Symantec beefs up backup solutions

Symantec on Monday rolled out new versions of its Backup Exec and NetBackup software, InformationWeek writes.

The company also introduced a new product, Backup Exec Small Business Edition, for businesses with five to 99 employees, and a service called BackupExec.cloud, which provides off-site backup and disaster recovery for SMEs.

In addition, the company unveiled a new version of its virtualisation backup product, called Backup Exec 2012 V-Ray Edition, which is designed to back up only virtual workloads.

Sean Regan, a senior director, product marketing, at Symantec, says about 1 600 engineers worked on both products over the past two years, Computerworld notes.

The new features include the integration of incremental backups and deduplication to reduce I/O bandwidth and vastly reduce the time needed for backups, as well as to offer e-discovery without having to first replicate data into a separate repository.

"We're taking what was formerly a four- or five-hour backup down to a one-minute or two-minute backup,” Regan says. “This is not something you can compare to on the market today.”

With these developments, Symantec says its two backup products can do more, are easier to use, and that one, NetBackup, is spectacularly faster, The Register reports.

Both virtual and physical servers can be backed up, the cloud can be a target, and appliances make backup systems easier to acquire, operate and use.