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Recognition From Symantec

November 3rd, 2011 by Jeremy Pavlov | No Comments | Filed in Symantec, Virtual Desktop Management, Virtual Desktop Technology, Virtual Infrastructure, Virtualization

Symantec recently posted an item to their Endpoint Virtualization Community Blog, calling attention to a couple very nicely-done instructional videos done by fellow Coretek team member, Jeff Blakely (a.k.a. on YouTube).

Of course, we couldn’t be more proud of this recognition of Jeff’s talent by such a valued partner as Symantec; but we knew it all along.

;)

 Check out the Symantec blog item here:

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/symantec-workspace-virtualization-youtube-videos?om_ext_cid=biz_con_email_2011_oct_26_news_youtube_videos

Thanks Symantec, and thanks Jeff!

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Symantec Enterprise Vault Archiving Framework Overview

August 23rd, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Microsoft, Microsoft Infrastructure, Symantec, Uncategorized

Over 5,000 global customers use Enterprise Vault as an archiving framework to reduce risk and increase operational efficiency

Business is drowning in data. As part of the normal daily operation large numbers of emails and documents are generated; buyers may negotiate purchasing contracts over email, financial analysts may share data via Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, and product managers may publish pricing and competitive information via file shares. All of these activities are fundamental to the smooth operation of the business and all generate business records, which, at some point, may be required for regulatory, litigation, or knowledge purposes.

Today’s complex storage and server infrastructures are not designed to cope with the efficient long-term retention of large volumes of data. The backup/recovery process becomes impossible within a reasonable timeframe. Keeping up with and exploiting the latest software capabilities raises the huge challenge of migrating legacy data. With IT budgets and resources stretched to the limit, the temptation to purge historical data is strong. But the increasing legal and regulatory demands mean this is not an option.

 

Flexibility and adaptability
Delivering value today, meeting your future needs

Without a flexible approach to storage the operational risks are overwhelming.  Without an adaptable platform for information exploitation the risk of non-compliance could be catastrophic. Imposing complex document retention solutions on your users will result in overload. Enterprise Vault is designed to deliver long-term, archival storage of multiple types of data. The information and data lifecycles are managed and relevant content can be found on demand.  A complete solution is delivered without disruption to the user, avoiding the need to change business processes and retrain staff.  The heart of this solution is the Enterprise Vault archiving framework.  Designed to offer secure, scalable information retention that is nonintrusive for the user, the framework is a natural evolution of Symantec’s market-leading archiving solution deployed around the world.

The archiving framework

Every organization is different. You need a solution that meets your business and operational needs, taking into account your current and potential future requirements. The archiving framework delivers the exact solution you require today, giving you the platform to meet current and future information retention requirements and exploit advances in storage and server technology. The framework consists of services grouped into a number of modules. By providing such a modular solution Symantec maximizes the value of your investment.

Components of archiving

The solution of the archiving problem can be broken down into a number of areas; each of these is represented by a layer in the archiving framework.

Enterprise Vault Repository

Central to every organization is the creation and ongoing management of the archive and its contents. This capability is delivered by the Enterprise Vault Repository. This is designed to deliver the capability to securely retain archived data in such a way that it can be fully exploited, and disposed of when it is no longer required. The Repository is designed to:

• Store archived content on the most appropriate platform

 • Compress and single-instance for storage reduction

 • Index content for rapid and targeted retrieval

 • Render an HTML copy of all archived content, thereby

   securing future accessibility

 • Utilize user authentication security controls

 • Define and implement retention and deletion policies

  

Content sources

Enterprise Vault is designed to store content from multiple data sources. Movement of content from the application to the Repository is carried out transparently via policy control. This ensures that fundamental records can be retained without affecting normal daily operations.

Open storage layer

The Repository provides for retention of the archive on the initial storage platform. Depending on the size of the organization and the nature of the content, there may be a need to use other types of storage, or indeed consolidate and partition archives for maximum efficiency. Your storage infrastructure may contain SAN and NAS technology and increasingly may embrace newer technologies such as EMC Centera and Network Appliance NearStore. The timescale for retention of content may be a few years, or a few decades. Today’s storage media may be regarded as legacy in the future. Storage lifecycle management

therefore is paramount to the long-term usefulness of archived content. To facilitate true lifecycle management the Open Storage Layer allows policy-based migration of archived data across storage media through time. This allows you to take advantage of the storage media best suited to the content’s age and usage profile, and reduce the total cost of storing the archive.

Performance and scalability infrastructure

The Enterprise Vault Repository is architected to provide the optimal performance for single or distributed server solutions. As the deployment environment becomes more complex, so it becomes important to have the ability to deploy components of Enterprise Vault in a distributed manner. Symantec and its partners have tested Enterprise Vault to beyond 100,000 users. A building block approach allows different servers to be used for archiving, indexing, journaling, and many other activities.

