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Symantec Green IT Initiative

Symantec is committed to helping customers reduce energy costs and carbon footprint with an innovative software approach and Green IT best practices.

Products & Services

For most organizations, it’s difficult to standardize at the hardware layer – you want to choose from multiple hardware vendors and integrate systems from mergers and acquisitions. With Symantec’s software approach, you can optimize your existing server and storage resources. In addition to saving you money on hardware capital expenses, Symantec can reduce by 20 percent or more the operating expenses to power and cool your data centers. And further extend energy savings with endpoint power management. View the solution overview brief, or click on the links below to learn more about specific products and services in the Symantec Green IT solution.

Manage Physical and Virtual Environments:

Veritas Cluster Server delivers high availability while improving server utilization to reduce overall power and cooling requirements.
Altiris Server Management Suite enables you to provision, control and automate servers including server power management.
Endpoint Virtualization Suite is a revolutionary approach to optimizing software management, including power settings, for traditional, virtual and hybrid enterprise endpoints.

Stop Buying Storage:

CommandCentral Storage finds regions of wasted space and inactive data across an enterprise and enables administrators to utilize memory assets more efficiently.
Enterprise Vault eradicates duplicate email messages and dramatically shrinks storage – and power – requirements.

Optimize High Availability and Disaster Recovery:

Veritas NetBackup reduces the space needed for storage by eliminating duplicate data in memory.
Backup Exec reduces hardware requirements, and the associated operational costs to power and cool that hardware, with integrated backup, recovery and archiving.

Control Endpoint Power Usage:

Altiris Client Management Suite enables you to save money on electricity for desktop and laptop PCs by automating power settings.
Brightmail Gateway provides outbound & inbound email and instant message security through Software as a Service, which reduces hardware and energy demands on your data centers.
MessageLabs enables you to secure and manage email, Web and IM through Software as a Service; through spam protection, cut the volume of email for retention, and thereby benefit from less storage hardware and power.

Implement Green IT Best Practices:

Symantec Consulting Services help you design your data centers and endpoints for optimal equipment configuration, capacity, and power usage.

Corporate Responsibility

Symantec is committed to integrating ethical, social and environmental policies into our core business.
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10-Minute Solution Presentation

Lower your data center energy bill by 20 percent or more with Symantec’s Green IT solution.

Symantec Green IT Initiative

Overview

2009 Worldwide Green IT Report -
Green Begins Widespread Adoption

Customer Benefits –
Green Business is Good Business

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