Name/Title	Description	Date	Format
NetBackup Platform Overview	Marty Ward, Director of Product Marketing in the Data Protection group, discusses the updated NetBackup platform, and how it is a part of Symantec's Next Generation Data Protection strategy.	06/10/2008	MP3
Symantec and Citrix Announce Veritas Virtual Infrastructure	Sean Derrington, Director of Storage Management at Symantec, and Matt Fairbanks, VP of Product Marketing at Citrix, discuss the partnership between the two companies in introducing Veritas Virtual Infrastructure.	06/10/2008	MP3
Next Generation Data Protection	Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Product Management for Veritas NetBackup and Pat Hanavan, VP of Product Management for Backup Exec, have a high-level discussion around Symantec's Next Generation Data Protection strategy.	06/10/2008	MP3
Veritas Virtual Infrastructure Overview	Sean Derrington, Director of Storage Management & High Availability, provides an overview of Veritas Virtual Infrastructure, which was introduced at Symantec Vision 2008.	06/10/2008	MP3
2008 Visionary Award Winners	Patrick Spencer, Director of Customer References and Publishing, provides an overview of the Symantec 2008 Visionary award winners, which were announced at the Symantec Vision 2008 Conference in Las Vegas on June 10. The awards recognize IT professionals who have innovated their IT environments and proven business value as a result of implementing Symantec solutions. To learn more about the 2008 Visionary Award winners click here.	06/10/2008	MP3

Name/Title	Abstract	Date
Changing the Game: Simplifying Multi-tiered Applications with Veritas Cluster Server One	Data centers are transitioning from big static applications to distributed multi-tier applications. With organizations' increased reliance upon these complex, integrated services, the requirements for application availability have increased. Attend this technical session to learn about Veritas Cluster Server One, a game-changing technology that will help customers enhance multi-tier application availability , increase server utilization, empower front line operators to do more, and reduce operator errors. Demos included	06/10/2008
Building a Mature IT Risk Management Program: from Risk Assessment to Employee Education	Managing IT risk today is not just about selecting the right technology. Risk assessment, employee education, IT governance, strategy definition, policy definition and mature project management practices also need to be included in a successful IT risk management program. Increasingly, companies are assigning an IT Risk Officer to build, establish and maintain these programs. This session will explore some of the successful techniques and models used.	06/10/2008
Optimizing Enterprise Vault for e-Discovery and Desktop Content Collection	This session will explore how Enterprise Vault and the Discovery Accelerator provide an open approach to searching archived data, simplify the role of IT, and map to common discovery processes to reduce associated costs of identification, collection, preservation and case management. Additionally, subject matter experts will share best practice examples in responding to discovery requests that include active content on the desktop or file systems which have not been archived. Gain a better understanding of how this impacts IT and define strategies for integrating archiving and active content collection into your e-discovery process.	06/10/2008
A Holistic Approach to Taming the Compliance Challenge	A few organizations have started to take a more holistic approach to compliance. For the rest, however, compliance transformation is largely unchartered territory - requiring a new way of thinking about compliance, beginning with a deep understanding of compliance issues and the organization's current compliance operations, moving to an alignment of fragmented compliance operations into one consistent model, and finally transforming this model into a set of efficient and scalable processes. This session will cover how an organization can transform a disjointed, inconsistent approach to a comprehensive compliance program through discrete, measurable phases.	06/10/2008
Migrating Symantec AntiVirus and Client Security to Symantec Endpoint Protection	"Learn best practices and tips on how to migrate from legacy Symantec AntiVirus (SAV) and Symantec Client Security (SCS) products to the new Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) product. "	06/10/2008
Symantec Hosted Mail Security – Stopping Spam, Viruses and Unwanted Content without Additional In-house Hardware or Software	Today, nearly three out of every four emails is spam and email remains the most common vector for virus attack. Worker productivity and network security are both at risk. Learn how you can achieve comprehensive email security without the costs associated with purchasing and maintaining hardware and software using Hosted Mail Security from Symantec. This session includes a services overview and demonstration of Symantec's current Hosted Mail Security solution, including discussion of concept, value proposition, process flow and security, real-world applications and success stories, and planned roadmap.	06/10/2008
Tuning Backup Exec for Your Environment	You have been given the title of ‘Backup guru', but do you wonder if you've fully tuned and optimized Backup Exec for your environment? If this sounds like you, then you have come to the right place! Join us as we explore best upgrade strategies and examine when to make changes to application settings to maximize performance. Learn how simple environment problems can cause big backup problems and how to prevent them. Get recommendations from the Symantec experts on such best practices as when to use disk, tape or both for backup and ways to get the best performance from each. You've earned the title of ‘Backup guru'…now is your chance to keep it. This session fills up fast, so sign up early!	06/10/2008
