Data Sheet

Symantec Backup Exec™ 2010
Reliable Backup and Recovery Designed for Your Growing Business
Data Sheet: Data Protection
Confidence in a connected world.
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Overview
Symantec Backup Exec™ 2010 delivers market leading
backup and recovery protection from server to desktop.
Easily protect more data while you reduce storage costs
and improve backup performance through integrated
deduplication and archiving technology. Reduce business
downtime with unmatched technology that recovers
critical Microsoft applications and VMware or Microsoft
Hyper-V virtual environments in seconds. Meet your
recovery point objectives with continuous data protection
to ensure reliable recovery of an entire application and
efficiently restore a granular email or individual file/folder.
Symantec Backup Exec also delivers centralized
management to easily extend your backup infrastructure
across a distributed environment and remote offices so
your server and desktop data protection is easily managed
from a central office as your business grows. Efficiently
manage both Windows and non-Windows systems through
a single console including UNIX, Linux, MAC, and NetWare,
including remote media server support for Linux servers.
Overall, Backup Exec 2010 is designed to readily optimize
any Windows data protection strategy – helping you
protect more data while utilizing less storage - overall
saving you time and money.
Key Benefits
Delivers market-leading Windows data protection with
more than 1.5 million customers globally
• Reduce storage costs while optimizing network
utilization through integrated deduplication and
archiving technology.
• First-to-market granular recovery for Exchange, SQL and
Active Directory environments running in a VMware and
Microsoft Hyper-V environment.
• Microsoft certified backup and recovery for the latest
Windows environment, including Windows 2008 R2,
Exchange 2010, and Windows 7.
• Comprehensive disk and tape storage for the latest
physical and virtual server systems though one console
including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual
systems.
• Reduce storage requirements and recovery times with
patent-pending granular data recovery of leading
Microsoft applications, including Exchange, SharePoint
and Active Directory.
• Protect non-Windows servers and maximize performance
of supported NDMP filers and SAN environments
through scalable remote agents and options.
• Easily update and manage a growing Backup Exec
infrastructure throughout a Windows datacenter,
distributed throughout the network or at remote offices
from one console.
• Eliminate the backup window and ensure recovery point
objectives are easily met for Exchange, File Servers and
desktop data with Continuous Data Protection.
Comprehensive Backup and Recovery
Symantec Backup Exec 2010 offers a comprehensive
backup and recovery solution in one product suite, which
reduces the complexity of protecting your company’s most
valuable asset—its data. Whether that data resides on a
Windows file server; on a desktop; virtual server; or on a