Increased flexibility for managing storage, servers and clients, as well as managing and securing your information. Learn more about
our solutions for virtualized environments.
Backup Exec 2010
Symantec Backup Exec™ 2010 delivers reliable backup and recovery designed for your growing business. Easily protect more data
while you reduce storage and management costs through integrated deduplication and archiving technology. Reduce business downtime, ensure critical information on
virtual or physical systems is always protected and restored in seconds.
Market leading data protection for physical and virtual server environments from desktop to servers
Integrated and adaptable deduplication (using NetBackup PureDisk technology)
Unified archiving (powered by Enterprise Vault)
First-to-market granular recovery for virtual applications
Patent-pending Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) recovers critical Microsoft application data in seconds
Centralized 3-tier set-up, reporting and patch management
Scalable heterogeneous support through remote Agents and Options.
Continuous data protection for Exchange, file Servers, SQL servers and desktop data
Innovative multi-product integration with market leading technologies
Avoid the Top 10 Backup Mistakes in Virtual Environments
With the extraordinary amounts of data companies are gathering and storing, with data quantities doubling every 72 hours, the backup and storage
of this data is increasingly having an impact that can't be ignored. With increasing data storage levels as high as 30% annually, most companies do not have adequate backup in
place for virtual servers.
Intelligent HA: Application Awareness with VMware HA
Symantec ApplicationHA is an easy-to-use availability solution for virtual environments that provides application visibility and control.
It is based on the industry-leading Veritas Cluster Server technology and provides application availability in coordination with VMware HA. Together Symantec and VMware
work to help customers move business-critical applications into VMware virtual machines.
Symantec Backup Exec™ 2010 delivers market leading backup and recovery protection from server to desktop. Easily protect more data
while you reduce storage costs and improve backup performance through integrated deduplication and archiving technology.
Reduce business downtime with unmatched technology that recovers critical Microsoft applications and VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments in seconds. Meet your recovery point
objectives with continuous data protection to ensure reliable recovery of an entire application and efficiently restore a granular email or individual file/folder.
Today’s businesses are challenged with managing and protecting the ever-increasing amounts of data that is created on a daily and even
hourly basis. In these tough economic times, customers face a serious challenge: making do, and making the most, of their current resource investments - specifically,
their hardware environment. In the face of skyrocketing digital asset growth, it is all the more critical that administrators can easily tune and optimize their current
storage infrastructure to meet the needs of their data growth in the coming year.
The Symantec Backup Exec 2010 platform provides solutions that help customers grow their
data capacity intelligently and cost-effectively.
Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructures Solution Brief
VMware's Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3) and now vSphere 4.0 have become widely adopted in organizations looking to virtualize their IT
environments to save cost. As a result of larger numbers of systems becoming virtualized, companies are looking for ever more efficient backup and quicker recovery of
their virtual systems to maintain business productivity and cost savings that server virtualization delivers.
This includes not only the guest virtual machines, but also
the applications that have also been installed on those guest virtual machines such as Microsoft Exchange®, SQL Server®, and Active Directory®. A lost VMware server could
impact productivity up to several hours, or even days, for multiple departments while the IT administrator struggles to recover the virtual environment and the individual
guest virtual machines.
Backup Exec Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructures FAQ
Backup Exec 2010 Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure enables complete protection of your VMware Guest virtual machines alongside your
physical systems all within Backup Exec. Originally introduced with Backup Exec 12.5, the Agent for VMware is improved in Backup Exec 2010 and introduces a new way to protect
VMware environments based on the new VMware vStorage API for Data Protection. Backup Exec 2010’s Agent for VMware leverages infrastructure components of VMware Virtual
Infrastructure 3 and vSphere 4.x, including vCenter, ESX/ESXi, and vStorage, to automatically discover, protect, and recover virtual machines and their data.
Symantec Critical System Protection provides industry-leading real-time hardening and intrusion monitoring while maintaining high
performance and availability. It protects the ESX hypervisor and guest instances with layered controls like firewall, device control, configuration and system lock
down, admin access control and file system protection. The Resource Utilization Leveling technology in Symantec Endpoint Protection is crafted to ensure simultaneous
scans and updates don’t impact performance of virtual hosts.
