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Symantec is known for OS management and deployment, and today announced significant updates to Altiris Deployment Solution and Ghost Solution Suite. Symantec is providing the next-generation of OS management technologies to help customers of all sizes address OS and data security concerns, the explosion of virtual systems, and heterogeneous hardware and software platforms.

As this year’s panel warmed up, the ideas really got rolling. Listen to what our four industry experts, Tom Henderson, Linda Musthaler, Michael Dortch and Peter Varhol had to say about the impact of social networking as they discussed the Consumerization of IT:

A growing tradition and a perpetual favorite at ManageFusion is the Industry Experts’ panel. This year’s line-up at the Vegas conference did not disappoint.

The theme for the ManageFusion day-two keynote was integration and acquisition.

Greg Butterfield, Symantec group president, and Enrique Salem, Symantec COO, took the stage to kick things off. Enrique had been at RSA earlier in the week and wanted to talk about how security and systems management together are the answer for protecting information today.

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The ManageFusion Las Vegas day-one keynote began with a display of energy and Cirque du Soleil-style acrobatics that only Las Vegas could provide.

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I had a great opportunity yesterday to attend the ManageFusion Las Vegas Customer Advisory Board meeting. This meeting includes IT executives from about 15 of Symantec’s endpoint management (Altiris) enterprise customers as well as a handful of Symantec executives.

We've officially launched FreshSqueeze, the Symantec endpoint management PR blog, in conjunction with ManageFusion Las Vegas. Welcome. The blog has been up and running for a couple of months, but now we're dead serious and have all the news and content we could possibly ask for for at ManageFusion.

Every commercial software developer or independent software vendor (ISV) must make significant investments in software testing, packaging, certification, maintenance and support. Much of this is an exercise in futility since no ISV can test for every variable in a computing environment.

If you haven’t already noticed, a recent Juice article by Shane McLean highlights an interesting new twist on the concept of ‘mobile management.’ At least a few IT managers are now viewing Altiris reports on their iPhone.