Top Secret! Symantec’s New Unified Server and Storage Virtualization Solution	This new offering from Symantec leverages the Veritas Storage Foundation enterprise storage management capabilities and will forever alter the way x86 virtual servers are managed. It provides seamless centralized storage management across physical and virtual server infrastructures. But that's all we can reveal now …attend this technical session to hear the rest!"	06/10/2008
Implementing and Optimizing NetBackup for VMware	Learn best practices for protecting VMware environments with NetBackup, including deploying NetBackup's integration with VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) and PureDisk. We will also cover sizing considerations as well as how to evaluate architectural choices, optimize performance, reduce storage consumption, and maximize backup and recovery success.	06/10/2008
Introducing NetBackup RealTime (CDP) Protection for Critical Applications	NetBackup RealTime Protection is an exciting addition to the industry leading data protection capabilities of Veritas NetBackup. Attend this session and learn how you can achieve aggressive recovery objectives for your critical applications. Also learn how you can use NetBackup RealTime Protection to alleviate common strains on your backup infrastructure: eliminate the need for backup windows, reduce network traffic, lighten the load on media servers, and use disk more efficiently all while achieving higher levels of protection.	06/10/2008
Building the Perfect NetBackup Media Server Beast … Partners in Performance Testing	It is all too common in IT that hardware and software vendors are at odds over providing performance and tuning information to their customers. Hear how JPMorgan Chase brought Sun Microsystems and Symantec to a real-world "bake off" when selecting their new NetBackup media server platform. All three companies benefited from the cooperative work, setting a precedent for future engagements of this type.	06/10/2008
Veritas Cluster Server Technical Overview and Roadmap	While server and application environments are becoming more complex, interconnected, and dynamic, IT organizations are under increasing pressure to maintain the same service levels with the same IT budget. Attend this session to learn how Symantec's industry leading availability products will help organizations achieve higher levels of availability and optimize the operations of their data center.	06/10/2008
Security Convergence and the Emerging Risks to IT Infrastructure: A Vision for Synergies Between Physical and Logical Security Systems	With shrinking IT budgets and increased pressures for IT departments to deliver faster and more innovative services among an ever growingly complex regulatory and security environment, squeezing more value out of existing investments while lowering costs is the name of the game. Today companies are integrating physical security devices for access control, monitoring and process control into the IT infrastructure. This collision of two different technology worlds, each often coming from separate management hierarchies and having different skill specializations, does not always come together easily. This session addresses issues related to the converged security risks in physical security systems and IT infrastructures, the ramifications of the security risks, management issues, and governance demands associated with commingling security systems and devices, process control systems, and IT environments. Attendees will hear from and interact with thought leaders, leading providers, on how to prepare and adopt a strategy that will reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and comply with regulatory mandates.	06/10/2008
Compliance and Security: Maintaining Secure Configurations	Do you have the right systems with the right configurations and how do you know? Learn about best practices for system discovery and deployment, monitoring configuration compliance, measuring configuration effectiveness, and the best way to remediate out of compliance systems and maintain those updates on an ongoing basis.	06/10/2008
Getting Ahead of SharePoint Growth Woes Through Security and Archiving	Information growth in your Microsoft SharePoint environment has the potential to eclipse the amount of data stored in messaging – resulting in a host of application performance challenges and backup issues. This session will help you learn how to effectively protect and manage your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment via Symantec technologies. Explore practical approaches to planning and implementing antivirus, archiving, and backup technologies to effectively mitigate threats, improve application performance scaling, and ensure discovery. Also hear how a Symantec customer leverages Enterprise Vault to reduce information risk management challenges for SharePoint.	06/10/2008
Simple and Secure Data Protection for the SMB with Symantec Online Backup	Small and medium businesses (SMBs) have the same needs to protect data through automated backup as any enterprise business, yet may struggle to find a simple and cost-effective solution that doesn't require in-depth technical expertise or large up-front expense to implement. Symantec Online Backup, built upon the Symantec Protection Network, helps the SMB customer bridge this gap through an easy-to-use online, subscription-based data backup and recovery service. This session will include a service overview and demonstration of Symantec's new Online Backup data protection service, including discussion of concept, value proposition, process flow and security, real-world applications and success stories, and planned roadmap. We'll cover service versus product delivery methodology specifically as it relates to server backup and data protection.	06/10/2008
Transforming Storage Foundation Operations with New Management Technologies	"Storage Foundation Management tools can help you manage the complexity and scale of your data center through simplified reporting and automation across all your Storage Foundation servers. This session will review how Storage Foundation Manager and a new Software as a Service solution from Symantec can help you improve operations and reduce hidden risks in your server and storage environment. "	06/10/2008
