Symantec to launch secure storage product

BANGALORE: Following its merger with storage vendor Veritas in December, Symantec has chalked up a road map on the kind of products it would be looking at.

Setting this in motion, the company would soon release an e-mail storage product, which would scale up storage capacity according to the customer requirement.

Speaking to Cybermedia News, Vishal Dhupar, the newly appointed managing director of Symantec India said, “This product helps in optimizing e-mail storage and ensures the availability of information while providing security.”

The product, aimed at the enterprise as well as the SMB segments, would be customized according to the customer's needs.

Delineating the company's integration plan, he said that in the next six months, the Symantec-Veritas combine would look at ensuring product inter-operability, testing and certification. “Following this, in the second phase, we plan to achieve product integration - have a common license, a common user-interface and integration support,” Dhupar said.

He added that Veritas would continue to retain its brand name for storage products despite its integration with Symantec. Currently, Symantec has around 1100 employees in India.

On the partner front, Dhupar said that the company would continue to strive to make Symantec products more accessible to the market. “We continue to look for partners -- be they specialist partners, local, regional or national level partners.”

Symantec acquired Veritas for $13.5 billion last year. “The market for storage of information and its security is being driven by regulatory and compliance mandates, operational requirements such as infrastructure consolidation, IT budgets and security threats. In this scenario, there is a need to ensure both secure information and also information availability,” Dhupar said.