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Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries. Symantec and Microsoft have been partners in both database optimization and security for many years. Cyber threats, natural disasters, user errors, and system failures put the security and availability of crucial information assets in jeopardy. Symantec helps organizations running Microsoft SQL Server to protect and manage their digital assets. Symantec provides a wide range of solutions including enterprise and consumer security, data management, application and infrastructure management, security management, storage and service management, and response and managed security services.
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Bob Maness, Symantec's VP of the Application Performance Management group, discusses the benefits of various Symantec applications on the Microsoft SQL Server platform.
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Symantec is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and continues to work with Microsoft on critical data security and data availability projects.
Through Symantec's recent acquisition of VERITAS Software, this new company now offers Microsoft SQL Server users, developers, and integrators a unique selection of products that make the SQL Server platform more robust, safe, efficient, and available.
The seamless marriage of Symantec and Microsoft offerings make the resulting systems much more than the sum of the individual parts. These critical services include:
- Application Performance Management: Symantec (formerly VERITAS) i3 for SQL Server gives businesses the application performance management they need to proactively monitor, analyze, and tune SQL Server databases. To ensure that business applications perform at peak efficiency, this product provides a complete view of application performance by capturing, measuring, and correlating performance metrics from all critical system components.
The Symantec i3 for SQL Server performance solution helps to detect and correct the root cause of database degradation in the database before the end user is affected, while maximizing your return on technology investment. It correlates performance metrics across multiple database instances and provides a dashboard to easily view statistical and current database activities. Once the Symantec SQL Server performance solution detects a performance problem, it drills down to pinpoint the problem's cause and then displays detailed performance information in easy-to-understand graphics so you can quickly solve the problem.
- Storage and Database Management: Symantec (formerly VERITAS) Storage Foundation™ for Microsoft Windows extends and enhances the capabilities of the Microsoft LDM and provides effective storage management by creating virtual storage devices from physical disks and disk arrays. This removes the physical limitations of disk storage which allows customers to configure, share, and manage storage for optimal results. Additionally, this product ensures that additional copies of data are accessible and available in the case of site outages.
In addition, Symantec Cluster Server™ is the industry's leading open systems clustering solution to protect critical applications and databases against downtime. It provides high availability locally, as well as extending high availability across any distance to applications, databases, and servers by monitoring the health and performance of the resource and automatically restarting the resource on another available server in order to avoid a complete failure.
- Windows Workstation and System Backup and Recovery: Symantec Windows Backup and Recovery (formerly VERITAS) Backup Exec is the latest release of this product and delivers true continuous data protection that is necessary due to the explosive growth of data. It helps ensure business-critical data is always protected and always available through continuous data protection of Microsoft Windows Server.
It is a revolution that not only simplifies data protection, but data restores by enabling end users to retrieve files through a simple, intuitive Web browser—without contacting IT. Whenever a change is made to a file, it is protected.
But not only is the data protected, multiple versions of files are captured and available for recovery or retrieval. To do this. Symantec Backup Exec captures only block-level changes, not the whole file, which reduces the amount of data to be protected. Point-in-time snapshots of the data enable the versioning of data files. In addition to protecting the data on a corporate file server, this product also captures and protects system/server state, greatly simplifying server recoveries.
Symantec Network Backup and Recovery (formerly VERITAS) uses centralized management and control, high-performance technology, and a flexible, multi-tier architecture to adapt to the growing needs of the modern data center. It helps companies consolidate and standardize backup and recovery operations, protecting all major systems. As the recognized leader for enterprise-class backup and recovery, Symantec NetBackup™ Enterprise Server software is designed to help provide complete data protection for the almost any environment including Windows.
Intuitive graphical user interfaces help enable organizations to manage all aspects of backup and recovery and to help maintain consistent backup policies that are deployed across the enterprise. Symantec NetBackup software provides backup and recovery solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint Portal Server, and many other environments.
- File System Archiving: Symantec File System Archiving (formerly VERITAS) Enterprise Vault software is the industry-leading solution for content archiving. It lets organizations free up space on the file server, reduce overall storage requirements, and keep all content fully searchable and instantly accessible to the end user.
As enterprise data grows on file systems, it can quickly exhaust terabytes or more of expensive storage space. Storage spent on old or infrequently accessed data not only consumes precious file server resources, it costs time and money to manage and maintain.
Enterprise Vault™ File System Archiving addresses storage cost and resource issues by providing an automated and integrated solution for archiving file server content to lower cost storage. The Symantec Enterprise has an option to retain multiple versions of the same file or document, with user-driven recovery of any specific content significantly reducing administration overhead. Organizations can now maintain business records from Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint Portal Server, and the file system through a single solution.
- System and Database Security: Symantec System and Database Security Enterprise Security Manager™ enables organizations to define, measure, and report on the compliance of information systems against security policies, standards, and government regulations—all from a single console.
Symantec Enterprise Security Manager Modules for Microsoft SQL Server Database extend Symantec ESM beyond securing the operating system to also securing mission-critical e-business components. These modules protect Microsoft SQL databases from known security vulnerabilities. The modules introduce new, database-specific executables and content, including modules, to check auditing levels, server and database configuration, password strength, and unneeded services.
All of these product functions ease the administrative burden of measuring the effectiveness of enterprise security policies and enforcing compliance. With network-based modules, Symantec ESM's centralized security scanning and integrated reporting capabilities can be used to automate security evaluations and policy enforcement for any Microsoft SQL 2000 or 2005 database that runs on an organization's network.
Symantec now offers Microsoft SQL Server users, developers, and integrators a unique selection of products that make the SQL Server platform more robust, safe, efficient, and available. The seamless marriage of Symantec and Microsoft offerings make the resulting systems much more than the sum of the individual parts. These critical services include:
- Application performance management
- Storage and database management
- Windows workstation and system backup and recovery
- File system archiving
- System and database security
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