Wasatch Software's Symantec Partnership

I hope everyone had an excellent Christmas. Naturally, the day after Christmas is pretty slow here at Wasatch Software. We’d rather be talking to customers and processing orders, but this downtime provides a great opportunity for another blog post.

As we approach the end of the year, I wanted to talk about strides we’ve made in our partnership with one of the world’s leading software companies: Symantec. In 2008, we progressed from being just a Symantec Registered Partner to becoming a Symantec Silver Partner. What is required to become a Symantec Silver Partner? Basically, Wasatch Software had to achieve minimum revenue goals and also obtain a certain number of sales and technical certifications on Symantec products. This investment in time and training for our staff has helped our customers in numerous ways. Perhaps foremost is the fact that we have put in the time and effort to train on solutions to help our customers make the right decision about their network security, data backup, and data archiving needs.

Our team here at Wasatch Software has successfully become certified in numerous Symantec products:

• Backup Exec for Windows Server
• Backup Exec System Recovery
• Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Symantec Ghost Solution Suite
• Symantec Mail Security for Exchange

Another achievement that our organization has made in regards to Symantec in 2008 is our achievement of the Symantec SMB Specialization. With this specialization our customers can rest assured that we have the knowledge and ability to provide and implement technologies in a very successful manner for small and medium sized businesses throughout the country.

Additionally, we are happy that we have had the chance to build a stronger relationship with our contacts at Symantec, especially with Mahlon Findtner, who is their representative that handles our area. It was especially our pleasure to participate with Mahlon at our Utah Jazz event last month.

So, what is coming up in 2009 for Wasatch Software and Symantec? Our goals for this relationship include further training and certifications, particularly on Symantec Enterprise Vault. We also have our sights set on becoming Symantec Gold Partners next year!

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1-50 systems (no servers): Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security
5-249 (windows servers, no mail server): Trend Micro Client/Server Security SMB
5-249 (windows and mail servers): Trend Micro Client/Server/Messaging Security SMB

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