Each month the Symantec product marketing teams, along with our channel marketing team strive to bring you the latest information on products, services, programs, and promotions that will help you increase your business opportunities and close deals. Following are the June webcasts that are now available for registration. You are invited to attend all of the webcasts, or those of your choice. We look forward to your attendance!

• What’s New with SymBrain 2.0 — Symantec’s Product Solution Mapping Tool
  Tuesday, June 9, 2009 @ 2:00 PM ET | 11:00 AM PT
  Attend this Webcast to learn how you can save time in your daily selling activities and expand opportunities by leveraging the new version of SymBrain. We’ll identify how using SymBrain will help enable you to sell Symantec products and solutions and better understand your customers’ initiatives and IT needs. We will also highlight the enhancements incorporated into the new version of SymBrain 2.0 ? including a new navigation that makes it easier and faster to find Symantec solutions and customer IT Projects information. Register now!

• Symantec Referral Program — Gain access to technically complex solutions and earn rebates with minimal investment
  Thursday, June 11, 2009 @ 2:00 PM ET | 11:00 AM PT
  Learn how to successfully create recurring revenue streams and new partnerships with the Symantec Partner Referral Program. Key focus areas for this session include rebate and revenue credit opportunities, an in-depth overview of the program, how the program works for you, and the available resources. Register now!

• Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery Provide Reliable and Efficient Protection  for VMware and Microsoft Virtual Environments
  Tuesday, June 16, 2009 @ 2:00 PM ET | 11:00 AM PT
  Are your customers planning to implement Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware ESX to help reduce IT costs and improve scalability? Join us for a live demo and learn the value and cost benefits of VMware Virtual Infrastructure and Hyper-V virtualization. We’ll show how you can help your customers efficiently implement a comprehensive data protection strategy that easily scales across both virtual and physical environments. Register now!

• Symantec Protection Suite Webcast Series: Session 1 – Symantec Endpoint Security
  Thursday, June 18, 2009 @ 2:00 PM ET | 11:00 AM PT
  Join this webcast for a refresher on Symantec Protection Suite and a deeper dive into the Endpoint Security components of the Suite: Endpoint Protection, Network Access Control and Mobile AntiVirus to name a few. Learn why your customers need endpoint security, how to sell it and how to build short and long term opportunities around the value of Symantec Protection Suite. Discover the secrets finding the Suite Spot in every opportunity! Register now!

•  Additional 5% rebate with VMWare Alliance Affiliate Program 
  Tuesday, June 23, 2009 @ 2:00 PM ET | 11:00 AM PT
  Hear from Symantec and VMWare how you can make more out of our joint program. You will  learn about the virtualization market opportunity, average deal size and how you can capitalize on it; how you can go into new & dormant accounts with the Symantec/VMware Virtualization opportunity and increase your profitability. We will also review the sales, marketing & training tools available to help you sell Symantec’s data protection products that support VMware virtualization. Register now!

• Survive & Thrive Business Management Series — Webcast 1
  Wednesday, June 24, 2009 @ 11:30 AM ET | 8:30 AM PT
  Survive & Thrive is a Business Management series designed to help you not only survive in the current economic climate, but succeed and emerge stronger.   Focusing on critical business challenges, providing practical solutions to maximize cash flow, sourcing and investing capital and and drive  business growth; the series is designed to help you extend your business and financial skills, and help identify ongoing business opportunities. This is the first in a series of 5 webcasts.  During this session we’ll overview the entire series and review the Business Management white paper available from the Survive & Thrive web page. Register now!

• SMB Partner Programs – enabling you and helping you drive revenue
  Thursday, June 25, 2009 @ 2:00 PM ET | 11:00 AM PT
  Learn all about the SMB focused programs that will help enable you and drive your business with Symantec solutions.  Our SMB Programs have been developed to help you throughout the sales cycle and assist you growing your customer relationships. This session will focus on SMB Specialization and Aspire Program, Partner Referral Program, Renewal Access Program, Symantec University for Partners, and more! Register now! For additional information and tools, be sure to visit PartnerNet, the Symantec partner portal, at https://partnernet.symantec.com.

Faster Exchange Recovery with Symnatec: This document clearly demonstrates Symantec’s performance advantage over EMC in an Exchange environment. Test Highlights include:

1. Faster Exchange backup: Symantec solutions reduced Exchange backup time by more than 4,000% over EMC NetWorker. (Symantec takes 28 minutes, EMC takes ~22 hours!)

2. Faster Recovery: Symantec can recover a 200MB mailbox up to 13x faster than EMC NetWorker using EMC recommended best practices (Symantec takes 7.6 minutes to restore a mailbox, EMC takes ~100 minutes)

3. Faster email recovery: Utilizing Granular Recovery Technology (GRT), Symantec next-generation data protection solutions were able to recover individual email messages up to 220x faster than EMC NetWorker (Symantec takes ~15 seconds to restore an email, EMC takes ~81 minutes)

4. Stop Buying Storage: Symantec solutions require only a single pass backup to provide full disaster and granular recovery which reduces storage requirements and administrative time.