Sneak Peek at Symantec's Next Generation Technology for Compliance Management and Governance	Control Compliance Suite (CCS) 9.0 will deliver an integrated IT governance, risk, and compliance management platform that supports large and heterogeneous IT environments. The solution builds upon the strengths of the market-leading Control Compliance Suite (CCS) and ESM products and marks the first phase of convergence between the two solutions. In addition, CCS 9.0 will deliver several new capabilities critical for compliance and risk management programs.	06/10/2008
Veritas Storage Foundation Technical Overview and Roadmap	During this session we will delve into the technical offerings of Veritas Storage Foundation, and provide a detailed look into the next Storage Foundation release, code named Williamsburg. We will also provide a detailed view into the newest centralized management capabilities, simplified operations, and support for new storage technologies (e.g., thin provisioning).	06/10/2008
Data Protection (re)Defined	In protecting and managing more than half of the world's data, Symantec has the broadest perspective and clearest vision on where backup and recovery is heading. Regardless of the size of your business and rate of growth, Symantec has a scalable solution that will grow with you. Understand Symantec's complete data protection offering and detailed strategies for backup, archive, and recovery with Backup Exec and NetBackup. Join the Senior Vice President of Symantec's Data Protection Group for a peek into the next generation of data protection to centrally manage the latest technologies, better leverage your existing infrastructure, and dramatically reduce backup and recovery time.	06/10/2008
Next Generation Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server	In this session, Rob Soderbery, SVP Storage and Availability Management Group, will share the vision and direction of the Veritas Storage Foundation, Cluster Server and CommandCentral Storage product lines. As scale out architectures and virtualization become prevalent in the data center, storage and availability management must evolve. In support of this trend, Rob will preview new and unique capabilities for server and storage virtualization. Infrastructure management teams are struggling with integration, interoperability and change control of increasingly complex environments. Rob will overview the fundamentally new ways Symantec is attacking manageability of the storage and availability layer with solutions to automate deployment, install, license management, configuration management, change control and day to day operation of the storage and availability stack.	06/10/2008
Introducing Symantec's Next Generation IT Compliance Solution for IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Management	IT is more critical than ever in helping companies meet their business objectives. As such, there must be greater IT governance oversight to ensure that appropriate IT policies and controls are managed effectively to prevent IT risks from negatively impacting the business. At the same time, organizations must demonstrate that controls are in place to meet external mandates including regulations, industry standards, and third party agreements. In this session, learn about Symantec's vision for IT governance, risk and compliance management and get a sneak preview of Symantec's next generation IT compliance solution.	06/10/2008

Name/Title	Description	Date	Format
Vision 2008 Podcast: Introducing Control Compliance Suite 9.0	In this podcast, Jitesh Chanchani, Director of Product Management in the Security & Compliance Management Group, discusses updates to Control Compliance Suite 9.0 & Symantec Security Information Manager 4.6., and how each product plays into Symantec's IT GRC strategy.	06/11/2008	MP3
Vision 2008 Podcast: IT Governance, Risk & Compliance Overview	In this podcast, Suzanne Dickson, Sr. Director of Product Marketing in the Security & Compliance Management Group, discusses Symantec's IT GRC strategy and how Symantec is helping organizations develop an IT GRC approach.	06/11/2008	MP3

Name/Title	Abstract	Date
Enterprise-class High Availability and Disaster Recovery and Management for VMware and Virtual Server Environments	Organizations have achieved higher utilization and lower hardware costs through server virtualization and consolidation. However, placing multiple applications on one server increases the impact of human, software, or machine errors. To mitigate this risk, firms require robust availability and disaster recovery solutions that complement virtualized environments. Attend this session to learn customer best practices for improving your availability and disaster recovery solutions for virtual server environments.	06/11/2008
What's Your IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Maturity Score?	Every organizations wants to avoid landing on the front page for data loss incidents. Assess the IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) maturity of your organization, what your business outcomes are likely to be, and how to improve results. Based on benchmarks conducted by the IT Policy Compliance Group, this interactive session includes interactive IT GRC maturity assessments, key business results, and the primary practices for improving both business and IT GRC maturity results. Actions, practices, capabilities, and technologies proven to improve results while reducing cost and financial risk and maintaining reputation will round-out this "must-attend" session for IT and audit professionals.	06/11/2008
Protecting Data and Mobile Devices with Symantec Endpoint Protection	Learn effective practices for protecting confidential data, such as PHI, and endpoints (desktops, laptops, mobile devices) at central and remote locations, while achieving compliance with standards and regulations, such as HIPAA. Hear how Touchstone Behavioral Health uses Symantec Endpoint Protection to protect its data and mobile devices.	06/11/2008
