“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 and 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 the 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 make 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 20.4
Ransomware Resilience and improved Hyper-V performance
- Enhanced security and ransomware protection with the new Ransomware Resilience feature that protects backup data from external attacks where unauthorized processes attempt to modify data hosted on a Media Server.
- Increased backup performance for Hyper-V by up to 50 percent (internal test) thanks to the latest API integration with Hyper-V.
- Extended hyperconverged environment support, including SMB 3.0 , S2D, Scale out Storage and Hyper-V on Nutanix.
- Backup Exec is a certified Azure and Microsoft Server 2019 solution.
- Increased storage visibility with Smart Meter integration.
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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