You’re cordially invited to learn about the latest from Symantec, while having a great time.

Symantec IT professionals (plus ample hors d’oeuvres and drinks) will be on hand as we discuss “Symantec’s Triple Play.”

Symantec Triple Play is a channel-focused training session designed to educate partners on the latest release and capabilities of Symantec products including the big three:

• Storage Foundation

• NetBackup

• Enterprise Vault

The real value of this training is unlocking the power of doing combined selling of products, positioning a solution for your customers, from HA/DR to Backup to Archiving. To help our partners deliver an increased customer footprint and an increased deal size!

Please join us at the Mountain Winery on June 10, 2009:

• 4 to 5 pm Registration and Cocktails

• 5-6:30 pm Presentation and Buffet

• 6:30-7 pm Wrap Up. Social Time

• 7 pm Free Concert with Rodrido y Gabriela

For more info on The Mountain Winery, including directions, click here

SPACE IS LIMITED. REGISTER NOW AT: www.SymantecMountain.com

You are cordially invited to a Lunch and Learn with Symantec at the Wildfire in Oakbrook.

Symantec IT professionals will be on hand as we discuss the “Symantec Triple Play.”

Symantec Triple Play is a channel-focused training session designed to educate partners on the latest release and capabilities of Symantec products including the big three:

•  Storage Foundation

• NetBackup

• Enterprise Vault

The real value of this training is unlocking the power of doing combined selling of products, positioning a solution for your customers, from HA/DR to Backup to Archiving. To help our partners deliver an increased customer footprint and an increased deal size!

Please join us at Wildfire on June 4, 2009:

• 11:30 to Noon Registration

• Noon to 1:30 pm Lunch and Presentation

For more info on Wildfire, including directions, click here

SPACE IS LIMITED. REGISTER NOW AT: www.SymantecWildfire.com

You’re cordially invited to learn about the latest from Symantec, while enjoying lunch at Del Frisco’s.

Symantec IT professionals will be on hand as we discuss the “Symantec Triple Play.”

Symantec Triple Play is a channel-focused training session designed to educate partners on the latest release and capabilities of Symantec products including the big three:

• Storage Foundation

• NetBackup

• Enterprise Vault

The real value of this training is unlocking the power of doing combined selling of products, positioning a solution for your customers, from HA/DR to Backup to Archiving. To help our partners deliver an increased customer footprint and an increased deal size!

Please join us at Del Frisco’s Steak House on June 11, 2009 :

• 11:30 to Noon Registration

• Noon to 1:30 pm Presentation

For more info on Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House, including directions, click here

SPACE IS LIMITED. REGISTER NOW AT: www.SymantecDelFriscos.com

You’re cordially invited to learn about the latest from Symantec, while having a great time.

Symantec IT professionals (plus ample hors d’oeuvres and drinks) will be on hand as we discuss “Cost Cutting Strategies to Optimize Your Data Center.”

This intimate setting will allow you to learn firsthand from the people at the forefront of data security and storage. And you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and get clarity on any Symantec solutions you may be selling or thinking about offering.

Please join us at Aspen Social Club on June 11, 2009

• 4 to 5 pm Registration

• 5 to 6:30 pm Presentation

Happy Hour with heavy hors d’oeuvres before and after presentation!

For more info on Aspen Social Club, including directions, click here

SPACE IS LIMITED. REGISTER NOW AT: www.SymantecAspen.com

You’re cordially invited to learn about the latest from Symantec, while having a great time.

Symantec IT professionals (plus ample hors d’œuvres and drinks) will be on hand as we discuss How to Optimize a Customer’s Data Center: IT Strategies in a Down Economy.

This intimate setting will allow you to learn firsthand from the people at the forefront of data security and storage. And you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and get clarity on any Symantec solutions you may be selling or thinking about offering.

Please join us at AQUAKNOX on June 3:

• 3:00-3:30 Reg

• 3:30-5:00 Presentation

• 5:00-6:00 Drink and apps

More info on AQUAKNOX, including directions at www.aquaknox.net

SPACE IS LIMITED. REGISTER NOW AT: www.SymantecFishSchool.com

At the recent Channel Champion Awards event in New Orleans, Randy Cochran, Vice President Channel Sales - Americas, was recognized as one of CRN’s Channel Chiefs. In addition, Symantec received a prestigious three industry awards including a Five-Star rating in Everything Channel’s Partner Program Guide. more

These free technical seminars are being held in select cities and will focus on Symantec Endpoint Protection and the Symantec Backup Exec product family. Register now to secure your place. more

By combining market-leading security and backup and recovery technologies, the new Symantec Protection Suite offers ongoing upsell opportunities so that you can reap the rewards of potential new security and recovery revenues for your business. Register now! more