Georgia’s Fulton County Protects Critical E-mail Infrastructure with Symantec

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Fulton County, Ga., is using Symantec security and availability software products to improve records security, management and storage, and enhance server performance. With its Symantec solution, Fulton County has realized a 50 percent reduction in consumed e-mail storage space, improved e-mail server performance, and significantly reduced the time required to respond to open records requests. Within 3.5 years, the county predicts that it will realize more than $1.6 million in cost avoidance, productivity improvements, and cost savings.

Home to the city of Atlanta, Fulton County is the most populous county in Georgia, with more than 915,000 citizens. Fulton County’s Department of Information Technology has a 145-person staff that supports the county’s 7,000 employees across 42 departments. Like many local governments, Fulton County’s IT department is under pressure to manage an ever-growing number of electronic records without increasing spending. Fulton County selected Symantec and its Enterprise Vault, Symantec AntiVirus, and Backup Exec System Recovery products to address its IT security and data management needs.

“Symantec helps us protect our IT environment within a landscape of constantly evolving threats,” said Robert Taylor, chief information officer, Fulton County. “The challenges we faced prior to our work with Symantec centered on manageability and functionality, and compelled us to seek out a product set that could easily scale and integrate within the county’s new centralized IT model. We needed a solution that would foster the progression of the organization—not encumber its development. We found the answer in Symantec.”

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