The Symantec Protection Center centralizes security management, to manage, update and monitor security
policies and configurations across both physical and virtual environments. Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 is optimized for VMware infrastructure and is certified as
a VMware Ready Virtual Appliance. Symantec Brightmail Gateway Virtual Edition gives customers the choice of quickly and incrementally scaling their messaging security
infrastructure while taking advantage of the resource utilization benefits of virtualization.
Real-time protection backed by the largest investment in security infrastructure - Symantec Brightmail™ Gateway delivers inbound and outbound messaging security, with effective and accurate real-time
antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, data loss prevention, and email encryption. Brightmail Gateway
is simple to administer and catches more than 99% of spam with less than one in a million false positives. With Brightmail
Gateway, organizations can effectively respond to new messaging threats, minimizing network downtime, preserving employee
productivity, and protecting company reputation.
Symantec™ Endpoint Virtualization Suite is a powerful and flexible solution with a focus on user productivity, regardless of
equipment, connectivity or location. Most computing environments today are heterogeneous and complex to manage. Symantec
Endpoint Virtualization Suite consolidates and simplifies endpoint management while enhancing the end user experience.
End users are the key to creating value for any business, and Symantec’s Endpoint Virtualization solutions insure that users in
all roles have the most productive workspaces (desktop, applications and information) available to them at all times.
License Management with Symantec™ Workspace Streaming
Enabling the Dynamic Management of Software Licenses - IT organizations need a new approach that addresses the priority that
has been placed on reducing total cost of ownership (TCO),
while enabling a portable user experience in which workspaces can be dynamically configured, license management can be
automated, and user productivity can be improved.
Using Symantec Workspace Streaming, customers can
instantly provision the right resources to users as they need them, regardless of their device or location; eliminate the need for
daily IT interaction; improve license compliance; and optimize license usage and reharvesting—all while saving significant
management time and IT costs.
Trusted protection for endpoint, messaging, and Web environments - Symantec™ Protection Suite Enterprise Edition creates a protected endpoint, messaging, and Web environment that is secure
against today’s complex malware, data loss and spam threats, and is quickly recoverable in the event of failure. Reduce the
cost of securing your environment using Symantec™ Protection Center, a single sign-on Web console, and more effectively
manage the inherent risks of today’s IT infrastructures with proven Symantec endpoint security, messaging security, and
system recovery technologies.
Securing Virtual Environments Best Practices White Paper - Symantec™ Endpoint Protection 11.0 combines Symantec Antivirus with advanced threat prevention to deliver unmatched
defense against malware for laptops, desktops, servers and guest hosts in a virtual environment. It seamlessly
integrates essential security technologies in a single agent and management console, increasing protection and helping
lower total cost of ownership.
Symantec's Endpoint Virtualization Suite addresses the growing need to contain the high cost and complexity associated with managing endpoints
today, while simultaneously insuring maximum end user productivity. Greater user mobility, adoption of multiple compute models, and proliferation of various virtualization
technologies all contribute to the growing conflict between IT costs and end user flexibility. Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite offers products to improve both sides of
that equation for all users, regardless of device, location or connectivity.
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Symantec™ Corporate: Holyoke Medical Center Success Story
Reclaiming Over 6,000 Hours a Year for Patient Care with Solutions from Symantec and Dell - Managing 45,000 emergency room visits and 7,200 inpatient discharges per year used to generate a lot of paperwork for Holyoke Medical Center.
Using an endpoint virtualization solution from Symantec to streamline access to personal workspaces, the center’s 150 doctors are using a new electronic medical record system.
Less than a year after deployment, 80 percent of the hospital’s records are being entered digitally.
Secure login is achieved by putting a finger on a biometric pad at
any terminal in the hospital. Seconds later, doctors are logged into their own workspace, saved from the last point in time they used it. Powered by Dell PowerEdge servers,
the solution is saving the hospital 10 minutes per doctor per day, adding up to more than 6,250 hours a year reclaimed for patient care.