Universal access layer

Due to the wide range of data sources that can be archived, and the many ways in which end users work, it is important to provide an adaptable user interface. One of the key premises of Enterprise Vault is that end users should not have to change the way they work as a result of the implementation of archiving. Email clients should still be able to access current and historical email; file system content should still be accessible, and when working offline, archived email should still be available. To this end, Enterprise Vault has available a wide variety of client options:

• Transparent shortcuts in Microsoft Outlook®

• Universal shortcuts for non-Outlook clients

• Full access from Microsoft Outlook Web Access

• Transparent placeholders for archived file system content

• Hierarchical “Explorer” view across all archived sources

• Offline access for mobile and remote users

• Simple and extended full text search capabilities from

Outlook and Web interfaces The implementation of archiving and keeping of business records need not be intrusive for end users. They use familiar tools and continue to work as before.

Archive exploitation

Reducing the overall cost of storage should be only part of the TCO addressed by an archiving solution. Content is being kept because at some point in the future you will need to access it; otherwise, why would you keep it? Typically business records need to be accessed as part of a regulatory action, or as part of a litigation action. In both of these circumstances it is paramount that the information can be found very quickly and that only relevant information is disclosed. The ability to search the archive is only one part of the requirement. Locating the right set of content in response to litigation (perhaps as part of a contractual dispute) will require multiple searches. Search sets will require review by people with different levels of experience. An audit will be required of how decisions were made on what material to disclose. There is a process to this and it requires workflow. Enterprise Vault business accelerators deliver this workflow and drive the discovery or compliance process. Initially there are two business accelerators available within the framework:

• Discovery of content in response to litigation or a similar

   event (Discovery Accelerator)

• Regulatory supervision in line with finance regulations

   (Compliance Accelerator)

Framework benefits


• Built upon proven solutions from the market leader
• Supports many different content sources, not just email
• Nonintrusive for the end user
• Flexible deployment options
• Complete exploitation of archived content
• Addresses operational efficiency and compliance
• Enables information and storage lifecycle management
• Adaptable for future needs
• Reduces cost, reduces risk

Both Accelerators use the inherent search capability of Enterprise Vault to gather records that may be relevant to a case. The records are then assigned to a reviewer who is responsible for deciding whether the records are relevant to the case in hand. If in doubt, the decision can be cascaded to more experienced reviewers. The end result is a set of business records of absolute relevance, which may then be packaged for disclosure. Throughout the process an audit trail is retained.

Archiving for compliance, records management and

operational efficiency

Reducing risk and increasing efficiency

Enterprise Vault provides a framework of solutions that will increase your operational efficiency and decrease your business risk. Compliance is not just about email retention. Reducing cost is not just about storage optimization. Symantec helps you move beyond simply archiving email. We work with you to deliver a solution that allows email and other critical content sources to be archived and exploited on demand. This approach brings operational benefit to the data sources and preserves records for future use. Today your organization is looking for an application to underpin your compliance initiatives and reduce the future TCO of your storage and information infrastructure. Enterprise Vault is the proven solution.

Coretek Services is a Michigan based Systems Integration and IT consulting company that works with virtualization infrastructure, and is also a Symantec Gold Partner specializing in Symantec Enterprise Vault (SEV), Symantec Backup Exec (SBE), and Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP).  Please contact us today for any virtualization requirements, or Symantec Product requirements.

 

Source: Symantec.com

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Symantec Launches Hosted Medical Image Archiving and Sharing

August 12th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, Symantec, Symantec Healthcare

Symantec offers healthcare providers hosted solutions to reduce storage costs and streamline medical image sharing

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced Symantec Health, a new hosted medical image archiving and sharing solution for healthcare providers, that helps lower storage costs and provides secure, Web-based image sharing for non-affiliated hospitals and physicians. The new Symantec Health Safe solution consists of two components: Symantec Health Safe and Symantec Health Image Share.

With medical images increasing in volume and density and longer retention periods occurring, storage costs are growing exponentially. Many IT organizations struggle to accurately budget and fund on-site storage. Symantec Health Safe addresses the high cost of storage by providing affordable capacity on-demand and business continuity.

“Health IT executives continually cite the soaring costs associated with medical image storage as one of the biggest challenges they face,” said Lori Wright, vice president and general manager of the Electronic Health Group at Symantec. “Symantec’s security and storage management expertise and its leading Software as a Service portfolio are key reasons why many healthcare industry leaders trust Symantec to deliver these new hosted offerings in a cost-effective and secure way.”

According to Rick Schooler, vice president and chief information officer of Orlando Health, a 1,800 bed hospital system in Orlando, FL, “Symantec has been able to create an affordable alternative to onsite storage to help reduce image archiving costs and capital expenses while enhancing business continuity. A key advantage of Symantec Health is its surprisingly quick deployment and integration with the existing Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).”

In addition, Symantec Health Image Share enables healthcare providers to confidently share images and reports with non-affiliated hospitals and physicians over the Internet, reducing the inconvenience and costs associated with CDs and DVDs used in many organizations today.

