At the request of its business customers, Symantec will offer next year its security solutions in the form of online services hosted on its servers. It provides for three years to move its entire range.Specialist software including antivirus and adopt the principle of cloud computing for most of its security software, backup and archiving. From March 2009, it will gradually in the form of "Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) accessible via the web, being hosted on its servers.
Symantec already has this type of service, but only in the United States, for data backup and disaster recovery or incident. It will now be extended throughout the world, as indicated by the CEO of Symantec, John Thompson, the conference Symantec Vision + ManageFusion EMEA 08, The Hague (7-9 October).
The same will apply for a service currently in beta, which allows you to take remote control of a computer.
All ranges mode Software as a Service within three years
A decision that meets the demands of customers, explained last week in London, Enrique Salem, Chief Operating Officer of Symantec. "We will get our entire range to Cloud computing - the solutions for which it makes sense, of course. They will be offered as services within three years. "
"Our goal is to offer services that will be for our software products," he added. "Any software that is installed at our customers will be available as SaaS, in the world. I also hope that the cloud method to be extended to other solutions such as the prevention of loss of data and archiving. "
Symantec succumbs to the tendency of Cloud computing, after IBM, Google and Amazon among others, and soon Microsoft. A recent craze decried by two charismatic leaders of world IT: Oracle's Larry Ellison and Richard Stallman, the creator of the GPL.
A range that will be enriched with the products of the publisher MessageLabs, which has just been buying Symantec. Bought for $ 695 million in cash, he specializes in online services for messaging and security.
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