Symantec™ Endpoint Virtualization Product Review by DABCC
Symantec established the Endpoint Virtualization Group, bringing together technologies from Altiris, AppStream and Nsuite
under one umbrella with the goals of giving users a flexible rich desktop experience, while keeping a handle on costs and enhancing control of the desktop environment. With all
the right components in place, the Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite (EVS) is becoming a compelling option for enhancing virtual and traditional desktop implementations.
Not to be confused with the client side hypervisor initiatives from Citrix (XenClient) or VMware (vClient), this technology is best described as a workspace management solution.
EVS virtualizes the endpoint, providing users a common desktop experience regardless of whether they use a rich (fat) client, thin client, or web browser.
Symantec’s Storage and Availability Management products help organizations optimize their storage while ensuring the availability of their
business critical IT services. With market leading products like Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server, IT organizations can deliver operational efficiency
by standardizing on a single storage management and high availability infrastructure across physical and virtual platforms.
At VMworld, Symantec is launching Symantec
ApplicationHA and Symantec VirtualStore, two solutions that will provide customers the ability to confidently virtualize their business critical applications and minimize
storage costs in VMware environments. ApplicationHA and VirtualStore represent a strong collaboration between Symantec and VMware as the companies work closely to help customers
accelerate virtualization adoption beyond non-critical applications.
Symantec ApplicationHA monitors applications in virtual machines, automates recovery, and helps IT centers
virtualize business-critical applications with confidence.
Symantec VirtualStore is a scalable, clustered NAS solution for VMware virtual machine management. VirtualStore
enables you to fully benefit from your virtualization investments with a solution that allows you to scale servers and storage independently as your business requires,
efficiently provision virtual machines faster, and deliver advanced storage optimization capability in your VMware environments.
Scalable, clustered NAS solution for VMware virtual machine management - Running mission-critical applications on virtual machines in
production environments has become more mainstream as server virtualization has gained momentum. However, as easy as it can be to deploy virtual machines ad hoc, the
challenge most organizations are now facing is around storage utilization and performance in virtual infrastructures.
Virtual machine sprawl introduces its own set of challenges.
Increase in storage consumption will have a dramatic impact on already level IT budgets. Deploying virtual machines is not as efficient when deployed in the thousands. And from
the end-user’s perspective, when a large number of users log into their desktops simultaneously, performance can suffer dramatically.
Symantec ApplicationHA is an easy-to-use availability solution for virtual environments that provides application visibility and control. It is
based on the industry-leading Veritas Cluster Server technology and provides application availability in coordination with VMware HA. Together Symantec and VMware work to help
customers move business-critical applications into VMware virtual machines.
White Paper: Endpoint Virtualization for Healthcare Providers
Many hospitals are discovering that endpoint virtualization can help address these issues. This white paper describes the
many challenges of hospital automation and explains how endpoint virtualization can address them, providing value for
physicians and clinicians, IT professionals, and hospital administrators.
Virtualization can reduce server spending and increase the
flexibility of a company’s infrastructure. It can also increase management complexity and introduce new operational
challenges. So, how can you ensure maximum return on investment (ROI) from your virtualization strategy without
adversely impacting your IT operations?
Top 12 Reasons to Buy Symantec™ Endpoint Virtualization Suite
Streaming technology allows end users to instantly acquire applications as needed on any system, according to authorizations and productivity
needs, with minimal bandwidth requirements. IT staff does not have to be notified or involved.
Keep end-users productive and secure by ensuring that everyone is using the
right versions of the right applications at all times. Whether systems are accessible or not when the version is set, users are guaranteed to have the right versions installed,
at the latest when they run the application.
Symantec NetBackup 7 offers unparalleled data protection for Next Generation Data Centers - Symantec NetBackup 7 delivers reliable data protection designed for the Enterprise data center. With native VMware vStorage API for Data P
rotection integration and built-in VM-optimized deduplication, terabytes of virtual machine data can be backed up and recovered quickly, with maximum storage efficiency.
