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RSS veritas in newsSymantec CEO on weathering the credit storm
News Thompson said the company will continue its strategy of acquisitions, pointing to how its $13.5bn acquisition of Veritas had established Symantec in the storage virtualisation market. Speaking at the Symantec Vision +... [10 Oct 2008]
Top five takeovers that shook the tech world
News Symantec and Veritas, $13.5bn, 2004: Symantec bought storage specialist Veritas Software in a $13.5bn deal , forming a powerhouse of security systems and storage management software with annual revenues... [04 Feb 2008]
Symantec accuses Microsoft of "IP violations"
News The complaint involves Symantec's Volume Manager product, acquired as part of the company's takeover of Veritas Software. Microsoft licensed a "light" version of Volume Manager from Veritas in 1996 and... [19 May 2006]
Symantec eyes up ID management space
News Symantec has expanded significantly over the past years, with eight acquisitions since the start of last year, including those of BindView, IM Logic, Relicore, Sygate, Veritas Software and WholeSecurity. [09 May 2006]
Symantec aims to be 'the Microsoft it's OK to like'
News The highly-publicised purchase of Veritas in December 2004 is central to this repositioning. There have been some enormous data breaches over the past 12 months and while that doesn't vindicate the decision to merge with... [13 Apr 2006]
XenSource picks new CEO
News Before that, he led marketing, product development and business development at storage-software maker Veritas for 11 years. XenSource, a start-up trying to commercialise software that lets several versions of Linux run... [15 Feb 2006]
Symantec grabs IMlogic
News In the past two years, Symantec has bought BindView, Brightmail, Liric, Sygate, Turntide, WholeSecurity and storage giant Veritas Software. Security giant Symantec has leapt into the fast-growing market for protecting... [04 Jan 2006]
Symantec: 'No end in sight for acquisitions'
News Serial acquirer Symantec is intent on making more strategic acquisitions this year and says it will follow its Veritas acquisition with a large deal approximately every 18 months. We expect to keep making six to eight... [31 Oct 2005]
Veritas issues another security flaw warning
News Veritas issued on Wednesday a patch for a security flaw in its Java authentication service running on NetBackup servers and clients. For Veritas, owned by security-software giant Symantec, this latest... [14 Oct 2005]
Symantec secures WholeSecurity
News In July, Symantec completed the takeover of Veritas Software, which sells backup and management software. Symantec has agreed to acquire privately held WholeSecurity, which makes products to fight phishing scams and... [23 Sep 2005]
IBM unveils software for real-time data backup
News Other players include XOSoft and Mendocino, which was founded by a former executive at Veritas. Veritas, a storage giant now owned by security titan Symantec, currently has a beta out for a product... [26 Aug 2005]
Symantec's pricing strategy could take a year to sort
News It could take a year for Symantec to sort out a common pricing strategy after its merger with Veritas, the company admitted on Wednesday. Veritas products have tended to be sold on a per-CPU model. For... [04 Aug 2005]
Veritas flaw enables corporate attacks
News A security flaw in a Veritas Software backup tool is being exploited to attack corporate systems, the US watchdog for internet threats has warned. Malicious code to exploit a vulnerability in Veritas... [01 Jul 2005]
Shocking state of IT customer support revealed
News The high-tech pack showed overall improvement in the privacy category, with IBM, HP and Veritas leading the way. When it comes to online customer service, US tech companies only slightly outpace their counterparts in... [06 Jun 2005]
Election '05: Labour tops campaign website study
News The exclusive research conducted for silicon.com by the Usability Company puts Labour first, the Conservatives second, the Liberal Democrats third, closely followed by the Green Party and Robert Kilroy-Silk's Veritas Party. [25 Apr 2005]