The Convergence of Management, Security, and Recovery	Increased mobility and heterogeneity of client systems are driving up management costs. At the same time, security threats are becoming more advanced, and the cost of network downtime is on the rise. This session offers an overview of Symantec's integrated systems management, endpoint security, and backup solutions that incorporate Altiris management capabilities. Learn all about the integration benefits between Altiris Client Management Suite, Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery for your immediate implementation and for longer term.	06/11/2008
Enterprise Vault Customer Spotlight Panel - Real World Strategies for Email Archiving	Explore relevant topics around email archiving for Microsoft Exchange with a panel of Enterprise Vault customers. Hear how others have implemented archiving in order to simplify storage and discovery challenges for improved messaging management and reduced e-discovery risks.	06/11/2008
Granular Recovery for Exchange Using Backup Exec or "How to Get the Mailbox Backup Monkey off Your Back!"	If your business success or failure has ever hinged on being able to recover a singular critical item of data (i.e., an Exchange email or a user account within Active Directory), and it took three days, then you definitely needed Granular Recovery. This session includes a product demo and will cover how Backup Exec can enable IT administrators to perform item-level data restores in minutes.	06/11/2008
Optimize your Thin Storage with 3PAR and Veritas Storage Foundation	Many IT organizations continue to examine thin provisioned storage as a means to more efficiently manage storage capacities. In this technical session, understand how Veritas Storage Foundation is uniquely positioned to enable customers to easily migrate to, and fully benefit from, thin provisioned storage. Additionally, 3PAR will join Symantec to provide an overview of how thin provisioning works and the unique benefits is can bring to customers.	06/11/2008
HP Case Study: Deploying CFS, Serviceguard, Oracle RAC and Metrocluster on HP-UX and Linux	This session will present a case study of how HP's internal IT organization implemented and deployed the largest disaster-tolerant and highly available infrastructure in the world using Oracle RAC Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System.	06/11/2008
NetBackup for VMware: Our Customers' Tips and Tricks for Success	Attend this customer panel, moderated by Curtis Preston, to hear about best practices and benefits of implementing NetBackup for VMware.	06/11/2008
Best Practices for Exchange Archiving with Dell Systems and Symantec Enterprise Vault	"In this session, you will learn about Dell's vision for simplifying Archive, how Symantec and Dell work together with Enterprise Vault, and the best practices using Dell systems and Symantec Enterprise Vault for Exchange archiving. Dell's expertise in Exchange has been relentlessly proven through millions of successful high-demand deployments. Dell delivers the industry's highest standard in Exchange services and mailbox management and, through close collaboration with Symantec, no other Exchange Server vendor can match Dell's proven, seamless integration with Symantec products."	06/11/2008
Veritas Cluster Server One: Architecture Deep Dive and Roadmap	This session will give you a peek at the inner workings of Veritas Cluster Server One, a new technology from Symantec. Learn how Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) One can control applications running on hundreds of physical and virtual servers across your data center. Understand how VCS One provides high availability and operator control for multi-tier applications, on multiple operating systems, hosted on multiple virtualization technologies, and running in multiple data centers. Attend this session to see where Symantec is taking application management and high availability and disaster recovery.	06/11/2008
Avoid the Email Iceberg: 4 Steps to Information Risk Management	Information risk management is about protecting information - and particularly unstructured information in email - wherever it goes. This session will focus on key problems in managing information risk: keeping external attacks out; ensuring information does not leak; maintaining important corporate information only as long as necessary; and finding information for legal, regulatory, or compliance purposes.	06/11/2008
Healthy IT: Simplifying Deployment, Management, and Protection at MedCentral	Hospitals today are full of new computer devices, including desktops, notebooks, and PDAs. How are they managing their lifecycle? MedCentral was facing issues with their manual imaging process, which was time-consuming and labor-intensive. They wanted to transition the help desk from just ticket-tracking to a full-service system and increase response times and needed a system to automatically install software and patches. Learn how MedCentral now keeps computers compliant, automates typical management tasks, and provides proactive IT service-oriented management.	06/11/2008
Data Center Transformation - Re-engineering the IT Supply Chain	Today, more than ever, business is dependent on IT. When IT sneezes, the business catches a cold: unnecessary system diversity results in high infrastructure total cost of ownership and poor asset utilization; lack of effective governance results in challenges with quality of service, compliance and regulation; and demand for additional capacity results in pressure on data center space, power and cooling. Symantec's Data Center Transformation solutions, comprised of proven services and market-leading technologies, effectively address this complex network of challenges and provide a systematic approach through which enterprises can successfully re-configure and optimize their end-to-end IT supply chain.	06/11/2008
