premises messaging with cloud messaging. Customers didn’t lose data during the Microsoft outages, but Enterprise Vault could give CIOs added peace of mind as they consider Microsoft’s SaaS and cloud platforms, The VAR Guy’s blog team believes. The new Enterprise Vault arrives as some Microsoft BPOS customers and partners worry about recent Microsoft cloud outages. All of this comes under the guise of Symantec’s ramped up Information Management Strategy, designed to help organizations delete what they don’t need confidently, and recover what they need when they need it. Symantec is also including new support for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1, SharePoint 2010 and Domino 8.5.1.

