Symantec and Red Hat announced an extended collaboration to deliver solutions that help customers deploy agile private and hybrid clouds and create highly resilient datacenters. The expanded relationship spans engineering, marketing, support, and sales groups in both companies. Based on proven real-world deployments, the new solutions will harness the power of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Symantec storage and availability solutions to deliver higher availability and increased agility while helping organizations deploy business-critical applications with confidence.

1. Symantec and Red Hat: Announcing Joint Solutions for Data
Center Resiliency
Jim Totton – Vice President, Red Hat
Jennifer Ellard – Sr. Mgr., Storage and Availability Management, Symantec

2. Announcing Joint Solutions for Data
Center Resiliency
New product solutions and broad relationship between
Symantec and Red Hat
Together, we offer a unique value proposition for
private and hybrid cloud solutions, and help make
organization's data centers resilient.
Joint Solutions include:
- Automated off-premise Disaster Recovery
- Cost-effective failover for Oracle Databases
- Improved Availability of Storage Infrastructure

3. IDC believes Linux will be one of two primary
operating systems that will power public cloud
infrastructure and predicts that a substantial
portion of cloud computing will take place on
Linux...
IDC: Linux at 20: Claiming its
place in History, August 2011
1IDC # 229926
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4. Global Business Challenges
Speed time to market
Lower operating costs
Optimize assets and capital expenditures
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5. Creating Value Throughout the Stack
Application
• Highly available, multi-tier applications
and business services
Middleware
• Open source middleware with JBOSS
• Open source OS with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Operating system
• No vendor lock-In, commodity x86 hardware
Server hardware
• Platform independence – avoid vendor
lock-in with both servers and storage
Storage hardware
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6. Resilient Joint Datacenter Solutions
Automated Cost-effective failover Improved availability of
off-premise DR of Oracle databases storage infrastructure
• Automated • Fast failover of • Improved
recovery of mission- single instance performance &
critical applications & data Oracle availability of any
across any distance • Confidence to move storage in the Red Hat
• Enhanced tools to Oracle databases to x86 environment
proactively test DR servers • Non-disruptive storage
readiness migration
• Veritas Storage
• Veritas Cluster File System,
• Veritas Cluster Server Veritas Cluster Server
Foundation
• JBoss, RHEL • Dynamic Multi-Pathing
• JBoss, RHEL • JBoss, RHEL
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7. Global Alignment at All
Organizational Levels
Engineering Support
• Address issues early • Aligned support
• Rigorous mutual testing departments via
• Release-time TSAnet
certification • Fast problem
resolution
Marketing Sales
• Joint reference • Closely aligned
architectures account teams
• White papers & • Excellent
best practices customer
• Joint customer events experience
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8. Symantec and Red Hat
Proven Joint Success and Adoption
Largest open source 3rd largest
software company software company
62% enterprise #1 position in 10 security,
Linux market share storage, high availability
& data protection markets
80% of the 99% of the
Fortune 500 Fortune 500
Trusted strength across all major verticals
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9. Key Takeaways
• Symantec and Red Hat are uniquely suited to deliver
the promise of cloud and data center resiliency
• Cost-effective solutions
• Proven customer success
• Our joint partnership is deep and taking hold within
our sales organizations
• More joint collaboration to come
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10. Thank You!
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