Dell speeds, simplifies, helps reduce cost of enterprise-class data recovery for SMEs

Dell today expanded its portfolio of enterprise-class storage products with industry-standard capabilities for small and medium-sized companies in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) to speed, simplify and help reduce the cost of data backup and recovery processes.

According to Carolyn DiCenzo, Gartner Research Vice-President: "Data recovery is the largest storage expenditure and the number one pain point for businesses, particularly smaller enterprises with constrained IT resources. Organisations of all sizes are struggling to reliably and affordably protect mission-critical data in the face of explosive data growth, under-used capacity, increasing backup times and regulatory requirements."

To address these issues, Dell is delivering the reliable, cost-effective data recovery capabilities of Symantec Backup Exec 10d and the Symantec Backup Exec Continuous Protection Suite. These storage software products provide quick, reliable disk-based backup and enable self-service user data recovery. The software suite also includes VERITAS Storage Exec QuickStart, now from Symantec - an automated storage management tool that helps organisations maximise storage resources. Offered as an industry-standard backup application, customers can easily add a Dell disk array as an affordable, continuous disk backup solution. For additional reliability, customers can create a tiered storage architecture using this software with Dell PowerVault tape libraries behind the disk backup.

To help protect its customers` technology investments, Dell is also offering a range of design and deployment services. These services provide detailed backup and recovery capabilities to assist in protecting sensitive data and avoiding data loss. They also deliver quality and value by helping to minimise downtime while maximising scalability and performance.

"To support long-range disaster recovery initiatives, many customers want the added reliability that a tiered storage architecture built on disk and tape provides," said Ben McDonald, Enterprise Product Manager, Dell South Africa. "To that end, Dell collaborates with industry leaders like Symantec to bring customers holistic storage solutions with services that meet the challenges typically associated with backup and recovery."

"We have been Dell`s strategic partners for more than four years on a worldwide scale to provide Backup Exec to our customers that require the highest levels of data backup and recovery capabilities," said Jacques Sebag, Senior-Vice President, EMEA Alliances & Strategic Partner, Symantec Corp. "With the release of Backup Exec 10d, we will continue to team up with Dell to offer new disk-based functionality and benefits, such as continuous data protection, to our customers."

The new Symantec Backup Exec Continuous Protection Suite with Symantec Backup Exec 10d and Storage Exec is available today from Dell for R1 620, including VAT and delivery. For more information, please visit www.dell.com/storage.