Symantec enables mid-size biz manage data back-up

BANGALORE, INDIA: Symantec Corp. today announced Backup Exec 2010 to help mid-sized businesses save time and money by protecting more data and utilizing less storage. 

Backup Exec 2010 offers fully integrated data deduplication and archiving technologies and is the first backup and recovery solution to offer granular recovery of Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Active Directory in VMware and Hyper-V environments from a single pass backup. 

The solution also adds new support for Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V R2, Exchange 2010, Windows 7 and VMware vSphere 4.0.

“Organizations of all sizes are struggling to effectively manage information growth, particularly as they leverage virtualization technologies, creating new backup and recovery complexities,” said Vijay Mhaskar, vice president, Information Management Group, Symantec.

He added, “Deduplication 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.”

According to industry analyst firm IDC, storage capacity is growing between 48 - 50 per cent each year, placing more data at risk and making the disaster recovery process much slower.  Approximately 70 per cent of data is duplicate and has not been accessed in more than 90 days. 

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

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. 

Backup Exec 2010 is available with a suggested price of $1,174 USD for a media server license and Basic Maintenance.  The two new Backup Exec 2010 Suites that include deduplication and archiving options have a suggested price of $2,708 - $3,888 USD with Basic Maintenance.