To help businesses protect, store and recover information with greater efficiency and reliability through a single, unified platform, Symantec has announced NetBackup 7.  This solution enables organizations to simplify information management while reducing data stores and network traffic by integrating deduplication everywhere – at the client, media server and on third party hardware appliances – thus reducing overall costs.

NetBackup also delivers complete virtual machine protection to increase backup and recovery speeds of data within virtual environments and adds new backup replication for fast, cost-effective disaster recovery.

In just a few days from now, we’ll reach the one-year anniversary of the Downadup/Conficker threat’s April 1, 2009 trigger date, and just like last year, April Fool’s Day will likely pass without seeing the Internet come crashing down.

At the same time, Symantec says Conficker continues to spread, whether we know what its creators had in mind for an end-game or not.

It is believed that the criminals behind Downadup/Conficker still have the keys to some 6.5 million of these computers, which have not been fixed by their owners, leaving them open to be victimized at any time by cybercriminals.IT is being seen that the .A and .B variants of the worm continue to spread, albeit at a much reduced rate.

According to Symantec, the infected PCs are being “very closely monitored” by law enforcement and the members of the Conficker Working Group, so even though several million PCs remain vulnerable, all the attention is “likely [to] prevent [Conficker's creators] from further playing out their original criminal plans.”

Fujitsu has presented an overview of the company’s solutions and services on the theme of Dynamic Infrastructures for your Success. The focus is on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for Server, as well as a comprehensive portfolio of managed services. Fujitsu’s IaaS enables companies to purchase server capacity as necessary via a flexible billing model. The required hardware is stored in Fujitsu high security centers built especially for this purpose. Customers can chose an individual solution and configure it through Fujitsu’s IaaS portal. The server resources can be accessed via a secure VPN (Virtual Private Network).

The new managed services offered by Fujitsu include Managenow solutions, Managed Workplace, Managed Virtual Workplace, Managed Storage and Managed Server.

Managenow can be used to consolidate different administration and surveillance tools, which offers enterprises a seamless integration with popular administration solutions, fast implementation and a cost reduction of up to 65 percent. Managed Workplace can be used to administer PC workstations throughout the entire lifecycle, thereby freeing enterprises from daily routine tasks so they can concentrate on their core business.

Managed Virtual Workplace features Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) based services and options adapted to meet specific requirements, increase productivity, flexibility, availability and security all at the same time. Managed Storage benefits enterprises of all sizes from flexible data management, cost control and data security. Managed Server provides interruption-free server infrastructures.

Fujitsu has also introduced Eternus CS800, a ready-to-use storage solution with integrated deduplication, offering comprehensive data security within dynamic infrastructures. The solution is particularly suitable for medium-sized enterprises working with disk backup. The Eternus CS800 supports Symantec OpenStorage for Replication and Direct Tape Creation.