Veritas Upgrades Backup Exec for Critical Data Protection

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA: A global survey commissioned by Veritas highlights the rising problem faced due to the outburst of virtual servers and systems, which is aggravating storage demand in the same data centre space. To address this complexity, Veritas Technologies, updates its unified backup and recovery solution for mid-market organizations with the launch of Backup Exec 16.

Backup Exec 16 helps businesses address critical data protection challenges, covering all critical data across virtual, physical, and cloud. Its simplified licensing enables powerful capabilities with a single entitlement. The single pane of glass helps mid-market businesses save valuable resources and assets, critical to company growth. Also the streamlined user interface improves workflow and efficiency.

Instant Granular Recovery Technology (Instant GRT), Veritas’ patented feature, allowsorganizations to meet applications and data recovery goals helping customers to immediately activate VMware virtual machines after recovery.

Organizations can leverage the latest and scalable Microsoft infrastructure with Microsoft Azure, Windows Server 2016, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016, which can read or write directly to hot and cool storage tiers, reducing time, cost and resource across the entire infrastructure. It offers a fast backup and Instant Recovery for VMware and Hyper-V. The standard APIs offers flexible options for protecting virtual machines so that organizations can rely on accurate and efficient data recovery to meet business objectives.

“Most organizations operate on a hybrid-cloud model, meaning they need access to data across both heterogeneous clouds and on-premises architectures,” says Andy Spencer, Backup Exec Global Product Marketing, Veritas. “Veritas provides infrastructure-agnostic protection of all data—reducing the complexity and risk of using multiple solutions and providing greater visibility and control of information. Backup Exec 16 helps businesses address these critical retention challenges in a simple and straightforward manner, protecting the organization’s entire critical data set across virtual, physical, and cloud.”