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Symantec Corporation, on Thursday announced the launch of two user-enabled software solutions for the Indian market which enhances data storage capacity and security.
“Our two products – Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Storage United will specifically help Indian computer users to safeguard and increase storage capacity of their data,” said Enrique Salem, Symantec Group president, worldwide sales and marketing.
Salem also said that India is one of the major growth markets in IT today. But India has some catching up to do in data storage and security. Almost 40 per cent of the Indian market does not have anti-virus installed in the computers, while the threats to systems is increasing.
Managing director Vishal Dhupar said, “Symantec Endpoint Protection combines Symantec Anti-virus with advanced threat prevention in a single agent delivering unmatched defence against malware for laptops, desktops and servers.”
When asked how the new product would directly affect the end user, Salem said, “Social Networking sites have become very popular these days. These sites have outsourced their security management to Symantec. Also the number of home users of Norton Antivirus is increasing.”
Symantec Corporation also announced the 2007 Asia South Visionary Award winners at Symantec’s annual user conference, Vision at Mumbai. The winners of the 2007 Asia South Visionary Awards include HDFC Bank, Reliance Communications, National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Ltd. (NCDEX) and Tata Consultancy Services. The awards are given on the basis of innovative use of Symantec solutions to protect their infrastructure and information.
“Users are not getting into internet banking and trading. Our award winners HDFC Bank and NCDEX are using Symantec products and this secures the personal information of the end user,” said Salem.
The release date of the two new products is tentative.
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