“Symantec offers secure image sharing that is like a social network for healthcare—one clinician can invite another clinician to view images without having to implement complex interfaces,” said Dr. John Halamka, chief information officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA.

Key features and benefits of Symantec Health solutions include:

Symantec Health Safe:

  • Affordable and reliable storage to accommodate the growing number and size of medical images
  • Capacity on demand and business analytics to provide budget predictability and control
  • Business continuity to ensure that medical images are secure and available in the event of a business disruption, a disaster or a security breach

Symantec Health Image Share:

  • Ability for non-affiliated clinicians to search, view and download images with a physician-friendly Web interface
  • Secure provider-to-provider image sharing to streamline clinical operations, reduce re-imaging, and enable hospital outreach for expanding the referral network

 

Source: Symantec.com

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Running IE v6 on Windows 7 with Symantec Workspace Virtualization

August 6th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Microsoft, Symantec, Virtual Workstation, Virtualization

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

If you are looking for a way to run IE v6 on Windows 7 desktops, take a look at Symantec’s Endpoint Virtualization technologies. The software includes two different modules that are free of charge, including Workspace Virtualization administration and the Browser Selector tools. They are fairly simple to setup and flexible enough to isolate individual applications from the host Windows 7 OS.
Symantec Endpoint Virtualization

http://www.symantec.com/connect/endpoint-virtualization

Entry level pricing starts at $45 per node

Source:  WebInformant.blogspot.com  By: David Strom

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Are You Doing All You Can to Protect Your Windows Environment?

July 6th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Data Protection, Microsoft, Security Solutions, SMB Support, Symantec

If your midsize business is like most, the current economic climate has stretched your IT staff and resources beyond the limit. At the same time, the risks to your business operations are increasing. According to the recently released Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, malicious code activity is growing at a record pace.

Under these conditions, it’s a real challenge to keep the Microsoft Windows environment you depend on secure, available, and well managed. The following steps can help you better safeguard this environment.

Cover all of your endpoints

Why is it so important to protect every one of your endpoint systems and servers? Just consider the impact of the Conficker worm, which targets users of Windows XP and Windows Vista. Symantec estimates that millions of computers have been infected with this threat since January. Conficker has been credited with creating nothing less than “a secure infrastructure for cybercrime.”

As a result of such threats, companies are scrambling to implement controls that better protect their endpoint systems and the communications travelling between them. But in many cases they’re not doing enough. Symantec’s recent 2009 Storage and Security in SMBs survey found that while small and midsize businesses are familiar with cyber risks and have clearly defined goals for security and storage, a surprisingly high number have yet to take even the most basic steps toward protecting their businesses, such as implementing antivirus or backing up their data.

Reduce complexity

As your IT environment becomes increasingly complex, ask yourself if you have the right tools to manage it. Continually evolving risks, as well as remote systems and mobile users, pose daily challenges.

The solutions you deploy need to be comprehensive but at the same time easy to use. They should reduce complexity, help you maintain a consistent and compliant environment, and reduce IT costs by streamlining and automating tasks. Chances are you’re also supporting more users with fewer resources these days. A secure remote management solution can make it easier for your administrators to automatically troubleshoot and correct technical problems, and to decrease problem resolution time with mobile workers.

Ensure that information is there when you need it

Ensuring that your business-critical data and systems are easily recoverable is essential for keeping your business productive and profitable. Without proper protection, it could take days and require significant expenditures to recover important business information or computer systems from an infrastructure failure, natural disaster, or simple human error. That’s why solutions that enforce and automate backup and recovery processes are needed to keep you protected.

Developing a strategy for restoring data and systems is key. So too is continuous data protection for Microsoft Exchange; after all, your email system is as vital as your phones for communicating.

Get comprehensive protection

The following best-in-class solutions can help protect your Windows environment by keeping data and systems secure, well-managed, and available:

  • Symantec Endpoint Protection combines Symantec AntiVirus technology with advanced threat prevention in a single agent and management console, providing defense against malware for laptops, desktops, and servers. Symantec integrates essential security technologies, increasing protection for Windows environments and helping lower the total cost of ownership.
  • Symantec’s industry-leading client and server management technologies help you protect local and remote systems by simplifying repetitive tasks, deploying updates, and resolving support issues quickly.
  • Symantec backup and recovery software, such as Backup Exec System Recovery and Backup Exec, provides superior protection for critical data and systems in physical and virtual environments, which in turn can keep your business up and running efficiently.
  • Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition provides multiple layers of protection from the market-leading endpoint security, messaging security, data loss prevention, and data and system recovery vendor.

Conclusion

Whether you’re running Windows XP or Vista, contemplating a migration to Vista, or waiting for the upcoming Windows 7, you need to thoroughly protect your current Windows infrastructure now. That means staying ahead of risks, managing your IT environment efficiently, and ensuring that critical information is reliably available.

With a proven track record of protecting Windows environments, Symantec can provide you with the solutions you need to keep your business up, running, and growing no matter what happens.

Source:  Symantec

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