Veritas Helps Users Stave Off Data Capacity Gap with Expanded Cloud and Virtualization Support in Backup Exec 16
7 November 2016 - Veritas Technologies, a leader in information management, today announced Backup Exec 16, a significant update to its unified backup and recovery solution for mid-market organizations. Data in this market segment is expected to rise by 33 percent in the next three years, according to a recent survey. With budgets remaining flat and business expectations increasing for rapid deployment and return on IT services, backup and recovery, mid-market companies are seeking more powerful, flexible, and trusted data protection solutions.
Efficient use of available resources will be crucial to avoid business disruption. Backup Exec 16 helps businesses address critical data protection challenges, covering all critical data across virtual, physical, and cloud systems - regardless of where it resides. Organizations can also leverage the most current and scalable Microsoft infrastructure with Microsoft Azure, Windows Server 2016, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016.
With the new release, administrators will benefit from expanded cloud support, as well as simplified licensing and purchasing models, for easier consumption. Features of Backup Exec 16 now include:
- Expanded Cloud Support: Backup Exec 16 streamlines the migration to cloud by offering a single, unified platform that protects critical data across virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructure. Server and service configurations lend Backup Exec the flexibility to protect data in, from, and to the cloud.
- Microsoft Cloud infrastructure support: Organizations can leverage the most current and scalable Microsoft infrastructure with Azure, Windows Server 2016, and Hyper-V Server 2016. Azure components can be protected to provide low-impact, one-pass backup and granular file, folder, and object recovery. Backup Exec flexible options support an organization's chosen data protection policy, without dictating terms. Robust end-to-end encryption protocols help ensure data security and increase the business' willingness to commit sensitive data to cost-effective public cloud services.
- Rapid performance: Backup Exec allows users to protect their VMware virtual machines rapidly, with low impact to production performance, while ensuring that individual files can be restored quickly. This patented feature, called "Instant Granular Recovery Technology" (Instant GRT) allows organizations to meet applications and data recovery goals. Customers can immediately activate VMware virtual machines after recovery, significantly reducing the amount of time and effort needed to activate copies of protected servers for test, dev, troubleshooting, and data recovery purposes. This feature can figure prominently in an organization's ability to recover quickly from a ransomware attack.
- Simplified licensing and purchasing model allows easier consumption: Built for price-sensitive mid-sized companies that do not have complicated infrastructure or dedicated backup administrators, Backup Exec offers the advantage of Veritas' physical and virtual experience with the ability to protect data through virtual and cloud environments, so that organizations can effectively protect their entire data set.
"Most organizations operate on a hybrid-cloud model, meaning they need access to data across both heterogeneous clouds and on-premises architectures," said Andy Spencer, Backup Exec global product marketing at Veritas. "Veritas provides infrastructure-agnostic protection of all data-reducing the complexity and risk of using multiple solutions and providing greater visibility and control of information. Backup Exec 16 helps businesses address these critical retention challenges in a simple and straightforward manner, protecting the organization's entire critical data set across virtual, physical, and cloud."
Explosion in virtual servers and systems is exacerbating storage demand in the same data center space. A global survey commissioned by Veritas revealed that, over the next three years, mid-market customers will store 39 percent of their data on virtual infrastructure, compared with physical (33 percent) and cloud (27 percent) infrastructure. To address the complexity of having data across multiple systems, many organizations implement system-specific backup tools. As a result, mid-market companies have an average of four data protection tools in their environments-each with their own licensing, maintenance, training, operational, and infrastructure costs. Backup Exec 16 offers a single pane of glass to help mid-market businesses save valuable resources and assets, critical to company growth.
"We are delighted to continue our long-standing relationship with Veritas by helping them to bring powerful and flexible cloud solutions to the mid-market," said Tad Brockway, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Storage for Microsoft Corp. "As a leader in the backup and information management space, Veritas with Azure gives customers a trusted and efficient solution to manage backup across hybrid environments."
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About Veritas Technologies
Veritas Technologies enables organizations to harness the power of their information, with information management solutions serving the world's largest and most complex environments. Veritas works with organizations of all sizes, including 86 percent of global Fortune 500 companies, improving data availability and revealing insights to drive competitive advantage. www.veritas.com
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