Posted 27 July 2010

Confidence in the cloud with Symantec

Cloud computing is transforming IT service delivery. With the right strategy and technologies, organizations can realize the cost and operational benefits of the cloud while mitigating the potential risks. Symantec solutions for securing and managing information provide confidence in the cloud.

Symantec offers a variety of solutions to help you plan and execute a successful cloud strategy:

  • Hosted Services for cloud-based security and information management delivered to subscribers as a service.
  • Infrastructure for service providers building public and private clouds.
  • Cloud-enabled Software optimized for rapid cloud deployments and on-premise interoperability with cloud services.

Symantec solutions for cloud computing are optimized to address a variety of information security, availability, and management challenges:

  • Cloud Security Symantec’s broad portfolio of security solutions enable you to adopt an information-centric approach to securing the critical interfaces between services and end users, private and public services, and virtual and physical cloud infrastructure.
  • Cloud Storage Cloud computing places new demands on storage infrastructure. Achieving the massive scalability and elasticity required in demanding service provider environments requires the right architecture and management tools. Symantec cloud storage solutions provide the visibility and control you need across heterogeneous storage platforms.
  • Virtualized Infrastructure Symantec solutions are optimized for virtual infrastructure, and enable service providers to standardize on a single approach to data protection, deduplication, high availability, and disaster recovery across physical and virtual cloud server environments, including VMWare, MS Hyper-V, and a variety of UNIX virtualization platforms.
  • Infrastructure Commoditization Symantec’s hardware-agnostic approach enables service providers to adopt the same scale-out, commodity infrastructure architectures that are preferred by the world’s leading Web and SaaS providers. Low-cost commodity servers and disk coupled with intelligent Symantec management software provide true cloud-based economies of scale and efficiency.
  • Information Governance The cloud service provider model introduces new issues for information governance. Symantec’s broad portfolio and deep expertise help you address the challenges of cloud-based information privacy, ownership, compliance, and more.

Do not hesitate to contact us for all your Symantec questions at +32 (0)2 663 49 10 or by email at symantec@arrowecs.be