Optimizing Your SMB Server Management with Tools from Symantec	This session covers technologies to help automate your SMB server environment and keep it running. The Altiris Server Management Suite and Backup Exec System Recovery integration provide the ability to support the server IT lifecycle from provisioning to recovery. You will learn how to quickly implement these technologies to automate and manage your environment, save time, recover quickly from disasters, and use your resources more efficiently.	06/11/2008
Protecting the Integrity of Your Brand - Symantec Online Fraud Protection	Internet fraud comes in many different forms - targeting credit cards, online investments, and Internet auction fraud to name a few. Well-planned online fraud can result in significant financial losses for both the business and its customers. Attend this session to learn how Symantec Online Fraud Protection protects online organizations from online fraud and learn the steps you can take to protect your company's brand in cyberspace. We will also demonstrate how our world-renowned Symantec Global Intelligence Network provides an up-to-the-minute view of the security threat landscape by capturing and processing security data on an unparalleled, global scale.	06/11/2008
Upgrading to Backup Exec 12 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 – Tips, Tricks, and Benefits	Backup Exec 12 launched in February 2008, and was the first backup/recovery software solution certified on Microsoft Server 2008. If you are a Backup Exec customer with earlier versions and would like to make the move, this session will help answer important technical and licensing questions as well as provide best practices for migrating your data to Backup Exec 12 and Windows Server 2008. We will highlight key Backup Exec 12 features that enhance protection for your Microsoft Server 2008 environments. Also learn how current Backup Exec customers, who qualify, are upgrading to 12 at no charge.	06/11/2008
Got a Windows Data Overload Problem? Get Data Deduplication with Backup Exec and Quantum	Critical data is growing at an exponential rate, and tapes are no longer the only option for backup. Data deduplication allows users to store more information on fewer physical disks than has been possible in the past by reducing the amount of data stored by a ratio of more than 20 to one. Learn how such joint customers as Virtual Iron and The American Association of Neurological Surgeons utilizing a Backup Exec and Quantum solution was able to implement a cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solution for their Windows environment that significantly shrunk their backup window, addressed compliance requirements, and reduced their overall backup storage costs.	06/11/2008
NetBackup Granular Recovery: Recover Individual Items from Image-level Backups for Exchange, SharePoint, VMware and More	Did you know that NetBackup supports recovery of individual items within Exchange, SharePoint, VMware, and soon Active Directory and Hyper-V? Did you know that unlike other offerings, our granular recovery does not require a separate item-level backup? Learn more about NetBackup granular recovery capabilities and how you can perform both disaster recovery and item recovery from the same backup capabilities and how you can perform both disaster recovery and item-level restore from the same backup image.	06/11/2008
Delivering High Availability Across Mainframe and Distributed Systems	"A Fortune 500 global financial services institution needed high availability services for mission critical applications. They wanted to reduce the time to troubleshoot issues with key applications and simplify the management of the server environment. Learn how Symantec and IBM Global Services will help the client to: • Standardize processes for high availability application management across multiple systems • Improve recovery processes to avoid poor RTO experienced during outages • Ensure that RTO consistently exceeds federal requirements • Ensure that enterprise wide policies, processes, and procedures are well documented and executable • Implement proactive, live, non-disruptive, disaster recovery testing strategy The high availability solution in this case study integrates IBM's GDPS mainframe solution with Symantec's Veritas Cluster Server solution for open systems."	06/11/2008
High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Exchange with Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows	Learn how to upgrade your high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies for mission-critical Exchange servers with Symantec's state-of-the-art availability and storage management tools. Learn best practices from companies using Storage Foundation HA for Windows to make upgrades, patching, and testing easier, manage availability and DR solutions across multiple data centers from a single location, and maintain the strictest of Service Level Agreements for messaging systems.	06/11/2008
Solving Common IT Headaches Using Self-assessments	Are processes such as documenting access and security controls on your legacy systems or creating and tracking a security awareness program consuming your time and resources? Streamline and automate these types of IT resource hogs using a self-assessment approach. Participate in the creation of assessments to meet several real world situations including building a security awareness program, documenting access and security settings on legacy systems, and asset discovery for disconnected environments in this working session. Explore content creation and distribution options for each scenario as well as possible scheduling approaches. Leave with an understanding of how automating self-assessments can save you time and resources and help solve everyday IT issues.	06/11/2008
