Symantec Senior Vice President to Discuss Best Practices for Improving Data Center Operations at Storage Networking World

Market Wire, April, 2006

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced that Kris Hagerman, senior vice president, Data Center Management Group, will speak at Storage Networking World, the world's largest educational event on storage networking technologies. The session, entitled "Straight Talk on How to Take Control over Your Data Center" is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, April 4th, from 3:05-3:55 p.m. PDT at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California.

Hagerman's presentation, taking place on the main stage, will explore how IT organizations can minimize complexity in managing their data center infrastructures and dramatically reduce their costs by optimizing existing IT assets -- both hardware, software and skilled people.

Storage Networking World is the world's largest storage conference and attracts IT managers, storage architects and infrastructure professionals from around the globe. More information about the event can be found at: http://www.snwusa.com/ .

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