Symantec announces solutions to improve visibility and control for virtualized environments

Symantec this week has unveiled significant enhancements to its storage management and security products that will provide greater visibility and control of virtual, physical and hybrid IT infrastructure. Announcing Veritas Operations Manager 4.0, Veritas Operations Manager Advanced and Symantec Protection Center at Vision US this week, Symantec has committed to providing tools for managing and securing information in complex virtualized environments.

Symantec’s Veritas Operation Manager Advance, in coordination with Veritas Operations Manager 4.0 delivers deep reporting for virtual and physical environments. Veritas Operations Manager 4.0 has improved visibility into the underlying dependencies for applications running in virtual environments to reduce to risk of outages and provide the right information when taking action.

“Action-based storage management in Veritas Operations Manager is a game-changer, as it helps IT professionals get results so much faster than traditional resources across nearly any operating system, virtualization platform, the cloud and physical storage resources,” said Don Angspatt, vice president of product management, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec. “With this release we’re focused on saving our customers time by simplifying and automating time-consuming complex tasks. In fact, we’ve seen installations as fast as ten minutes, allowing customers to automate storage and high availability operations, reduce manual processes and aid with storage provisioning, storage migrations and thin reclamation.”  

Management for Symantec and third-party security products

The second significant announcement in its commitment to managing virutalized environments, is Symantec Protection Center 2.0, a centralized security management console that allows organizations to identify emerging threats, prioritize tasks and accelerate time to protection based on relevant, actionable intelligence. Symantec Protection Center supports Symantec and third-party security products. Symantec Protection Center will offer a centralized view across the Symantec security portfolio and third-party products through three levels of integration - single sign-on, data collection and process automation.

“With the right protection, virtual environments can be as secure, or even more secure than traditional infrastructure as a result of increased standardization, visibility, automation and control available in high-density environments,” said Francis deSouza, senior vice president, Enterprise Security Group, Symantec.