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CUPERTINO, Calif. – August 3, 2009 – Symantec Corp. today expanded its ability to protect enterprises against web-based threats with the addition of Web Gateway 4.5 to its Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition. The Web security appliance provides comprehensive protection by employing multiple layers of antimalware technologies including Symantec’s antivirus engine to protect customers against today’s most prevalent botnets and Web 2.0 threats.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – July 30, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced its executives will be speaking at the following investor conferences in the September 2009 quarter.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – July 29, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC) today reported the results of its first quarter of fiscal year 2010, ended July 3, 2009. GAAP revenue for the fiscal first quarter was $1.43 billion. Non-GAAP revenue was $1.44 billion, down 13 percent (down 4 percent after adjusting for currency and the extra 14th week in the first quarter of fiscal year 2009) over the comparable period a year ago. Non-GAAP revenue for the year-ago period included approximately $75 million of one-time benefit from the extra week of activity. Year-over-year, foreign currency fluctuations negatively impacted non-GAAP revenue by approximately $75 million.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – July 28, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the Symantec Cyber Threat Analysis Program (CTAP), a comprehensive approach to capture and identify globally pertinent security intelligence, provide localized threat identification and deliver sound remediation and countermeasures to protect critical client information and improve overall security posture. CTAP provides access to one of the largest commercial repositories of cyber security-focused vulnerability data and cyber threat intelligence combined with Symantec’s broad security toolset. Symantec delivers this access through highly skilled analysts placed at a client’s site to strengthen the organization’s defensive posture, while increasing their proactive capabilities.
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Cupertino, Calif. – July 21, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Tennessee-based employee benefits provider Unum uses Symantec software and services to secure its IT infrastructure and effectively address compliance-related requirements around email retention and discovery. Symantec has helped Unum prevent a network disruption as a result of a malicious intrusion in more than five years, significantly reduce IT costs, and comply with laws and regulations governing the security of confidential business information including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – July 9, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2009 Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management (SRM) and SAN Management Software1. Symantec’s Veritas CommandCentral product family is a comprehensive SRM solution that delivers storage resource management, storage change management and business reporting capabilities in one integrated platform, and enables enterprises to reduce their capital and operational costs on storage. Compliant with industry standards and deeply integrated through vendor APIs, CommandCentral continues its industry leading scalability and support for heterogeneous physical/virtual server and storage environments including VMware ESX virtual environments.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – July 9, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it was awarded a combined total of $18.6 million in damages in cases brought against two distributors selling counterfeit Symantec software throughout North America.
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Cupertino, Calif. – July 7, 2009 – Delivering on its data deduplication strategy, Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced new releases to its NetBackup Platform to help organizations improve operational and storage efficiencies across physical and virtual environments. NetBackup provides quick recovery of information and reduces overall complexity by uniting next generation information management technologies for disk backup, data deduplication, virtual machine protection, continuous data protection (CDP) and replication in the heterogeneous enterprise data center.
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Cupertino, Calif. – July 7, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the next phase of its deduplication strategy to help organizations reduce data, reduce management complexity and reduce infrastructure so they can stop buying storage, recover information faster and improve return on virtualization. Symantec is moving deduplication closer to information sources by integrating the technology into its information management platforms: NetBackup, Backup Exec and Enterprise Vault, and centrally managing native deduplication as well as third-party deduplication appliances.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – July 2, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), makers of Norton security software, unveiled today Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010 betas, which feature new reputation-based security technologies that tackle undiscovered malware and today’s toughest threats head-on. The upcoming versions of Norton products mark a significant shift in the way the global leader in security software will protect computer users from cyber crime. This new protection model, codenamed “Quorum” will be introduced to the mass market for the first time with the official product launch expected in fall 2009.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – July 6, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) will webcast its quarterly earnings conference call on Wednesday, July 29, 2009, at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT to discuss the results of its fiscal first quarter 2010, ended July 3, 2009.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – June 30, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the global results of its fifth annual IT Disaster Recovery survey, which demonstrates rising DR pressures on organizations caused by soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT service level requirements to mitigate risk to the business. The study also shows that while DR budgets are higher in 2009, they are expected to remain flat over the next few years – requiring IT professionals to do more with the same or less.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – June 26, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant in the 2009 Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention.1 The Magic Quadrant positions vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. The report explains that “leaders have demonstrated good understanding of client needs and offer comprehensive capabilities in all three functional areas – network, discovery, and endpoint – either directly or through well-established partnerships and tight integration. They offer aggressive road maps, and they will need to execute on those road maps, fully incorporate enhanced features currently in development and address evolving market needs to remain in the Leaders quadrant.” The full report is available at: http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/about/media/industryanalysts/Gartner_DLP_2009_MQ.pdf
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – June 24, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it is continuing to deliver on its environmental commitments by implementing and participating in innovative initiatives to support its environmental strategy. The company earned its second Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Additionally, Symantec joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Leaders program, an industry-government partnership which provides guidance and recognition to companies developing long-term climate change strategies.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – June 23, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Managed Endpoint Protection Services, a new set of offerings which provides management and monitoring of endpoint protection technologies to defend users against malware and other sophisticated attacks, such as rootkits, zero-day attacks, and spyware. The new managed services leverage the customers’ existing endpoint protection technologies, Symantec security experts, and the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to secure customer, employee, and corporate data, while providing expert management to help IT departments with the configuration, availability and effectiveness of their endpoint protection technologies.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. –June 11, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced an agreement to distribute Norton Online Backup on HP consumer desktop and notebook PCs worldwide. The 30-day1 trial offer of Norton Online Backup will come preinstalled and will
provide five gigabytes (5GB) of convenient and secured online storage. Symantec has a leading presence in consumer online backup with more than eight million customers and three million backups per day.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – June 9, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2009 Magic Quadrant for Email Active Archiving1. Symantec Enterprise Vault, which has been adopted by more than 10,000 organizations globally, provides customers with the most efficient intelligent archiving platform to reduce the costs of storing unstructured information such as email, file server and SharePoint content. Enterprise Vault allows organizations to store, manage and discover content enterprise-wide, and has become the foundation of many organizations’ E-Discovery and information management strategies today.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – June 4, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Melissa Hathaway, acting senior director for cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, will deliver keynote addresses at Symantec Government Symposium: Government 2.0 – Moving Forward Together. The event will be held on June 16, 2009 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.
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Cupertino, Calif. – June 3, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Aspirus, Inc. has implemented Symantec backup and recovery, endpoint management and endpoint security software products to keep their systems up and running 24Ă—7, support an increasingly mobile and decentralized workforce, and improve Aspirus’ information security posture. The combination of Symantec products and services helps Aspirus reduce costs while complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other laws and regulations requiring the security and availability of patient records.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – June 2, 2009 – Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) will host its 2009 Financial Analyst Day on Thursday, June 11, 2009 from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. PT in San Francisco. Executive presentations will provide an overview of the company’s strategy, key business initiatives and financial goals.
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