LATEST SYMANTEC NEWS

Symantec unveils its piloted 'Sell With' program, designed to open up services opportunities to enterprise, midmarket and SMB partners attached to a registered deal.

November 06, 2009

Company uses partner conference to unveil channel program changes, new tools revolving around 'revenue, readiness, reputation and relevance.'

November 05, 2009

Quantum aims both at midmarket customers and at rival Data Domain's business with its new DXi6500 family of storage appliances.

October 22, 2009

Scareware continues to prompt users to pay for full versions of bogus security software in scams designed to steal credit card information and download malware onto users' systems.

October 19, 2009

McAfee partners arriving in Las Vegas for this week's global partner conference are being greeted with a marketing blitz from Symantec. Is this a sign of health in the security industry?

October 06, 2009

Panelists from Symantec, Cisco, Websense and McAfee gave their perspectives on increasing security threats, new markets in security and regulatory compliance mandates driven by the stimulus, which they said continue to drive security forward in the weak economy.

September 22, 2009

Symantec executives rolled out a new program that extends financing for an additional 30 days at no additional cost to its channel partners, while launching an educational program aimed at helping partners through tough economic times.

August 19, 2009

CommVault is high on the list of companies that Dell might acquire to beef up its storage offerings, but Dell watchers say there are plenty of other possible targets to watch.

June 17, 2009

Private sector and government security leaders expressed a wealth of opinions and approaches at the symposium on how to push meaningful cybersecurity legislation forward.

June 17, 2009

Sen. Mark Warner told attendees at Symantec's Government Symposium that security threats blanket every major technology initiative in the country.

June 16, 2009

Symantec and McAfee were directed to pay a combined $750,000 in penalties and mandated to disclose details about their subscription terms after the New York attorney general's investigation found that both companies hid renewal information and charged consumer customers without their knowledge or consent.

June 10, 2009

Enrique Salem talks about the IT spending climate, EMC's hostile bid for Data Domain and his meeting with President Obama in a wide-ranging interview with Channelweb.com.

June 04, 2009

Enrique Salem also told the VAR500 crowd that the percentage of Symantec's revenue that is generated by the channel will continue to increase in the future.

June 02, 2009

EMC indicated the importance of deduplication technology on Monday when it moved to trump archrival NetApp's plan to buy Data Domain with an offer sweetening the deal by 20 percent.

June 02, 2009

A Symantec 2009 Worldwide Green IT study found that 97 percent of enterprise companies are discussing a green IT strategy and 45 percent have one in place in an attempt to reduce rising electricity and cooling costs.

May 27, 2009

The deal, the latest in a string of similar arrangements by vendors wanting to add storage services to their product lines, creates competition for Symantec's new Norton Online Storage Service.

May 18, 2009

Excerpts from CRN's conversation with Symantec's Enrique Salem.

April 27, 2009

Symantec CEO Enrique Salem shares his thoughts on Symantec's acquisition of Mi5, its new focus on reputation technologies and renewed focus on the SMB.

April 23, 2009

Symantec CEO Enrique Salem said that Symantec will tackle the tidal wave of micro-distributed threats with reputation-based technologies, while moving to help companies automate security infrastructure.

April 21, 2009

Symantec is using Mi5 Networks Web gateway technologies to offer security suites for both the enterprise and SMB.

April 21, 2009

The updated Conficker prefers to travel through peer-to-peer networks to distribute its new version E.

April 09, 2009

Enrique Salem officially took over as the new CEO of Symantec Saturday, following John Thompson's retirement

April 06, 2009

CA has significantly increased the margins it offers for competitive replacement and new product business, and promises to pay even when a registered deal is lost.

March 19, 2009

Norton Online Backup, based on Symantec's SwapDrive acquisition, is the latest entry into the increasingly-crowded online storage market.

March 19, 2009

Want to keep selling IT in a tough economy? Deliver solutions that provide ROI in less than 12 months, says a panel at the ManageFusion conference.

March 11, 2009