Symantec Launches Intelligent Archiving Partner Program

Symantec Launches Intelligent Archiving Partner Program

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the launch of its Intelligent Archiving Partner program, developed to provide organizations with more specific information about the content and context of the records in their ever-growing data stores. Symantec has partnered with a number of content classification and records management software providers to help Symantec Enterprise Vaultâ„¢ email and content archiving software customers make more informed decisions around the archiving, storage, retention and discovery of these business records, while simultaneously reducing storage costs, eliminating unnecessary litigation risks and minimizing the time and cost involved in discovery and search. Partnering with multiple vendors enables customers to tailor archiving and records management systems that meet their specific data retention and recovery needs.

“Organizations typically implement archiving strategies based on time or size limits rather than content,” said Jeremy Burton, senior vice president, data management group, Symantec Corp. “This often leads to retaining some records for longer than the legal department requires and creating unnecessarily high storage costs. Symantec’s Intelligent Archiving Partner program enables an organization to choose from a number of products to custom-tailor a more effective archiving policy and easily integrate it into its overall records management strategy.”

“Our research estimates that the capacity of email archives will grow to an estimated 3,500 Petabytes in 2010,” said Brian Babineau, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, a leading IT analyst firm. “Organizations must improve their capabilities to understand, analyze, and classify data making data archiving more efficient and effective. With its Intelligent Archiving Partner program, Symantec is building a strong portfolio of solutions that offer unique capabilities to add intelligence to information making it much easier to manage and control over extensive periods of time.”

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