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Symantec i3 7.5 Delivers Proactive Application Performance Management Solution

to Drive Down IT Cost

CUPERTINO, Calif. - Feb 6, 2006 - Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) todayannounced the release of Symantec i3 7.5 application performance management software,

formerly known as VERITAS i3. The latest version of the software provides significantenhancements to enable performance problem identification, root cause analysis, andproactive management of J2EE platforms. Additionally, it extends support to the Sybasedatabase environment, and provides customers with additional operating system anddatabase support. As enterprises increasingly invest in business critical onlineapplications, Symantec i3 software provides IT managers with a comprehensive set ofend-to-end performance management tools that will allow them to proactively monitor,analyze, and fine-tune their applications to attain increased application transactionperformance and high availability service levels for their organizations. Using Symanteci3, customers whose production environments require optimum performance levels tosupport high-value operations such as online banking, stock trading, or retail transactions

are able to achieve measurable application performance, productivity and availabilityimprovements that directly translate into tangible bottom-line savings.

"Maintaining optimal performance of enterprise applications has become a businesscritical initiative for today's enterprises," said Brian Babineau, Enterprise Strategy Group."Comprehensive application performance management solutions, like Symantec i3 7.5,help organizations improve business efficiency and mitigate costs by quickly identifyingand resolving potential bottlenecks within an application infrastructure."

"The business impact of poor performing applications has turned into a mainstreamproblem for enterprises as they increasingly rely on them to drive their productivity andrevenue," said Henri Isenberg, vice president, Application Performance Management,

Symantec. "With the increasing demand for high application performance, Symantec isoffering advanced management, monitoring and tuning features with the release ofSymantec i3 7.5 to help ensure that mission critical applications perform with the fewestinterruptions and with high availability."

Comprehensive Performance Management for J2EE Applications

J2EE applications require advanced monitoring, analysis and reporting capabilities toensure performance and availability. The latest version of Symantec i3 for J2EE(TM)builds on the strong Symantec i3 foundation to provide the following additionalcapabilities:

-- Extensive new Portal Server Management for IBM WebSphere Portal Server and BEAWebLogic Portal Server showing portlet performance over time, by invocation, and enduser response time to identify performance issues quickly and reduce cost.

-- A new Customizable Dashboard to control "who you want seeing what" for J2EEperformance. This new interface provides selectable user-named views of J2EEperformance data, to show only information germane to a specific business role and keepit there for easy viewing when customers logout and back in.

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-- New flexible user defined J2EE Instrumentation Modes and Memory Leak Detection togive customers the information they need to troubleshoot J2EE performance issuesquickly and easily and at the same time protect against CPU overhead surges.

Application transaction behaviors change constantly in production environments. Theunique Adaptive Instrumentation capability included in Symantec i3 for J2EE softwareensures that all of an application's "hot spots" are identified and instrumentedautomatically -- without costly application server restarts.

Performance Management for Sybase Environments

One of the challenges that IT managers have faced to date in the Sybase databaseenvironment has been the absence of production tools that enable them to fine-tuneavailability and performance levels. With the introduction of Symantec Indepth forSybase(TM), IT managers will now have the ability to ensure mission criticalapplications perform at peak efficiency. Symantec Indepth for Sybase(TM) providesdatabase performance linked to applications by capturing, measuring, and correlatingperformance metrics from critical system components. In addition, Symantec Indepth for

Sybase(TM) helps to detect and correct the root cause of performance degradation beforethe end-user is affected, maximizing the return on technology investment.

Leading Platform Support

Symantec i3 7.5 extends new support for operating systems (OS) and databases, offeringusers the ability to obtain all of the benefits of Symantec i3 regardless of which OS ordatabase they choose. New OS support includes: Sun Solaris 10 and IBM AIX 5.3. NewJ2EE server support includes: IBM WebSphere 6.0, BEA WebLogic 9.0 and ApacheTomcat 5.5. New database and packaged application support includes: PeopleSoft 8.4.4and 8.4.5, Sybase 12.5.3, and Oracle 10.1.0.4 and 9.2.0.7.

Services for Application Performance Management Solutions

Symantec's team of highly skilled application performance management consultingprofessionals and service partners prepare customer environments to ensure thesuccessful deployment of Symantec i3 software. Symantec consulting, education andsupport services help ensure the ongoing stability and scalability of business applicationsand vastly improve their performance through formal application performanceassessments, process optimization, product deployment services and applicationperformance tuning. These services allow customers to deploy a holistic performance andavailability management platform that proactively identifies and avoids future problemsand reduces expenditures.

Symantec i3 builds on the Symantec i3

foundation to provide the following additionalcapabilities:

Extensive new Portal ServerManagement for IBM WebSphere PortalServer and BEA WebLogic PortalServer showing portlet performanceover time, by invocation, and end user

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Key Features

Monitors applications on a 24x7 basis using synthetic transactions.

Records transactions without a need for scripting.

Performs service level agreement compliance monitoring via flexible alerting andreporting.

Advanced linear diagnostics algorithm alerts only on root cause.

Key Benefits

Manage service delivered by applications and business transactions from multiplegeographic locations.

Define application and transaction performance, availability, and reliabilityservice levels.

Quickly and easily report on key performance metrics such as Mean Time toRepair/Recover (MTTR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).

Simplified administration when monitoring complex applications through policy-based management.