| | January 20156CIOReviewCopyright © 2015 CIOReview, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewJanuary 05 - 2015Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 January 05- 2015, volume SE 42 Published by CIOReview To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com Editor-in-Chief Pradeep ShankarEditorial StaffSalesT:510. 565. 7627VisualizersSukirti AgnihotriStephen ThomasSymantec SpecialCIOReviewAlex D'SouzaJoe Philip Judy ChristinRaj KumarDaniel Craig daniel@cioreview.comKevin Morriskevin.morris@cioreview.com Lawrence Tse lawrence@cioreivew.comAva GarciaJoshua ParkerMatthew JacobSandeepa MajumdarSonia SacharEditorialSymantec: Turnaround in the Offing 2014 saw some of the biggest corporate data breaches in history like those of Sony (NYSE:SNE), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Target (NYSE:TGT). The increasing instances of data breaches resulting from cyber-attacks is forcing more and more organizations to evaluate their information security systems. With more data being transmitted and stored through mobile devices and cloud computing, there is a growing need for security to combat advanced cyber attacks. The new corporate IT environment requires vendors to be much more focused and quick to respond to emerging trends. Symantec's slimmer profile may help with that aspect. Symantec, which makes security software and computer-storage systems, will split into two separate businesses by end of 2015: security, and information management and storage businesses. Symantec believes that winning in both security and information management requires distinct strategies, focused investments and go-to market innovation; hence the split. The move makes sense, as the needs of security customers are unique and require a much greater level of focus by vendors to satisfy them. Symantec's channel and solution partners already foresee a brighter future because of this new structure. Given the nature of its sophisticated products, Symantec believes the depth of the product portfolio specialization is going to be critical for its solution partners to succeed in the marketplace. Symantec wants its solution partners to enhance their product competencies and also plans to introduce specialization options such as data protection, storage management, e-discovery and archiving. Partners who can achieve "expert competency" status in multiple areas would stand to greatly benefit from Symantec's rewards program. On that note, we present to you this special edition on solutions built around Symantec product portfolio. We are featuring 20 most promising Symantec solution providers. Over the last few months, our editorial team evaluated several technology companies, particularly service and solution providers and systems integrators that can deliver valued solutions based on Symantec hardware and software. The chosen 20 are the ones who not only are capitalizing on security, data center, storage and cloud opportunities but also help customers to optimize their IT infrastructure investments, deploy new capabilities, and accelerate time to market. Hope this will help you in formalizing strategies for your organization. Pradeep Shankar Editor-in-Chief editor@cioreview.com
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