Symantec has purchased MessageLabs for about $700 Million. This move brings filtered services for spam and web traffic to the Symantec Protection Network, a pseudo-Software as a Service arm of Symantec. You will now be able to filter for spam through Symantec products before it enters your environment and then again once messages are in the environment if you want to go that route, for maximum customizable protection. You can also backup online through the Protection Network and establish remote access services. I guess that theoretically you could just let Symantec do all the work, provided you trust they’ll do a good job with it…