Software and security solutions maker Symantec Vision unveiled the latest version of its Storage and Availability Management software for virtualized deployments.  V6 introduces a lot of new things, including a pay as you go model to try and haul in more customers.

Symantec promises SAMG 6 can handle multi-tiered applications a lot better, and that it ensures the security and availability of virtual business services so that companies can meet cloud service level agreements.

“Administrators can expect to orchestrate the start, stop, non-disruptive testing, and failover of entire multi-tier applications with a single click,”  reports The Register.

“In other words Symantec is staking a claim to be the data centre’s operations management resource and not ceding that role to upstart VMware.”

Most of the SAMG tools, with the expectation of Veritas Operations Manager, were updated with this release. That includes the Veritas Storage Foundation that offers physical storage optimization for multi-vendor environments, and will include dedupe and compression on the file system layer.  Storage Foundation also offers multi-vendor support encompassing the major OSs and array.

Symantec has also been expanding its offerings portfolio on the consumer end.  It announced last month that it will start shipping Norton One in the first half of 2012, which only requires one license key to activate it across all of the given customer’s connected devices.  This is a way for the security giant to keep up with today’s trends, which include the ever-growing number of connected devices per household.