Today’s organisations depend on applications used by everyone from employees and customers to suppliers and partners. Numerous applications support key business processes such as e-commerce and business intelligence but they also create a mountain of information that must be successfully harnessed, securely stored and continually accessible.
Even the smaller business can create large amounts of unstructured, unmanaged information and in today’s business environment we are increasingly vulnerable and susceptible to security threats, disasters, outages as well as peaks and troughs in business usage.
So, how can organisations manage the IT environment whilst at the same time ensure continuity of operations? Every business wants a competitive advantage, especially facing the current and particularly challenging global economic climate. Small Businesses require solutions that are straightforward to set up, manage and run.
Overview
Backup Exec 15 delivers powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use backup and recovery that is designed for your entire infrastructure regardless of platform: virtual, physical or cloud. With Backup Exec, you get fast, reliable backup and recovery of data and systems at every level and advanced integration with the most recent releases of VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. In a matter of minutes, you can recover anything including VMs, applications, databases, files, folders and singular application objects. Protect one to thousands of virtual machines and servers all from the same user console for optimal performance and efficiency. Backup Exec saves time, money and helps ensure your critical information is always protected and easily recoverable.
Fast and reliable backup and recovery
Backup Exec enables you to meet your recovery time and recovery point objectives by significantly reducing the time it takes to backup and recover your data. With Backup Exec you can mitigate the risk and cost of downtime by using a wide variety of flexible backup and recovery methods. Whether you are using disk, tape or cloud your data is protected and easily recoverable.
Advanced integration with VMware and Hyper-V
Backup Exec offers complete protection for your virtual environment and Software-Defined Data Center including new Software-Defined Storage features like VMware Virtual SAN (5.5 and 6.0) and Virtual Volumes. Recover what you need, when and where you need it. In addition, you can easily create stand-by virtual copies of your physical systems for disaster recovery in minutes or for general P2V migrations. Backup Exec also addresses VM sprawl by automatically identifying and protecting new VMs as they appear so you can be assured your VMs are protected from day one.
Save more, store less
Backup Exec’s flexible global data deduplication helps you solve for growing data challenges, regardless of how much your data changes. It minimises backup windows, decreases network traffic, and reduces the disk space required for storing backup data. Backup Exec deduplicates across all your virtual and physical backup jobs, eliminating the need for purchasing multiple solutions and managing separate storage silos.
It’s time to upgrade your backup solution
Complex infrastructures and the changing needs of IT require flexible and dynamic solutions that are not just built to last, but also built to change.
Isn’t it time for a backup and recovery solution that adapts to your environment, and that works with your budget? Then it’s time to take a look at Backup Exec 15—backup and recovery that is built for change and provides the flexibility to protect your entire environment while also delivering agile recovery.
- Single solution for virtual and physical systems
- Hybrid architectures to disk, tape, and cloud
- Powerful, flexible, and easy to use
Back up anything, restore anywhere. Minimize downtime and data loss
Now it’s easier than ever to back up and restore your data, whenever and wherever you need it. With Backup Exec, you can back up your entire environment, including:
- Virtual environments running on VMware, Hyper-V, or Citrix
- Microsoft and Linux-based physical machines
- Critical applications and databases such as Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Active Directory, Enterprise Vault, Oracle, and Lotus Domino
And store backups of your hybrid architecture to virtually any storage device, including:
- Disk
- Tape
- Dedupe storage
- Third-party appliance
- Hosted storage
- Public cloud, such as the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Gateway VTL
When it’s time to recover you can easily restore any of the following either to the original or to an alternate location:
- Entire server or virtual machine
- Entire applications and databases
- Granular files and folders
- Granular application objects
Backup and recovery that outperforms expectations
With Backup Exec you can meet critical backup windows, exceed recovery expectations, optimize your existing storage, and eliminate outdated and siloed backup and recovery complexity. Backup Exec intelligently indexes and catalogs backup data so you don’t waste valuable time and disk space mounting backup jobs, determining what’s inside, and searching for specific data.
Benefits of Backup Exec 15 include:
- Significantly faster Exchange deduplication and virtual machine backups.
- Up to 62 percent shorter backup times with LTO tape drives
- Optimized virtual machine protection through intelligent backup for VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines.
Licensing options for every need
Backup Exec gives you the ability to choose the right licensing model for your environment at a price point you can afford. Flexible licensing options include per TB with our capacity offerings that are scalable to accommodate data growth.
- Capacity Edition—Deploy an unlimited number of Backup Exec Media Servers, Agents and Options (Licensed per TB)
- Capacity Edition Lite—A more affordable solution for smaller customers that includes protection for Windows and Linux operating systems, VMware and Hyper-V virtual environments, Microsoft applications, Oracle, Lotus Domino, and Enterprise Vault (Licensed per TB)
- V-Ray Edition—Protects an unlimited number of guest machines per host including all of the applications and databases (Licensed per occupied processor socket on the virtual host)
- Traditional—Licensing per Backup Exec server with Agents and Options available based on need
