Deploys company’s renowned backup and recovery products which are time-tested in protecting enterprise workloads whether on-premises or in hybrid clouds
Veritas Technologies has joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance. Popular Veritas backup and recovery solutions NetBackup and Backup Exec provide outstanding protection for a wide range of Microsoft platforms and applications, including Windows, Hyper-V, SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint.
According to the press release, Veritas NetBackup is engineered to protect the largest and most demanding data center environments. With the latest release, NetBackup v7.7 offers up to 30 times faster backups to cloud storage than before while providing enhanced Hyper-V and SQL functionality. NetBackup delivers breakthrough performance reducing backups for virtualized systems by up to 35 times and recovering terabytes of data in a matter of minutes. The NetBackup Converged Platform is scalable and incorporates cutting-edge technologies for data reduction and bandwidth efficiency, while providing extensive indexing and search capabilities.
Veritas Backup Exec 15 provides optimized and intelligent data protection for virtual, physical and cloud deployments. It intelligently indexes and catalogs backup data which saves organizations valuable time and disk space by eliminating the need to mount the backup disk, determine what is inside and search for specific data. Customers can easily find and recover data—at any level. It also provides significantly rapid Exchange duplication and virtual machine backups helping to reduce the backup windows, said the release.
Simon Jelley, Veritas VP of Product Management said, “Through every technology wave, Veritas has been there delivering enterprise-class data protection to the world’s leading organizations, including 86% of the global Fortune 500. Hybrid cloud is the next technology wave for business and Veritas is there again for our customers delivering powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use backup and recovery for the entire IT infrastructure regardless of platform: virtual, physical and cloud. Joining the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance continues that leadership role and is further evidence of our ongoing strategy to support major cloud service providers. With both large global enterprise and SMB footprint of our customers, the Alliance helps accelerate our efforts to provide information management solutions.”
Chris Lwanga, Principal Pm Manager, Microsoft Corp added, “We are pleased to welcome Veritas to the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance. As a leader in the backup and information management, their expertise and forward-thinking solutions are a welcome addition to what we can offer to other members of the Alliance. We look forward to working with and sharing our ideas with them for the betterment of enterprise customers.”
Both the Veritas NetBackup and Backup Exec 15 are available now through channel partners.
