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posted on 17 March 2008 18:19

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Symantec's new COO, Enrique Salem, has made changes to improve the effectiveness of his organisation.

- The Endpoint Security and Management group absorbs the Altiris business group.
- Altiris Business Group head Greg Butterfield (ex Altiris CEO too) stops being its head but will stay on for a few months.
- Security and Compliance Group chief Tom Kendra is going too.
- A new Data Protection Group, led by Deepak Mohan, is formed by combining the Backup Exec and NetBackup organisations.
- A Storage and Availability Management team is led by Rob Soderbery and it now contains the Storage and Server Foundation Groups.
- The Data Loss Prevention team is led by Joseph Ansanelli.
- The Endpoint Virtualisation organisation is headed by Ken Berryman.
- The Information Foundation, Compliance and Security Management team is managed by Francis deSouza.
- The Endpoint Security and Management team is headed up by Brad Kingsbury.

Thanks to eWeek.com for this information.

[ Majid Soltani, staff writer.]