Integrating Management and Security to Manage Your IT Risks and Complexity	Did you know that 95% of all threats and vulnerabilities can be avoided simply by having good endpoint management and patching practices in place? Learn how Symantec can combine management and security solutions to help you manage risk and maximize IT performance through standardization and automation of software and processes.	06/11/2008
Best Practices and Primary Use Cases for Symantec Security Information Manager	This breakout session will focus on primary use cases for Symantec Security Information Manager, its benefits and best practices for implementation.	06/11/2008
Can You Find That Email? Legal e-Discovery for Hospitals	With one million emails sent and received every month, a helpdesk overwhelmed with more and more email support inquiries, and up to 100,000 spam emails received daily, it was time for one hospital to re-evaluate its email and content archiving strategy. This leading University hospital group standardized on Symantec Information Foundation 2007, incorporating Symantec Enterprise Vault and Symantec Mail Security 8300 Appliance, to create a comprehensive, effective information risk management solution. Attend this session to learn how Symantec Enterprise Vault is helping to deliver a 186 percent return on investment over five years (according to independent research) while Symantec Mail Security appliance meanwhile is capturing 98% of spam compared with 75% using previous solution. Hear how, today, the hospital has one point of contact for its information security and availability needs.	06/11/2008
Protecting the Most Critical Application – Microsoft Exchange Using Backup Exec and Dell	It is estimated that 75% of a typical company's intellectual property is contained in email. If the email server(s) go down money and productivity is lost. Learn how to protect your Exchange environment with security and availability solutions. Listen to experts from Symantec and Dell discuss Microsoft Exchange protection best practices.	06/11/2008
Converging Windows Data and System Recovery Using Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery	Despite best efforts, bad things do happen to good IT. If SQL, Exchange, SharePoint, or Active Directory is at the core of your business, then losing these applications or the critical data they manage could spell disaster. The reality is that true Microsoft Windows protection has to be a two-step process: quick recovery of data and quick recovery of systems. This session and demo will explore strategies on how organizations can use award-winning Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery together to enable complete system and data protection for your Windows environment.	06/11/2008
Optimizing Oracle and Oracle RAC Environments with Veritas Storage Foundation	This session provides a technical overview of benefits from using Veritas Storage Foundation with Oracle and Oracle RAC in Unix and Linux environments. This session includes tips on simplified Oracle install and configuration options, performance tuning tips, and best practices in architecting a robust storage management solution for Oracle databases.	06/11/2008
How do I Upgrade to Veritas NetBackup™ 6.5? Best Practices from the Field	Are you thinking about upgrading to Veritas NetBackup? Are you looking for tips, tricks or just some additional information to get started? This session will focus on best practices when preparing and going through an upgrade to the latest release of NetBackup.	06/11/2008
Terabytes to Petabytes: The Cost and Security Challenges of Long-term Archiving	In the past few years, several trends have become evident: data retention time frames have lengthened--in many cases to forever; the amount of data being archived is continuously increasing; and regulations governing access control, retrieval time, immutability, and security are becoming ever more stringent. At the same time, storage media are quickly expiring, long-term power and cooling are becoming major cost issues and, most importantly, the human cost of long-term secure data stewardship are going through the roof. This session will address these challenges and focus on an open, extensible archive architecture to deliver a long-term, cost effective, secure archive platform that you can implement today, with the assurance that it will be viable 10, 20 or maybe 100 years from now.	06/11/2008

Name/Title	Description	Date	Format
John Tompson	Watch the podcast on YouTube	06/12/2008	Video
Enrique Salem	Watch the podcast on YouTube	06/12/2008	Video
Mark Bregman	Watch the podcast on YouTube	06/12/2008	Video

Name/Title	Abstract	Date
Endpoint Security and Management	The IT industry has seen a convergence in operations and security recently, with Network Access Control, Systems Management and Endpoint Security all coming to a head. Have organizations decided who has the lead in the final decision for security or operations solutions? Come hear about the key technologies in Symantec's Endpoint Security and Endpoint Management portfolios and learn how the two are more powerful when they are "Blended" together.	06/12/2008
Real World Information Risk Management	Information has become a business' most important asset, yet its most vulnerable. A key pain today is the rapidly growing volume of information in email, where IT has to secure and manage information while also making it easily accessible – not just to employees, but also to compliance and legal teams. Join Francis deSouza, Symantec Senior Vice President for Information Risk Management, and see how IT leaders from companies like yours are keeping spam out, preventing data loss and making legal discovery and supervision faster and easier – while also reducing email storage needs. You'll also hear what the future holds for securing and managing messaging, electronic discovery and data loss prevention.	06/12/2008
