Symantec LiveState Recovery products to support Microsoft Data Protection Server to provide fast, reliable and complete system and bare metal recovery to help ensure information availability for customers
Symantec, the global leader in information security, today announced plans to support Microsoft Data Protection Server (DPS) with Symantec LiveState Recovery products. This initiative will maximise system and data availability and minimise downtime for customers.
The Symantec LiveState Recovery family of products provides bare metal recovery of Microsoft Data Protection Server and the servers it backs up. The combination of the Symantec LiveState Recovery family of products and Microsoft DPS is intended to provide enterprises and small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) with continuous disk-based backup and recovery, for the protection of business systems and data.
Microsoft Data Protection Server is in the private beta stage of development and is scheduled to be released in the second half of 2005. Microsoft DPS is designed to provide businesses of all sizes with rapid and reliable recovery, as well as continuous and efficient protection of business data. Similarly, Symantec LiveState Recovery products provide fast, reliable and cost-effective system recovery.
"The combination of Symantec's LiveState Recovery solutions with DPS will protect critical data and ensure rapid recovery of complete systems with minimal organisational impact," said Jim Herbert, general manager, Windows Server Division at Microsoft. "Together, these solutions will significantly reduce recovery times and eliminate the backup window."
Along with planned support for DPS, Symantec LiveState Recovery products capture a point-in-time operating state, or LiveState, of a server or desktop. This includes the operating system, applications, data and settings in one easy-to-manage file. These point-in-time snapshots are created without interrupting user productivity or application usage. Due to this functionality, users can perform a full system restoration, bare metal recovery or retrieve individual files or folders in minutes - reducing the time taken to rebuild servers and workstations and restore data.
"By offering support for Microsoft DPS through Symantec's LiveState Recovery, we have responded to customers' demands for broad data and system protection. Symantec LiveState Recovery, together with DPS, is designed to change the way in which businesses approach systems and data recovery. This is achieved by enabling increased levels of reliability and availability to organisations that are looking for a proactive solution to backup and recovery needs," said Patrick Evans, regional manager, Symantec Africa.
Symantec LiveState Recovery Advanced and Standard Servers provide complete server system and data restoration within a very short time-frame. Symantec LiveState Recovery Desktop is also planned to complement Microsoft DPS by providing small businesses and enterprise customers with fast and reliable system restoration and data backup capabilities for their workstations and laptops. For additional Symantec product information, please visit http://sea.symantec.com.
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Symantec is the global leader in information security providing a broad range of software, appliances and services designed to help individuals, small and mid-sized businesses, and large enterprises secure and manage their IT infrastructure. Symantec's Norton brand of products is the worldwide leader in consumer security and problem-solving solutions. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Symantec has operations in more than 35 countries. More information is available at http://www.symantec.com.
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