AUSTRALIA, Sydney - 29 May 2006 - Symantec Corp. today announced that it has
been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for E-mail
Active-Archiving, 2006. A key component of Symantec's Enterprise Messaging
Management solution portfolio, Symantec Enterprise Vault(tm) e-mail and
content archiving software enables companies and government agencies to reduce
storage costs, protect critical records, improve employee productivity and
achieve compliance with industry and government regulations requiring the
retention and supervision of e-mails, instant messages and other forms of
electronic communications and collaboration.
According to the Gartner report, published May 12, 2006, vendors included in
the Leaders Quadrant have the highest combined measures of an ability to
execute and a completeness of vision. They have the most comprehensive and
most scalable products, and a proven track record of financial performance and
established market presence. In terms of vision, they are perceived as thought
leaders, with well-articulated plans for ease of use, how to address
scalability and product breadth. For vendors to have long-term success, they
must plan to address the expanded market requirements for archive management,
personal store migration, ease of use and deployment, and archive recovery.
Leaders must not only deliver to current market requirements, which continue
to change, but they need to be able to anticipate and begin to deliver on
future requirements. A cornerstone for leaders is the ability to articulate
how these requirements will be addressed as part of their vision for expanded
archive management. The report also states that as a group, leaders can be
expected to be considered as part of most new purchase proposals and have high
success rates in winning new business.
"Symantec Enterprise Vault is the market-leading content archiving solution
with more than 3,000 customer installations worldwide managing five million
mailboxes," said Francis deSouza, vice president of Enterprise Messaging
Management solutions, Symantec. "As the market for archiving has expanded to
include other forms of content we have developed additional capabilities
within Symantec Enterprise Vault to enable archiving of instant messages,
Microsoft Windows and Network Appliance file systems and Microsoft SharePoint
documents. In addition, we have continued to expand the notion of Enterprise
Vault as an Intelligent Archiving platform by providing open APIs to allow
customers and partners to expand and leverage the technology."
Magic Quadrant Disclaimer
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with
permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace
at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how
certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in
the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those
vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended
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Symantec Enterprise Messaging Management
Symantec is the first company to deliver comprehensive, end-to-end Enterprise
Messaging Management capabilities, keeping messaging systems and data both
secure and readily available. Symantec Enterprise Messaging Management
provides industry-leading products and services designed to help eliminate
unnecessary costs by reducing large volumes of unwanted spam, stopping viruses
and worms, automatically managing the lifecycle of messages through archiving,
and by helping to keep customers' communications infrastructures resilient
against failure.
