Photos: Behind the scenes at Symantec

Gerry Egan is a product manager in the Advanced Concepts group at Symantec Research Labs. The group works on products, such as database audits and security appliances, that are technically near completion but for which Symantec still has to scope out the market opportunity.

Symantec Research Labs falls under the office of the Chief Technology Officer Mark Bregman (left). Stephen Trilling (right) is vice president of research and advanced development, and oversees all research activities at Symantec.

Guenter Roeck, advisory engineer in Symantec Research Labs, works on a project called Software Fault Tolerance. The software promises a nearly seamless failover without any data loss in case of an application failure.

Senior Principal Software Engineer Navin Kabra works on StarFS, new software that creates a single virtual data store, making many servers appear like a single drive on a PC. It is designed to solve the nightmare of dealing with multiple file servers in different locations.