Symantec has announced updates to its NetBackup 5220 and Backup Exec 3600 appliances, which now include the latest NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 technology. Symantec’s updated backup appliances are aimed to reduce backup platform fragmentation, offering end-to-end integrated backup appliances for servers, storage, and software.
Symantec has announced updates to its NetBackup 5220 and Backup Exec 3600 appliances, which now include the latest NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 technology. Symantec’s updated backup appliances are aimed to reduce backup platform fragmentation, offering end-to-end integrated backup appliances for servers, storage, and software.
Backup Exec and NetBackup provide customers with an all-in-one platform that centralizes backup for physical and virtual environments with a pre-configured, Symantec-supported device. This announcement comes as part of Symantec’s ongoing “Better Backup for All” campaign launched in February. Both appliances aim to replace custom-built backup servers by freeing administrators from manually integrating and supporting multiple solutions for tape, disk, dedupe, physical, virtual snapshots and backup thereby reducing complexity, costs, and risks to backup administration.
NetBackup 5220 Key Features
- NetBackup Accelerator: Shrinks backups into smaller windows.
- Replication Director: Brings together the speed of snapshots and the recoverability of backup.
- V-Ray Technology: Protects up to 3,000 VMware virtual machines with a single appliance while enabling fast file or image recovery with less hardware (direct VMware vSphere backups without proxy servers).
- Auto Image Replication: Enables disaster recovery over the network by combining deduplication with replication.
- Critical System Protection: Combines security and storage to protect appliances and backup data against zero day attacks and insider threats.
- WAN Optimization: Provides reliable backups even in high latency environments.
Backup Exec 3600 Key Features
- Improved User Experience: Changes the way backups are managed by organizing them around systems and information.
- V-Ray: Unites virtual and physical backups to deliver single-pass backups of VMware, Hyper-V and physical hosts so users can recover virtual machines, applications, databases, files, folders and even granular objects.
- Disaster Recovery Built-In: Integrated bare metal recovery includes Backup-to-Virtual (B2V) and Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversion technologies to allow users to recover a failed system to a VMware or Hyper-V guest, at no cost to current Backup Exec customers who upgrade to Backup Exec 2012.
- Tape-Out Support: Backup Exec 3600 now has tape support for longer-term or offsite data protection.
- Cloud Recovery as a Service: With the Cloud disaster recovery option, customers can leverage cloud recovery as a service, powered by Doyenz, for planned and unplanned system recovery of VMware environments.
Availability
Symantec NetBackup 5220 and Backup Exec 3600 are available now in select countries worldwide.
