| Symantec Acquires Altiris |
| Monday, 29 January 2007 by Michel Roth | |||
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Symantec’s acquisition of Altiris should bolster its position and leverage its strengths on the enterprise endpoint. Symantec helps businesses protect their endpoints with leading security, compliance, and backup and recovery solutions for mobile devices and PCs to servers and storage assets. Altiris helps companies manage their endpoints and the configuration of those assets. With the Altiris solutions, Symantec expects to be able to help customers better manage and enforce security policies at the endpoint, identify and protect against threats, and repair and service assets. Altiris solutions are aimed at reducing the cost and complexity of tracking, supporting, and maintaining an organization’s corporate IT assets, including desktops, laptops, servers, and handheld devices. Altiris offers its customers a unique approach to IT service management with its modular, integrated solutions for server, client and mobile lifecycle management, and asset and service management. In addition, Altiris has also introduced innovative software virtualization technology critical to providing faster, simpler and more manageable deployment of PC applications. This technology helps to reduce support costs and streamline software operations.
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