Symantec Vision Riyadh 2006 focuses on convergence

Over 300 delegates from Symantec's channel partner organisations, enterprise and SMB clients will gather for the conference to be held at the Intercontinental Hotel, Riyadh on 7th November 2006.

The conference will focus on the theme of 'Infrastructure, Information and Interaction', with a series of interactive sessions covering a range of topics, including data protection and recovery, internet security, cyber-crime, e-Government, email security and availability, information integrity and data management.

Symantec will also unveil its new data back up solution, which enables continuous data protection, beyond Microsoft Windows file servers and workstations to include Microsoft Exchange, eliminating the need for daily Exchange backups and time consuming mailbox backups. Veritas Storage Foundation, which enables organizations to dramatically reduce their storage costs by moving data to less expensive tiers of storage as the business value of the data changes, will also be focused upon.

Ali Jomaa, Country Manager Saudi Arabia, Symantec will open the proceedings with an introductory presentation on the local trends and direction in the security and availability industry at 9:30am. This will be followed by a keynote speech on convergence and its main drivers at 9:40am by Kevin Isaac, Regional Director, Symantec MENA. The presentation will detail the growing need and customer demand for convergence of network management with systems and storage management and describe information security strategies leveraging all three disciplines to effectively maintain the integrity of hardware and software assets.

"Today's companies need a broad set of solutions designed to create a trusted environment, free of risks to security, availability, compliance, and performance," said Kevin Isaac. "Symantec is delivering on all these fronts working with the customers to ensure that IT solutions deliver on critical business needs."

"We are proud to take Vision 2006 to Riyadh and we are confident that it will provide us with the perfect platform to gain valuable time with customers and prospects in Saudi Arabia to explain how security and availability are crucial for businesses today and how choosing a trusted partner like Symantec can help any business on the road to success", he added.

Other senior executives from Symantec will be joining the above including Marco Piccozzi, Regional Consulting Manager, Symantec and Hervé Lequippe, Sr. Product Manager EMEA & Asia, Data Management Group, Symantec. Vision Riyadh 2006 will also host a representative from one of its Gold Sponsors- David Beck, Storage Sales Manager, Middle East and Africa for Sun Microsystems who will tackle the issues of data management and security.

Delegates can attend the event free of charge.

Additional Executive Keynotes at Symantec Vision Riyadh 2006 include:

Ilias Chantzos, Government Relations, Symantec EMEA will present "E-government and the essential elements of protection" at 10:10am

Par Botes, Director Technology Strategy, Data Center Management Group, Symantec will present "Solutions for the Data Centre".