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Wipro Infotech to market Symantec products

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BANGALORE: Wipro Infotech has signed an alliance with Symantec Corporation to

jointly market the Symantec range of security products and solutions in India.

As part of the agreement Wipro will market Symantec solutions in anti-virus,

vulnerability assessment, intrusion prevention, Internet content and e-mail

filtering. It also includes retail distributions through Wipro dedicated

distributors and partners in India.

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The partnership will strengthen Symantec's strategy to integrate

consultation, installation and implementation of high-end security products and

solutions for medium to large companies, in India.

The partnership establishes Wipro Infotech as the sole distributor for

Symantec's enterprise Internet Security range of solutions and co-distributor

for Symantec’s leading Norton Anti-Virus range of products in India along with

Tech Pacific. Symantec’s product range will compliment Wipro’s existing

security offerings by providing anti-virus software, network and host based

intrusion detection software, security assessment and policy manager software,

secure remote access software to PCs and servers.

Symantec India country manager Joy Ghosh said, "Enterprises are

challenged with implementing and managing effective security measures with

limited internal security expertise about the latest vulnerabilities and

threats."

Wipro Infotech general manager-business solutions Anurag Mehrotra said,

"The alliance with Symantec will augment our extensive range of security

products and further strengthen our proposition in end-to-end security

consulting and implementation. We will market this in the domestic market and

will slowly take it to the APAC region in the due course. The alliance is all

about marketing the product, so we will encourage customers to use Symantec

products for security solutions. The security solutions in India is poised for

explosive growths."

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