New enterprise appliance delivery model provides choice in how organizations deploy robust data protection, storage management and security solutions.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 17, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the company’s appliance strategy to provide customers with a flexible and easy to deploy delivery model for its data protection, storage management and security solutions. This new approach empowers organizations to choose between appliances, software or cloud solutions according to what best suits their IT requirements, needs and environment. With the release of the NetBackup 5020 deduplication appliance, NetBackup 5200 series and FileStore N8300 appliances, Symantec delivers on the company’s strategy to:
* Deliver Choice: Symantec is giving customers a choice in the way they purchase and deploy market-leading software by offering a new appliance form-factor.
* Respond to Customer Needs: Symantec is pursuing several avenues to expand delivery of its software to customers as pre-configured hardware devices, as a response to increasing customer need for appliance-based solutions.
* Drive Down Total Cost of Ownership: Software pre-installed on appliances, front end terabyte licensing model for deduplication and a single point of contact for software and hardware technical support allows customers to reduce their overall costs.
* Reduce Complexity: With massive data growth frustrating storage and backup professionals, simplicity has become a critical element of the IT infrastructure. Appliances allow organizations to quickly deploy Symantec technology to reduce the impact of data growth in the fastest deployment model possible.
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