Symantec unveils new backup software for mid-size businesses

CEBU, Philippines - Symantec Corporation recently unveiled the Backup Exec 2010 to help mid-sized businesses effectively manage their businesses under a very pressured and competitive environment.

“Organizations of all sizes are struggling to effectively manage information growth, particularly as they leverage virtualization technologies, creating new backup and recovery complexities,” said Andre Xavier, regional product manager, Symantec Information Management Group, Asia Pacific and Japan.

De-duplication and archiving have primarily been enterprise-class technologies, but Backup Exec 2010 brings them to the masses to solve difficult IT challenges in an extremely simple and easy to use solution, Xavier emphasized.

According to industry analyst firm IDC, storage capacity is growing within 48 percent to 50 percent each year, placing more data at risk and making the disaster recovery process much slower.

In fact, approximately 70 percent of data is described as “duplicate,” and has not been accessed in more than 90 days.

Organizations that implement an integrated de-duplication and archiving solution can realize up to 20 percent up to 40 percent savings in storage costs and easily find and recover their critical information when they need it, Xavier said.

Delivering on Symantec’s de-duplication strategy, Backup Exec 2010 offers a flexible approach to eliminating duplicate data without adding complexity.

Also, the technology offers integrated de-duplication technology at the client/source and media server, in addition to integrating with third-party de-duplication appliances through the Symantec Open-Storage Technology (OST) program.

De-duplication allows organizations to dramatically reduce backup storage costs by consolidating and re-using existing storage resources, and client-side de-duplication minimizes backup windows and reduces network utilization by up to 90 percent.  

Backup Exec 2010 integrates two new archive options to provide unified backup and archiving for Windows file systems and Exchange environments by archiving data from the backup copy, rather than separately pulling data from the source. Powered by Symantec Enterprise Vault archiving technology, administrators can easily and more efficiently manage their data lifecycles by setting automated retention periods to migrate older, less critical data over time to less expensive storage environments.

The archive options help optimize Exchange and File Server performance by eliminating redundant data at the server to further free up storage space, keep storage at predictable levels and reduce backup windows.  

Backup Exec 2010 is the first backup and recovery software solution to deliver granular recovery for virtual Microsoft applications from a single pass backup. This unique technology enables organizations to reduce business downtime by recovering granular data from virtual environments in just seconds. Administrators can easily restore or redirect an entire application or recover individual emails, mailboxes or file/folders quickly from inside a guest machine – from a single system backup.

Symantec delivers a range of support plans to help Backup Exec customers and partners install and upgrade quickly, and can train employees to leverage advanced functionality and maximize uptime.  

Symantec helps organizations secure and manage their information-driven world with storage management, email archiving and back-up recovery solutions.— Ehda M. Dagooc