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Is the Future of Cybersecurity in M&A?

Xconomy

Last month Symantec announced its plans to buy Blue Coat for $4.7 The bigger public players – Cisco, Check Point, HP, IBM, Symantec, and others – need to continually add to their arsenal of security solutions as the threat landscape continues to evolve. Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive.

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

socalTECH

Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. There''s Carbonite, Mozy, Symantec Online Backup, just to name a few. We recently launched Idrive Sync, which performs better than Dropbox, and is very competitive in pricing.

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New Cybersecurity Alliance Continues Trend of Industry Collaboration

Xconomy

IBM bought Resilient Systems , Cisco Systems snapped up CloudLock , Symantec acquired Blue Coat , and Carbon Black purchased Confer , to name a few. But we’re also seeing more partnerships between security companies that aim to tie their product offerings more closely together, without going so far as combining their businesses.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Competition: McAfee , Symantec. If you watch the show you’ll hear a great story about how this team got their start by hijacking data from stars on the red carpet at the Oscars. If you want the easy version you can read that story here ! Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Founded in 2007. Employees: 27.