Introduction to Streaming and Application Virtualization	Virtualization technologies are being adopted in every corner of the enterprise, from server hardware to user data. Streaming and application virtualization are two such technologies that are having a significant impact on the manageability of both physical and virtual assets. Application streaming is a revolutionary approach to application lifecycle management, and includes on-demand delivery, guaranteed license compliance and cost optimization features. This session explores use cases for streaming delivery and rule-based management, and how it enhances manageability across all environments. You will learn how to simplify and automate application delivery and management for dynamic environments, OS and hardware migrations, disaster recovery, remote and mobile workforces, virtual desktop environments, and more.	06/12/2008
Simplified Backup Management: Using NetBackup Operations Manager and Veritas Backup Reporter to Centralize & Simplify Operations	"Learn about advanced operational management and comprehensive reporting capabilities available for NetBackup through live demonstrations of NetBackup Operations Manager and Veritas Backup Reporter. Hear how these offerings will evolve and support the future of NetBackup administration."	06/12/2008
Advanced Veritas NetBackup™ Performance Tuning	How is the performance of your NetBackup implementation? Are you getting the kind of throughput your hardware vendors sold you? This session will focus on the various components that makes up the data protection environment and how they can be selected and tuned for optimal performance. We will also discuss the correct way to use alternatives to the traditional tape based backup solution.	06/12/2008
Multi-site Disaster Recovery with Storage Foundation High Availability/Disaster Recovery and EMC SRDF Star	Organizations are looking to maximize their IT investments and utilize various corporate data centers as disaster recovery sites for each other. Attend this session to learn how Storage Foundation High Availability/Disaster Recovery can combine with replication solutions from EMC to optimize and simplify multiple site failover.	06/12/2008
Customer Case Study: Securing System Configuration Best Practices	In this session, you will get the opportunity to hear first hand how an organization has implemented and deployed Control Compliance Suite, including best practices and ways to implement compliance programs.	06/12/2008
Altiris Deployment Solution Best Practices for Server Provisioning	Altiris Deployment Solution software helps data center administrators get control of the ever increasing complexity of server provisioning in highly available environments. Session attendees will learn provisioning best practices that reduce time spent deploying servers, increase security, and improve service levels in the data center. New features in Deployment Solution 6.9, including Windows Server 2008 support, will be discussed in the context of data center provisioning.	06/12/2008
Enterprise Management: Integrating Symantec Solutions for Government and Industry	CSC will demonstrate how using a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) framework to integrate Symantec's products will deliver enterprise solutions across the IT operating environment from the data center to the endpoint. Sam Gross will talk about CSC's Acceleration Core, which integrates services seamlessly across teams located anywhere in the world to help companies improve their IT operations. Sam is recognized as an industry expert in business and IT alignment, application management, service level management, and enterprise systems management with industry experience across financial services, telecommunications, federal contracting, retail and manufacturing. He has more than 20 years of experience in leading transformational IT change, both in the U.S. and globally, driving innovation across strategic planning, technology and product management, IT process re-engineering and implementation.	06/12/2008
Smartphone Security: Bringing PC-level Security to Hackers' Next Destination	In today's mobile environment, mobile devices must be viewed strategically as a completely new endpoint, just like desktops and laptops - and one that will require equally stringent security protection. Learn about market trends, threat landscape, best practices, and Symantec’s solutions for smartphone security. Hear how customer are addressing key mobile security considerations and challenges.	06/12/2008
Green Computing - How Symantec Can Help Lower Your Utility Bills	This session will focus on Green computing, including forthcoming trends in legislation and IT equipment. At the conclusion of this session, you will have a much better grasp of the impending challenges and details for how Symantec technologies and consulting can lower the utility costs for the data center and the end points. We'll also cover what Symantec as a corporation is doing towards reducing our utility usage and increasing our renewable asses usage, plus joining relevant organizations as part of our social responsibility commitment.	06/12/2008
Technical Fundamentals of Veritas Storage Foundation Dynamic Multi-pathing	Boot time, throughput, and failover times are the main performance metrics relevant to Veritas Storage Foundation's Dynamic Multi-pathing (DMP) for iSCSI and FC-based SANs. In this technical session we will identify the value and benefit of utilizing DMP across Unix and Linux; provide a technical deep dive in the product architecture; and present the key enhancements that we will deliver in the next release of Veritas Storage Foundation, code name Williamsburg (Unix/Linux). You will leave with a deep understanding of the design principles behind the industry's only truly hardware independent multi-pathing solution.	06/12/2008
Enabling High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Oracle and Oracle RAC Databases	Your Oracle database is a mission-critical application with stringent availability requirements. High Availability / Disaster Recovery experts from Symantec will share best practices for deploying Oracle within a high availability and remote failover environment. Attend this session to learn how to maximize hardware and software investments across heterogeneous vendor environments using Storage Foundation for Oracle and Veritas Cluster Server.	06/12/2008
