Golden Temple of Oregon, Health Alliance Plan and Molina Healthcare Improve Storage Utilization Rates

CUPERTINO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/25/09 -- Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced that Golden Temple of Oregon, LLC, Health Alliance Plan and Molina Healthcare, Inc. are using Symantec storage and information management software to better utilize existing storage resources and eliminate the need to purchase new hardware. Statistics show that organizations have as much as 50 percent available storage capacity, yet continue to purchase additional storage. Storage resource management, thin provisioning, data deduplication and archiving solutions can help organizations make better use of existing storage resources.

"After conducting a recent survey, Symantec found that more than half of respondents intend to buy more storage in 2009 -- yet 79 percent believe storage utilization can be improved," said Steve Morton, vice president of product marketing, Symantec. "Through storage management and deduplication technology, Symantec is helping IT organizations better utilize the storage they already own to avoid new purchases."

Golden Temple Streamlines Mail Server with Archiving

Founded in an Oregon garage in 1973, Golden Temple of Oregon, LLC has grown to be a world player in wholesale natural foods, including breakfast cereals and herbal teas. Several years ago, Golden Temple's IT department installed Symantec Enterprise Vault on a virtual server to help with limited capacity with its Microsoft Exchange email server rather than choosing to upgrade from Microsoft Exchange Standard Server to the Enterprise version.

"The only cost was the application itself, with no hardware or management costs because of our virtual environment," said Gurusimran Khalsa, systems administrator, Golden Temple of Oregon, LLC. "Upgrading Exchange would not have helped reduce the size of our mailbox and several of our users noticed the size of their mail databases was degrading systems performance. Enterprise Vault removed the performance roadblock and eased information management by eliminating Personal Folders (PST files) from the Exchange environment."

Health Alliance Plan Drives Down Utilization with Storage Management

Health Alliance Plan, one of Michigan's largest health plans, employs 800 workers to provide health coverage and other healthcare solutions and services to more than 500,000 subscribers in southeastern Michigan. Health Alliance Plan needed a strategy for its data center, which runs 18 production databases, amounting to more than 26 terabytes of data, growing by 12 percent a year.