Executive Spotlight Podcasts

Consolidation is driving various operational efficiencies and economies of scale while providing a flexible foundation to meet new business opportunities and challenges for Tiscali. CIO Salvatore Pulvirenti discusses how security management, messaging security, and data center optimization solutions from Symantec are playing a key role in helping the company to meet the current economic challenges while preparing the groundwork to address new business opportunities.

Symantec’s Mark Mullins and IT leaders at Great Eastern Life Assurance discuss how CommandCentral Storage, NetBackup, Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas Storage Foundation products paved the way to consolidate IT infrastructure in China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore, to a single facility in Malaysia.

Symantec's Patrick Spencer talks with Tom Williams, assistant director of technology of County of York, Pennsylvania, about how Backup Exec, Enterprise Vault, Endpoint Protection and Enterprise Support Services have positively impacted the fast-growing local government's process efficiency, compliance fidelity, security posture and return on taxpayer dollars.

Host Patrick Spencer talks to Gary Kay, Director of Infrastructure and Security Services at Laclede Gas Company, about the company’s transition from a legacy mainframe environment to a virtualized server blade infrastructure. Topics covered include the move’s implications for business continuity, storage, backup and recovery, web security, endpoint security, IT compliance, mobile device management, messaging security, data archiving/e-discovery, and ITIL best practices.

Host Patrick Spencer and James Beer, Symantec’s chief financial officer and executive vice president, discuss the impact of information technology on business value and financial performance. Beer tells how he applies his experience as a financial manager at a number of multinational companies to help Symantec mobilize its core competencies as an enterprise IT company to support missions and processes common to almost every medium-to-large enterprise.

Host Patrick Spencer interviews Tom Bartiromo, Vice President and CTO, and Hussein Syed, Director of IT Security at New Jersey’s Barnabas Health, discuss programs to keep a multiple campus health care provider ahead of the curve in delivering IT services supporting clinical systems, primary care, digital patient record and HIPAA compliance programs.

As the Italian National Cancer Institute continues on its journey to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, Symantec is working alongside the Institute to help ensure its systems and data are secure and compliant. Elena Sini, CIO, explains how a seamlessly integrated portfolio of Symantec security and Altiris management solutions are helping to make viruses and manual client administration a thing of the past.

Symantec’s Sr. Director of Publishing and CIO Digest Chief Editor Patrick Spencer, and Relnaud Reynders, Sr. IT Engineer for UZ Leuven, discuss the standardization on Symantec solutions. These solutions have provided a 186 percent return on investment over five years, according to independent research, with annual cost savings of €263,000.

In this Executive Spotlight podcast, Graeme Hackland, Director of IS/IT and Michael Taylor, IT Manager, from Lotus Renault GP discuss their experiences using high availability, data management, and security solutions from Symantec to help Lotus save $2.5 million per year in tangible, measured cost savings, and spearhead the move to cloud, virtual, and mobile computing.

By partnering with Symantec, Deloitte U.K. is helping clients to implement and maintain a security management framework, aligning people, process and technology. This enables clients to survive in today’s competitive market and achieve a fundamentally more secure state.

Thai Airways International CIO and VP Jirawan Chiasakul and several members of her team discuss where they have been and where they are headed in this Executive Spotlight Podcast.

Symantec’s Chief Strategy Officer and SVP Angela Tucci discusses the importance of owning your own lane when it comes to mapping and then executing corporate strategy. In this Executive Spotlight Podcast, Angela discusses five technology megatrends, the lens from which the company makes is strategic investments, and her background in venture capital and entrepreneurial startups.

CEO Charles Koh discusses his transition from an IT executive to business executive in this Executive Spotlight Podcast.

Kim Tracy, Executive Director, Technology Services at Northeastern Illinois University, discusses how the institution leveraged an IT consolidation program to simultaneously break down organizational silos, reduce costs, improve backup and restore processes and tighten messaging security. The consolidation program not only improved IT effectiveness at the University, but sharply reduced its vulnerability to malicious email SPAM exploits.

B. Murali Nair discusses the IT transformation that has occurred over the past five years at Lakshmi Vilas Bank.

Dmitry Ilin, the director of IT Infrastructure at telecommunications services operator VimpelCom, discusses how IT has enabled the company to navigate from hypergrowth to mature markets in this Executive Spotlight Podcast.

In this podcast V.R. Satish CTO Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec talks about the challenges on the storage side for the private cloud. In particular he talks about the storage as a service needs for the cloud and then ties it to the broad storage needs of virtual environments.

In this podcast V.R. Satish CTO Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec discusses challenges around availability for the private cloud. He argues for the need for disaggregation of the availability into infrastructure and application availability to handle the needs of virtual environments.

In this podcast V.R. Satish, CTO Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec discusses some of the trends and challenges facing data centers as they move to the private cloud, challenges around moving some of the more business critical applications to virtual environments, trends around using commodity wherever possible.

Executive Spotlight Podcast with Symantec Group President of SMB and Symantec.cloud Rowan Trollope that covers everything from the current and future states of the Symantec.cloud group, the value proposition of SaaS versus traditional software-based solutions, the evolution of Rowan's 20-year career at Symantec, and more.