Citing findings from IDC, Suzie Tan, managing director of Symantec Malaysia, said that her company led the storage software market in 2008, and garnered the highest market share in key storage software categories. "Seventy per cent market share in data protection and recovery software, and 49 per cent in storage infrastructure software," Tan said. "Symantec also leads the security software market in Malaysia with 25 per cent share in 2008."

Symantec APJ senior vice president, Bernard Kwok, added that IDC's Asia/Pacific and Japan Semiannual Software Tracker H2 2008 showed that Symantec was the clear market share leader in key IDC storage software categories in APJ. "Data protection and recovery software, with a 30 per cent market share in 2008 as calculated by IDC," he said. "[That is] twice that of [our] next largest competitor. In storage infrastructure software, a 26 per cent market share was reported. Symantec also continues to lead the security software market with a 16 per cent share in the region."

"Symantec's position as a leader in both the security and storage software markets in Asia Pacific and Japan attests to the performance of our broad portfolio of solutions and our deep commitment to serving the needs of our customers," said Kwok. "Across the region, organisations continue to turn to Symantec to help them secure and manage their information-driven world against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently than with any other company."

Symantec APJ's vice president of sales and engineering, Vic Mankotia, said that in a dynamic environment, constant attention was needed in many areas, especially that of mobile security.