Optimizing Your Company's Backup and Recovery Environment: A Recipe for Success

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Take on going budget pressures and rising service-level requirements, mix it with a heap of data, add a sprinkle of new technologies like virtualization and, chances are, you've got a concoction that's roasting the capabilities of your traditional backup software and recovery processes.

In fact, some of the biggest information management challenges facing today's enterprise IT environments, from the data center to global and remote offices, include:

• Uncontrolled backup storage growth
• Growing complexity of virtual server backup and recovery
• Inconsistent backup and disaster recovery methods across physical and virtual environments

Yet, according to Symantec's 2010 State Of The Data Center report, only 27 percent of the companies surveyed said they utilize a virtual machine backup as one of their data centers' disaster recovery strategies. Additionally, 36 percent of respondents listed granular data recovery as the biggest challenge in providing data protection for virtual servers.

It is clear that the need for a simple, cost effective and comprehensive approach to backup and recovery is critical – one that can help organizations of any size protect, store and recover information from both physical and virtual environments through a single, unified platform to reduce overall complexity, reduce backup times and save operational costs.

Symantec's NetBackup 7 Platform is backup software that simplifies the protection of your information-driven enterprise by unlocking an optimized strategy that:

• Reduces backup storage growth and network utilization by up to 80-90%
• Works smoothly across the virtual/physical boundary
• Introduces policy-based management to data retention
• Minimizes disruption from legal and regulatory Discovery
• Simplifies and speeds recovery of critical information from anywhere

For more information about backup and recovery and how to tackle the major challenges facing companies today, visit http://www.symantec.com/business/products/family.jsp?familyid=netbackup.

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SOURCE Symantec