Symantec Privileged Access Management

The global DRAM/RAM shortage has resulted in significant cost increases, +200% since August 2025.  These higher prices are expected for the foreseeable future creating mounting pressure for organizations to reduce their overall memory consumption.  

CIOs and CISOs are challenged to extract as much value as possible out of existing infrastructure while keeping the environment secure in the face of rising threats and regulatory pressure.  

Many companies are now scrutinizing every available gigabyte deployed.  Modern IT practices have fueled spikes in infrastructure demand and simultaneously boosted the need to continuously manage privileged accounts and access sessions on that infrastructure.

Many privileged access solutions rely on sets of dedicated servers just to perform a single key function.  Whether it’s a vault or session recording process or a policy server, customers must bear both capital and operational costs to ensure their high availability.   These recurring costs add up which include being kept up to date on the latest vulnerabilities as well as paying licensing costs for the underlying infrastructure where they run.

Broadcom’s Privileged Access Management is different.

Broadcom’s Privileged Access Management delivers enterprise-scale privileged security with one of the lowest RAM footprints in the market, helping keep the privileged accounts secure while keeping memory budgets under control even as the infrastructure prices spike.

Efficient by design, built for global, enterprise scale

Efficient design

• Typical production instance requires just 32GB of RAM

• Fewer moving parts - it’s all-in-one appliance eliminates the need for specialized VMs performing individual functions resulting in a smaller deployment footprint 

• Just In Time policy and provisioning

• Upgrade your global cluster within minutes with little to no downtime

Hardened Security

• Tamper-resistant, hardened virtual appliance

• Broadcom supplies every layer from the Operating System upward 

• Upgrades include Vulnerability updates

Scale

• Single appliance supports up to 3,000 concurrent recorded access sessions

• Rotate thousands of credentials within minutes; either on a schedule, on demand, or upon use

• Horizontally and/or vertically scale your cluster to best control costs or suit operational needs

Global deployment

• Deploy PAM across regions to ensure redundancy, failover and high availability

Stretch RAM even further with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9

• VCF 9’s Memory Tiering lets customers continuously reclaim unused RAM across all workloads; improving density and maximizing VM utilization across expensive DRAM and cheaper NVMe at the hypervisor

Lighten your Capital and Operating overhead with an efficient PAM solution and give your CIOs and CISOs greater budget and strategic flexibility.  

Ask your Broadcom or partner team to walk through a quick RAM/TCO sizing comparison for your current or planned PAM environment.