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Symantec Simplifies Backup and Recovery to Help Small Businesses Protect Against Downtime
(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/03/09 --
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today
announced the availability of Backup Exec System Recovery 2010, a complete data and system
backup and recovery solution for small businesses. Backup Exec System
Recovery 2010 automates the backup process of an entire system or
individual files and folders without disrupting user productivity, and
enables quick restores to the same or dissimilar hardware, virtual machines
or remote locations. Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 introduces new
support of the latest Microsoft operating systems, including Windows 7,
Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, easing the
transition to the new platforms and ensuring continued protection during
migration. With the new release, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery will
also support Linux operating systems later this year.
"Today's small businesses need the peace of mind that only comes with a
cost-effective, reliable backup and recovery solution that will protect
their information and systems to minimize downtime and avoid disaster,"
said Pat Hanavan, vice president, Symantec Information Management Group.
"Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 provides small businesses with affordable
protection so they can easily recover what they need, when they need it and
to whatever physical or virtual environment they want."
For small businesses, backup and recovery is both a challenge and a
concern. According to a recent survey(1) of 1,650 small and mid-sized
businesses (SMBs) and their customers, there is a large discrepancy between
how SMBs perceive their disaster readiness and their actual level of
preparedness. According to the survey, SMBs noted they were confident in
their level of disaster preparedness (84 percent), but their practices
reveal that this confidence is unwarranted.
The average SMB has experienced three outages within the past 12 months,
with the leading causes being virus or
hacker attacks, power outages or natural disasters. This is alarming as
almost half report they do not yet have a plan to deal with such
disruptions. While most companies deploy some form of backup, only one in
five (23 percent) back up on a daily basis and 40 percent back up monthly
or less. The survey also demonstrates small businesses that lose data due
to disaster also lose sales and customers.
Backup Exec System Recovery provides small businesses with a single,
easy-to-use solution for backup and recovery. Backup Exec System Recovery
2010 now includes Symantec's patent-pending Granular Recovery Option,
previously optional. This capability allows small businesses to back up an
entire file server, desktop, laptop, virtual server or critical application
server, such as Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft SharePoint, and then
restore granular items such as individual Exchange emails, SharePoint
documents or individual files in minutes. Backups can be saved to a
variety of disk storage devices and can be copied to an off-site location
or secondary disk device for disaster recovery purposes.
In addition, Backup Exec System Recovery adds new support for the latest
virtual environments, including VMware vSphere 4.0, Microsoft Hyper-V
Server 2008, and Citrix XenServer 5.x. This new support ensures that the
more technical small businesses that integrate virtualization into their IT
environments can convert physical systems to virtual machines through
Backup Exec System Recovery for disaster recovery or testing purposes.
Organizations can easily manage their backup environment at local and
remote locations from a single, centralized console with Backup Exec System
Recovery Management Solution, available with Backup Exec System Recovery
2010 at no additional charge. Channel partners can benefit from this
feature as it provides them with complete remote control over their
customers' backup environments through a VPN connection, allowing them to
create, edit and distribute backup jobs, policies, installation packages,
upgrade packages and client settings and enables remote recovery of volumes
and/or complete systems. In addition, the Backup Exec System Recovery
product line includes editions that backup and recover Microsoft Windows
Servers, Microsoft Windows Small Business Servers as well as desktops and
laptops.
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Exec System Recovery 2010 provides backup and recovery for small businesses
across Windows and Linux
Supporting Quotes
"Small businesses today have to do more with less and are looking for
simple, affordable solutions like Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 to
handle their IT backup and recovery needs," said Gene Bumgardner, Director
of Technical Services, OFM Computer Systems, Inc. "Symantec's innovative
approach to backup and recovery gives us the opportunity to help our small
business customers protect and manage their information and systems while
allowing us to grow our business and improve services revenue."
"As a small business and an IT consulting company, we rely on Symantec
Backup Exec System Recovery to protect and manage our information and
systems, as well as our clients' systems," said Andrew Chic, systems
administrator, Prophet Business Group Ltd. "We are confident that in the
event of a disaster or outage, Symantec will recover our information or
complete systems within minutes so there is no disruption to our business."
Availability and Pricing
Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 is available now for a suggested
price of $795 USD per server and $69 USD per desktop. Symantec Backup Exec
System Recovery Linux Edition is scheduled to be available later this year
for a suggested price of $495 USD per server.
About Business Solutions from Symantec
Symantec helps organizations secure and manage their information-driven
world with storage management, email archiving, backup and recovery solutions.
About Symantec
Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems
management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage
their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against
more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling
confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is
available at www.symantec.com.
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Forward-looking Statements: Any forward-looking indication of plans for
products is preliminary and all future release dates are tentative and are
subject to change. Any future release of the product or planned
modifications to product capability, functionality or feature are subject
to ongoing evaluation by Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and
should not be considered firm commitments by Symantec and should not be
relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
(1) Applied Research, Small and Mid-Sized Disaster Preparedness Survey,
Sept. 2009
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CONTACT:
Katie Beck
Symantec Corp.
+1 (424) 750 7586
katie_beck@symantec.com
Ben Jolley
Connect Public Relations
+1 (801) 373 7888
benj@connectpr.com
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