Expire, Retain or Preserve? Striking a Balance Between Email Retention Policies and Legal Hold	On one hand, your email policy says delete after 90 days. On the other, you're required to preserve certain records. How do these policies co-exist from an IT and legal perspective? Can they even be enforced when users have access to PST's? Join this session to explore the dichotomy that exists between email retention policies and legal hold orders. Hear subject matter experts discuss legal hold and retention best practice strategies in line with email archiving and gain visibility into the implications of legal hold and retention on IT.	06/12/2008
Anti-Spam: Following Best Practices for Zero Administration Burden	With anti-spam, price is the most visible part of the cost - but the real cost is in your time: deploying and maintaining messaging security and struggling to cope with floods of new messages and unhappy users. Hear how customers achieve zero administration burden with Symantec. This session will examine the full spectrum of options, recommend best practices, and evaluate product capabilities to fight spam.	06/12/2008
Protecting Data at Rest with Symantec Endpoint Encryption	Learn how Symantec Endpoint Encryption provides advanced encryption for desktops, laptops, and removable storage devices. See how it offers scalable, enterprise-wide security that prevents unauthorized access by using strong access control and powerful encryption. The session includes customer implementations and best practices.	06/12/2008
The Corporate Challenge: Managing Payment Card Industry Compliance with Managed Security and Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM)	As corporations struggle to identify risk, manage regulatory compliance demands, and balance security and IT spending, more and more are turning towards a fully managed solution set that addresses the ability to meet internal and external policy/compliance requirements. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance audits are now required for corporations that process customer credit card information. The purpose is to ensure that companies track and validate specific key security policy regulations to comply with the PCI Audit. Symantec’s Managed SSIM solution provides a unique service offering in the PCI market, leveraging our market leading SSIM technology for the collection and correlation of heterogeneous security, server and application systems (with their associated critical data sets) into a centralized security, reporting, and compliance solution. Learn how SSIM helps to mitigate risk and provides real value in delivering a strong security posture by integrating Symantec Global Intelligence Network (GIN) threats and vulnerability feeds.	06/12/2008
Change Happens: Introducing CommandCentral Storage Change Manager	In today's dynamic data center environment, managing change and the impact to data availability and service levels is a tremendous challenge. Without an automated solution in place, IT is constantly in reactive mode trying to map and measure how changes will impact the environment. Learn how CommandCentral Storage Change Manager ensures compliance, continuity and availability for your data center.	06/12/2008
NetBackup OpenStorage API: Cutting Edge Support for Backup Appliances	The NetBackup OpenStorage Program is a collaborative project between Symantec and vendors of intelligent disk appliances like DataDomain, Quantum and Falconstor. See what Symantec and our partners have done lately to give you enhanced capabilities for managing backups, duplications, and more using NetBackup and intelligent disk appliances.	06/12/2008
Building a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP Environments	Many organizations rely on SAP NetWeaver as the IT engine for their business. As an organization’s information systems become increasingly integrated and interdependent, the potential impact of failures and outages grows to enormous proportions. Attend this session to learn how leading global companies use Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server to reduce planned and unplanned downtime, simplify administration of high availability and disaster recovery, and perform remote failover of SAP applications.	06/12/2008
Server Management: The Latest in Automation, Provisioning, and Recovery Applications	This session covers the technologies that help provision, manage, and recover your servers. Learn about the trends affecting servers and Symantec products to help you manage your servers through the IT lifecycle. Areas of focus include provisioning, configuration management, application dependency mapping, system recovery, and others.	06/12/2008
Reducing Risk: Guest Access Solutions Based on Symantec Network Access Control	This session will address the need for and risk associated with providing guest access to corporate networks. We will investigate the benefits of various Symantec Network Access Control (SNAC) technologies, including demonstrations of various possible solution to these challenges.	06/12/2008
Real-time Risk Management	Monitoring security risk in real-time involved auditing security relevant events for key risk indicators. This session will cover the importance of having controls in place that can detect these indicators and alert the appropriate person, as well as having an incident response capability to recognize report and provide detailed information about the vulnerability, exposure or malicious code that is putting the company at risk.	06/12/2008
Just in Time Management of Your Backup Storage using Veritas Backup Reporter	"Just in time" is one of the cornerstones of sound inventory management. Learn how you can lower the total cost of ownership in your data protection infrastructure and how to optimally manage libraries, drives, tape media and disk storage with Veritas Backup Reporter. You will learn how much storage you will need and when you will need it by to protect your data most efficiently.	06/12/2008