Veritas man jumps Symantec ship
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Security chief headed for private firm Symantec's president of its key security and data management business Jeremy Burton has quit the firm to become CEO of business process software firm Serena Software.â¦
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Symantec Corp., the world&#39;s largest maker of anti-virus programs for computers, agreed to buy Veritas Software Corp. for $13.5 billion, the biggest software purchase in six years.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Symantec Corp. SYMC.O,  a maker of security software, on Thursday said it would buy  storage software maker Veritas Software Corp. VRTS.O for  $13.5 billion, creating the world's fourth-largest software  company.
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LIVE WEBCASTAre you considering moving to a disk-to-disk backup and recovery solution for your multi-vendor storage environment? Join this live Webcast on October 12th with NetApp and Symantec and learn how integrating VERITAS&reg; NetBackup&trade;'s robust management capability with the powerful NetApp disk backup offerings can simplify your move to disk-to-disk backup in a multi-vendor storage environment.
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Recently departed Veritas Software Chief Technology Officer Fred van den Bosch has added to his holdings in the Mountain View company's stock, at least for now.
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Strengthining its utility computing software, Veritas Software on Monday released an upgrade to its server provisioning product called OpForce.
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A worm was released recently designed to break into corporate computers running Symantec Corp's security software and make them part of its botnet.
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Two years after its&#160;acquisition of enterprise software vendor Veritas, Symantec&#39;s consumer division remains the company&#39;s fastest-growing product line.
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(InfoWorld) - Veritas Software has agreed to pay $30 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle charges that it engaged in fraudulent accounting practices and aided Time Warner's America Online (AOL) in committing fraud. Veritas, whichÂ Symantec purchasedÂ on July 2, 2005, agreed to pay the fine "without admitting or denying the allegations," according to an SEC filing this week. The allegations were contained in a complaint with the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. A spokeswoman from a Symantec public relations agency confirmed the fine Friday and said the funds had already been set aside in reserve as part of Symantec's acquisition of Veritas. Symantec itself was not named in the SEC complaint, she noted. Company officials were not immediately available for further comment. The fine stems from an inquiry opened four years ago into a secret deal between Veritas and AOL. That deal involved the exchange of software licenses and advertising, and raised each company's revenue by $20 million. Both companies subsequently restated revenue numbers to erase the gains from the deal. Even as it settles its beef with the SEC, Symantec's Veritas is still embroiled in a battle with another government agency, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS is seeking more than $757 million in back taxes the agency claims Veritas owes, as well as $303 million in penalties. Symantec is disputing the charges.
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Security company Symantec's acquisition of Veritas SoftwareÂ has the potential to benefit customers and shareholders of both companies, but details of the $13.5 billion deal leave some important questions unanswered, according to interviews with executives and industry experts.
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Cupertino, Kalifornien (USA)/Mountain View, Kalifornien (USA) (ots) - Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) und VERITAS Software Corp. (Nasdaq: VRTS) haben heute angekÃ¼ndigt, dass die Unternehmen einem definitiven
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Security software company SymantecÂ is negotiating to buy storage software vendor Veritas SoftwareÂ for more than $13 billion, according to a report published Tuesday by The New York Times.
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LIVE WEBCAST(Source: Symantec)  The lynch pin of a successful Business Continuity effort is a complete Disaster Recovery (DR) capability, the ability to quickly resume IT operations at a geographically remote location when needed. Symantec recognizes these obstacles and has built flexible cluster configurations and non-disruptive DR testing capabilities into its industry leading clustering technology, Veritas Cluster Server, that will enable customers to not only have a robust and cost effective HA/DR but also test their DR plans at times convenient to the data center team and in a way that won't impact production environments.
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Security software maker Symantec Corp.  has agreed to buy Veritas Software Corp. for $13.5 billion,  expanding into the backup and recovery software market, the  companies said on Thursday.
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Security software maker Symantec Corp. has agreed to buy Veritas Software Corp. for $13.5 billion, expanding into the backup and recovery software market, the companies said on Thursday.
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Symantec Corp., security software company famous for its Norton anti-virus software, has signed an agreement to buy Veritas Software Corp.
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(InfoWorld) - Symantec Corp. Wednesday released a beta of its new enterprise security product, formerly code-named Hamlet, that melds technology from several of the company's acquisitions over the last few years. The product, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0, replaces the previous enterprise version, Symantec AntiVirus. It's a public beta, and the final version will be released around September. Symantec has decided not to charge more for the new product. "We believe the level of protection you should get for your money should be higher," said Mathew Lodge, director of product marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The EndPoint Protection suite is the culmination of a Symantec buying spree that included acquisitions of Sygate, Whole Security and Veritas. "We've spent a lot of money buying other companies," Lodge said. "We've integrated that technology into the new release." Endpoint Protection includes technology that looks at how applications behave, a way to detect if a program is doing something suspicious. For example, some malicious software programs try to download other programs from the Internet, which often is a bad sign. The suite includes other security features such as antivirus and antispyware capabilities, a firewall and host and network-based intrusion prevention technology. Another new feature is application control, which allows administrators to control what programs users can run on their machines. Also new is Symantec Network Access Control 11.0, an optional module that can be incorporated into Endpoint Protection. The feature determines whether or not to allow a mobile device to connect to the network depending on if it is a security risk, such as if the device doesnât have up-to-date patches. The module accommodates both Cisco's and Microsoft's protocols for network access control, Lodge said. It can also simply authenticate and check devices when they connect to a network and make a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) request, Lodge said. Symantec also announced a new program called Storage United, which is designed to help companies better organize their data storage even if they are using different OSes and storage hardware platforms. The program revolves around three themes: next-generation data protection, storage management and information management, said Kevin Bailey, senior product marketing manager. Prominent in the strategy will be use of NetBackup, a storage platform that came from Symantec's acquisition of Veritas, Bailey said. REFERENCES: Symantec slips, but closes in on AV product delivery, May 2, 2007Symantec mobile security client delayed, May 30, 2007