Complete protection for your information-driven enterprise - The Symantec NetBackup Platform simplifies the protection of your information-driven enterprise by automating advanced technologies and
standardizing operations across applications, platforms, and virtual environments. That means being able to protect completely, store efficiently, recover anywhere, and
manage centrally across heterogeneous operating systems and storage hardware including tape and disk.
Integrated deduplication, replication, and patent-pending virtual
machine protection helps customers improve storage efficiency, infrastructure use, and recovery times. A single console offers multi-site monitoring, analytics, and
reporting, which allows customers to standardize operations and risk management. Used by companies around the world, Symantec NetBackup easily scales to protect the largest
UNIX, Windows®, and Linux® environments.
Virtual Machine Protection with Symantec NetBackup™ 7 - There’s little question that server virtualization is the
single biggest game-changing trend in IT today. Budget-strapped IT departments are racing to embrace the promise of virtualization for many reasons:
Extends current IT server investment—maximizes each server’s compute capacity
Optimizes server utilization—one server can run multiple operating systems (OS) and applications
Allows for flexible platform dynamics—run Windows® today, Linux® tomorrow
Smaller server footprint—very green IT that reduces energy and IT real estate costs
Because of the obvious total cost of ownership benefits of virtualization, and the maturing of the technology, virtual machines
are assuming more business-critical roles in the data center. In a recent Symantec data center survey, more than 75% of all
small, medium, and large enterprise companies listed server virtualization as one of the top technologies they are adopting.
Symantec NetBackup™ 7 award-winning backup technology - Since the 6.5 release, Symantec NetBackup™ software has featured an
award-winning backup technology designed specifically for VMware® virtual machine protection. In addition to providing integrated support for virtual machine
backups, NetBackup engineering also created a unique single file restore solution. NetBackup Granular File Restore
provides the unique ability to index, search for and restore anything including a single file (Windows®) or an entire virtual
machine from a single backup pass. And this is accomplished with no modifications to the existing backup environment.
With the release of VMware vSphere™ 4, VMware has created significant improvements in the area of virtual machine data
protection through the vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP). The NetBackup 7 release natively supports all of the new
features provided by this API and provides additional patent-pending enhancements that no other backup vendor provides.
NetBackup™ 7 Feature Overview of VMware vSphere Integration - When Symantec NetBackup first released its patent pending NetBackup VMware virtual machine protection technology, it garnered a number
of awards including the first "Best of VMworld" award handed out during VMware's popular VMworld user conference. NetBackup won because of the simple and straightforward
integration that NetBackup provided for protecting VMware. This technology is called NetBackup Granular File Restore. NetBackup Granular File Restore provides the unique
ability to index, search for and restore anything including a single file (Windows) or an entire virtual machine from one backup pass.
With the 7.release, NetBackup provides
even better virtual machine protection. Utilizing VMware‟s new vStorage API for Data Protection, NetBackup 7 can perform a clientless backup that truly provides all the
capabilities that normally require client software installed inside the system to be backed up (Windows). Efficient block level incrementals are now possible and there is no
longer any requirement for a Backup Proxy or additional holding tank storage.
Watch this video to learn how Symantec NetBackup delivers simple and comprehensive data protection for virtual environments by building on
the successful foundation of its award-winning VMware support. Virtual machine protection is simplified by providing deep integration and centralizing protection across
both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vStorage API.
NetBackup™ Virtual Machine Protection Product Tour
NetBackup transforms virtual machine data protection - NetBackup delivers simple and comprehensive data protection for virtual environments by building on the successful
foundation of its award-winning VMware support. Virtual machine protection is simplified by centralizing backup across both
Microsoft® Hyper-V and VMware vSphere, speeding up backup times through deep API integration (for example, VMware
vStorage API). NetBackup also provides built-in deduplication and incremental and replication technologies, as well as by
delivering highly efficient granular recovery technology.
