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January 31, 2005 | Comments: (0)

Symantec gets a thank you

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Barbara Nelson is happy to say thank you to Symantec and Veritas. When the NeoScale Systems CEO and president began touting the company's products a few years back, she was often met with blank stares.

NeoScale's CryptoStor product line is a family of highly available, high performance, transparent and scalable policy-based storage security appliances for network storage and security. The company's products are designed to lower the cost of protecting accessible, distributed storage infrastructures, while also enabling greater efficiencies for the secure management of storage capacity, consolidation, continuity and compliance.

Sounds good, but for a startup to deliver that message in 2000 was a bit unusual. But in the past six to eight months Nelson said she began to find a more receptive audience among IT managers. Still, despite Nelson's strong background with Intel, Maxtor and Quantum, it was a hard sell.

Then, Symantec announced it was purchasing Veritas for a hefty $13.5 billion. The two companies pointed to the convergence of storage and security as one major reason for the merger of the two companies. For NeoScale, which today announced a new CryptoStor product for tape backup, it was an affirmation that they were on the right track. "Now companies are coming to us. That's been a nice change," said Nelson.

Posted by Bob Francis on January 31, 2005 12:57 PM

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