Gartner Positions Symantec as Leader in Email Active Archiving

Gartner has positioned Symantec Corp. (News - Alert) in the Leaders quadrant of the 2009 Magic Quadrant for Email Active Archiving.

 

The company’s Symantec Enterprise Vault reduces the costs of storing unstructured information such as email, file server and SharePoint content and is being used by more than 10,000 companies.

 

With Gartner’s (News - Alert) 2009 Magic Quadrant for Email Active Archiving focuses on enterprise class software products and identifies companies with a set of e-mail archiving products.

 

With the Enterprise Vault from Symantec, companies can store, manage and discover content enterprise-wide. Enterprise Vault provides an open, intelligent and manageable approach to improve management, reduce costs and control information risk with the help of a market proven architecture.

 

With unstructured information consuming a large percentage of corporate storage, Enterprise Vault archives information from messaging, file servers and collaborative systems using powerful storage optimization, classification and retention technologies.

 

“For the past 10 years the archiving market has continually evolved, but Symantec Enterprise Vault's reliability and technology advancements remain constant," said Matt Kixmoeller, vice president of product management, Symantec Information Management Group.

 

"We believe Symantec's position in the Leaders quadrant by Gartner validates our long-standing dedication to delivering an innovative solution that allows customers to manage and discover unstructured data with ease and confidence.”

 

Recently, Symantec announced an agreement to distribute Norton Online Backup on HP consumer desktop and notebook PCs worldwide.

 

Symantec has a leading presence in consumer online backup with more than eight million customers and three million backups per day.

 

The 30-day trial offer of Norton Online Backup will come preinstalled and will provide five gigabytes (5GB) of convenient and secured online storage.