Hosted services allow businesses to consume more IT services without assuming significant responsibilities of installing, managing and maintaining new hardware, systems or software. Directly consuming cloud-based services requires up front evaluation and ongoing oversight to ensure your information remains safe and available. Businesses are looking to simplify their IT by relying on cloud service providers to deliver more and more of the IT stack. In this model, the provider must ensure your information remains protected. Consume Cloud Services Symantec Cloud-based Protection A cloud-based solution is only as good as its ability to deliver upon its promises. In the business-critical areas of security and data protection, Symantec provides a backbone of strength that makes it safe to consume services from the cloud: Proven: With Symantec, your services are backed by industry-leading service level agreements (SLAs) -- 24x7x365 customer-support. Symantec has a more than an 11-year track record of success delivering services in more than 100 countries. Pre-integrated hosted solutions: Select among SaaS-based solutions designed and pre-tested to work with each other and with your current infrastructure investments. Performance-driven: Start small and grow – Symantec cloud services scale with your enterprise, delivering the performance you need as you need it. Get the services you want, the way you want them from Symantec’s world class clouds.