“In the past nine months, we’ve had two projects where we migrated a customer from Veeam to Backup Exec after Veeam couldn’t recover data that it reported it had backed up.”
PingUs Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
Backup Exec
A fast, cost-effective, unified backup and recovery solution for cloud-ready organizations.
One backup, for all your data.
Virtual, physical and multi-cloud environments.
Backup Exec gives you simple, complete backup and recovery protection for your business—to cover all data wherever it resides.
With the choice of up-front perpetual or subscription licensing, Backup Exec is available in three editions to best fit your needs. Bronze provides the most economic option. Silver offers the most-used features. Gold includes all the features and functionality available in Backup Exec.
- Enhance your DR strategy with full integration with Azure Site Recovery to ensure data and application availability with minimal RTO and RPO
- Benefit from advanced integration with some of the latest third-party software releases, including Microsoft® Server, Microsoft® Hyper-V and VMware® vSphere®
- Seamlessly scale Backup Exec to the cloud and choose from a range of fully tested and certified integrated cloud connectors for various cloud environments, including AWS S3, Microsoft® Azure, Google Cloud Platform Storage
- Locate and visualize your entire data estate to support General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other privacy regulations, using Veritas Information Map™
- Fast end-to-end deduplication performance to on-premise storage, as well as to public and hybrid cloud to reduce time, cost and network bandwidth
Protect all your data, not just some of it
If the unthinkable happens, be confident all your critical data is backed up and can be recovered quickly and easily.
- Reduce vulnerability and exposure to the threat of ransomware.
- Use automated workflows to remain compliant with data protection regulations like GDPR.
- Schedule and monitor backup jobs. Recover data in a few simple clicks using intelligent dashboards and intuitive wizards.
Backup for the modern business
Modernized data protection enables you to keep pace and respond to the growing demands of digital transformation.
- Back up to any storage device or the cloud environments identified on our comprehensive software, cloud and hardware compatibility lists.
- Accelerate your cloud journey with native cloud connectors for all major cloud vendors including AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM, and Google.
- Stay current and benefit from latest technology releases with a choice of subscription licensing options.
Simple to acquire, less expensive to run
There’s no need to pay for and manage multiple solutions. Backup Exec provides unified protection for all your data across virtual, physical and multi-cloud environments.
- A simple, plane of glass interface cuts down admin time. to makes initial installation and configuration up to 75 percent faster*.
- Spend less on storage and reduce backup times using intelligent deduplication and multi-cloud capabilities.
- Benefit from 59 percent lower 5-Year Total Cost of Ownership*.
*Topline Strategy Group "Battle of the Backups" TCO study
– August 2017
New in Backup Exec 20.3
Support for DRaaS and Expanded Protection Options
Your data remains secure and available at every stage – whether backing up to the cloud, protecting workloads within the cloud, recovering from the cloud, or connecting to on-premise storage.
- Fully integrated Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) powered by Azure Site Recovery will enable you to minimize RPO and RTO of VM workloads to off-site recovery to Azure
- Establish trust to review and validate the security SSL certificates installed on vCenter/EXS(i) host
- Increased enhancements to help with GDPR by blocking access of items for privacy and compliance requirement
- Data insight and immersive visualization with Information Map integration to help you identify areas of value, areas of risk, and areas of waste
- Expanded cloud coverage with new support for Alibaba, Azure Archival Storage, Amazon Glacier, Chunghwa Telecom hicloud S3, IBM Cloud Object Storage, Infoniqa SWISS3CLOUD, & Amazon S3 in US West1 (Gov FIPS 140-2)
- Security features comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) 3.1/3.2
- New platform support: Windows Server 2019, Exchange 2019, Vmware vSphere 6.7 Update 1, Oracle 12c R2, RHEL 7.4, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016
Protect data to, from, and within clouds.
Backup that confidently serves your cloud strategy.
Backup Exec provides greater flexibility to help you reduce costs and administration time, including the power to choose long-term, low-cost compute and storage in the cloud.
- Benefit from direct integration with Azure Site Recovery for cloud-based DRaaS, minimizing RPO and RTO.
- Use direct public cloud connectors to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Storage.
- Choose flexible hybrid-cloud gateway options from AWS, Microsoft, and NetApp.
- Run Backup Exec in the cloud on AWS EC2 or the Azure platform.
- Simplify your cloud data protection implementation with easy deployment from the Azure and AWS Marketplace.
- Optimize costs with hot and cool storage support.
Backup Exec Resources
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Backup Exec Requirements
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