Premiere Global Sports Deploys Symantec

Symantec Corporation.
announced that Premiere Global Sports,
a provider of specialized sports travel and hospitality products, is using
Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition and Symantec Backup Exec to
centralize protection of the company’s distributed endpoints.

While Premiere Global Sports is a small business, the data they produce is
growing on an enterprise scale and thus needs the protection of an
enterprise solution. Since the deployment, Premiere Global Sports can
protect, backup, and provide DR capabilities for its virtualized business
systems.

Premiere Global Sports has grown by acquisition over the last
decade, and as a result, most of its 75 full-time employees are distributed
across the United States. Consequently, all of its endpoints were managed
individually with a variety of anti-virus products.

"Many of the companies we
acquired were flying by the seat of their pants and didn’t have time to focus
on IT infrastructure," said Jason Drake, Premiere Global Sports’
director of infrastructure and security. "We were tasked with choosing expandable platforms that can meet more
needs than we have right now."

Centralizing Endpoint
Protection
Based on past experiences, Drake selected Symantec
Protection Suite Enterprise Edition to centralize protection of its distributed
endpoints and to protect multiple independent servers and dozens of Windows
endpoints. In addition to endpoint security, the Symantec Protection Suite
Enterprise Edition license includes email server security, email and web
gateway virtual appliances, and desktop system recovery. The Enterprise Edition
will accommodate Premiere Global Sports’ future growth.

"Having Symantec
Protection Suite in place-especially with its defense against zero-day
threats-definitely makes me feel more at ease," Drake said. "By leveraging the new security management
solution, we can pinpoint security threats and increase the productivity of our
security operations."

Reliable Backup and
Recovery
for a Virtualized IT Environment
To support Premiere Global Sports’ growing business, Drake and his
team chose Symantec Backup Exec to reduce downtime and ensure critical
information on both their virtual and physical systems is always protected and
restored in seconds.

"Our IT environment is 90
– 95 percent virtualized, and we continue to leverage this technology to reduce
costs and the number of physical servers," said Drake. "We have trusted Backup Exec to backup our
data for several years and the transition from a physical server infrastructure
to virtual infrastructure didn’t change our choice in a data protection
solution."

Backup Exec simplifies both backup and DR, allowing Drake to focus
on strategic programs. Plus, Premiere Global Sports will soon begin beta
testing Backup Exec 2012 as its deduplication features will streamline backup
operations even further.

"Based on my testing,
Backup Exec gives me the ability to recover both physical and virtual systems
in case of a catastrophe," Drake said. "Symantec’s V-Ray technology embedded in Backup Exec also allows us to
easily expand to a virtual environment and feel confident in our decision."